About the Author

Carole Fielder was born in Lynchburg, Virginia. She attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg and graduated valedictorian, magna cum laude from Lynchburg College in 1967. After a brief career with IBM in Huntsville, Alabama, she married and lived seventeen years in the heart of Silicon Valley before moving to south Florida in 1995 for health reasons. Carole was physically challenged with psoriatic arthritis in early adulthood, but she found that her faith in God and a passion for sailing kept her going. She named her small sloop "Fleur de Beaulieu" after the French Mediterranean village in which she once lived. These days she sails with a dog and two cats off the shore of Florida.