About the Author

Jackie Ryan Witherspoon was a journalist for over 20 years, owning her own newspaper and magazine before deciding to write fiction. In 2012, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and applying the adage "write what you know," authored "The Survivors' Walk," a novel based on a true story of five women who meet while going through chemo therapy. Witherspoon has degrees from both Kansas State University and the University of Kansas and has won numerous awards for her writing. Her work has appeared in national and regional magazines, including Woman's World, Country Home, Grit, Springfield (MO) magazine, Kansas! Magazine and others. She is also the author of What She Missed, a contemporary novel about a young woman who runs away from home on a lark. However, the life she returns to is vastly different from the one she left. A native of Kansas, Witherspoon now writes fiction full-time from her home on Table Rock Lake in Missouri, where she lives with her husband, Gary.