The role of midwives in history began to fascinate Laurie Alice Eakes in grad school and she knew that someday she wanted to write novels with midwife heroines. Ten years later, after several published novels and a National Readers Choice Award for Best Regency, the midwives idea returned, and Lady in the Mist was born. Laurie Alice now writes full-time from her home in Texas, where she lives with her husband and sundry dogs and cats.