Mary Margret Daughtridge has been a grade school teacher, speech therapist, family educator, biofeedback therapist, and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist. She is a member of Heart of Carolina Romance Writers, Romance Writers of America, and Romancing the Military Soul, and is a sought-after judge in writing contests. She resides in Greensboro, North Carolina.
After 9/11, I found myself meditating on courage, heroism, and sacrifice—how it arises, how it manifests. Then I read a newspaper story about a soldier who was ordered by a judge to leave the service, or lose custody of her children. I began to think about all the people who sacrifice to keep a professional hero in business as it were. The two ideas flowed together and created this series.
Did the book entail any unusual writing habits or places?
? I got up at four AM every morning to write. At that time of day—or night—it’s as if a narrator’s voice dictates the story to me.