After a stint as an advertising copywriter, Jean Harrington taught writing and literature for sixteen years at Becker College in Worcester, Massachusetts. She enjoyed teaching tremendously, but always simmering on the back burner of her brain was the desire to write a book of her own. So when her two children were grown and launched, Jean left Becker and moved to Florida with husband John and began writing in earnest-both historicals and tongue-in-cheek cozy mysteries. Ten novels later, and now an Ohio resident, Jean is still busy writing, and is very happy with the publication of this third book in her Irish historical saga.