Julia AshJulia Ash's favorite books are contemporary or near-future which push into the imagined, and her debut novel THE ONE AND ONLY lands squarely in that sweet-spot. Like the books she reads and writes, she mirrors the melding of extremes in her personal ife. While the bulk of her career was spent working in public relations for a school system - focused on facts and information, she grew up in a historical home - one haunted by the paranormal. She lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore, near the ocean, and belongs to a hunting-and-fishing club in the Pocono Mountains. Read More Read Less