Theresa K ThorneT.K. Thorne's childhood passion for storytelling deepened when she became a police officer in Birmingham, Alabama. "It was a crash course in life and what motivated and mattered to people." When she retired as a captain, she took on Birmingham's busiess improvement district as the executive director. Both careers and a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Alabama provide fodder for her writing, which has garnered several awards, including "Book of the Year for Historical Fiction" (ForeWord Reviews) for her debut novel Noah's Wife. The New York Post's "Books You Should Be Reading" list featured her first non-fiction book, Last Chance for Justice, which details the investigation of the 1963 Sixteenth Street church bombing case. Rave reviews have followed her newest historical novel about the unnamed wife of Lot, Angels at the Gate, a finalist in the Independent Book Publisher's Association Benjamin Franklin Awards. She loves traveling, especially to research her novels, and speaking about her books and life lessons. She writes at her mountaintop home near Birmingham, often with two dogs and a cat vying for her lap. www.tkthorne.com Her father encouraged self-reliance in Thorne "and to question everything," a theme she pursued in her award-winning novel, Angels at the Gate. Read More Read Less