The author, Paula Lenor Webb, has a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Alabama. She is a tenured Librarian at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL. Ms. Webb has always enjoyed research and documented her local history findings in her first book, Mobile Under Siege: Surviving the Union Blockade, in 2016. She has continued pursuing this avenue of research with her book, Such a Woman: The Life of Octavia Walton LeVert. Paula ventured into fiction by co-authoring the the Mississippi Mojo…Thriller Series with Mary S. Palmer: Mississippi Mojo…and Murder: Tale of the Blues, Devilry in the Delta, and the book, Melody of Malice. She has since started the Skirts to Swords Series, featuring the first book titled, Vicksburg.