Ann W. Jarvie has a B.A. in journalism and more than twenty-five years' experience as an award-winning writer in advertising and public relations agencies, both in South Carolina and Chicago. She now lives near Phoenix, Arizona, where she spends part of her time as a freelance copywriter and the rest writing fiction.The Soul Retrieval was inspired by Jarvie's maternal grandmother's fascinating life on Native American reservations, where she lived with her physician husband until his mysterious and untimely death.