<br>Barbara’s journey to <em>Blood Atonement</em> began at the University of Wyoming, USA. Her first fiction writing class inspired her to write a short mystery. During another semester, during an internship in UW’s Toppan Rare Books Library, she examined women in nineteenth-century Mormon polygamy. Her research paper won a student competition at the American Heritage Center. She graduated <em>summa cum laude</em> with a Bachelor of Arts in Art. Her accumulated early-Mormon research and interest in mystery writing led to trade-published <em>Blood Atonement</em>, a historical mystery. As for that first short mystery, she later rewrote it into <em>Clear and Convincing Evidence</em>, which was trade published in 2014. Her third mystery, an historical romance, <em>Tarnished Gold</em> was published soon after.
