Award-winning author, Mallory M. O’Connor, holds degrees in art, art history and American history from Ohio University. She taught art history at the University of Florida and Santa Fe College for over twenty years. She is the author of two nonfiction books, Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast (1995) and Florida’s American Heritage River: Images from the St. Johns Region (co-authored with Gary Monroe), 2009. Both were published by the University Press of Florida.Following her retirement in 2005, she wrote the American River Trilogy (Tributaries, Currents and Confluence) and also produced a series of paranormal/occult thrillers, Epiphany’s Gift (2019) and Key to Eternity (2020). Mallory lives with her artist husband, John A, O’Connor, in Gainesville, Florida.