LAURA BYNUM was born in Springfield, Illinois (Land of Lincoln) in 1968. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois, and earned an MA in Mass Media and Interpersonal Communications from Eastern Illinois University. She has extensive experience in marketing, corporate training and public relations. In 2006 she attended the Maui Writer's Conference and was awarded its top prizethe Rupert Hughes Prose Awardfor an early draft of
VERACITY. She is currently at work on a second novel. She lives with her husband and three daughters in Virginia.