Charlotte Snead, author, was first published in 2012 at the age of 69. She has published more books since then, and currently a 5-book series about five girls who shared a season at a maternity home, hope House, is in publication by Jane Carol Publishing. Charlotte married Dr. Joseph A. Snead, a practicing orthopedic surgeon, in 1962. They have five adult children, a foster daughter, and ten grandsons, ranging in age from the 20's to newborn. Their favorite trips are to be with their family, which is spread from Virginia to Washington State. They live on twenty acres in rural north central West Virginia, where they strive to grow a garden despite the deer population.