I earned my Ph.D. while working on cystic fibrosis in 2002. I then worked at Children's Hospital Los Angeles on childhood meningitis. When my postdoctoral fellowship ended in 2004, I began teaching and writing science books. These books are fictional, but based on real experiences I had in graduate school in Montana and later research in California. I hope you enjoy them and they give you some insight into what it's like to be a medical researcher in a modern microbiology lab.