Jane Coletti Perry grew up in a small Midwestern college town. With a degree in English and a love of history, she has a passion for preserving family history, learning how the past has shaped who we are, and searching our collective history for stories of the heart and sharing them in fiction. Her memoir, “Finding Sarah Jane,” published in Patchwork Path: Treasure Box, (Choice Publishing Group, 2010) is in a collection of essays that chronicle treasured items that belong to special people in the lives of the contributing authors. Jane’s articles published in The Best Times, a suburban Kansas City periodical, are wide ranging—from facing the challenges as a gardener on a lake property populated with deer to recalling the magic of Christmas as a child growing up in Iowa. She is a member of Women Writing the West and 2021 Laura Award Winner for short fiction. Jane and her husband have two children and five grandchildren. They have lived throughout the United States and England, where she has sung in church choirs, symphony choruses, and women’s ensembles. She loves celebrating anything with the family and kayaking at their summer lake house. Her fantasy is to be on Dancing with the Stars for Grandmas. Marcello’s Promise is her first novel.