J.S. Foote is a lawyer and writer in Austin, Texas. Before getting her law degree, she lived in New York City where she was an editor for Family Life magazine (Wenner Media and Hachette Filipacchi Media US), and a freelance writer for magazines such as Cosmopolitan. The Heart of Annie is her first book; she currently at work on a historical novel set in New Orleans. When not writing and practicing law, she is hiking on the greenbelt with her white labrador, Maddox, and a menagerie of foster dogs or trying to teach them not to eat her shoes. She is currently writing this barefoot.