Root was born at a FDR fundraiser on the 23rd of April and grew up in a box seat in Municipal Stadium, home of the Indians—Perhaps,not quite true, but close. Her mother missed the fund raiser when her water broke in the taxi, and she only lived in Municipal Stadium on weekends. Then came the Dark Ages when she moved to San Diego where there were boats and beaches, but in 1951,no major league sports. The Padres were Class A, and their field was in the flight pattern to Lindbergh Field. But the dawn did come and she was off to Pomona College on State of California and Union-Tribune scholarships. She graduated and went to Princeton—at least that was the plan. With much encouragement from her mother who wanted grandchildren, she married, and had children, and married, and married, and finally went to law school to be a lawyer instead of being infatuated with them. In her last year, her husband died at 35 of an undisclosed cause and six months later,her adolescent son died of a congenital disease. She took a semester off, married an old friend who had not given up on her, and went back to school.She graduated valedictorian of the class at what is now Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Three days before she aced the grueling California Bar Exam, she gave birth to her youngest son Russ, whose art appears in two of her novels. After 23 years as a prosecutor, the last seven spent as Supervising Deputy DA in the Morongo Basin of San Bernardino County, she retired due to a hearing loss and has been writing historical fiction since 2008. Her debut is The First Marie and the Queen of Scots, the first in The Queen of Scots Suite. She is now working on the fourth in that series, and a 'chic book' crime novel based on her experiences as a major crime prosecutor, Hurricane Camile and the Morongo Blonds. She lived in Yucca Valley with husband Chris and two very giant long haired Alaskan Malamutes with 1/4Samoyed in the mix.