Adele Holmes practiced pediatrics for over twenty years before retiring to write. Though a lifelong Southerner, she and her husband Chris travel extensively, having explored all seven continents. It is travel to which she credits her desire to make a difference in the world through the written word—especially in causes involving children, racial discrimination, and women’s rights. Winter’s Reckoning is her debut novel. Pre-publication it won Honorable Mention in the William Faulkner Literary Competition and won First Place in the Chanticleer International Book Awards-Goethe Award.