Pellegrino, K. B.: - Pellegrino stole crime novels from her father's suitcase as a kid. Later, she served on the Board of the Springfield Police Commission as a Commissioner, worked as a political activist, is a Certified Public Accountant, is a Massachusetts Licensed Construction Manager, and served twenty-years as a full-time professor in Business and Management. She holds a BS in engineering and an MBA and has left technical writing and business to pursue her love of plot and intrigue. She currently splits her time between Springfield and East Sandwich, Massachusetts.