MARY HOWARD WRIGHT grew up in the mountains of Virginia. Always a dreamer, Mary loved to read and obsessed over becoming an author someday. She married at eighteen and worked in banking for over two decades where she became a senior officer. Mary left banking to pursue a career in real estate. She eventually opened a small real estate company. Her passion to write was finally realized in 2014 when she published her first book, Threads. She is married with two grown sons and two grandsons.