Drawn Into Darkness(104)

Born in New Jersey, Nancy Springer lived for many decades in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, of Civil War fame, raising two children, writing, horseback riding, fishing, and bird-watching. In 2007 she surprised her friends and herself by moving with her second husband to an isolated area of the Florida Panhandle, where the bird-watching is spectacular and where, when fishing, she occasionally catches an alligator.