Linda is a new author. Born and raised in Leeds, England, she immigrated to the USA in the 1980s and became a citizen. She lived in Connecticut for 40 years and, after her husband John passed away, moved to the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. She has three stepchildren and four grandchildren and is a nanny to two-year-old Kylin. She loves the Blue Ridge Mountains and enjoys time on the Skyline Drive and traveling with her companion, Wayne, a retired DOD and campus police chief. She and Wayne enjoy being Santa and Mrs. Claus’s “helpers” at Christmas; she has been portraying Mrs. Claus since 2015 and sometimes an elf. She has been writing children’s stories for a few years.