C.D. Faulconer was born in Walla Walla, Washington and as a child roamed the golden wheat lands with their occasional tree clusters surrounding pools where tadpoles turned to frogs and cathedral light beams fell silently through the tree tops like serene mysteries. In 1985, she moved to the Mayacama Mountains above the valley floor of vineyards in Sonoma, California; where she lives and writes inside the natural world in both its giving and taking necessities. Her first book, When God Cries (Portrait of a Child Slayer) is a true crime that grew to international reputation and has been translated into many languages. The Misstep of Heather Bainbridge, is her second book. A fictional telling years in the making, it responds to the light and darkness; to the fairness and unfairness of living.