Barbara G. Tucker is an educator, novelist, and playwright living in Northwest Georgia. She hails from Maryland and has family in Virginia and the Carolinas. She has taught college students for 45 years and still loves it. Her fiction centers on the family and the emotions they bring and on ordinary people living in extraordinary circumstances. She has a husband, son, and daughter-in-law and two dogs, Nala and Butter. She is available for speaking engagements. Sudden Future is her eighth novel.