Amy Brailey won the Young Author's contest in fourth grade and has wanted to be a "real author" ever since. After completing her debut novel Behind the Veil, she felt there was more to be gleaned from the characters, and the decision to make the Ideal Courtship Trilogy was born. Finding Frances is the second installment in the series. Today, Amy is most often found grading papers in coffee shops (and daydreaming about other stories) or in her junior high history classroom where she is a 27 year veteran teacher.