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Mary Deal is an Amazon International bestselling and award-winning author of suspense/thrillers, romance, short story collection, a mega writers’ reference, and other self-help. Her three Sara Mason Mysteries stories are now available as a combined one-book collection. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, Artist and Photographer, and former newspaper columnist and magazine editor. She has traveled a great deal and has a lifetime of diverse experiences, all of which remain as fodder for her fiction. A native of California’s Sacramento River Delta, where some of her stories are set, she has also lived in several states, England, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and now resides in Garner, North Carolina. She is also an oil painter and photographer. Her art is used to create gorgeous personal and household products from her online galleries.