When Rebecca DeMarino traveled to Horton Point, Long Island, with her mother, Helen Jean Horton Worley, in 1999, Passions collided: her love of faith, family, travel, history, and writing. Rebecca's series, THE SOUTHOLD CHRONICLES, is historical romance based on Mary and Barnabas Horton, her ninth great-grandparents and set in 1600’s Southold, Long Island, Rebecca is the author of A PLACE IN HIS HEART, TO CAPTURE HER HEART, and TO FOLLOW HER HEART, published by Revell, a division of Baker Publishing. She lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and when not writing, she enjoys family and genealogy, travel, reading, long walks, baking and gardening.