Sharon K. Rowland is an educator with twenty-six years in the classroom. She holds a master's degree in English and a bachelor's degree in music from California State University, Bakersfield, and has taught English composition, argumentation, and literature at McFarland High School, in the Kern High School District, and at Bakersfield College. Throughout her career, she has inspired a generation of young thinkers in California's San Joaquin Valley to pursue their goals with passion.That same passion for story and learning shapes Thirteen Orphans, a richly researched mystery set amid the history of Glacier National Park, the Great Northern Railway, and the immigrants who built it. Sharon now lives in Ocean Shores, Washington, where she enjoys art, nature, and writing fiction, with her Yorkie, Shakespeare, never far away.
