No Place Like Home

Barbara Samuel (born 1959), also known as Barbara O'Neal and Ruth Wind, is an American author of over 40 novels in women's fiction, contemporary and historical romance. She is a seven-time RITA Award winner for works including Heart of a Knight, Reckless, No Place Like Home, and How to Bake a Perfect Life, and was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame in 2012; her bestseller When We Believed in Mermaids has sold over 1 million copies.com, barbarasamuel.com