In 1997, when DIANN HUNT and her husband, Jim, started on their three-mile trek through Amish country, she had no idea she was taking her first steps toward a new career. Inspired by their walk, she wrote an article, which was published a year later. In 1999, she took a fiction writing course taught by Dr. Dennis Hensley, and in 2001, her first novella hit the shelves, with other novellas and novels following thereafter. She quit her job as a court reporter in the fall of 2003 to devote her time to writing. Well, okay, writing and spoiling her granddaughters. Diann Hunt, an accomplished writer and a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, passed away to her heavenly reward in late 2013.