Shirl Henke

Shirl Henke ( Alexa Hunt) lives in St. Louis, where she enjoys gardening in her yard and greenhouse, cooking holiday dinners for her family and listening to jazz. In addition to helping brainstorm and research her books, her husband Jim is "lion tamer" for their two wild young tomcats, Pewter and Sooty, geniuses at pillage and destruction. I was offered the opportunity to use my history degrees, teaching in a large urban university in the Northeast. I truly enjoyed it. …