Sharman Burson Ramsey was born May 15, 1950, in Dothan, Alabama, the daughter of WWII veterans, a doctor and nurse with roots in America from the Mayflower, New Amsterdam and Jamestown to Powhatan. She began her writing career publishing articles in magazines. She built an extensive Southern website http://www.southern-style.com through which she shares tips on Genealogy, Southern History, Gardening, Southern Manners and Etiquette and Southern Weddings. She married her University of Alabama sweetheart, raised three children, had a radio show, got her Masters degree, taught middle school to university, and all the while read and researched the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in American and Native American history. Her first historical novel, "Swimming with Serpents," (September, 2012, Mercer University Press) is the result of that research. The first sequel "In Pursuit" (September, 2013), Book 2 in the Creek Indian Family Saga, follows the Red Sticks who survived Horseshoe Bend into the First Seminole War. On to Angola (2018), book 3 in the Creek Indian Family Saga, tracks twins, one raised as a slave, the other as the adopted child of English nobility, in search of their mother in 1821 at Angola in South Florida. The book includes the story of the Red Sticks who fled the destruction of the Negro Fort and the First Seminole War down to South Florida. Each book is a separate love story set against the backdrop of historical events. The Mint Julep Mysteries, a series of mysteries set on a plantation in Palmer, Cox County, Alabama, was inspired by her grandparents' plantation house that she visited frequently as a child. Ramsey and her sister, Dr. Sylvia Burson Rushing, current owner of their grandparents' home, co-authored Wakefield Plantation: history and cookbook with primer on etiquette and manners. The first three mysteries in that series are Creme de Cassis and Murder, Mint Juleps and Murder, and Mayans, Muscadine and Murder. The three were combined in the MINT JULEP TRILOGY. Choices and Secrets took 50 years to write. It took that long to have the courage. This bit of historical fiction has contemporary relevance as it is a love story impacted by the Vietnam War, adoption and abortion. Choices and Secrets. Wakefield Plantation: History and Cookbook (Southern Family History) by Sharman Burson Ramsey and Sylvia Burson Rushing is the story of the Plantation that is the location of the Mint Julep Mysteries. Downhome Dothan: History and Recipes is Volume II of the Southern Family: History and Recipes Series: Gillis, Jernigan, Vann, Black, Odom, Newkirk, Bronson, CottonFascinating Family Facts: History and genealogy of Burson (Wilcox County, Alabama) and Gillis (Escambia County, Alabama) family lines relates interesting stories of some of our ancestors. Alliwishus: The story of the Elf in Santa Service and the WWII Nurse contains the story told the author by her mother, Jean Bronson Gillis Burson, a WWII nurse who earned a battle ribbon for her service at the Battle of the Bulge. Pictures she took during that time are included. On her blog, Ramsey comments on an eclectic collection of topics, including politics and education. https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.comRead more about this authorRead less about this author