Vera Bell is a Georgia Author of the Year nominee and the award-winning author of the Always and Forever trilogy, an epic second-chance romance set in medieval Ireland and the present-day United States. Through the Veneer of Time, Book One in the trilogy, is her debut novel. Her transformative faith journey now inspires her to weave Christian themes into her historical romances, including a forthcoming novel where fate collides with faith amid the first Viking raid on Ireland. A former commercial artist, she lives in Atlanta with her husband, two teenagers, and one fur baby. Her favorite place to write is on her porch, overlooking a pond lined with river birches and magnolias. The topics she never tires of are bygone eras, our universal human condition, and the deeper currents of love, hope, and redemption.