ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A glimpse into the life of Barbara Guarino Kruk, author, entrepreneur, and contributing journalist.

Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised on the south shore of Long Island, she has a bachelor’s degree from Long Island University and attended classes at Harvard University in pursuit of her Masters of Creative Writing.

After her husband had a traumatic brain injury that altered their lives forever, Barbara was encouraged by a professor at Southampton College, to write as a means of channeling her depression. She soon realized that she had always been a storyteller. She has written a non-fiction book Connie’s Story, A Triumph of Love, about surviving and coping with brain injury. She soon embarked on a series of historical romance fiction following the exploits of a young Italian heiress during the 1700’s which produced three novels Lucia Mistress of Monteforte, The Ruby Heiress and The Gypsy’s Prophecy and a spinoff novella of one of the characters, The Child Bride.

Her most recent works, The Chameleon Chronicles, with the first being The Missing Lieutenant, the second book in this series is entitled, The Forger, are based on a protagonist she encountered in her own life.