Peresta, Kerry: - Kerry's publishing credits include a popular newspaper column, The Lighter Side, (2009-2011), and magazine articles in Local Life Magazine, The Bluffton Breeze, Lady Lowcountry, and Island Events Magazine. She is the author of three novels, The Hunting, women's fiction, The Deadening, Book One of the Olivia Callahan Suspense Series, and The Rising, Book Two. The third book in this series releases in 2023 by Level Best Books. Kerry enjoyed a thirty-year career in advertising as an account manager, creative director, and copywriter before she became an author. She is past chapter president of the Maryland Writers' Association and a current member and presenter of Hilton Head Island Writers' Network, South Carolina Writers Association, and the Sisters in Crime organization. Most recently, she worked as editor and contributor for Island Communications, a local publishing house. Kerry and her husband moved to Hilton Head Island, SC, in 2015. She is the mother of four adult children, and has a bunch of wonderful grandkids who keep life interesting and remind her what life is all about.