
Harper Connelly the lead in the series is a 24-year-old woman who comes from a family that is the quintessential rags-to-riches story. Harris wrote the Aurora Teagarden series, the Lily Bard series, and started on the Sookie Stackhouse books before she started writing the Harper Connelly books. It wasn’t until after college that she began writing novels, but she has had tremendous success since beginning and the world is happy that she did. She would later attend Rhode Island University where she began writing her own plays. Harris was interested in writing from a young age as she wrote poems about ghosts and teenage angst from a young age. The series is written by Charlaine Harris who is best known as the author of the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires series that was made into the True Blood series for HBO.
