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Janet Henderson has an M.A. in English Composition/Writing from Northeastern Illinois University and an M.A. in Education from Concordia University. She teaches English Composition and writing in the City Colleges of Chicago. She has also taught at East-West University and Chicago State University. For several years, she worked for the Chicago Board of Education and served in the U.S. Army in the communications field. As the daughter of a marine, she grew up in Chicago, Virginia, North Carolina, California and Hawaii, and she often travels to Europe, Asia, Central and South America. Always a voracious writer and reader, she has penned numerous skits and poems since high school and has been a lover of romance stories as diverse as Romeo and Juliet, Gone With the Wind and Titanic. Though Lunch with Cassie is the first novel for the award-winning college news editor/reporter, she is presently at work on two others. She likes the genre of romance but plans to write mysteries and non-fiction as well. In her leisure time she enjoys novels by Dan Brown, Terri McMillan, John Grisham, Sandra Brown and many others. She lives in Chicago.