Jane Hill has always loved the beaches and marshes of the South Carolina Lowcountry. After a 30-year career in Atlanta as an engineer, working in transportation and energy, she was able to retire to the Lowcountry. Her writing career began in Brussels in 1989 when she published a paper about cogeneration. She has since published numerous technical works in Europe, Canada, and the U. S. But her first love is fiction. After retirement, she has published two young adult novels, Clarendon Island and Only a Ghost of a Chance, published by Salt Marsh Cottage Books. Both of these books are humorous historical fictions about the Lowcountry, designed to engage local middle schoolers with their colorful history. She has also published several short stories, and two of her watercolors have been featured in an anthology of pieces by Lowcountry authors.