Eloise Hill grew up in a tiny hamlet at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where she spent her formative years. She moved to Northern California in 1982 to attend nursing school and, after thirteen years in acute care, gave into her intuitive voices, hung up her scrubs, and hunkered down to a career in writing and all things metaphysical. She has worked as a psychic for over thirty years and currently teaches classes on the basics of Tarot, rune, palm and tea leaf readings and their pragmatic uses. She is the author of The Eight of Pentacles, the first in the Eileen McGrath Tarot series. She can be contacted at: www.eloisehill.net.