Gene Defense

About the Book

About the Author

Joy Ashe (pseudonym) has had a life-long dream to write fi ction novels, captivated in her pubescent days by Nancy Drew novels. These mysteries became a diversion during Sunday morning church services. With her undergraduate and post-graduate work in Psychology and a twenty-eight year career in technological sales and marketing management, human behavior analysis has pushed her from that vocational path to delve into the fi ctional world. Characters parade in her mind prepared to dive into future novels. An amateur genealogist having inherited over four hundred years of family genealogical records from her father, she has a strong interest in genetic infl uence over human behavior. She has spent days-at-a-time studying old chancery records, sloshing through red-clay soaked cemeteries and traveling to remote locations in search of her roots. In the course of those journeys she has made many new acquaintances, found shocking stories of times past and been inspired to bring human foibles to life.