Celeste Bennett

​After spending 28 years enforcing consumer protection laws, Celeste retired from her position as Consumer Protection Director for the Michigan Department of Agriculture intending to dabble in her yarn crafting and creative writing hobbies while spending more time with her three children. Once her children were well entrenched in college life, she pursued her writing in earnest, having several novels in progress. When Celeste was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, she used her goal of seeing one of her novels in print as incentive to get through the many tiring days and hours of 

​treatments. To overcome the fatigue and emotional turmoil that comes with any chronic illness, she focused all her writing efforts on the one novel that gave her the greatest joy to write. Celeste drew from her science background, her years in enforcement, her sense of humor, and her creativity to bring a sense of realism to the story she wanted to share with readers.