A native of Ireland transplanted to the United States Heartland at a young age, award-winning Author Donan Berg captivates readers with entertaining mystery, heartwarming romance, and fantasy. His characters battle everyday challenges in heroic, yet believable, triumphs. He writes an addictive antidote prescription to the blues. His life’s journey has been as a journalist, corporate executive, and lawyer. He’s reported on truce talks at Panmunjom, Korea; visited all fifty U.S. states; kissed the Blarney Stone, three visits; rode the Rocky Mountaineer; wandered the back streets of Paris, Florence, Sydney, and Capri; and across glacier ice. He won’t offer he owns ballroom dancing shoes, five pairs to be exact, prides himself on baking a crisp with apples from his own tree, and survived cancer. Aria’s Bayou Child, A Thriller, is one of ten novels. His romance, One Paper Heart, won the Feathered Quill First Place Gold Award for Romance. Four Dixie Kane Memorial Writing Contest entries scored winner’s circle wins one year. The following year three other entries delighted winner’s circle contest judges.