Anne Brooker James was born in Tampa, Florida, to pioneer families. She began writing when she was six and never stopped. She raised two daughters, worked as a journalist and food columnist, and opened the highly successful Anna's Deli on Siesta Key Beach, Florida. She and her husband, Robert Camp Ray, lived for a few years on Spring Island, near Beaufort, South Carolina, where the incredible beauty of the Lowcountry, the Gullah Geechee, and their culture spoke to her heart. After her husband's death, she began writing THE MARSH BIRD, her first novel. She has enjoyed an interesting life and still thrives in nature.

Books by Anne Brooker James

The Marsh Bird

by Anne Brooker James - Fiction

Woven with murder, mystery and magic, THE MARSH BIRD is a compelling story of a young, orphaned, multiracial girl from Louisiana and a white teen abandoned as an infant and raised by a local white fisherman, both embraced by the residents of a rural, Gullah Geechee sea island community. Set among descendants of those once enslaved in the lush marshes of the Lowcountry coast of South Carolina and Georgia, this is an unforgettable love story, and a tale of survival that proves it is the bonds of love and care that create a family.