Carol DeMars graduated from California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. A sociology major interested in social change, she also studied the Bible, European church history, and the growth of American churches during colonial and pioneer periods. She earned a teaching credential at California State University, Northridge, and taught English and United States history for several years. Then choosing to pursue research as an independent scholar, she returned to CSUN for further graduate studies and qualified for membership in Phi Kappa Phi, the prestigious national scholastic society. Penelope's Song: A Seventeenth Century Tale for a Twenty-First Century World is her first book. It was published after she moved to Georgia where she still resides.