Connie L. Reeves lives in Southern Maryland with her husband, where they have resided for 16 years.  Their two children are grown, with one living nearby and the other flitting back and forth to Germany.
     Connie retired from the Army in 1994, having served as one of the first female helicopter pilots, an intelligence officer, and a specialist on Western Europe.
     Since her retirement, in addition to being a chauffeur for her school-age children, she wrote and published numerous articles or chapters on women in the military.  For two years, as a paid contractor, Connie wrote the official history of two fiscal years of Army operations.
     She spent five years researching and writing the definitive history of the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps, a monumental and meticulously researched book waiting to be published.
     Hawthorne's Cottage is Connie's first novel, and a second novel, The Elimination Game, is waiting in the wings.

     Always interested in participating in cultural activities (the above photo was taken at the St. Mary's Madrigal Dinner, held each year), Connie Reeves enjoys a variety of activities.  Chief among those is enjoying her family, spending time with friends, traveling back and forth to the Adirondacks (where she and her husband have a vacation cabin), traveling elsewhere to see parts of the world she hasn't seen before or wants to visit again, and visiting relatives and friends.
     In her private time, Connie is a voracious reader, keeping a book journal and averaging one book a week.  As an ovarian cancer survivor (diagnosed, surgery, and chemo in 2007), Connie has reevaluated her priorities--family, friends, and exercise come first.  Her goals include being able to ski again in the winter!