About Leigh

Once I wrote about my first ghost, Zebulon, (available at The Wild Rose Press) the adorable kind-hearted soldier killed in the Civil War, I just couldn't write about any other kind of hero.

In fact, my second work, was about another solider. Raquel's Abel (soon to be available from The Wild Rose Press) is about Abel Rollins, a soldier who died of mustard gas in WWI. He's kind and very worried about Raquel, who is in desperate need of a gastric bypass. You'll love Abel, too.

Then there was my third work, Dreams of Chimborazo, about a soldier trying to get the Yankees out of Virginia when he begins to travel through time. Ravenel Morrissette falls in love with Evelyn who lives in current-day Richmond, Virginia. Ravenel is a tragic character who never waivers in his quest to win the war or Evelyn.

Then I decided to give writing science fiction a try. A very handsome alien named Ken stole the show when he appeared on Irina's spaceship. She's determined to find a planet for her people, but Ken's determined to win her. With his advanced powers, he's a very sexy man.

Now I'm busy writing about a swashbuckling Spanish privateer named Alejandro Valdivia de la Torre Jones. Yes, all those names are his. He meets Jade in a graveyard, yet insists he isn't dead even though his tombstone says he is.

Read an excerpt from each of my works on this page.

Being fluent in Spanish, she won the prestigious Fulbright Fellows Award as an English Teaching Fellow. In 1994 she spent one year instructing teachers in Arequipa, Peru.

Now Leigh and her husband live in Durham, North Carolina.

You can contact her at: Leigh_Barbour@yahoo.com