About the Author More than just a novelist
Rebecca Lerwill was born in Germany. Her parents raised her and her two older brothers in a small village of nine not too far from the city of Cologne. Even though the number of citizens populating Wiedenhof was rather small, they were accompanied by several thousand chickens, two dozen dairy cows, and a handful of horses.
At the tender age of five Rebecca encountered the beauty of horses and her love for their magnificence still grows steadily every day.
Rebecca, along with her two brothers, walked to school in a neighboring town. The children also helped with chores in the small bed and breakfast establishment her mother ran in the same house where the family lived. It must have been Rebecca's mother whose genes contributed to her talent as a writer. Over the decades her very gifted mother created many beautiful and meaningful poems.
As a young teen Rebecca discovered the German writer Tina Caspari, whose children's books were a strong influence on Rebecca in her early years. Later Rebecca found fascination in the dark tales of Edgar Allan Poe and Agatha Christie, composing several short stories herself.
After high school Rebecca earned a degree as a beautician, but found her true calling by working with horses. First she studied equine science in college and experienced hands-on training of racehorses through a program overseen by the German government. Later, Rebecca became a trainer of dressage horses, or English style riding, and has composed articles for magazines in her profession.
In 1995 Rebecca moved to the United States. She lived first in the Mid-West and later in Northern California. She continued her professional career as a horse trainer and proved herself on the competitive dressage circuit.
Throughout the last decate Rebecca has visited more than 20 different States within the U.S. and she has also spent some time in Canada and Australia. Her travels compelled Rebecca to become more serious about being a novelist.
Rebecca, now an American citizen, resides close to the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. She enjoys a humble life and carefully balances her time between training young dressage horses and working on new fiction and non-fiction projects.