[1][2] She received her Juris Doctor degree from Campbell University law school, and began working for a legal publisher, a position she still holds today.

[5] It is a fictional account of the life of Eleanor de Clare, wife of Hugh le Despenser the Younger.

[6] Sourcebooks contacted her in 2008, and offered to republish it,[4] resulting in it reaching number 8 in The Boston Globe's list of fiction best sellers.

[2] Her next book, The Stolen Crown, was published in 2010 and is a fictional depiction of Catherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham.

[8] Higginbotham's most recent works, Hanging Mary, The First Lady and the Rebel, and John Brown's Women, are set in 19th-century America.