In the Shadows of Chimney Rock, Rose Senehi's fourth novel, is the first in a series that take place in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains. It was nominated for the 2009 SIBA Book Award by members of the Southern Independent Bookseller's Alliance as the Best in Southern Literature for the year. Her second book in the series, The Wind in the Woods, was published in 2010 and was a finalist for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. Contemporary fiction writer, Senehi, is noted for weaving environmental themes into her plots. A resident of Chimney Rock, North Carolina and Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, she moved from Upstate New York in 1996. Her other novels include: Pelican Watch, Windfall, and Shadows in the Grass.