Sharon L. Plotkin, M.S., is a native Floridian with a twin sister who works as a federal agent. She has been employed full time in law enforcement as a crime scene investigator for almost 12 years, for one of the larger police departments in Dade County, and is an adjunct professor who teaches in her field at several local colleges. She is soon to be married to a lieutenant at the same police department, with whom she shares two daughters and three stepdaughters (five teenage daughters in all). Her interests are reading, music, teaching and travel.