Betsy Haynes

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Betsy Haynes is an American author who has written seventy-nine novels in the genres of history, mysteries, supernatural, ghost stories and comedies. [1] [2]

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She is married to Jim Haynes. They have two children live in the Stewart Peninsula section of The Colony, Texas on Lake Lewisville north of Dallas.[ citation needed ]

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