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Deborah Johnson Ettinger was born in New York City. She attended St. Vincent Ferrer High School and went on to earn her RN Diploma from St. Vincent’s Hospital School of Nursing and Hunter College. Ettinger worked as an ICU nurse in New York City and Dallas, Texas before moving to Los Angeles, California. She earned a BS in Health Sciences with a minor in English from Chapman university, graduating summa cum laude and continued post graduate MBA studies at UCLA and Cal State Long Beach. Ettinger served as Division Vice President for Tenet Healthsystem, HCA and Senior Vice President for Cha Healthsystem. She has been writing fiction for years though Fiercely Loyal is her first published novel which she co-wrote with her brother, Tom Johnson. An avid ballroom dancer and reader of multiple genres, Deborah lives in Southern California with her exuberant English Springer Spaniel, Oliver.