Maria Antokas is a former banker and the Director and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship program at a private school in Maryland. She is the co-author of “Don’t Call It a Budget” – a Personal Finance workbook. Sweet Millions is her first fiction novel. Maria also owns her own company, CapitalWise Consulting LLC which provides personal finance instruction and speaks to groups on the importance financial literacy. She is also co-founder of Atalanta Publishing, a company that helps authors self-publish and market their books.