Until she learned to read, Patricia (Patty) Briggs, lived a mundane’s life in Butte, Montana. Shortly after her sixth birthday she found herself living in any number of strange places that only got stranger as the years passed: Narnia, Middle Earth, the Witch World, Pern. At the University of Montana she studied history (as the closest thing she could get to fantasy) and German (castles and good fairy tales), then left Montana for Chicago (talk about strange lands ...), returned to Montana for a bit, and finally settled in Washington state. Somewhere, along the way she acquired three children and a husband (not in that order), a horse, two cats, and a green-cheeked conure. When Demons Walk is her third novel for Ace.