I grew up in South Texas and was a niece in the infamous family of patrón George Parr, the Duke of Duval. I am seventh generation Texan and, although a member of The Daughters of the Texas Republic, I wandered away for a while and graduated from The College of William and Mary in Virginia with degrees in English and Spanish. I live at home in the Texas Hill Country with my husband, two horses and a couple of shepherds.

My first novel, A Wasp in the Fig Tree, is followed by The Last Whippoorwill, which is also Texas Historical Fiction.