Monica McCarty loved to read. Growing up in California there was always plenty to do outside, but all too often she could be found inside curled up with a book (or two or three).She finished law school, got married, passed the CA bar, moved to Minnesota (with a few stops along the way), waived into the MN bar, worked as a litigator for a few satisfying years, moved back to CA, had a couple of kids, realized that a legal career and being a single parent for most of the year (due to husband's career) would be extremely difficult, and THEN decided to sit down and write.