GAIL DAYTON wrote her first story at the tender age of nine, and she’s been writing ever since. She was a RITA finalist in 2002 for Best First Book, and won a Prism award for Best Fantasy with The Barbed Rose in 2007. She lives with her husband of thirty-something years on the Texas Gulf coast where she is working up to riding past 45th Street on her brand-new red Schwinn.