Fiola loves to craft stories where uber-alpha, muscular men with shifter DNA, or magical abilities, prove they know their way around a woman’s body while embracing feminine strength and all that entails. Back in the day, she hit life full-tilt, from barrel-racing her Appaloosa as a teen to surf-fishing in Hawaii in her twenties, or strolling barefoot on an Oregon beach in her forties, looking for mermen and dreaming of romance. Her travels these days are via the interweb's virtual worlds, where she's always on the lookout for that next paranormal story, that next place to bury the body—or lock lips with one of those uber-alpha, muscular men. She kicks-ass, takes names and crafts characters in the beautiful Portland Metro area of Oregon, where shares space with her frisky feline grandcat Nudge.