Tanya Huff shares an idyllic rural existence with her partner Fiona Patton, six cats, and a chihuahua. She acquired a degree in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson Polytechnic--an education she was happy to finally use while writing her Smoke novels. Of her previous twenty-three books, those featuring Henry Fitzroy, bastard son of Henry VIII, romance writer, and vampire are among the most popular.