Lara Chase was born and raised in rural Indiana surrounded by corn fields.  Finding her environment somewhat boring, she spent most of her childhood with her nose buried in a book or writing stories in her head to entertain herself.  Eventually she decided she should probably start writing some of them down.

After graduating high school, Lara decided a change of scenery was in order.  She lived in Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Illinois picking up the first bachelor’s degree she doesn’t use and a husband.  The husband she’s quite fond of, but the states she wasn’t as taken with.  She moved again, but this time she was smitten.  It would likely take an act of Congress to remove her from Durham, North Carolina.    Since relocating, Lara has acquired another bachelor’s degree that has proven to be merely decorative.

She still gets restless at times, though, so she and her husband swap houses with families in other countries.  Lara wrote some of the first lines of her current  project hanging precariously out of a third floor apartment window in Italy trying to get a wireless signal.  Luckily, writing at home is usually less dangerous.  Her greatest threat there is the disgruntled cat who keeps sitting on her keyboard.