Pat was born in sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but was raised in colder Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which she still claims as home. She graduated from Liberty High School and St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing, both in Bethlehem, and she worked in the hospital's Emergency Department until she and her family moved to North Carolina in 1990. Since then, they have lived in Durham, Rocky Mount, Cary, and finally Wake Forest. Pat has worked in hospital Emergency Departments, Urgent Care Centers, physician practices, hospice care, and as the Allergy Nurse for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After working 46 years in nursing, Pat retired and earned a real estate license, working briefly in that field, but her true passion, bequeathed to her by her late mother, has always been writing. After she hung up her stethoscope and filed away her real estate license, she was finally able to pursue her dream of being an author. Through the written word, Pat hopes to encourage people of all ages to foster healthy values, good character traits, and safe life choices. She avoids including excessive violence, hatred, sexuality, and obscenity because she feels that we, especially children, are all exposed to too much negativity and inappropriate media stimulation every day. A strong faith in God guides Pat's life, so although her books are not in the religious genre, you may sometimes see expressions of that faith in her works. Writing comes second only to Pat's family. She is a wife, mother of four, grandmother of six, and dog-mom to two huge, furry, Native American Shepherd dogs, and she feels blessed to have them all live relatively close by her home in Wake Forest. When she is not with her family or writing, she enjoys sewing and gardening.