Pat Dunlap Evans was born in Michigan, but at age two, her family moved to San Antonio, Texas, and later to Dallas, where she attended South Oak Cliff High School and Southern Methodist University. After dropping out of college to support an early marriage, Pat later completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the English/Creative Writing sequence at University of Missouri, Kansas City, where her husband quarterbacked the NFL Chiefs. After a divorce, Pat stressed her way through twenty-five years of varied advertising and marketing roles before she quit the day job to write novels. Pat moved to the Lake Travis area of Austin with her second husband Bill Evans, but the pair recently followed their "bucket list" dream and moved to the Big Island of Hawaii. In Waikoloa Village, the couple enjoys golf, volunteer work, and visits from family and friends.