With a French father and a mother from New Orleans, Anne Gross’s interest in the Napoleonic era was inevitable. Raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Anne graduated from the University of Saint Thomas with a degree in music. She then went on to complete a graduate degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music before moving to Tucson, Arizona where she taught music for nine years. In 2006, she and her husband moved to Colorado where Anne went back to school and became a registered nurse. Through all her shifts in life, Anne Gross has been writing. Currently, she lives in San Francisco where she’s working on the continued adventures of her recalcitrant heroine.