Diana Rowland attended college at Georgia Tech where she earned a BS in Applied Mathematics. She has worked as a bartender, a blackjack dealer, a pit boss, a street cop, a detective, a computer forensics specialist, a crime scene investigator, and a morgue assistant, which means that she's seen more than her share of what humans can do to each other and to themselves. She presently lives in south Louisiana with her husband and her daughter where she is deeply grateful for the existence of air conditioning.