Montana Kane grew up reading all sorts of stories, from every French comic book she could get her hands on to classics such as The Chronicles of Narnia, The Three Musketeers  and The Last of the Mohicans. One of her great favorites was a series starring a quick-witted French teenage girl who attends high school by day and fights crime by night wearing a mask, a cape, and a black beanie with a dangling pompon. 

Montana grew up in Morocco, France and Pennsylvania and has worked a variety of jobs, including a stint teaching English in Spain and many years organizing French film and theater festivals in Chicago. After spending several years in the Colorado Rockies, she now finds herself living on Florida's Gulf Coast, where she  translates French comics into English and writes her own novels starring a smart, crime-fighting woman with a sharp tongue.

She loves travel and street photography and plans to explore as many new cities and settings as life circumstances permit, camera, pen and notebook at the ready as she sets out to absorb the world around her and make fascinating observations about it.