Zoe Tasia grew up in Oklahoma and spent seven years in Scotland. Now she resides in the great state of Texas, where everything's bigger and better, or so she's told by the natives. Zoe is married to an understanding Greek, has two grown sons, and three cat overlords. When she's not giving her make-believe friends full rein, she enjoys the opera, ballet, well-chilled champagne and books. Bagpipes and Basil is the second book in The Shrouded Isle fantasy series. Kilts and Catnip, a finalist for the 2019 National Readers’ Choice Awards and semi-finalist for the 2019 Ozma Book Awards, is the first book in her fantasy series, The Shrouded Isle. Three of her shorter pieces are published in the anthology, Quick Draw!: Fast and Funny Fiction. Zoe Tasia has also co-written three books published under the pen name Zari Reede.