Patricia Briggs (born December 21, 1965) is an American writer of fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series.
Patricia Briggs was born in 1965 in Butte, Montana, United States. She now resides in Benton City, Washington.
Briggs began writing in 1990 and published her first novel Masques in 1993, and has primarily written in the fantasy and urban fantasy genres.
Her ninth novel, Moon Called, was published in 2006, and was the first in the Mercy Thompson series. The book made it to the USA Today bestseller lists.
The second book in the series, Blood Bound, made The New York Times Best Seller list.
The fifth book in the series, Silver Borne, debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times' Hardcover Fiction list for the week of April 18, 2010.
For the complete Timeline for the "Mercyverse"
Briggs's Mercy Thompson series follows titular protagonist, Mercedes Thompson, through a series of misadventures featuring magical and otherworldly creatures from the fictional 'land of the Fae'.
This stand-alone series is woven throughout the Mercyverse, following Anna Latham, a fierce and empathetic werewolf, and Charles Cornick, the enforcer of the North American werewolves. Alpha and Omega begins while Mercy's story in Moon Called occurs. Then, starting with Cry Wolf, which is set right after the events of Moon Called, the series run parallel.
Set in the same world as the Mercy Thompson series