After serving in the army for eight years, Kate Lace has found the best way to deal with testosterone-filled men is to point a gun at them; it certainly helped in getting her husband up the aisle. Since that momentous, if slightly controversial, day, she has had three children and finds the same tactic works on them. However, now that she's a full time writer, she has had to come up with more subtle ways of keeping her characters under control as pointing a gun at her own head has not proved productive.