Linda Lael Miller, the daughter of a town marshal, is the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than a hundred historical and contemporary books, the most of which are set in the West. Linda grew up in Northport, Washington, and explored her wanderlust by living in London and Arizona and traveling the world before settling down on a horse farm outside of Spokane. Linda has been writing since 1983 and was honored by the Romance Writers of America in 2007 with the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. For her dedication to preserving the Wild West's tradition, she was recently inducted into the Wild West Heritage Foundation's Walk of Fame. Linda enjoys focusing her imagination on a range of art projects when she is not writing. LindaLaelMiller.com and Facebook.com/OfficialLindaLaelMiller are her websites.