Gary McCarthy has sold over three million books during his distinguished writing career. A horseman and hiker, he has traveled the West researching his many acclaimed novels and loves to skillfully interweave historical fact with fiction, always telling his readers what is real and what is not. McCarthy is the author of fifteen American historical and thirty-four western novels and is constantly on the lookout for new stories to tell. He has been a college teacher of creative writing and lives in Northern Arizona's rugged high mountain and canyon country near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.