Like her protagonist Charley Parkhurst, Fern J. Hill fell in love with horses at a young age and showed Morgans throughout her youth. While she still rides, time for all things horses is now limited due to a different passion—her writing. While working on her own fiction over the past decade, she has served in a variety of positions on the board of a large writer’s organization in eastern Pennsylvania, where she lives with her golden retriever and calico-tiger cat. Fern owns a business that edits and formats doctoral dissertations and masters’ theses.