The author was born and raised in England. She immigrated to the United States of America with her parents in 1949. She has traveled across the continent several times and has seen the land that she writes about. Love of the old west is what brought her to write about it and some of its characters. Living in Northern California with her husband she decided to put down on paper the stories that have haunted her for many years. This is the Fifth book that has been published under her name.