Matthew P. Mayo's previous books include the Western novels Winters' War, Wrong Town, and Hot Lead, Cold Heart and the collections of gritty historical episodes, Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears and Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks. In addition to writing novels and non-fiction, Mayo has had short stories and poetry published in a variety of anthologies, and he edited the anthology Where Legends Ride: New Tales of the Old West. He is also a magazine editor and a member of Western Writers of America and Western History Association.