Brad Dennison was born in rural New England and grew up reading Louis L'Amour, Luke Short, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., and even Edgar Rice Burroughs. He fell in love with the Old West at a very young age, beginning with movies and TV series like Gunsmoke and Bonanza and later expanded to western novels, which led to his study of Western history. He doesn't write about the old west as much as he writes about what it might have felt like to be there. He is a member of the Western Writers of America. J. Rodney Turner is a prolific audiobook narrator who specializes in historical fiction set in the post-Civil War era, as well as Westerns, mystery/thrillers, and crime dramas. Rodney served as an air traffic controller in the Navy and in the Federal Aviation Administration for a combined thirty-one years. He has two sons, four grandsons, and one granddaughter, and resides in a small farming community north of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife of over twenty years, Julie, and their daughter, Rylie.