Linda Lafferty is the author of The Bloodletter’s Daughter, House of Bathory, The Girl Who Fought Napoleon, and the Colorado Book Award winners The Drowning Guard and The Shepherdess of Siena. She holds a doctorate in bilingual special education and taught in Spain for three years. She is an avid equestrian and horse lover.

Andy Stone worked for thirty-five years for the Aspen Times as a reporter, editor, award-winning columnist, and eventually, the publisher of the newspaper. He is the author of the novels Song of the Kingdom and Aspen Drift.

Linda Lafferty and Andy Stone had their first date on the ski slopes of Aspen, Colorado. They were married in 1986 and still live in the Roaring Fork Valley.