Sharon Ahern is coauthor, with Jerry Ahern, of over eighty internationally published novels. Sharon began her writing career in the public relations department of Illinois Bell Telephone and stringing for a local newspaper. Always an avid researcher, she was happy to pull out the Britannica (and later the Internet) and become an instant expert on whatever information Jerry needed for a story. Today she cowrites with Bob Anderson to continue the dramatic line of the popular Survivalist series.