Authors N.L. Lavin and Hunter Burke grew up together in Louisiana and remain close friends and creative partners today. N.L. is a full-time child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist; a part-time writer; and a husband and father in whatever time is left. Hunter is a professional actor, recognizable to viewers of Netflix’s Sweet Magnolias, the Amazon original series Bosch, and the Academy Award-winning film The Big Short. Blood Vermilion is their first novel.