Terrence P. McCauley is an award-winning writer of westerns, crime fiction and thrillers. His western Where the Bullets Fly won the True West Magazine Award for Best Mass Market Novel for 2019. He is the author of the acclaimed University Series, which includes The Fairfax Incident. He has also written two award-winning novels set in 1930 New York City-Prohibition and Slow Burn.

Ralph Compton stood six foot eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was the USA Today bestselling author of the Trail of the Gunfighter series, the Border Empire series, the Sundown Riders series, and the Trail Drive series, among others.