Morgandy Caye is a former rodeo queen and riding instructor who spent many years living on a ranch in Kansas. She currently teaches writing, and has published a cookbook entitled Food and Family Along the Sappa, and co-published a book of poetry called Follow the Creek. Her work has been included in the anthology Lines: A Journal of the Arts. She currently resides in the Florida Keys with her husband and their Golden Retriever. This is her first novel.