Best known for her romance novels set in the American old west, Linda Lael Miller was raised in the small wilderness town of Northport, Washington. Her first novel, FLETCHER'S WOMAN, was published in 1983, and she is also the author of such popular works as THE LAST CHANCE CAFE, MY OUTLAW, and TWO BROTHERS. Miller maintains a scholarship foundation which offers financial aid to "women who seek to better their lot in life through education."