Robin Somers spent years in Tuolumne County in the Sierra Nevada, where her Wild Horses Mystery Series takes place. She is retired faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with an MFA in Creative Writing from San Jose State University. She shovels horse poop and hangs with horses at local wild horse shelters and is a Volunteer Ambassador for the American Wild Horse Campaign. The first novel in the series, Eleven Stolen Horses, was a finalist in the category of Best Westerns from Pacific Coast Book Review. She is also the author of the murder mystery Beet Fields. She lives in Santa Cruz with her husband and frequents the Sierra Nevada.