Matthew P. Mayo is a Western Writers of America Spur Award-Winner and a Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and his many novels include the Westerns Winters' War, Wrong Town, ;Hot Lead, Cold Heart, Dead Man's Ranch, Tucker's Reckoning, The Hunted and Shotgun Charlie. He contributes to several popular series of Western and adventure novels.