ABOUT THE WRITERDon Bendell, is a best-selling author whose style has been likened to Louis L’Amour and Zane Grey, a 100% disabled Green Beret Vietnam veteran, and a 1995 inductee into the International Karate and Kickboxing Hall of Fame. Don owns the Strongheart Ranch in southern Colorado, named for his number one best-selling western, its sequel Blood Feather (Berkley/Penguin-Random House, Aug, 2013), and the sequels The Indian Ring (Berkley/Penguin-Random House, January, 2016) and The Rider of Phantom Canyon (Berkley/Penguin-Random House, October, 2016), with over 3,000,000 copies of his 28 books in print. He has a Masters Degree in Business Leadership from Grand Canyon University and has 6 grown children and 11 grand-children, and is a widower losing longtime wife/soulmate cancer-survivor Shirley on Valentine’s Day, 2014 due to side-affects of a successful stem cell transplant.