TAMMY BARLEY shares the family lines of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Emily Dickenson. With that background, she says it's no wonder she writes Western Romance. She also works full time as a freelance manuscript editor, writing mentor, and biographer, judges a number of top Christian fiction writing contests, and is a homeschool mom of three teens. She has ghostwritten a number of published books, but Love's Rescue is the first with her name on the cover as author.