Bestselling author Vickie McDonough grew up wanting to marry a rancher, but instead married a computer geek who is scared of horses. She now lives out her dreams penning fictional romance stories about ranchers, cowboys, lawmen, and others living in the Old West. Vickie is the best-selling author of more than thirty-five published books and novellas. She and her husband Robert have been married over forty years, and they make their home in Oklahoma. They have four adult sons, one daughter-in-law and a precocious granddaughter.