W. Michael Farmer combines more than ten years of research into nineteenth-century Apache history and culture with Southwest living experience to fill his stories with a genuine sense of time and place. A retired PhD physicist, he has also written award-winning essays and short stories for anthologies. His first novel, Hombrecito's War, won a Western Writers of America Spur Finalist Award for Best First Novel in 2006 and was a New Mexico Book Award Finalist for Historical Fiction in 2007. His other novels include: Hombrecito's Search; Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright: The Betrayals of Pancho Villa; Conspiracy: The Trial of Oliver Lee and James Gililland; Killer of Witches: The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache, Book 1; and Blood of the Devil: The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache, Book 2.
