Author J.v.L. Bell has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University and a Master of Science degree from Colorado School of Mines. She worked as a mechanical engineer for her entire career, including being an adjunct professor at Colorado School of Mines, but in her free time, she loved writing and researching Colorado history. In 2015, she left engineering and sold her first Colorado historical mystery, The Lucky Hat Mine, to the Hansen Publishing Group. In 2018, Filter Press bought her first non-fiction book, a children's biography about Elizabeth Byers. Her second Colorado historical mystery was published in 2019 by the Hansen Publishing Group, and her third was published in 2021. You can find out more about this author at her website, www.JvLBell.com.