Kenn Sherwood Roe is a retired Shasta Community College instructor. He has been a high school teacher, a college administrator, a rancher, a seasonal park ranger, a Navy Reservist, a public relations man for TV, and an author of nine novels some with G.P. Putnam’s and Random House. In addition, he has had over 250 articles and short stories accepted by historical, outdoor, inspirational, children’s, nature, general, and literary magazines. He once worked at CBS Television City, Hollywood, where he became involved in production with many of the illustrious and legendary personalities in show business. An amateur naturalist and western history buff, Roe had ancestors who crossed the Isthmus of Panama to reach the California Gold Rush. As a teenager, he was blessed with parents who divided their time between a vacation cottage on the rugged Pacific Coast and a home in the Mother Lode country of the Sierras. Roe has a B.A. from Stanford University, a Fulbright Exchange Scholarship, a Masters from University of Nevada, and has traveled extensively. He is married with children, grandchildren, and a toy poodle, who loves the seashore as much as his master.