Down the Amazon in a skiff or up the Nile in a dahabiya, sweeping above the Serengeti Plain and the Valley of the Kings in a hot-air balloon or clinging to a camel in the Sahara Desert or Judean Wilderness, Lynn Horton vigorously explores her world.

Curiosity that led to three university degrees also prompts Lynn to study people and her surroundings, particularly religion, ancient history, and art. Although thankful for a career in advertising, her greatest achievement is her two children. As teenagers, they stood with her at an archaeological site in Galilee as heavy artillery rumbled out of Syria, machine-gun fire erupted in Lebanon, and an Israeli Defence Forces, camo-painted aircraft pierced the clouds. That day two decades ago triggered more than fear: it started Lynn’s foray into fiction.

A long-time member of The Explorers Club, Lynn has lived in the Rockies for twenty years. She fly-fishes, hunts upland game birds, forages for mushrooms, contributes to charities serving women and children, counsels, and borrows other people’s pets and her grandchildren—always returning them with the zoomies.

Convinced that her generation is full of extraordinary women, Lynn writes for them—and for their daughters and granddaughters.