David and Aimée Thurlo have, together and separately, written more than seventy novels, including Never-ending-Snake, Black Thunder, and Ghost Medicine. Their novels have sold worldwide in more than 18 countries and have received the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, a Willa Cather Award for Contemporary Fiction, and the New Mexico Book Award for Mystery and Suspense. David Thurlo was raised on the Navajo Nation in Shiprock. Aimée Thurlo was born in Havana, Cuba. The Thurlos now live in New Mexico with their three standard poodles.