Beth Hodder worked for the U.S. Forest Service for over 25 years, almost entirely with the Flathead National Forest in Montana. Part of that time her work took her to the Schafer Meadows Ranger Station in the Great Bear Wilderness, where her husband, Al Koss, was a wilderness ranger. Her first book, The Ghost of Schafer Meadows, won a 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award. A native of Ohio, she and her husband and dogs, Dusty and Scout, make their home in Montana.