B. Ellen Gardner is a graduate of Texas Woman's University. She has taught school for over thirty years and has been writing for as long as she can remember. Her novels include: Guardian Spirit (Suspense Romance), A Trail of Twenty Winters (Historical Fiction Romance), The Lamplighter (Contemporary Romance), Shae's Song (Contemporary Romance), When Warriors Cried (Historical Fiction Romance), and Beyond the Lions' Den (Contemporary/Women's). She has also written Finding Beauty and Other Intangibles (Poetry) and The Jukebox Boys and Other Boyhood Memories, A Collection of Poetry and Prose (Poetry). When Ellen isn't writing or teaching, she enjoys the love of her husband, children, and grandchildren.