About The Author:

Formerly a research chemist for a pharmaceutical company, Mary Ann Steele grew tired both of the corporate culture and the crowded East. She moved to a small town in Wyoming where she taught physics, chemistry, geology and astronomy in the local public secondary school. Later, she created and taught a popular hands-on science program for the third, fourth and fifth graders in that same rural school district. Living with her husband on a small, family-owned cattle ranch, the author divides her time between ranch work and writing.