Peter J. Adang has spent most of his adult life in New Mexico. He graduated from Syracuse University with undergraduate and law degrees. After spending two years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., he moved to Albuquerque and specialized in civil trial law. For at least 15 years before retirement, he was recognized in Best Lawyers in America. A lover of the West, he has explored, hiked, skied and fly fished throughout northern New Mexico and Colorado. After retiring, he taught school for a time, did free-lance legal work and served as an elected director of a rural electric cooperative. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he began writing fiction, culminating in the first book of a series, The Long Road to Silverton.