CHRISTINE BARBER is an award-winning journalist as well as a certified emergency medical technician and firefighter. She has worked as an editor at the Santa Fe New Mexican and a writer for the Albuquerque Journal and Gallup Independent. She is the author of The Replacement Child, which won the Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a New York Times Notable Crime Novel, and The Bone Fire, which won a New Mexico Book Award. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.