Janice K. Mineer is a graduate of Brigham Young University. One of her poems placed second in a national poetry contest and she has published an illustrated children’s book. Janice loves playing and teaching harp, reading, gardening and spending time on the lakes and rivers of Montana. She and her husband, Randy Mineer, have grown children and eleven beautiful grandchildren. She and Randy live in the Bitterroot Valley in western Montana. Secret Heart of the Bitterroot is her first novel.