Michael Grant Tanner has spent more than forty years as a trial lawyer in the Florida courts. Between 1995 and 2005 he traveled in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union, experiences that inspired his first novel, Nikolai Returns. Now he and his wife and their two English Shepherds live in the Red Hills region of Georgia and raise grassfed Devon cattle. He enjoys creating memorable characters in his fiction from his observations of the people he meets.