A dedicated student of history, John Randall Aikman is a former attorney, business executive, and adjunct professor. He lives in Westfield, Indiana, with his wife, Judith. The sweeping nineteenth-century saga of the fictional Markim and Reynolds families, All Things Touch: A Saga of the American West, is his first novel. His second novel, Saving Washington City, tells the story of a Northern spy's desperate efforts to save the nation's capital from a Confederate plot.