"Tim Shoemaker is the author of more than twenty books and is a popular speaker at conferences and schools around the country. He is a regular contributor to Focus On the Family Clubhouse and Clubhouse Jr. magazines. Tim loves writing contemporary novels for youth filled with mystery, adventure, and suspense, such as award-winning Easy Target, Escape from the Everglades, and the rest of the High Water series. His contemporary suspense novel Code of Silence was named in the ""Top Ten Crime Novels for Youth"" by Booklist. Happily married for more than forty years, Tim has three grown sons and three daughters-in-law, lives in Illinois, and still loves working with youth."