Gary E. Parker is the best-selling author of 23 published books (19 novels/ novellas), including numerous genre best-sellers and fiction award-winners. Highland Hopes became a Doubleday Book Club Main Selection and a Christy Award finalist.

A BA graduate of Furman University and a Ph.D. graduate of Baylor University, Parker is also the writer of six completed screenplays, including an adaptation of THE PLAYBOOK. 

A frequent speaker at national and local conventions and conferences, he currently lives in the Atlanta suburbs.