Stephen P Burns is by day a Professional Engineer He lives in Kelowna BC in the heart of the Okanagan Valley in Canada. Married to the girl he first met back in his teens, he has two boys aged 11 and 13. His inspiration for storytelling comes from them. He was born and raised in Dumfries, Scotland, the home of his namesake Robert Burns, the Scottish Bard, and has lived in various locations throughout Scotland and next to the sea in Northern Ireland. He has Bachelor Degrees in Engineering, Sciences and Arts, with a post graduate education in Engineering Management. He has written creatively in