Declan Conner lives in Brazil, where he teaches business studies in English. He has the good fortune of a beautiful wife, but with the misfortune to share the foot of his bed with a jealous stepson in the guise of a poodle. His short story, The End, or a New Dawn, reached the finals of a short story competition. Harper Collins editors and authors judged the stories. Survival Instinct, under its original working title, achieved a gold star on the author site, Authonomy.com. Declan is currently continuing to write short stories and is working on a second thriller, title, Russian Brides.