Raji Dorotez was born in Virginia in 1947. He was an Army brat from the moment of his birth and spent most of his youth on military bases in Europe and the Orient. He was an early activist and is the author of The Scarlet Wand and The Scarlet Pentagram, two books on Gay male magic, and numerous booklets and pamphlets on magic, the occult, mythology, and ritual, has contributed articles, poems, and stories to a number of little magazines over the years, and edited Paganstongue, a magical journal, during the late 90s. This is his first published novel.