BRUCE P. GRETHER lives in the Hill Country of Texas with his beloved partner. Bruce grew up in Thailand as the son of Protestant missionaries. While there, several times he visited the ruins of Ayutthaya north of Bangkok. He lived in Berkeley, California off and on during the 1960s and then spent twelve years living in Estes Park in the high Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Later, Bruce completed his university studies at CSU in Fort Collins, and has continued to write ever since.