Spiritual innovator and author Ross Hostetter was born in 1954 and raised in a small agricultural community in the American Midwest. As a young man, Ross took 26 trips into the wilderness of the Canadian Shield, the rugged north country which is the earth of this book. He and his wife Mary now live in Boulder, Colorado with their three children and a little white dog named Tinker Bell. Secrets of the Field is Ross's debut novel.