The author grew up in small towns across the country, spending most of his childhood in the foothills of the Ozark mountains of Northwestern Arkansas. Throughout his life his favorite books have been sci-fi and fantasy, anything Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Terry Brooks and a little Isaac Azimov. Graduating from college in 2004 he became an Army Infantry and Intelligence Officer and continues to serve to this day. While he was deployed to Iraq for 14 months back in 2007-09 he first began writing with this book in mind. His civilian work includes Intelligence Analysis and providing expertise with m...