Stephen Westland was born in Staffordshire in the UK. He has worked for most of his life as an academic and holds a Professorship at a leading British university. He is an independent writer and Retribution, the second book in The Millennium Girl series, was published in 2015. His first novel was Mutation. He has also written short stories in The Envelope, which he also edited, an anthology of 21 stories written by 16 authors and in Murderous Tales, an anthology of 26 flash-fiction stories.