About the author
Wendy Schardein is an online transcriptionist who has been writing for more than twenty years. This is her first published work. Bryan Schardein is a software engineer who coaches chess and sometimes teaches martial arts in his rare moments of free time. While he has published several white papers and technical articles, this is his first work of fiction. They have been married since 2005 and live in Louisville, Kentucky, in a big, loud, crowded, messy, happy house with Wendy's mother, three teenagers, two dogs, a ghost, two part-time ducks, and a partridge in a pear tree.