Shadows

James Boschert grew up in the then colony of Malaya in the early fifties. He learned first hand about terrorism while there as the Communist insurgency was in full swing. His school was burnt down and the family, while traveling, narrowly survived an ambush, saved by a Gurkha patrol, which drove off the insurgents.
He went on to join the British army serving in remote places like Borneo and Oman. Later he spent five years in Iran before the revolution, where he played polo with the Iranian Army, developed a passion for the remote Assassin castles found in the high mountains to the north, and learned to understand and speak the Farsi language.
Escaping Iran during the revolution, he went on to become an engineer and now lives in Arizona on a small ranch with his family and animals

Chéri Vausé spent twenty-five years as a teacher and lecturer of theology, basing her thesis on the structure of the Catholic Ladder, the Talmud, and the mystical books of Judaism, such as the Kabbalah. The transition from theological essays to mystery writer wasn’t difficult, for the ancients used story-telling as a means of teaching virtues, mysteries, and adventure. Though she came to writing fiction late in life, she has published a number of short-stories in anthologies, and has published several books. Presently, Chéri lives in Central Texas with her husband, a dog who volunteered to live with them, and three ducks, one of which just showed up in her yard and decided to stay.