V. C. King

I like puzzles. That's a boring biography, I know. But it's what drives my love of mystery/suspense novels, their power to keep you reading franticly to piece together the how, why or who?

The tragic story of Titanic engaged me in that way. I discovered that everything seemed to be against them, not just on the night she sank, but throughout her entire short life. Survivor Jack Thayer, a first class passenger, wrote, "The improbability of such a thing ever happening was what staggered humanity."

Indeed, it seems so many disasters are a result of a number of factors falling into place at just the right time. Does that make fate the antagonist? It's the ultimate puzzle. One that I attempt to solve in Titanic: Relative Fate.