Tim Owens grew up in eastern North Carolina and now lives in Summerville, South Carolina with his wife, Ruth, and four children. He is an environmental engineer, and, in addition to writing, enjoys working on his old Ford tractor at his farm near Ehrhardt, South Carolina. Once the backsliding son of a Southern Baptist preacher, his wife led him gently into the Presbyterian Church (where he is now an elder). This is his first novel.