Jason Matthew Stanley is a career marketer, entrepreneur, and designer turned writer in order to achieve a life long ambition. A lover of books from an early age, he cultivated a love of historical fiction that included Patrick O’Brian and Bernard Cornwell among others. As his mother and father explored family history and geneology they discovered they were related to John and Jane Fraser through the Fraser’s daughter, Catherine. The more he learned about the story, the more he realized that this was the one he was meant to share. He lives in Chatham County, North Carolina with his wife, two children, Great Pyrenees dog, and an assortment of goats, chickens, and farm cats. This is his first novel.