Born in Helsinki, Finland, Mark Everett Stone arrived in the U.S. at a young age and promptly dove into the world of the fantastic. Starting at age seven with the Iliad and the Odyssey, he went on to consume every scrap of Norse Mythology he could get his grubby little paws on. At age thirteen he graduated to Tolkien and Heinlein, building up a book collection that soon rivaled the local public library's. In college Mark majored in Journalism and minored in English. Mark is feverishly working on his next book while his amazingly patient wife, Brandie, keeps him and their two sons, Aeden and Gabriel, in check. Brandie M. Stone- Born in California, Brandie is an educator and a principal of a K-5 school in Red Bluff, CA. She is the wife of Mark Everett Stone and has helped him immensely in his creative works, serving as a foil for his ideas. She lives in Redding and tries to keep her husband on sons from killing each other.