Michael Dow spent over twenty-five years in corporate America, with a business career that has run the gamut from software engineer to consultant to CEO. He has worked in companies ranging from start-up to more than one billion dollars in revenues, and in locations from Washington DC to Saudi Arabia. Dark Matters is his first work of fiction (though competitors have been accusing him of writing fiction for years). Mike was raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and received his undergraduate engineering degree from the University of Virginia. He currently lives in Traverse City, Michigan, with his wife and two teenage daughters.