Tom Fitzgerald is a graduate of Arizona State University and author of Defector in Our Midst. He began his career at a large accounting firm in Phoenix. With an itch to be more creative, Tom left accounting to found his own luxury home building company in Scottsdale in 1999. Tom is fascinated by the life stories that many of his multicultural clients have shared. The creative pining within Tom helped him to intertwine real life stories with fiction to create his second fast-paced thriller, The Insignificant Girl.