Marcus Wilson is the author of two books, the award-winning non-fiction Hero Street U.S.A., and the historical novel Kidnapped by Columbus, the prequel to this novel. Marc is the founder of the widely used content management system known as BLOX Digital/TownNews. Marc worked as a journalist for three daily newspapers and five bureaus of The Associated Press. He was editor/publisher/janitor of the weekly Bigfork (Montana) Eagle. He studied graduate-level history at the University of Colorado. He and his wife live in Loveland, Colorado.