Rick DeStefanis grew up in the South and currently lives in northern Mississippi with his wife, Janet, four cats, and a male lab named Blondie. His novel, The Gomorrah Principle, won the Readers' Favorite International Book Award in 2014, and his novel Valley of the Purple Hearts was awarded The Best Indie Book Award for Literature in 2017. You can learn more about The Word Hunter, Rick DeStefanis, at www.rickdestefanis.com.