Steve Levi is Alaska's most published author and a charter member of Author Masterminds. A historian by training and a teacher at heart, he holds degrees from UC Davis and San Jose State University. With more than ninety books to his name, Steve has spent decades unraveling overlooked stories from America's past-the ones that didn't make it into the textbooks. Coming Out of the Water Dry is vintage Levi: follow the money, and history makes sense. Through twenty-five voices, he resurrects one of the only government-sanctioned religious extermination orders in American history-and reveals that it was never really about religion at all. It was about banks, land, and political power. Whether writing mystery or historical fiction, his aim is always the same: help readers see past the surface story to the machinery underneath. Coming Out of the Water Dry is a prime example of his trademark approach-smart, inventive, and one twist ahead of expectation.