DENNIS A. BEAUDRY served in the U.S. Air Force for just over twenty-six years and followed that up with sixteen years with The Ohio State University. Originally from Monroe, Michigan, he now resides in Columbus, Ohio, has two adult children and four grandchildren. Dennis is widowed, losing his wife, Linda, to lymphoma after forty-nine years of marriage. His writing spans nearly his entire life starting with a penchant for poetry in his teen and young adult years, then expanding to novels in later years.