Ian J. Cue, was born in June of 1956. While in the Air Force, he served four years in the heart of mystery and enchantment: Holloman AFB, New Mexico. Following the service, he attended undergrad and grad school at Youngstown State University, where he majored in accounting and minored in economics. While in grad school, he self published a DOS computer guidebook. Prior to completing grad school, he was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. Though he suffered miserably, he continued to work part- time teaching and was also self-employed. After surgery in 1990 and finding that the Crohn’s disease was still apparent, he chose to gather research on the disease and create his own plan of intervention. His approach included taking vitamins, amino acids, and bacteriological supplements accompanied by herbs and intestinal-friendly juices. Having no support for his plan in the medical community, he halted the medical treatments. By 1992, he concluded that his health was fully restored. The author attributes much of his creative writing to his painful experience with Crohn’s. During this period of intense suffering, he secretly wrote many ii stories, which carried him, vicariously to many distant places where there was no Crohn’s disease. He later realized that writing could very well have been the path that destiny had planned for him. It wasn’t until the summer of 2001 that a former talk radio host inspired writing as a career path. Knowing that she reviewed many books including some by famous authors, Ian requested that she read a few pages of a book he had written. To their mutual surprise, she continued to read page after page until she was done with the entire portion of the manuscript provided. She then tossed down her reading glasses, pointed her finger in his face, and said “YOU MUST PUBLISH… MUST!” Yet still he hadn’t thought of writing as a career. As the year passed and the economy took its toll on his business, he found himself at the apex of the decision of what to do. In the spirit of a writer, he chose the “starvation route” and began to write once again. As a result, this book was written and published in 2003. Ian is a romantic, passionate person with a deep sense of adventure and who is eager to capture what life can offer—not just ordinary things, but things that are different, unusual, or out of the ordinary. For him, New Mexico is such a place, like an epicenter of the unknown where he witnessed unusual … things. While there, he spent much time probing and iii pondering many archaeological secrets of the petroglyphs, as well as the many other Indian sites of the Southwest. To him adventure, curiosity, and hunger for new things have placed him in situations one ordinarily would not encounter. This sense of adventure led him to such extremes as performing a successful rescue of an innocent person from a Mexican federal prison. In more recent years he captures adventure through such things as spelunking in the deep darkness of caverns and traveling to out-of-the-ordinary places. In whatever he has done, you can be assured his experiences shall flavor and permeate the pages of his books. Overall, he is an individual who will go well beyond the ordinary to find adventure, mystery, and romance.