Throughout my high school and college years I was fortunate to have a number of literature professors who planted the seeds that someday might sprout a novel or two.

 

After graduating from the University of California-Davis in 1970 I began a 30-year career in business insurance and risk management.

 

Now "retired," I have the luxury to pursue that life-long dream of being a published author.

 

Over the years, I've dabbled in a number of genres and finally found the “it” that I enjoy and that employs my interests and experience.

 

​For the past fifteen years I have been active in Church ministry. One ministry in particular married an interest in history (Roman imperial period) with the history of early Christianity. The overarching questions I often asked were: What was it like to be one of the first Christians? And, why would a "pagan" get involved with or practice this radically strange religion? How can we, twenty centuries later, relate?

 

​Four years ago, I began this project—a series of historical-fiction novels I call Burnt Offerings—delving into this period of Roman and Christian history, entering the world, the culture, the lives of the first Christians and their Roman neighbors. A secondary purpose was to (re)introduce some of the important Christian figures who were so instrumental in promoting (evangelizing) and defining what Christianity was and would become.

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This first book, The Peregrine's Odyssey, begins our journey into this early period of our shared history of western civilization.