Alastair Luft writes out of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. He is the author of three books, The Battle Within, a fictional account of a soldier's descent into PTSD, Jihadi Bride, a terrorism thriller about one family's experience with modern extremism, and One Kingdom Under Heaven. A graduate of the University of Gloucestershire's MFA program, and a 25-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, Alastair is also an accomplished speaker who has presented on how violence begets violence, and the importance of discovering one's passion.