Raised in Kentucky's hill country, amidst a community of tobacco and hog farmers, the author's formative years were marked by a unique upbringing. Their early adulthood was a period of adventurous travel hitchhiking and train-hopping across the Western States and Canada, interspersed with a wide array of jobs. After earning a journalism degree and working in newspapers, the author transitioned to fiction writing, with their debut novel achieving publication in ten foreign languages. Holding a master's degree in the Humanities and having taught World Religions, their work often engages with established paradigms and cultural narratives.
Two biologists survive a helicopter crash in the deep interior of Venezuela. Here they discover a 5000-year-old Chinese city, whose society is based on sexual yoga. Its empress must produce a god-like successor for the society to survive, and the two biologists become caught up in the process.