About the Author
Jaxxon Sterling grew up in the southeastern United States and finished his education at a British school in India. He started writing at eighteen — stories about werecats that never left his notebooks — and more than forty years later he still works the same way: the characters arrive first, and he writes down what they're doing and saying. Writing has always been an outlet for him, a place to work things out.
His influences run toward the writers who built the ground he plays on: J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen R. Donaldson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert E. Howard.
He's retired now, and splits his time between keeping bees and looking after a small colony of feral cats — Leo, Sylvia, Mittens Jr., Pumpkin, Snowflake, Tuxedo Sam, Matt, and a few others who've wandered in — alongside his wife, Cherie.
Rooted in Green, a fantasy romance trilogy about found families, hard-won peace, and the cost of protecting what you love, is his debut.