J. C. Long has had a long love affair with words, writing stories from a very early age. When not writing J. C.'s time is spent teaching English as a foreign language. J. C.'s second longest love affair has been with theater, a passion that comes through and shows in his first published story, Broadway Babe. He is also quite passionate about Welsh corgis and is convinced that anyone who does not like them is evil incarnate. J. C. currently lives in Japan, but has also lived in various parts of the United States and also South Korea.

Dalen Reed thinks he has it made when he gets an easy job: kidnap some poor rich sod and deliver him to a specific place. Kidnapping isn't something he would normally resort to, but times can be tough, and you've gotta do what you've gotta do. Things get complicated when the target turns out to be on a ship full of armed bodyguards. The twists continue when Dalen learns it wasn't a kidnapping but an aided runaway. Now he's being followed by the Klei pirates, the deadliest, most ruthless privateers in space.