Hi. My name is Joshua Hoyt and I write books—in my spare time. I currently live in the Valley of the Sun in Arizona with my amazing wife and four beautiful children. There I work as school Psychologist. In my other spare time, I love to garden, creating spectacular water falls, streams and koi ponds in my back yard. I enjoy games of all types and love to spend time playing with my family. In fact a lot of the ideas and content for my young adult fiction is trigered by the role playing games we play as a family. I also enjoy hiking, camping and a good movie. After a childhood of moving from place to place throughout the west and two years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I decided to create my own world in which I could settle down, thus the world of Order of the Rose. Right now I am hard at work on the second book of the trilogy.