When he was a kid, Kyle woke up early one morning to find a brand new, fully sealed Super Nintendo Entertainment System on his bedroom floor. He'd been begging for the game console for months and, apparently, Mom and Dad had finally made his dream come true. But they hadn't bought him the SNES, and when he burst into their room to thank them, the concerned look his parents shared revealed they knew something he didn' a family secret, guarded over hundreds of years. The Smiths have always been makers. For generations, the "maker" skills passed from parent to child have been refined and perfected. But San Francisco resident and factory owner Kyle Smith is an exception, even among his exceptional family, and tonight, at his parents' annual New Year's Eve party, he discovers the Smith family's special talents aren't the only secrets they've been keeping.
Author
USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of Exigency (2014), the Matt Turner series (The Dig, 2011; The Opal, 2012; Return, 2015), and the Demon’s Story series (A Warm Place to Call Home, and The Many Lives of Samuel Beauchamp, 2013), Michael Siemsen has sold more than 175,000 books. Michael grew up in Venice, California, the second son of a Vietnam veteran who was the first son of a Korean War veteran who was the first son of a World War I veteran. Like Lieutenant Dan, Michael carried on the family tradition and joined the Army, though the only wars he fought in involved blank ammunition, laser tag gear, and were kinda fun. After a decade working various soul-sucking IT jobs, he independently released THE DIG in early 2011, and, 14 months later, the quirky sci-fi story rocketed to #1 on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, remaining in the top 10 for the rest of the year. He quit his job a few months into THE DIG's initial surge, and has released five more novels since. Michael is currently at work on the next books in his popular serieseses.
