I love stories and I thought I would try my hand at writing my own. Kings and Pawns is a project nearly four years in the making and modeled after my favorite action-adventure fiction. Inspired through a love of reading Clive Cussler, James Patterson, Tom Clancy, Dan Brown and of course J.K. Rowling, I strove to create something that embodies my passions and hopefully an adventure that others will enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed writing. After graduating from Princeton University in 2008 where I majored in History with a concentration on United States History, while also a member of the men's Varsity Water Polo team, I moved to San Francisco. I love this city and it was an easy choice to make it the backdrop for the story.