T. O. Paine is an award-winning suspense author whose stories thrive on the consequences of a character’s choices — and on the twist you don’t see coming until it’s too late. He has written and self-published five novels, along with the short stories you just read.

His novels The Abduction and The Teaching draw on the years he spent living inside a cult. The rest draw on ordinary people with ordinary lives, and the moment the floor gives out beneath them. When he is not writing, you can find him outside, working out in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, USA. T.O. has run fifty marathons in fifty states, ridden his road bike hundreds of miles over 10,000-foot mountain passes, and participates in IRONMAN events.