Wounded warriors Jesse and James return directly to Ohio from a firefight in Afghanistan. They have brought four of their fallen comrades with them. Jesse will lose her arm, and James will lose his leg, but neither will lose their honor. Neither Jesse nor James could predict the sequence of events that returning directly from the battlefield with their fallen heroes would create. From persecution and prosecution from Washington, to assassination attempts from the military/industrial complex, Jesse and James are pushed beyond the limits of what anyone can take. While James and others are ready to descend to vigiliantiism once they learn the terrible secret that lead to their platoon being ambushed, Jesse refuses, at least at first. Ultimately, Jesse must decide whether she can solve the corruption and mismanagement from inside the system, or from outside the law.
JT Kalnay is an attorney and an author. He has been an athlete, a soldier, a professor, a programmer, an Ironman, and mountain climber. JT now divides his time between being an attorney, being an author, and helping out with seven children.
JT was born and raised in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Growing up literally steps from the Bay of Quinte, water, ice, fishing, swimming, boating, and drowning were very early influences and appear frequently in his work.
Educated at the Royal Military College, the University of Ottawa, the University of Dayton and Case Western Reserve University, JT has spent countless hours studying a wide range of subjects including math, English, computer science, physics, and law. Many of his stories are set on college campuses.
JT is a rock climber and can often be found atop crags in West Virginia, California, Mexico, and Italy. Rock climbing appears frequently in his writing.
JT has witnessed firsthand many traumatic events including the World Trade Center Bombing, the Long Island Railroad Shooting, a bear attack, a plane crash, and numerous fatalities, in the mountains and elsewhere. Disasters, loss, and confronting personal fear are common themes in his writing.
While "boy meets girl" appears to be JT's dominant genre, readers will experience a variety of styles and themes in his simple yet complex writing.
JT has been writing novels for 25 years and has only recently began to release his work under his own name. See if you can recognize his work!