Its arrival is fireworks—anticipated, unexpected, impossible to ignore. Trepidation collapses into joy. In an instant, life fractures and reforms. The warning “your life will never be the same” ceases to be prophecy, becoming fact, as the bundle in your arms wraps its small hand around your finger for the first time.

Tom lives with his young family in New Zealand and works as a primary school teacher. He has had a passion for stories ever since learning to walk and is currently working on a series of fantasy novels.