Darin Kennedy, born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. After completing family medicine residency in the mountains of Virginia, he served eight years as a United States Army physician and wrote his first novel in the sands of northern Iraq. His series, Fugue and Fable and The Pawn Stratagem, are available at all major booksellers. Carol is his first foray into writing for the young adult audience. Doctor by day and novelist by night, he writes and practices medicine in Charlotte, NC.