Benjamin E. Lacy was born in Naples, Italy in 1962 to a US Air Force father and stay-at-home mom. Military life took him around most of the United States early in life, but he lived mostly in the southeast (Georgia and Alabama). After a 10-year stint in US Navy as a nuclear plant operator, Ben settled in Aiken, SC, where he now resides with his loving wife, Jillian Ashworth and their numerous canine companions. After earning a BS in Nuclear Engineering, Ben spent 25 years as a contractor to the Department of Energy, working most of that time as a nuclear engineer.Jill and Ben have three children (Alden Nead, Brent Lacy, and Nolan Lacy).Now in retirement from engineering, Ben spends much of… his time either playing music, video-gaming (look for him on XBox Live as TheOldMan1962), traveling around North America with Jill and the pups in their fifth-wheel RV, and writing. He now has one novel (Shattered Diary), with two more on the way, and many short stories.