Steve Burch and Lori Alaniva served in the misty smoke-filled rooms of intelligence during the "Cold War." They worked with characters whose feats and eccentricities bordered on the fantastic. Having looked into the past to predict the future, they are dreamers who never lost the thrill of exploring, unraveling, and solving the puzzle. Steve is a natural-born storyteller who "spins a mean yarn." Lori takes the yarn and weaves it into a polished story. Both are students of myth, lore, and legend, and lovers of ancient history. In addition to Angels and Vampires, Steve and Lori co-authored two other fictional works: Mercury’s Fire and Dragon Lady and the Pirates: Epiphany (under the pen name Pendragon Tales). They also co-authored a couple of nonfiction works: Imperfect Spies and Reluctant Spies, which were published and distributed throughout the US Air Force and Department of Defense intelligence communities under their own names. Former US Army and Air Force intelligence officers respectively, they are no longer in Government service and now write fictional works about spies, swords, fangs, and fantasy.