Rod Flint is a Cumbrian born in exile in the south of England. A career as an officer in the British Army was interspersed with time in the financial and legal services and as a safari guide in Cyprus. He has lived in North Yorkshire, with his wife, Judith, for 20 years and enjoys the challenge of exploring the remoter fells and dales. Unravelling the mysteries of local and family history is a hobby that has carried across into writing historical fiction woven around his own, one thousand year-long, family connection to the North.