Gene Ligotti was educated at Adelphi University on Long island and received his doctorate from New York University. Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis prevented him from continuing his successful thirty year practice of dentistry in Huntington, New York. After he retired, Ligotti began writing as just something to do, but it soon became a driving force. He is an American Revolutionary buff, has given lectures about the impact the Revolution had on Long island, and he has written three novels about interesting characters of the American Revolution. Ligotti is also the author of the much applauded, Time Never Heals, the biography of Dr. Frank Lunati, the first battalion surgeon in Vietnam who is a dear friend from his college days. Ligotti soon began writing suspense thrillers which has become his special passion and each suspense thriller has a love story as a sub plot. Before writing novels, he was a free-lance writer and he wrote a monthly column for the Guide Magazine about the history of the villages in the Catskill Mountains and the romantic Hudson River. His widely praised articles on dentistry have been printed in various dental Journals. Writing Christmas stories for his grandchildren when they were young brought them and him much pleasure. Gene Ligotti lives in Smithtown, New York with his wife, Corbina, where they can be near their children and grandchildren.