Chris Skates is a novelist who, in addition to co-authoring The Tower and The Rain, has released the political thriller, Going Green, which has been compared by one critic to Grisham and Clancy. Chris has published multiple short stories in national magazines and writes a weekly column for Patriot Update.com. He speaks and teaches on both biblical and scientific topics. He is married with two children. Chris enjoys hiking, hunting, and mountain biking. Dan Tankersley has developed more than one thousand discipleship training classes that he uses to teach biblical topics. His strong interest in and decades-long research of the first eleven chapters of Genesis led to the development of the award winning The Rain and The Tower. He has a technical degree in data processing. Dan and his wife of more than thirty-five years, Judy, have three children, ten grandchildren an one great-grandchild.