In his travels, B. Jay Cannon has made three trips to Capernaum, Palestine, the locus of this novel. He studied at Bradley, Dubuque and Edinburgh Universities, and McCormick, Chica...view moreIn his travels, B. Jay Cannon has made three trips to Capernaum, Palestine, the locus of this novel. He studied at Bradley, Dubuque and Edinburgh Universities, and McCormick, Chicago Lutheran and Pittsburgh Theological Seminaries. After forty years of ministry, he has sailed, skied and fished, become the family genealogist, an accomplished potter and china painter. His published nonfiction works are I Give Up, God; Celebrate Yourself; and Sailing through the Circumstances. His first novel, Veils and Shadows, was published in 2011. Dr. Cannon and his wife of fifty-eight years, Phyllis, have four children and seven grandchildren. The Cannons reside in Sugar Land, Texas.view less