About the Author

Thomas Locke is a pseudonym for Davis Bunn, the award-winning novelist whose work has been published in twenty-five languages. He has sales in excess of seven million copies and has appeared on numerous national bestseller lists. His titles have been main or featured selections for every major US book club.

Davis serves as Writer-in-Residence at Regent’s Park College, Oxford University, and has served as lecturer in Oxford’s new creative writing program. In 2011 his novel Lion of Babylon was named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal. The sequel, Rare Earth, won Davis his fourth Christy Award for excellence in fiction in 2013. In 2014 he was granted the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Christy board of judges.

A film based upon Emissary, the first novel in the Legends of the Realm series, is now in development.