James Islington is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Will of the Many and The Strength of the Few (the Hierarchy series), as well as the Licanius Trilogy (beginning with The Shadow of What Was Lost). He has sold more than 2.5 million books, and his work has been translated into 17 different languages. He lives on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, with his wife and two children.