Joanne Reid has a life-long passion for high fantasy, military adventure, and history. She blended her love of military adventure and history into the World Union trilogy: Jihad: World War in 2036, Oil Commission, and Lake Aral. She melded her love of high fantasy, military adventure with the world of computer role-playing games in the Gilraën and the Prophecy trilogy, which won the prestigious Outstanding Creator Award. She continued the saga of the elf queen’s crusade against the evil Adjudicars in the four books of the Gilraën and the Doom of the Adjudicars series. She is now working on the next series, tentative titled Gilraën and the Return of the Adjudicars.