Charles M. Hunter started writing at age thirty and worked on his first three novels for seven years before publishing the first, titled, 'Blood & Memory' - a light horror/gothic novel - the first book in the Scarletmere series of novels. Since publishing the first in the summer of 2021, he has published a stand-alone novel, titled, 'The Way Out' - a technological thriller/hard science fiction novel about a breakaway civilization living in a technologically and economically advanced underground city. He is hard at work editing the next-to-be-published manuscript for his third novel, the second in the Scarletmere series, titled, 'Light & Shadow'.