Michael Sledge spent his childhood in Virginia, before attending college and settling in North Carolina. His professional career has included being a licensed CPA, as well as numerous roles in financial leadership, entrepreneurial ventures, and clinical research. Life experiences and a lifetime of avid reading led to publishing the first novel in a series of crime thrillers known as the Quinn Series. The series opens with Cold Moon Rising, introducing readers to its central character, Jimmy Quinn. Jimmy is a sharp, witty detective whose dysfunctional family upbringing has influenced who he is and how he thinks. The Ones We Love, the second in the series, will take Jimmy and his detective partner Micky Bondurant down even darker and more twisted paths in pursuit of an unhinged murderer.