John Wilde born in 1950 and life was anything but typical. As a boy, his world was filled with constant change. His home served as a way-station for children waiting for adoption, and twenty-seven foster kids filtered in and out of his life as he grew up. With all their different struggles and hardships, those kids molded him into who he became and helped him understand why love is the greatest healer. Small but athletic, Wilde excelled in sports. College was a joy ride, but it still managed to endear him to reading. His studies prepared him for forty-four years in sales, and it was in those years that he developed a passion for writing.