James Enge lives with his children in northwest Ohio, where he teaches classics at a medium-sized public university. His short fiction has appeared in Swords and Dark Magic (Eos, 2010), in the magazine Black Gate, and elsewhere. His previous novels are Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, 2009), which was listed on Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading for 2009, and This Crooked Way (Pyr, 2009).
*A "bright call" is the time (roughly 7.5 days) when Trumpeter, the smallest and fastest moon, is aloft. See appendix A on calendar and astronomy.