When a band of Irish terrorists, a gang of Mexican outlaws, and the world of the sidhe(fairy kind) come together...well, it could only happen in the mystical world of the clan of Raven's Winter. Welcome back to the Celtic Twilight as the adventure continues. Joseph is kidnapped from the Winter's retreat in Costa Rica by four Irish terrorists looking to get ransom for his return. The Gang Lord whose compound they are staying at has designs of his own. And rescue plans are being formed from places and people unexpected. Adventure and magic enough for anyone, the adventure lives on.
James Pajot was born on July 8, 1955, the youngest in a family of three other siblings. He was born in Fort Hood, Texas, into a military family. His father was career army, and was stationed overseas as much as at home the first 13 years of Jim's life. Jim grew up with a keen interest in nature, in his younger years his focus more on animal life, with a growing interest in horticulture in his adult years, especially exotic tropicals. He also had a love of fantasy and science fiction, as well as those age old nautical tales of adventure under sail. Among his many passions are sailing, kayaking, growing tropical plants, especially orchids, golfing, painting, and , of course, writing. A prolific reader, he is always seeking new knowledge, both for use in his works, and for the pure joy of learning new things. Jim has spent a large part of his adult life working in the field of manufacturing, more having fallen accidentally into it than because it was a chosen career path. With an A.A.S. degree in Architectural Technology, which he has never used in the construction industry, he followed a career of inspection and machine tool design. It was not until his late twenties that he really began to realize his talent and need to create through the written word, and his first works were more akin to Steven King and the genre of horror, which at that time was his greatest passion. None of these books has yet to be published, and may never be. In more recent years, Jim's works have been directed more toward fantasy and science fiction. These are stories with elements of the traditional forms of the genre but with more subtle and contemporary content. These novels are, for the most part, directed toward more mature audiences, not so much because of sexual content (though the Raven's Winter Tales also has this), but because of the deeper plot lines and ideas that these tales present. They are more character driven than simply stories of action. His newest project, a series of novels set in a world much like our own, in a time akin to the Napoleanic era mixed with the age of piracy, is a product of his renewed obsession with good sea sagas of the age of sail, and is a step in a new direction of action adventure tales. From a unique perspective on the concept of the "killer asteroid" to a tale of ancient South Seas tribal fantasy adventure; and from the intriguing and multifaceted Raven's Winter Tales, based on true Celtic myth and legend with a modern twist to a volume of poems and short stories that represent over twenty five years of the author's "best" works, Jim is a prolific writer with "many a tale yet to tell."
