

Concurrently he worked in films and TV shows for such directors as Steven Spielberg (Minority Report), Danny Boyle (A Life Less Ordinary), and Joel Schumacher (The Number 23). After graduation, he found himself in the usual array of interesting day jobs such as casino porter at Lake Tahoe, ESL teacher in Iran, and Egypt, and video game programmer in the Atari/Intellivision era. Bitten early by the acting bug, he studied his craft at the Yale School of Drama. ĭavid Stifel was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He'll need to prove that his fire hasn't been snuffed out. Now Finn must learn to fight, for his own life and a chance at redemption. But it certainly wasn't a manipulative fire god or a school for mages-where the students are pitted against each other in deadly duels and the faculty isn't shy about maiming or injuring novice mages to prove a point. Finn wasn't sure what he expected to find when he logged in. And since Finn knows the company, knows their tactics-she might be right. They're calling it Awaken Online, and she believes there's something unusual going on inside the game. That is, until his daughter intervenes, forcing him out of his grief and into a new virtual reality game developed by his old employer. Nearly a decade later, Finn is content to hole himself up and wait out the rest of his life-what little he has left.

While all innovation comes with a price, he never imagined it would cost him Rachael. They let their passion outpace their prudence, determined to revolutionize the world. What was worse, he only had himself and his company to blame. Finn Harris should have been the one to die.
