David Dalrymple is a retired oral and maxillofacial surgeon, wildlife photographer, and writer living in North Carolina. In addition to his fiction, he has written for surgical texts, professional journals, and a Christian blog. When he’s not pounding the keys of his laptop or hiding in a blind with his camera, you’ll find him on a river with a fly rod, riding his horse, Sawyer, or chasing elk in the Rockies. Carlotti is his first work of fiction