Heroic Hearts

Jim Butcher (born October 26, 1971, in Independence, Missouri) is an American author best known for The Dresden Files, a long-running urban fantasy series following wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden. He also wrote the six-book Codex Alera series and the steampunk-inspired Cinder Spires series. Butcher wrote the first Dresden Files novel, Storm Front, as an exercise for a writing course in 1996, at age 25. He now lives in the mountains outside Denver, Colorado.

Kerrie Hughes is an editor and writer who works primarily in urban fantasy and paranormal fiction. She is best known for co-editing the anthology Heroic Hearts with Jim Butcher. Her work