Steven Best grew up in the Great Lakes region, the second of five siblings. Grew up in the Great Lakes region, attending high school in Brecksville Ohio, and, ultimately, St. Paul Minnesota, where he graduated. Following that, he spent two years in the U.S. Army as an intelligence analyst, two years in community college, two years at the University of Minnesota, and four years at Northwestern College of chiropractic before setting up practice in Hudson, Wisconsin. He and his wife raised four children, while foster parenting 12 more. Physical disability forced him to retire after 20 years, and so he began concentrating his energy toward historical research and writing. He collaborated with two cousins in compiling and publishing the complete Best family history and genealogy, Our Best Family Book, which received the Wisconsin State Historical Society’s award for Best Genealogical Work of the Year, in 2006. His First novel, When Philosophers Were Kings, Sunstone Press, told the story of his family’s many trials during the Civil War. It was released in 2004, and sold fairly well in the Waldenbooks stores around the Southeast, while receiving honorable mention at the Georgia Writer of the Year Awards, despite having significant editing issues. At the present time, best is once again writing historical fiction, this time about his brother and sister-in-law, who immigrated from Romania and Germany. When It All Comes Around is the enduring story of survival during wartime, giving everything up for love, and the challenges of leaving everything behind to start a new life in America. This is a story that deserves to be told.