Linden, Theresa: - Theresa Linden is the author of award-winning Battle for His Soul and Roland West, Loner (Catholic Press Association Book Awards, 2016 & 2017) two books in her contemporary young adult West Brothers series. Raised in a military family, she developed a strong patriotism and a sense of adventure. Her Catholic faith inspires the belief that there is no greater adventure than the reality we can't see, the spiritual side of life. She has eight published novels, including a fast-paced dystopian trilogy that tackles tough moral questions of our day, two short stories in Image and Likeness: Literary Reflections on the Theology of the Body (Full Quiver Publishing), and a short story in Secrets: Visible & Invisible (CatholicTeenBooks.com). She holds a Catechetical Diploma from Catholic Distance University and is a member of the Catholic Writers Guild and the International Writers Society. A wife, homeschooling mom, and Secular Franciscan, she resides northeast Ohio, with her husband and their three teenage boys.