Science fiction and fantasy author and screenwriter Leonardo Ramirez takes us on a personal journey of faith and restored hope. From his humble beginnings in Bronx, New York, he's bootstrapped his way into the hearts of readers young and old alike. His heart and motive have always been for people who are hurting. These can be kids who have had to grow up with a missing parent as was the case in The Jupiter Chronicles. It can also be young girls who have suffered an assault like Haven did in Haven of Dante. Those are the kids and adults he wants to speak to because he's been through a tumultuous life filled with hardship that included poverty, abuse and homelessness from a very early age.

But there is hope. And Leonardo Ramirez shares that hope in Beacon in the Badlands.