Gerald Herter grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, graduated from the University of Wisconsin, served in the U.S. Army as a field artillery officer in Germany and Viet Nam, and worked as a CPA for several years in Chicago. He married his wife, Lori, and they moved to Southern California a few decades ago. There he served as Managing Partner of an accounting firm for many years, as well as the President of the Americas, Asia & Australia Region of Integra International, a world-wide association of accounting firms.

Gerald currently writes and edits Integra’s Audit & Accounting Alert newsletter, and was a Contributing Editor for Accounting Technology magazine. He also coordinates the accounting firm’s annual team-building hiking adventure to places of scenic beauty and physical challenge in the American West.

Gerald and Lori still live in Southern California with their cat, Marigold. They have traveled extensively in the U.S., Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and Tahiti. Gerald has had travel articles published in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Celtic Life International magazine. He became fascinated with the Celtic world in recent years from numerous trips with Lori researching people and places for the novels she writes. Lori's novel set in Ireland, The Thin Place, can be found with her other novels at: https://www.amazon.com/Lori-Herter/e/B001H6J3FY/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1.