C.R. Wiley is a senior contributor to The Imaginative Conservative and a pastor in Manchester, CT. His short stories have appeared in The Mythic Circle and Fear and Trembling, and his nonfiction has appeared in Touchstone Magazine, Relevant Magazine Online, and Modern Reformation, and he is the author of The Household and the War for the Cosmos and Man of the House. The Purloined Boy, Book 1 of the Weirdling Cycle, is his first novel