This novel originated from a post in a blog that was written by N.W. Boyer in Boyer Writes. This post on SS General Hans Kammler asked the question: "What ever happened to Gen.Kammler?" After World War II, a number of high-ranking officers fled to places like Argentina. This question seemed to be of great interest to Boyer's readers. Some readers wrote emails that they knew where General Kammler had lived. One even said the General was an uncle who was elderly and had escaped prosecution. General Kammler, as portrayed in this book is entirely fiction. The accounts of him, however are based on historical facts. General Kammler, was in fact from 1944, was head of advanced weapons development in Nazi Germany, including the Me-262 jets, the V-2 rockets and perhaps even the exotic Bell Project. The enormous interest in General Kammler led Boyer to explore the thoughts of where he might be hiding and thus, this novel evolved. All characters are fictional, but many of the places described in the novel, as the World Seed Vault in Norway, sometimes referred to as the "Doomsday Seed Vault" or actual places. For many readers, the people and culture of the Middle East, are generally not understood by other parts of the world. This only increases the mystery behind the writing of this historical fiction by N.W. Boyer
About the Author: NANCY W. BOYER began writing after retiring from the Florida School System, where she was chosen by her school as Teacher of the Year. Her first books were for children. Believing that young people needed to learn values, she began a series called THE NANNY BOOKS. For a number of years, she also has written an online blog of inspiration, history, and music called Boyer Writes. Following teaching English in Mongolia, Boyer was chosen as one of seven teachers from the State of Florida to travel and experience the Japanese culture and observe their school system. She is grateful to the Japanese Educational System for giving her this honor. This opened to her a love for experiencing new cultures. Boyer has traveled extensively throughout the world with Student Ambassadors and with Christian Missions. She taught English in Donetsk Christian University in Ukraine and went to the interior of Guatemala to find women and churches that had survived previous government massacres. All these experiences and a love of history eventually led her to write her first historical novel, THE SEEDS. Having grown up in North Carolina, she began to focus on a part of the Blue Ridge Mountains with a continuing series about the beauty, culture and history of this part of the United States. She and her husband, Bill, a retired Navy Chaplain and Christian minister make the Blue Ridge of Virginia their home for part of each year. They have four grown children and two grandchildren. She does not want to leave out Gracie, their golden retriever, who slept at her feet most of the time she was writing this novel.