Richard Lee Orey is a former official court reporter of the United States District Court and the California Superior Court with over twenty-five years of daily courtroom trial experience. Also a lawyer, The Paradise of Revenge is his first novel in his Shadows of Justice series. Richard lives in EastLake Shores, Chula Vista, California, with Jodi, his wife and life-long companion, and enjoys family gatherings, lake-paddling in his red canoe and leisure time in his rose garden. He is currently working on a sizzling, emotion- packed Shadows of Justice, Book II.