Paul Anthony Harris

Paul Anthony Harris was born and raised in Dewsbury, a mill town in West Yorkshire — the kind of place that leaves its mark on you whether you want it to or not. From there, life took him somewhere few from those streets expected to go: into uniform, across the Irish Sea, and into the streets of Belfast and Londonderry during one of the most dangerous periods in modern British history.

He served. He loved. He lost. He carried those years quietly for a long time before putting them on the page.

It started with a girl. His first girlfriend at school — a memory that never quite let go. The novels began there, with that connection, that particular kind of feeling you only have once and spend the rest of your life half-remembering. She appears in these pages as Chloe. That is not her name. Some things are changed to protect the innocent. The truth of how it felt is not.

His five novels aren't entirely fiction. The characters have different names. The truth does not.

The Harker series — beginning with Harker the Boy and Chloe the Girl and continuing through Harker the Soldier, Before You Were Gone, The Thread That Remained, and When Jade Went Dark — follows one life across decades, continents and consequences. From the cobbled streets of West Yorkshire to the night boats out of Liverpool, from the River Foyle to the rain-slicked streets of London and on to Bangkok, these are stories of ordinary people caught in extraordinary moments, trying to hold on to the things that matter.

Paul now lives in Southeast Asia. He writes because some stories refuse to stay silent.