Meyer is a successful mathematician and businessman. He has wealth, a beautiful home on Lake Washington, boats and yachts, and a bachelor pad in Seattle. What Meyer is missing is love. He has not found the right woman with which to share his life and love. He is following a rugged path searching for his soul mate, the person he is meant to be with for life. Told predominantly from Meyer’s point of view, beginning at four years of age, the reader is invited to follow the events that shaped Meyer’s, his family's, and his friends’ lives. Through their childhoods in the Northwest, personal tragedy, college, an illegitimate birth, and a tour in Vietnam, we learn how they coped with tragedy, and still managed to find their soul mate. As Meyer tells us, “… no one’s life is just a single strand of thread. On the contrary, each of our lives is a tapestry, woven intricately with the lives of those with whom we cross paths and with whom we share history and destiny. In these pages you will find the strands that make up my tapestry, my history, my life—and the journey that led me to my soul mate.” Finding a Soul Mate, book one in the Meant to Be Together series, is a novel about relationships, love, and life, from acclaimed author, Richard Alan.
Richard is a 101st Airborne Division, Vietnam veteran. Having a lifelong passion for history, a creative mind, and being a mesmerizing storyteller, historical fiction was a natural career choice after a life in software engineering. His love of travel allows him to accumulate research from libraries, museums, and historical sights. Traveling the nation in his RV with his wife Carolynn, Richard is always on the lookout for interesting historical perspective, personal stories, and quirky characters.
I have been using the pen name of Richard Alan. While writing Wind Chimes, War and Consequence I decided to use my real full name instead of a pen name. My original thought was to use a pen name for historical fiction and my real name for sci-fi novels. As of now, I have no plans for writing sci-fi.