Scott B. Williams is a sea kayaker, sailor and adventurer and is the author of eight nonfiction books as well as numerous magazine articles, many of them narratives of his travels. Refuge is his third work of fiction, and is the sequel to his first novel, The Pulse, published in 2012. The Darkness After, published in 2013 is a parallel story in the same setting for the young adult market. A sequel to The Darkness After is also in the works, along with two other unrelated novels.