Growing up, Ollie Odebunmi developed a love for the works of fantasy authors such as Robert E Howard, Michael Moorcock and Edgar Rice Burroughs and in later years, Raymond E. Feist, Karl Edward Wagner and David Gemmell. His other interests were fitness and boxing and he went on to establish a gym business, before writing his first book, The Last Great Heavyweights - From Ali and Frazier to Lewis and Tyson. Satisfied he had the chops as a writer, he took the plunge into fiction, and naturally, it had to be epic/heroic fantasy. He published Verge of Darkness, the first book of the Threads of Fate series in 2017.