Rod Reees is the author of The Demi-Monde: Winter, the first novel in a series about the Demi-Monde, a virtual world ruled by history’s worst villains. Designed as a military training tool, the Demi-Monde is no place for a civilian: especially the teenaged daughter of the President of the United States. When she disappears inside this nightmare world, eighteen year-old jazz singer and reluctant hero Ella Thomas is sent in to rescue her. Rees recently spoke with me about history, Aleister Crowley and the real world’s answers to the Demi-Monde.