March 1, 2026 – Daniel Lee’s manuscript about a teenage Union soldier who died of disease in Key West, Florida, during the Civil War, is in production with PathBinder. Noble Son: Youth, Duty and Disease in a Civil War Regiment is based on letters home to upstate New York by Willet Job Rathbun, as well as those a fellow soldier sent after Rathbun’s death. Lee did a great deal of research to add context to the story.
The book’s This will be the Carmel, Indiana, resident’s second book. His first book, The Belgian Hammer: Forging Young Americans into Professional Cyclists, was featured on NBC Sports Network's live coverage of the 2012 Tour de France. He earned a bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism and history and a master’s in journalism from Ball State University.