About the Author

Mary Waters-Sayer has a B.A. in English from Binghamton University and later studied writing at Stanford University's Continuing Education program. She worked in investor and public relations for ten years. A native of New York, she has also lived in California and spent twelve years as an expatriate in London. She lives outside of Boston with her family.

Marisa Calin is an actress, narrator, and novelist born in England and educated in New York at the American Academy of the Dramatic Arts. An artist with a flair for everything literary, she has written a young adult novel, You & Me, which received a Kirkus Starred Review, and has narrated the audio books Ruby Red and Sapphire Blue by Kerstin Gier.

Reviews

"An elegant debut. With keen sensitivity and insight, Mary Waters-Sayer explores the shifting landscape between love and betrayal; nostalgia and regret; the desire to keep secrets, and the longing to be seen." --Jennifer duBois, Whiting award-winning author of Cartwheel and A Partial History of Lost Causes
"What sets this novel above is how well it's written, without pretense or bad psychology, and its realistic portrayal of how much damage an affair can wreak. Waters-Sayer is able to convey both the mad pleasure of such passion and the cruel wounds it inflicts upon the guilty and the innocent alike. Reading it makes for a fine guilty pleasure." - Minneapolis Star Tribune"The descriptions of the artist at work are so intense that readers will almost smell the paint." - Booklist"Beautifully written, bringing Paris and London both to life, this novel is a study of the nature of love and art, and what happens when the two collide." - Shelf Awareness