Thanks for stopping by my site! I write the kind of novels I love to read -- immersive, suspenseful, plot-happy stories that deeply mine character and the big questions of life and the world. My latest novel SINNERS OF STARLIGHT CITY features a Sicilian-American femme fatale on a mission of vengeance at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. My debut THE GERMAN HEIRESS follows a woman reckoning with her guilt in postwar Germany. In THE SOVIET SISTERS, estranged Red Army sisters tangle in a twisty Cold War spy drama. 

I grew up in the USA but have lived in Europe for 20 years. Everything I love about the international life -- travel, culture, history, myths, landscapes, folklore, languages -- flow into my books. Through fiction, my readers can come with me to the sunny shores of Sicily, the grit and glitter of Depression-era Chicago, the cold streets of Stalinist Moscow, the ruined cityscapes of postwar Germany. Stories are everywhere. They help me understand the world. But really, I'm a reader and a writer because I was that little girl with a pile of books on her lap, ready to jump into different worlds and eras.