Kate Bristow has a successful career as a brand strategist, working with many of the world's top companies in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region and North America. During the pandemic, encouraged by her two daughters, she started work on her debut novel, following the premature death of her husband from cancer in 2019. Kate divides her time between her small-but-perfectly-formed modern home in Los Angeles and her five hundred year old farmhouse in the Italian countryside.