Samar Reine, an acclaimed economics professor, was raised on the Mediterranean coastline, a stone’s throw away from where Jesus turned water into wine.

English is Reine’s third language. She started teaching economics in higher education at twenty-three.

Reine’s worldview was profoundly influenced by her education under Jesuit and Marists French priests during a period of civil war. This experience forever transformed her understanding of love, forgiveness, compassion, and healing, instilling in her a unique perspective on these fundamental aspects of life.

During her formative years, Samar Reine won every cultural competition she entered, which eventually led to her passion for writing novels. She's been an intrepid traveler since the age of seventeen, venturing out alone, and is a devoted lover of nature and animals.

Reine believes in meraki, a transcendental existence for a meaningful life. For a life painted vermilion mountains, oceans of sky, and the call of the wild, she lives with her family between the mountains of the Southwest and the Pacific coast. Unless the path is steep enough to reach high summits, it’s not the road less traveled—the only road that makes all the difference.