Christine Pride has worked in publishing for fifteen years at various imprints, including Doubleday, Broadway, Crown, and Hyperion. She was most recently a senior editor at Simon & Schuster. Over the course of her career, Christine has worked with a variety of established and debut writers and published many New York Times bestsellers and critically acclaimed books. Christine attended the University of Missouri's broadcast journalism program and worked in non-profit management before embarking on a career in book publishing. This is her first novel.