Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels including The Paris Daughter, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker's Wife, The Room on Rue Amélie, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. She is published in more than thirty languages and is the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series Friends & Fiction. She lives in Orlando, Florida with her husband and son.