Clarissa Bell performed for over a decade with the premiere dance troupe Los Flamencos before teaching flamenco privately in her own studio in Santa Monica. This is her debut novel. She has written contributing articles for the Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles (DRC) as well as a volume of non-fiction included in the Library of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. THE SECRET OF THE CONDE HERMANOS is the first in the three-part Spring Fed Lake Series.