Katherine Caron is a Southern live out loud kinda girl transplanted to New York. She survived 9/11 and decided to stay, but eventually left her soulless job at Goldman Sachs. The Long Island Sound is her backyard, where she lazes about with her family and shepherds. Most days, she listens to all the music, and she might be at the gym, or cooking for friends, even answering all her fan mail and reading. She collects French perfume and faded photographs, and finds a moving beauty in the emptiness of Ross Penhall’s paintings. She loves detours, red vines and Tuscan sunsets, the scent of roses at dawn, stemwinding discussions about time and space, and Roger Federer. So Gorgeous It Hurts, the first book in her Indolent Eden series, is forthcoming. Her love affair with books began in the fabulous 1970s, when she spent summers at the Fayette County Library in southern West Virginia while her grandmother volunteered and served as matron, she cracked every spine of the Agatha Christies, the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Her affections for stories grew as she travelled across Europe as a youngster, touching ancient stones and watching modern people, all while living in spaces from the most grand to the simplest. She wrote her first story when she was nine and hasn't quit.