1–What is the title of your latest release? BEFORE WE WERE INNOCENT 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Bess and Joni’s lives are ripped apart when their friend Evangeline dies on their dream vacation in Greece, the summer after they graduate high school. The nightmare continues when the two girls are arrested following her death and, as the world’s media turns their attention on them, they find that they’re judged not only for this one night but for every choice they’ve made leading up to it. Now, ten years later, Bess and Joni are back in California and no longer speaking, but the past threatens to catch up with them both when Joni appears out of the blue asking Bess for a favor… 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I started writing it during another grim winter lockdown in London when I was dreaming of Greece – the ocean and sun and the clean whites and blues of the towns. The book is set between the Greek Islands in 2008 and Malibu in 2018, and despite the exotic locations there is a creeping sense of claustrophobia in both timelines. 4–Would you hang…

