Margaret Porter is the bestselling author of The Myrtle Wand (October 2022), The Limits of Limelight, the award-winning Beautiful Invention: A Novel of Hedy Lamarr, and a dozen more highly acclaimed historical novels. Her lifelong study of history inspires her fiction and her travels. A former stage actress, she has also worked in film, television, and radio. When not writing, she tends her extensive rose gardens, sits by the lakeside letting her imagination roam, exercises her dog, or plays her mandolin. Author website: www.margaretporter.com