The parents of a happy, blended family with two teenagers, a successful winery in Mendocino County, and a vibrant open-air theater (plus a hot sex life as a couple), Lily and Tom Langdon seem to have re-invented paradise. That is, until Lily’s ex-husband shows up to star in her and Tom’s production of Most Happy Fella . . . and suddenly no one is remotely happy offstage.

Nancy Weber’s diverse body of fiction includes The Playgroup, a psychological suspense novel with a medical twist; the slipstream novel Brokenhearted; the metafiction Ad Parnassum; the young adult mini-series Two Turtledoves; and eight romances written under her pseudonym, Jennifer Rose. Her nonfiction book The Life Swap, published in the seventies, recounts her experience exchanging lives—trading habits and jobs and even lovers—with a stranger. Weber has written for the stage as well, adapting the lyrics for the American version of composer Alexander Zhurbin’s Seagull: The Musical.
Weber earned a toque blanche at the French Culinary Institute and ran a catering business, Between Books She Cooks, for a decade. She plays chess, badly, and drinks Irish whiskey.