Laura Caldwell, who lives in Chicago with her husband, left a successful career as a trial attorney to become a novelist. She is the author of Burning the Map, A Clean Slate, The Year of Living Famously, The Night I Got Lucky and two novels of suspense, Look Closely and The Rome Affair. She is a contributing editor at Lake Magazine and an adjunct professor of law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Laura is frequently compared to Bree on “Desperate Housewives,” but she holds steadfast to the reasoning that this is only because of her red hair.