Christina achieved unparalleled wealth and prestige when she married Jason Cardiff, Wall Street wizard and Mayflower descendant. But once the cracks in the union began to show, even the towering privet hedges surrounding their East Hampton estate could not contain the dark rumors. Then everything came crashing down . . .
Margaret Vodopia Carroll is a native of Queens, New York, and grew up in Commack, Long Island. She earned her BA at The George Washington University and worked on Wall Street for Standard & Poor's and E.F. Hutton before moving into travel. She worked as a trade journalist covering airlines and international luxury travel before joining British Airways as Director of P.R. U.S.A., based in New York with secondments to London and frequent travel overseas. She then joined Starwood Hotels as Director of Advertising & P.R. for the St. Regis and Luxury Collection hotels. She got married and moved to Santa Fe, N.M., where she established a P.R. consultancy that represented some of the area's leading attractions, including the historic La Fonda Hotel on the Plaza. She and her family now reside in Michigan, where she writes fiction in addition to being a full-time mom and homemaker.
"One of the great things about a career in travel is I have so many experiences from which to draw for my books," said Carroll. "I loved every minute of it, even the not-so-glam parts (like the time striking farmers with pitchforks shut down the perimeter of Budapest's airport, so my press fam tour and I had to do the last quarter-mile on foot. lugging our bags through fields and even climbing a fence, all in our Sunday best! I still got us upgraded to business class, by the way). My dream has always been to write fiction, and it's great to have that wealth of experience and memory stored up so I can use it in my thrillers."
What's next? "Definitely more thrillers, heavy on atmosphere and plots with lots of twists and turns."
