Kat Delacorte was eleven years old when her family moved to Italy from the United States. She lived and attended school in rural Umbria for five years, where she began to write stories about her friends developing superpowers, which eventually became the basis this novel. She graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 2018 with a BA in History, and recently began her MPhil at Cambridge.
"""Startlingly original . . . Readers will be lured in to this tumultuous world of warring families, forbidden power, and heart-searing romance."" - Lyndall Clipstone, author of Lakesedge and Forestfall"