Born in Poland, Margot Justes has lived in some of the world's most wonderful places, including Israel, France and South Africa. Currently living in the Midwest, she has taken her love of art and travel and cultivated it into unique settings and stories for her writing. In 2007, she received a contract for her first novel A Hotel in Paris, published in 2008. Margot has just finished her second novel, A Hotel in Bath and is currently working on a novel set in Venice, Italy. In addition to working on her novels, she recently completed a novella, A Fire Within, short stories in The Heat of the Moment and Missing anthologies and travel articles on Paris, France and Bath, England. Active within a number of writers' communities, Margot is a member of Romance Writers of America and Sisters in Crime and has served on the board of the Chicago Chapters of both organizations.