Celeste received her B.A. from New York University, her M.A. from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and her J.D. from New York Law School. She is a member of four state bars - New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Florida. In Rhode Island, where her daughter was born, she worked in a gritty criminal law firm. Celeste now writes full time and has just finished her latest novel in this series forthcoming from Dell, PERFECTLY CRIMINAL