Leah Mercer was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. Her first ambition was to be a journalist, but after completing a master’s in journalism, she soon realised she preferred anything other than reporting the news.

After trying her hand at public relations, teaching and recruitment in various countries around the world, she settled in London and returned to writing… fiction, this time.

Her first two novels, Who We Were Before and The Man I Thought You Were, were shortlisted at the UK’s Romantic Novelists’ Association Awards.  Now living in New York City, Leah loves books, running and exploring new places with her husband and their son.