Kirsten Mickelwait
Raised amid great wealth and privilege, Sara Wiborg Murphy rejects her family’s traditional values to build a golden life of creativity and beauty amid the Lost Generation in France.
This lush historical novel follows Sara from New York to Paris and Antibes and back again. Wherever she lands, her flair for celebrating life and the people around her makes her a doyenne of the bohemian elite.
A NEW HISTORICAL NOVEL
THE GHOST MARRIAGE
At thirty-one, Kirsten has just returned to San Francisco from a bohemian year in Rome, ready to pursue a serious career as a writer and eventually, she hopes, marriage and family. When she meets Steve Beckwith, a handsome and successful attorney, she begins to see that future materialize more quickly than she’d dared to expect.
Twenty-two years later, Steve has become someone quite different from the man Kirsten first met. Unemployed and addicted to opioids, he uses money and their two children to emotionally blackmail her. The couple separates but, just after their divorce is finalized, Steve is diagnosed with colon cancer and dies within the year, leaving Kirsten with $1.5 million in debts from properties that are no longer hers.
