After thirty years in academia as a human resource specialist, Ellen LaCorte longed for something different. Finally she followed her heart and made the leap to writing full-time.  The result is The Perfect Fraud, her debut novel published by Harper Collins in June 2019.  A native New Jerseyite, she lived with her family for twenty-five years in Arizona before moving back. She now lives only blocks away from where Washington crossed the Delaware.  She married to Mike and has two grown sons. Chris and Nick, and shares her house with Emma the cat, who is most definitely a reincarnated dog.