An Evening with Elise Hart Kipness

Elise Hart Kipness is a USA Today bestselling author and former national TV reporter. Her acclaimed Kate Green thriller series was optioned by Universal Television and Mary J. Blige’s Blue Butterfly Productions. Elise’s work has earned worldwide recognition as a Men’s Journal top-ten pick for Best Book, a Woman’s Day Must-Read selection, and a Scripps News beach read pick, as well as being featured by CBS Mornings Plus, People magazine, CBS New York’s Club Calvi, and Newsday.

In her past life, Elise covered major news stories for New York’s WNBC-TV, News 12 Long Island, and the Associated Press, and reported on marquee sports events for FOX Sports. A graduate of Brown University, she teaches at Westport Writers’ Workshop while also serving as a board member of Friends of the Key West Library and cofounder of the Connecticut chapter of Sisters in Crime. She and her husband split their time between Florida, Connecticut, and New York.

Jon Lindstrom is a USA Today Best Selling author and a 4-time Emmy® Award nominee, having been seen in studio movies, independent films and thousands of hours of TV. An award-winning filmmaker, his work has received recognition at several prose and screenplay competitions. He is currently shaking things up as gangster "Joey Armstrong" on the new CBS/Paramount+ hit, Beyond the Gates.

Jen Jacob, is an American actress, director, singer, and creator. She is best known for her role as Ashley Morgan in the CBS daytime drama . Jen is also the narrator for "Price of Silence" and will be doing a reading at the event.

"Price of Silence" is the story of a tv news reporter trying to make it in the cutthroat world of media and high society with hidden family secrets that threaten to destroy everything.

Sydney Price has no intention of using her powerful family’s influence to fulfill her ambitions. Determined to make it as a reporter on her own merit, she takes a job at a NYC rival network.

But try as she might, she can’t shake her legacy.

As a massive storm bears down on Manhattan and a colleague suspiciously dies, Sydney finds herself in the center of both stories. Complicating matters, her ex-boyfriend pops up unexpectedly, as her investigation takes a personal turn and threatens to unravel everything her family has built.

Caught up in a web of lies and family secrets, Sydney finds herself up against a ticking clock as she races to discover the truth . . . before she becomes the next victim.