Domnica Radulescu won a national prize for a volume of short stories when she was twenty, just before she fled her native Romania during Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship. She settled in the United States as a political refugee in 1983.She is a Professor of French and Italian Literature and Chair of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.Her first novel Train to Trieste won the Library of Virginia Award for Best Fiction. Black Sea Twilight is her second novel. She lives in Lexington, Virginia, with her two sons.

"Evocative, poetic and lush... a delicious page turner of lost love, loaded with magical dreams and real hope. You won't be able to put this one down" -- Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of VERY VALENTINE and LUCIA, LUCIA "A beautiful love story... Domnica Radulescu has written a powerful and uplifting novel" -- Patrick Neale Bookseller "An excellent book club choice" New Books Magazine

Domnica Radulescu won a national prize for a volume of short stories when she was twenty, just before she fled her native Romania during Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship. She settled in the United States as a political refugee in 1983.She is a Professor of French and Italian Literature and Chair of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.Her first novel Train to Trieste won the Library of Virginia Award for Best Fiction. Black Sea Twilight is her second novel. She lives in Lexington, Virginia, with her two sons.

"Evocative, poetic and lush... a delicious page turner of lost love, loaded with magical dreams and real hope. You won't be able to put this one down" -- Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of VERY VALENTINE and LUCIA, LUCIA "A beautiful love story... Domnica Radulescu has written a powerful and uplifting novel" -- Patrick Neale Bookseller "An excellent book club choice" New Books Magazine