Mohyna Srinivasan was born into a family that has generational ties to the Indian army and grew up in cantonment towns like Dehradun, Srinagar, Wellington, Ambala, Mhow and Jhansi. An aluma of The Lawrence School, Sanawar, Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, and IIM, Ahmedabad, she worked for Unilever in Mumbai and Hong Kong till 2004 when she started writing full time. This is her first novel. She lives in Mumbai with her husband and two children.