Author Marcy Casterline O’Rourke is a Barnard College graduate, former Eileen Ford high fashion model for Vogue, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar, and veteran actress of dozens of TV commercials. Moving from small town New Jersey to racy, sophisticated New York City as a teenager was a quite a challenge.

While pursuing her career, she met and married ex US Army paratrooper and actor Tom O’Rourke, and he subsequently became a popular TV star, creating the role of Justin Marler on the soap opera the “Guiding Light”, co-starring opposite Sandra Bullock in a sitcom, working as a regular on all the “Law and Order” shows, and appearing in “Maid in Manhattan”, “American Gangster”, “United 93”, and many more TV shows and films.