Elizabeth Berrett writes about invisible forces—divine and sinister—hiding in plain sight. Her thrillers and family dramas pierce the surface of people and institutions, tracing how ordinary fears take root, how the need for control turns destructive, and how grace finds its way through. Her willful characters don’t always welcome what they discover—but ultimately choose truth, even when it asks them to change.
Her debut novel, The Alchemy of Wonder, is an 82,000-word upmarket women’s fiction story with family saga and corporate thriller elements. It follows a disgraced geneticist who borrows a family friend’s identity to track down the mystery woman her pharmaceutical-CEO father nearly left everything for—only to uncover a shadow network suppressing a breakthrough cure that threatens Big Pharma’s profits.
Before turning to fiction, Elizabeth spent three decades inside the rooms where institutional power operates. As a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company, she worked behind the scenes of Fortune 100 decision-making and saw how quarterly earnings pressures could compromise even the soundest judgment. She later held C-suite roles in technology and the disaster-restoration industry—fields where she was often the only woman at the table. Those experiences inform the institutional pressures and psychological dynamics at the heart of The Alchemy of Wonder.
Elizabeth holds a liberal arts degree from UC San Diego and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is also a certified executive coach, a Court of Master Sommeliers certified sommelier, and a classically trained Pilates instructor—because one career was never going to provide enough material for a writer.
Her next novel, La Paz, is slated for completion in Summer 2027.
She lives in Scottsdale, AZ.
