For Thee is a first-person fictional narrative of the marriage of Pauline Pfeiffer and Ernest Hemingway. It is historically factual and includes character sketches of all the well-known players of the 1920s Paris expat set. We follow Pauline from the cotton fields of Arkansas to post-WW I Paris, where she meets Ernest Hemingway. Once they are married, they ostensibly settle in Key West, but, in reality, they never stop moving. They follow the bullfights in Spain, shoot game in the mountains of Idaho and Wyoming, hunt for big game in Africa, and troll the waters of Cuba to reel in marlin. A devout Catholic when she meets Ernest, Pauline willfully sins against the tenets of her upbringing and abandons her God, all for a man who meets a long-legged blonde in a bar, and will edit her out of his life with the same casual disdain he'd normally reserve for a badly written sentence.

Claire M. Johnson's first novel, Beat Until Stiff, was nominated for the 2003 Agatha Award for Best First Novel and was a Booksense pick. Her second book in this series, Roux Morgue, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Fog City, her noir crime novel set in Prohibition-era San Francisco featuring Maggie Laurent, P.I., debuted in July 2024 from Level Best Books and was nominated for a Shamus Award and a Macavity Award in 2025. The second book in this series, City Lights, was published in July 2025. For Thee, Ms. Johnson's historical novel about the marriage of Ernest Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer will debut in December 2025. For Thee won the Gold from the Royal Palm Literary Award hosted by the Florida Writers Association and was a Page Turner Finalist. Ms. Johnson was recently President of the Mystery Writers of America's Northern California Chapter.