A New York Times bestseller many times over, Eloisa James lives in New York City, where she is a Shakespeare professor (with an M.Phil. from Oxford). She is also the mother of two children and, in a particularly delicious irony for a romance writer, is married to a genuine Italian knight.

Cathy Maxwell spends hours in front of her computer pondering the question, "Why do people fall in love" It remains for her the great mystery of life and the secret to happiness. She lives in beautiful Virginia with children, horses, dogs, and cats.

Victoria Alexander has experienced living as one of six, five, four, three, two and one. Once a fashion editor for Vogue Australia and Cosmopolitan, she has worked as a freelance stylist and art director, started the television production company, The Film Business, designed Sydney's The Russell Boutique Hotel, and fought for and built The Bathers' Pavilion restaurant. Victoria is widely travelled, a photographer, home-making consultant, mother and grandmother; she is also the author of The Bathers Pavilion Cookbook, Colour and Real.