Lauraine Snelling began her career in writing in 1982 with Tragedy on the Toutle. She won two awards: the Silver Angel award for An Untamed Land and the Romance Writers of American Golden Heart for Song of Laughter. Lauraine is married and has 3 children. She currently resides in Tehachapi, CA.
Bestselling author Kathleen Y'Barbo is a multiple Carol Award and RITA nominee of fifty novels with almost two million copies of her books in print in the US and abroad and nominations including a Career Achievement Award, Reader's Choice Awards, Romantic Times Book of the Year, and several Romantic Times Top Picks. A proud military wife and tenth-generation Texan, she now cheers on her beloved Aggies from north of the Red River. Find out more at www.kathleenybarbo.com .