Barbara Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 in suburban Boston. She received a B.A. in psychology from Tufts University and an M.A. in sociology from Boston College. After graduate school, she worked as a researcher with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After her first child was born, she worked as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald. She has written more than 60 novels including Shades of Grace, Coast Road, While My Sister Sleeps and Not My Daughter. Some of her novels have been made into television movies including Three Wishes starring Valerie Bertinelli and A Woman's Place starring Lorraine Bracco. She wrote the nonfiction book Uplift:… Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. She has also written under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass.
Vicki Lewis Thompson was born on October 11 in Arizona. She has a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of Arizona. She was a teacher and a journalist prior to publishing her first work in 1984. She has been a finalist eight times for the Romance Writers of America's RITA award. Thompson has won the Desert Rose's Golden Quill Award and has been honored by Romantic Times and Affaire de Coeur. She is the author of the Sons of Chance Series.