Jean M. Heaton, alias Caroline Cross, lives and write just outside of Seattle with her husband and daughters, one very large hairy dog and one picky little Siamese cat. She says: "I will never forget the first time I read a Silhouette Desire. An avid reader of everything *except* category romance, I was surprised to find myself swept up in the magic of two strong people falling irrevocably in love against all odds. It was both a moving and exhilarating experience, and one I do my best to recreate for my readers. For me, every new book is an adventure. I love strong, larger-than-life heroes, heroines with the courage to take chances, the roller coaster ride of two special people coming together – and always, happy endings."

Shawna Delacorte has lived most of her life in Los Angeles, California. Even though she earned her living for many years by working in television production, she's always been interested in writing. However, writing novels was the furthest thing from her mind when she made her first serious attempt at putting fingers to keyboard with the hope of creating something that would catch an editor's attention. She combined her interest in writing with her longtime avocation of photography and began doing magazine articles. In 1991 Silhouette books purchased Sarah and the Stranger, her first published novel, for their Desire line with a release date of August, 1992. She was honored with the Waldenbooks award for Bestselling Series Romance by a New Author. The award was presented at the Romance Writers of America National Conference in 1993. She has since appeared numerous times on the Waldenbooks Bestseller List and has been included on the USA TODAY Bestseller List. She has always loved mysteries—novels, movies, plays—and has participated in several interactive murder mystery games, one of them on a train from Chicago to New York. So she naturally expanded her writing to include romantic suspense and straight mysteries. In November, 1994, she made the career change to write full time. She is temporarily residing in Wichita, Kansas. She still does some photography. She loves to travel and particularly enjoys visiting England as often as possible. In addition to writing full time, she also teaches an eight-week fiction writing class twice a year in the Continuing Adult Education Non Credit classes department at Wichita State University. Shawna enjoys hearing from her readers and can be reached at 6505 E. Central, Box #300, Wichita, KS 67206, or by email at ShawnaDelacorte@aol.com.