Keighley Bradford is an Australian writer based in Newcastle, NSW. She has an undergraduate and postgraduate degree in Creative Industries (Writing, Publishing, and Marketing) as well as a background in arts administration, communication and media. She is also actively involved in her local writing and arts communities. While Keighley likes to dabble in many forms of creative writing, novels are her passion. She’s been writing since she was thirteen and has since won several awards for her short-fiction pieces. Once We Were is her first published novel. When Keighley isn’t stuck behind the computer working, you will often find her chilling out at the beach or binge-watching a new Netflix series.

Winner of the Inaugural Romance Writers of Australia Spicy Bites sexy short story competition, Kristine loves telling sexy tales, exploring relationships between complex women and the strong men who love them, then working out just how much pain to inflict, or not inflict, before giving her characters their HEA (or, at least, their HFN). She’s also a relapsed lawyer who works in human resources, and writes and reads, to escape into other worlds where coffee (and red wine) is abundant, designer shoes and handbags are cheap, chocolate has no calories and men always put the toilet seat down. Find her on Twitter (@wordsbykc), Facebook (Kristine Charles) or Instagram (@wordsbykristinecharles) and drop by www.wordsbykristinecharles.com to check out some more of her words.

Even though Gabbi Black is a firm believer in happy endings, she makes her characters work for it in every romance she writes, no matter what the genre. From contemporary to BDSM, they are penned late at night in her home on a beautiful British Columbia mountain surrounded by magnificent trees and every conceivable woodland creature—including bears. She also writes gay romances as Gabbi Grey.

Sharon Michalove grew up in suburban Chicago. She received four degrees from the University of Illinois because she didn't have the gumption to go anywhere else, and spent most of her career at the university, eventually earning a PhD, working in departmental administration, publishing and libraries. Her specialties are 15th-16th century European history, polar exploration, and food history. She may be one of the few people in America to never live outside her home state. In graduate school, she met and married the love of her life. They shared a love of music, theater, travel and cats. He died in 2013. Sharon also loves hockey, reading, cooking, writing, and various less elevated activities like eating cookies and sampling gins and single malts. After spending most of her life in a medium-sized university town she moved back to Chicago in 2017 so she could go to more Blackhawks games and spend quality time at Eataly. She hopes to accomplish a lifetime goal by publishing a book this year. Unfortunately her other lifetime goal, to be English, is likely to remain unfulfilled.

Abigail is a Boston-bred Yankee now eating grits and saying "y'all" in North Central Florida. Technical writer by day, she doesn't don a cape at night, but spends her time writing passionate and playful contemporary romance. When she's not writing, she can be found wearing a corset and singing bawdy songs with Just Desserts, an a cappella musical comedy act, at places that won't throw them out. All hail low altos! Abigail lives with her husband, two kids, and one crazy princess puppy. You can keep up with her on Goodreads or at www.Facebook.com/AbigailSharpeBooks. She has a website, too, but it's horribly outdated, and she'd rather write books than fix the HTML. Only go there if you want to sign up for her newsletter, which she publishes sporadically.

Working full time in the healthcare industry, I am currently writing as a hobby. I enjoy reading all kinds of contemporary romance and especially enjoy those involving alpha males, mystery, and suspense. I live in Kent, The Garden of England about Forty-five minutes outside of London with my husband, daughter and my dog, Monty the Sprocker who manages to make it into my first book Jessica's King. I mainly write mystery romances based in the south of England. All of my books, include mystery, a little danger, passion, family, and a happily ever-after.

Élodie's first taste of reality came from her Southern upbringing. She climbed majestic Dogwoods, chased fireflies, and ran from mosquitoes and no-see-ems. This idyllic world helped her see beauty, love and magic all come with a cost. That never stopped her from dreaming big! Life continued to reinforce its duality - she overcame personal trials that would threaten her life and her vision. Dreams don’t die easily, so she pushed through and found a way to share the love stories that kept her on the lighter side of life. She also managed to find her brooding prince and against all odds, have the most wonderful son with an imagination that rivaled hers. Proving once again, the price of love is always worth it! Grab a mason jar of lemonade and let Elodie Garroway show you the ups and downs of real love, so you can Capture the Feeling too!