Julia Quinn is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels are perennial bestsellers. As a graduate of Radcliffe College and Harvard University, she loves to dispel the myth that smart women don't read (or write) romance. She has been inducted into the Romance Writers of America's Hall of Fame. There are ten million copies of her books in print in the United States alone.
Elizabeth Boyle is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of numerous romance novels. Since first being published in 1996, she has won the RITA Award, a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, and in 2007 RT Book Reviews' award for Best Innovative Historical Romance.
Laura Lee Guhrke is a USA Today bestselling author who has penned more than twenty historical romances. Her books have received many award nominations, and she is the recipient of romance fiction's highest honor: the Romance Writers of America RITA(R) Award.
Stefanie Sloane is a native Northwesterner with the pale skin to prove it. Stefanie credits her parents' eclectic reading habits-not to mention their decision to live in the middle of nowhere-for her love of books. A childhood spent lost in the pages of countless novels led Stefanie to college where she majored in English.
Mary Jane Wells (a.k.a. McAllister Lee) is a British actress, writer, voice-over artist, and Earphones Award and Audie Award-winning narrator. A graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, she held a recurring role on the BBC's Half Moon Investigates and narrated the BBC Three television show My Children, which won a Scottish BAFTA.
