Melissa Brayden (melissabrayden.com) is a multi-award-winning author of six novels published with Bold Strokes Books and currently hard at work on her seventh. Alongside her writing, she is in pursuit of her Master of Fine Arts in directing in San Antonio, Texas.
Melissa is married and working really hard at remembering to do the dishes. For personal enjoyment, she spends time with her Jack Russell terrier, Bailey, and checks out the NYC theater scene several times a year. She considers herself a reluctant patron of the treadmill, but enjoys hitting a tennis ball around in nice weather. Coffee is her very best friend.
Rachel Spangler never set out to be an award-winning author. She was just so poor and easily bored during her college years that she had to come up with creative ways to entertain herself, and her first novel, Learning Curve, was born out of one such attempt. She was sincerely surprised when it was accepted for publication and even more shocked when it won the Golden Crown Literary Award for Debut Author. She also won a Goldie for her second novel, Trails Merge. Since writing is more fun than a real job and so much cheaper than therapy, Rachel continued to type away, leading to the publication of The Long Way Home, LoveLife, Spanish Heart, Does She Love You, Timeless, and Heart of the Game. She plans to continue writing as long as anyone anywhere will keep reading.
Rachel and her partner, Susan, are raising their young son in western New York, where during the winter they make the most of the lake effect snow on local ski slopes. In the summer, they love to travel and watch their beloved St. Louis Cardinals. Regardless of the season, she always makes time for a good romance, whether she’s reading it, writing it, or living it.
Visit Rachel online at rachelspangler.com or on Facebook.
Karis Walsh is the author of the Rainbow Award–winning romances Harmony and Sea Glass Inn, as well as a romantic intrigue series about a mounted police unit that begins with Mounting Danger. A Pacific Northwest native, she recently relocated herself and her goats to Texas, where she lives with her partner and their four-legged kids. When she isn’t writing, she’s playing with her animals, cooking, reading, playing the violin or viola, or hiking through the state park.