Lawrence Grobel, Larry to friends, is a freelance writer who has written 22 books and hundreds of articles for national magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Newsday, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Reader’s Digest, American Way, Parade, Details, TV Guide, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Penthouse, Diversion, Writer’s Digest, and AARP.

Rachel Thompson is the author of the award-winning book Broken Pieces, as well as two popular humor books, A Walk In The Snark and Mancode: Exposed.

Laura Kaye is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over a dozen books in contemporary and paranormal romance and romantic suspense.

Say Hi to Joseph Finder: the New York Times bestselling author of ten previous novels including Vanished and Buried Secrets. Finder’s international bestseller Killer Instinct won the International Thriller Writers’ Thriller Award for Best Novel of 2006. Other bestselling titles include Guilty Minds, The Fixer, Suspicion, Paranoia and High Crimes.

Elaine Neil Orr is a trans-Atlantic writer of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Themes of home, country, and spiritual longing run through her writing.

Meg Gardiner graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Law School and practiced law in Los Angeles before becoming a prolific author of bestselling thriller novels.