Shannon Drake is a New York Times -- and USA Today -- best-selling author who has written over 100 novels, including Beguiled, The Pirate Bride, and The Queen's Lady. She has been honoured with several awards from Walden Books, B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affairs de Coeur, Romantic Times, including the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers. Yevgeniya Yeretskaya has a BFA from Pratt Institute. They both live in Miami.