Maria Ferrarella was born in West Germany, and arrived in the U.S. at the age of four. She earned her Masters in Shakespearean Comedy from Queens College in N.Y Ferrarella's first romance was bought by Second Chance At Love November of 1981. She has been published by Silhouette, Harlequin, Zebra, Harper, Bantam and Berkeley. She has received several Rita nominations from the Romance Writers of America Association over the years, with one win for Father Goose, in the Traditional Romance Category. She has also been nominated several times in various categories by Romantic Times Magazine.
Justine Davis lives on Puget Sound in Washington State, watching big ships and the occasional submarine go by, and sharing the neighborhood with assorted wildlife, including a pair of bald eagles, deer, a bear or two, and a tailless raccoon. In the few hours when she's not planning, plotting, or writing her next book, her favorite things are photography, knitting her way through a huge yarn stash, and driving her restored 1967 Corvette roadster—top down, of course.