Lisa Tawn Bergren is the best-selling, award-winning author of twenty-eight titles, totalling more than a million copies in print. After a four year hiatus, she is at work on her next historical series, a trilogy called The Gifted. The Gifted is about a group of people in the 14th century who are spiritually gifted and hunted by forces of evil, as well as the Inquisition.

Allison Pittman is the author Ten Thousand Charms, Speak Through the Wind and With Endless Sight. She is the director of the Theater Arts Group of First Baptist Church in Universal City, and serves as co-president of the Christian Writers Group of the Greater San Antonio Area. She and her husband Mike are kept busy with their three sons, one cat, and dog Stella, the inspiration for her upcoming book, Saturdays with Stella: How I Learned to Sit, Stay and Come when God Calls.