Dr. Barbara Venton Montgomery, Ph.D. is a former Heath municipal judge who resides in Rockwall, Texas. She has been writing throughout her long lifetime. Her most recent book, J.W. and Me: the Small Town Texas Experience, is about Heath Police Chief J.W. Cullins. Included in the book is an account of a 1901 lynching that took place in Rockwall County, the smallest county in Texas. She is also the author of Wonderful Wicked Women of the World which tells the stories of strong women from history including Zenobia, Lady Hester Stanhope, and Theodora of the Brothel -- women who led armies with brains as well as beauty and defended both themselves and their lands.

Janis Susan May is very proud of being a seventh-generation Texan on one side of her family and a fourth generation one on the other. She is the author of numerous romance novels. In 1980, just before the release of her second novel, Janis Susan met with approximately 50 other published romance writers in Houston, Texas to see if an association of working, professional romance novelists were practical. The organization which evolved from that meeting was Romance Writers of America. Janis Susan became a first-time bride at the time of life that most of her contemporaries were becoming grandmothers for the second or third time. She and her husband share their Texas home with two neurotic cats which they rescued.