RICK BLEIWEISS started his career in music as a rock performer, produced over fifty records, was a songwriter and record company senior executive, and worked with the Backstreet Boys, Kiss, U2, Whitney Houston, the BeeGees, and other industry legends. Since 2006 as a publishing company executive, he has acquired works by bestselling and award-winning authors including James Clavell, Gabriel García Márquez, Rex Pickett, and Leon Uris, among others. In his latest creative endeavor, Rick has crafted the Pignon Scorbion historical mystery series -- blending his love of the past with the twisty deliciousness of a whodunit. Follow Rick and Scorbion at RickBleiweiss.com

DON BRUNS is an ad executive and a USA Today bestselling author. As a former road musician, he performed with Ricky Nelson, the Four Seasons, Ray Charles, and others. Bruns has authored seventeen published novels and his New Orleans trilogy, Casting Bones, has been optioned for a television series. He makes his home in Southern Florida.

ANDREW CHILD, who also writes as Andrew Grant, is the author of RUN, False Positive, False Friend, False Witness, Invisible, and Too Close to Home. Child and his wife, the novelist Tasha Alexander, live on a wildlife preserve in Wyoming.

REED FARREL COLEMAN, called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan, is the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-one novels including six in Robert B. Parker’s Jesse Stone series. His new novel, Sleepless City, will be released by Blackstone Publishing later this year. He is a four-time recipient of the Shamus Award and a four-time Edgar Award nominee in three different categories. He has also won the Audie, Scribe, Macavity, Barry, and Anthony awards. Reed lives with his wife on Long Island.

JENNIFER DORNBUSH is an accomplished screenwriter and penned the script for the film version of God Bless the Broken Road. This is her first novel. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.

AMANDA FLOWER is a three-time Agatha Award-nominated author. She also writes the USA Today bestselling Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries, including Murder, Served Simply and Murder, Simply Stitched, under the name Isabella Alan.

JOHN GILSTRAP is the New York Times bestselling author of more than fourteen novels, including the acclaimed Jonathan Graves thrillers. Against All Enemies won the International Thriller Writers award for best paperback original. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. An expert in explosives safety and a former firefighter, he holds a master"s degree from the University of Southern California and a bachelor"s degree from the College of William and Mary. He lives in Virginia. Learn more at his website, johngilstrap.com.

HEATHER GRAHAM, also known as Shannon Drake, is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than two hundred novels and novellas. She is a recipient of the Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Thriller Writers’ Silver Bullet. She is an active member of International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America.