MARIE BENEDICT is a lawyer with more than ten years' experience as a litigator at two of the country's premier law firms. She is a graduate of Boston College with a focus on history and art history and a graduate of Boston University School of Law. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Lady Clementine, The Only Woman in the Room, Carnegie's Maid, and The Other Einstein.

VICTORIA CHRISTOPHER MURRAY is one of the country's top African American contemporary authors with more than one million books in print. She has written more than twenty novels, including the Seven Deadly Sins series and Stand Your Ground, a Library Journal Best Book of the Year. She holds an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.