Rochelle Alers is one of today's most prolific and popular African American authors of romance and women's fiction. A regular on the Essence bestseller list, she has received the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and many other honors. Her novels include Here I Am, Because of You, and Sweet Persuasions. She lives on Long Island, New York.
Donna Hill has published more than seventy books spanning a long career. She is an Essence bestselling author and recipient of multiple awards.
Best-selling author Felicia Mason is a journalist, and has won numerous awards for writing. With more than ten novels and countless novellas to her name, notable titles include Della's House of Style, Island Magic, and Rosie's Curl and Weave.
Francis Ray (1944-2013) is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Grayson novels, the Falcon books, the Taggart Brothers, and Twice the Temptation, among many other books. Her novel Incognito was made into a movie aired on BET. A native Texan, she was a graduate of Texas Woman's University and had a degree in nursing. Besides a writer, she was a school nurse practitioner with the Dallas Independent School District. She lived in Dallas. "Francis Ray is, without a doubt, one of the Queens of Romance." --Romance Review