Erica Fuentes A successful attorney and author of several non-fiction books before bursting into the world of mainstream fiction, Erica Fuentes has delighted her readers with tales of intrigue, romance and international politics beginning in 2000 with her release of Island Dreams, followed by Miguel’s Cantina (First Love), A Window To Paradise, and Hearts Ahoy in 2002. Las Chicas de Palacio (Shakedown), Fuentes latest novel released in June 2007 and currently being adapted into a screenplay, holds fast on the best seller list in Mexico. All of Erica’s novels have been published simultaneously in two versions: English and Spanish. Erica’s The Hunt Club, on which Salve Regina, the Series was born, will be published by Casablanca after the series’ third book. After many years abroad carrying out diplomatic and corporate assignments, Fuentes currently lives in her beach home somewhere... Annemarie Stonewater A Master of History, Annemarie Stonewater triumphed in the world of mainstream fiction in the United States and Great Britain with her series of successful historical novels: Kindred Spirits, Montana Brides and Land of Gold written under the pseudonyms of DeAnn Patrick and Mary Ann Hammond. After many active years spent in the world of Academia and Historical Research, Annemarie has returned to her first passion of writing, the results being a new collaboration with Erica Fuentes in a series of Ecclesiastical Intrigues. Annemarie currently lives between her homes in Upstate New York and Mexico.