Susan Meissner is a USA TODAY bestselling author with more than three-quarters of a million books in print in eighteen languages. Her novels have been named to numerous "best of" lists, including Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Goodreads, and Real Simple magazine. A former newspaper editor, Susan attended Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego and lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and their yellow Lab, Winston. When she's not writing, Susan loves long walks, good coffee, and reading bedtime stories to her grandchildren. Visit her online at susanmeissnerauthor.com; Instagram: @susanmeissnerauthor; Twitter: @SusanMeissner; Facebook: @susan.meissner; and Pinterest: @SusanMeissner.

Pablo Pino is a self-taught illustrator. In addition to the fifty published books he has illustrated, Pablo has designed characters, board games, schoolbooks, and magazines with various worldwide publishing companies. His illustrations are mostly computer drawn, but he always adds textures using pencils, crayons, acrylics, or any material that lets him get messy. Pablo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.