Rebeca Seitz is a bestselling writer and producer who lives with her family in Naples, Florida. Her career began as a launch publicist for the fiction imprint of a Top Ten publisher. She later founded and sold a literary public relations firm, authored a dozen novels and memoirs, and co-founded a film and television development studio. Rebeca currently leads The 1C Story Network and continues to write novels, memoirs, and screenplays. She serves on the Library Advisory Board for Collier County Public Libraries and is a board member of The Center for Critical Thinking.

Kathleen C. Rooney lives in Naples, Florida with her husband, Francis. They first arrived by sailboat in the mid-1980s and became permanent residents in 2002. The Rooneys support the Naples Historical Society, the Gulf of Mexico Reef Restoration Project, The Everglades Foundation, and Captains for Clean Water. Kathleen came to writing later in life and brings a lifelong love of storytelling to her work. In addition to co-writing the Return to Naples Series, she wrote the screenplay for the independent film Light from the Darkroom and recently completed her second screenplay, The East Trail.