Liz Moore is an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer.

Delia Owens is an American author, zoologist, and conservationist.

Born in North Carolina in 1978, **bestselling novelist and screenwriter** Blake Crouch has become one of contemporary fiction's most compelling voices in speculative thriller territory.

Mary Kubica is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of suspense novels, including The Good Girl, The Other Mrs., and Local Woman Missing. A former high school history teacher, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and American Literature from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages and have sold over five million copies worldwide. She lives outside of Chicago with her husband and two children.

Alex Michaelides is a bestselling British Cypriot author and screenwriter.

Ashley Elston holds a liberal arts degree from Louisiana State University in Shreveport and worked for many years as a wedding photographer before turning to writing. She lives in Louisiana with her husband and three sons. The author of six young adult novels, her adult debut, First Lie Wins, is a Reese's Book Club pick and a New York Times bestseller.