Eileen Ramsay is a former schoolteacher turned novelist now living near Arbroath in Angus. She lived and taught in the USA for 18 years, in Washington DC and in California. She wrote her first novel in between frequent trips to Mexico and raising her sons. She describes herself as a proud writer of 'women’s commercial fiction', and is currently Honorary Secretary of the Romantic Novelists’ Association.
Helen McAlpine is an actor, audiobook narrator, author and adapter from South Lanarkshire. She graduated from Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, in 2001 and has since worked extensively in theatre, television, radio and voiceover. She has voiced dozens of audiobooks, including Eileen Ramsay’s bestselling Flowers of Scotland series, and won the Narrator of the Year award at the 2022 Romantic Novelists’ Association Industry Awards.