Jo Macgregor is the author of the dark, gripping mysteries The First Time I Died and Dark Whispers. She started her professional life as a high school English teacher and also writes young adult fiction under the name Joanne Macgregor.
Emily Sutton-Smith is a professional actress and one of the cofounders of an Equity theater in central Michigan. Her stage credits include Out of Orbit; Doublewide; Summer Retreat; Too Much, Too Much, Too Many; Miracle on South Division Street; End Days; The Usual: A Musical Love Story; and The Smell of the Kill.