Michelle Salazar Flood was born in Los Angeles. She attended Santa Clara University and studied history and art. She also holds a teaching credential and returned to Santa Clara to earn an M.A. in Spirituality. She served as a jail chaplain for a number of years in the Bay Area and is now a hospice chaplain in the Sacramento region. Michelle is also an artist and writer. She owned the Red Door Gallery in Placerville and worked for many years as a features writer on a local newspaper.

Douglas Puccini was born in San Francisco. He attended Santa Clara University where he studied psychology and art. After graduation he went to Europe and earned a PhD in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. He lives in Switzerland where he is in private practice. He has published a number of articles on psychology, art and travel.

Flood and Puccini's first collaboration was "Years of Silence," a novel, inspired by their college years together at Santa Clara. Their second collaboration is "For I Have Sinned." It is a non-fiction account of Puccini's first visit to Italy as an idealistic young teenager and then a return years later to take care of family business.