Stella Leventoyannis Harvey was born in Cairo, Egypt and moved with her family to Calgary as a child. Stella founded the Whistler Writing Society, which each year produces the Whistler Writers Festival. Her book, DISRUPTION, is a dystiopian novel where citizens are contained within a city and its walls. What happens when the love of writing in a surveillance state threatens the way of life. 

After her 17-year career in television, Linda Sanches retrained as a crime analyst. OFF THE MARK, her debut novel, set in Edmonton, Crime Analyst Kate Heaney tracks down killers from the comfort of her computer desk. But when her estranged husband turns up dead in a snow-covered ditch and her troubled brother  becomes the prime suspect, Kate heads out into the field to prove his innocence.