As hard as she's tried, Diane Maxwell has never forgotten the kiss she and Hale Cameron shared when she was a high school sophomore.

Sandra Kitt has published almost forty novels and novellas. She has been nominated for the NAACP Image Award, and has received the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award and the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Award. Kitt has been a graphic designer creating cards for UNICEF and illustrating books. Her work is featured at the Museum of African American Art in L. A. She is also a former managing director at the American Museum of Natural History.