Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. He has served two terms as president of Mystery Writers of America, and was recently named a Grand Master of MWA. He is the author of more than forty novels, three collections of short stories and a nonfiction law book, and a lyricist of a country-western album.

Isabella Maldonado is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and a graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, eventually retiring as the Commander of Special Investigations and Forensics. Her writing includes the bestselling FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera series, the Detective Veranda Cruz series, and the FBI Agent Daniela Vega series. 

Among other things, Jeffery, Isabella, and Carter discuss co-authoring a novel for the first time, creating prose from an outline, and how ego plays a role in co-writing. At the end of their conversation, they make up a captivating story using a line from Liv Constantine’s The Last Mrs. Parrish.