Nikoo K. Coffey and James A. McGoldrick are a husband-wife writing team, married since 1980. They sign historical-romance novels as May McGoldrick and as Nicole Cody and suspense-romance novels as Jan Coffey. Nikoo K. Coffey was a manufacturing engineer, and James A. McGoldrick, who worked as profesor, has a Ph.D. in sixteenth-century British literature. They marriage have two children and reside in Watertown, Connecticut, USA.