New York Times and USA Today best selling author Heather Graham majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write, working on short horror stories and romances. Her first book was with Dell, and since then, she has written over one hundred novels and novellas including category, romantic suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult and Christmas family fare. She wrote the launch books for the Dell's Ecstasy Supreme line, Silhouette's Shadows, and for Harlequin's mainstream fiction imprint, Mira Books.
   
Heather was a founding member of the Florida Romance Writers chapter of RWA, and since 1999 has hosted the Romantic Times Vampire Party, with all revenues going directly to children's charity.

She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty languages, and to have been honored with awards from Walden Books, B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times and more. She has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, People and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including local television and Entertainment Tonight.

Heather loves travel and anything that has to do with the water, and is a certified scuba diver. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living.

The Seance, hit stores on Tuesday, September 25th. The book actually takes place in central Florida, where a young woman has just inherited the house her grandparents bought when they came to the United States. At a welcome party, to distract themselves from talking about a recent slaying that is akin to the Interstate Killer murders that had happened fifteen years earlier, Christina Hardy and her guests bring out an old Ouija board. From that moment on, Beau Kidd--the lead detective on the case, slain himself over the last body and assumed to have been the killer--begins to intrude on her life. She is destined to get some help from Jed Braden, an ex detective and an old flame from her younger years. Jed is a man fighting his own demons--he had gained prestige as an author by writing a fictionalized ac count of the murders, his version claiming Beau Kidd as the murderer. Racing against time, the two must learn to suspend belief and find the truth, because the killer is far closer than either ever imagined.

Happy Halloween, as it nears! And, as we roll on to the holiday season, please look for The Last Noel, in which a snowbound, dysfunctional family finds themselves hosting two killers for a turkey dinner, and must find a way to come together to assure that this Christmas will not be their last.

Heather (aka Shannon Drake) can now add another designation to her list of credits. Romance Writers of America, a professional association for 8,400 published and aspiring writers, presented Heather, who has written approximately 100 novels in various genres, with the RWA Lifetime Achievement Award for 2003 at the group's national conference in New York in July.

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