Heather Graham
Also published as Heather Graham Pozzessere and Shannon Drake.
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. After some trial and error, she sold her first book, WHEN NEXT WE LOVE, in 1982 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 holiday 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 Ball, 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 frorn Waldenbooks. 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 have to do with the water, and is a certitified 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.
“Halloween season. The season of the witch, so many thought. And, in legend, the night when souls could return to earth...And try to linger on.But the dead weren't really returning, the living created evil.”
“Evil lies in the hearts of mankind!”
“Faith is belief in the unseen. If you have any kind of faith, you already believe in the unseen.”
“Lie really could be construed as the art of illusion by some people.”
“Nothing mattered to him about a person other than what was inside them.”
“Anything evil that you do will come back at you.”
“I believe that there's more to life than what we see.”
“When you get rid of the impossible, what's left is the only answer, no matter how improbable.”
“If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information.”
“You have the ability to find all the answers--if you let yourself do so.”
“Evil doesn't just go away.”
“The truth was always out there, you just had to find it.”
“A man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man.”
“Evil is done by the living.”
“...if we feel guilt, if we believe it in our own minds, that's what's true to us.”
“Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.”
“There's always a calm before the storm...”
“When the cougar stalks by night, the hunted must become the hunter.”
“Each man follows his own path - his own destiny, if you will. And only he is responsible for the choice.”
“Along our chosen paths, we all meet up with demons. We must meet them, and battle them, even when they are nothing but mist in the night.”
“She hated having a heart. It was just an organ, she knew. An organ of the human body. Hearts didn't have really break. Emotion lay in the soul.”
“There are idiots in every crowd.”
“Sometimes, when the sun is shining, it's daytime,"Robert snapped."And sometimes, when it's dark, it's because there's an eclispe,"Leslie snapped back.”
“Lord knows---and we both know --- that too many wrongs have been committed in the name of religion. ... But you're not here in the name of religion. Religion is an organization. Faith is within. ... Catholic, cattolico--- it means universal. Too often we forget that. ”
“The world is not always ours to understand....”
“But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.”
“Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion. ”
“Oh, Lord, she thought. This was crazy. She was being haunted by one ghost and guarded by another.”