Heather Graham Pozzessere (born March 15, 1953 in Miami-Dade County, Florida

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, USA) is a best-selling US

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 writer

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, who writes primarily romance novels. She also writes under her maiden name Heather Graham as well as the pen name Shannon Drake.
She has written over 150 novels and novellas, has been published in approximately twenty-five languages, and has had over seventy-five million books in print.

Biography

Born Heather Graham on March 15, 1953 and grew up in Miami-Dade County, Florida|Dade County, Florida

Florida

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, USA. She married Dennis Pozzessere shortly after her high school graduation. After high school she went on and earned a degree in theater arts from the University of South Florida

University of South Florida

The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, one of the state's three flagship universities for public research, and is located in Tampa, Florida, USA...

. She spent several years after that working in dinner theater, singing backup vocals, and bartending. After the birth of her third child, Pozzessere decided she couldn't afford to go to work anymore. She chose to stay at home, and, to fill her time, began to write horror stories and romances. After two years, in 1982, she sold her first novel, When Next We Love.

In the years since then, Pozzessere has written over one hundred novels and novellas. These novels run the gamut of the romance genre, from historical fiction to category, from romantic suspense to time travel, and from vampire fiction to Christmas stories. She has been the launch author for Dell's Ecstasy Supreme line, Silhouette's Shadows line, and for Harlequin's mainstream brand, Mira Books. Her books have been published in twenty-plus languages. Romance Writers of America presented her with the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America

Mystery Writers of America

Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday....

, International Thriller Writers, and Novelists Inc, and has received the Thriller Writer's Silver Bullet for charitable enterprises.

Pozzessere is a founder of the Florida

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 chapter of the Romance Writers of America

Romance Writers of America

Romance Writers of America is a national non-profit genre writers association. It provides networking and support to individuals seriously pursuing a career in romance fiction and supports top authors such as Nora Roberts and Judith McNaught.-History:...

, and since 1999 has hosted the annual Romantic Times Vampire Ball for charity. In 2006, she hosted the first Writers for New Orleans on Labor Day, with workshops and a dinner theater event to benefit the city and the libraries. Labor Day of 2007 made it an annual event. She is the founder of the Slushpile players and Slushpile band, entertaining with theatrical and musical performances with fellow authors including F. Paul Wilson, Harley Jane Kozak, Alexandra Sokoloff, Beth Ciotta, and Mary Stella as well her children and family members.

Pozzessere is a certified scuba diver. She and her husband live in Florida

Florida

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. They have five children.

Stand alone novels

• When Next We Love (1983)
• Tender Taming (1983)
• A Season for Love (1983)
• Quiet Walks the Tiger (1983)
• Night, Sea and Stars (1983)
• Hours to Cherish (1984)
• Tender Deception (1984)
• Red Midnight (1984)
• Arabian Nights (1984)
• Serena's Magic (1984)
• Sensuous Angel (1985)
• Hold Close the Memory (1985)
• An Angel's Share (1985)
• A Circumstantial Affair (1986)
• Dante's Daughter (1986)
• Handful of Dreams (1986)
• The Maverick and the Lady (1986)
• Eden's Spell (1986)
• Liar's Moon (1987)
• Siren from the Sea (1987)
• Every Time I Love You (1988)
• The Devil's Mistress (1991)
• Spirit of the Season (1993)
• Renegades (1995)
• A Magical Christmas (1996)
• Queen of Hearts (1997)
• The Last Cavalier (1998)
• Tempestuous Eden (1999)
• Night of the Blackbird (2001)
• A Matter of Circumstance (2001)
• Miracle (2001)
• A Season of Miracles (2001)
• In the Dark (2004)
• Suspicious (2005)
• Kiss Of Darkness (2006)
• The Island (2006)
• Blood Red (2007)
• The Last Noel (2007)
• Nightwalker (2009)
• Dust to Dust (2009)
• There Be Dragons (2009)
• Home in Time for Christmas (2009)
• Night of the Wolves (2009)

MacAuliffe Viking Trilogy Series

1. Golden Surrender (1987)
2. The Viking's Woman (1993)
3. Lord of the Wolves (1993)

Cameron Family Saga Series

1. Sweet Savage Eden (1989)
2. A Pirate's Pleasure (1989)
3. Love Not a Rebel (1989)
4. One Wore Blue (1991)
5. And One Wore Gray (1992)
6. And One Rode West (1992)

North American Trilogy Subseries

1. Sweet Savage Eden (1989)
2. A Pirate's Pleasure (1989)
3. Love Not a Rebel (1989)

Civil War Trilogy Subseries

1. One Wore Blue (1991)
2. And One Wore Gray (1992)
3. And One Rode West (1992)

MacKenzies - Old Florida Series

1. Runaway (1994)
2. Captive (1996)
3. Rebel (1997)
4. Surrender (1998)
5. Glory (1999)
6. Triumph (2000)

Suspense Series

1. Drop Dead Gorgeous (1998)
2. Tall, Dark, and Deadly (1999)
3. Long, Lean and Lethal (2000)
4. Dying to Have Her (2001)
5. Hurricane Bay (2002)
6. Picture Me Dead (2003)
7. Dead on the Dance Floor (2004)
8. The Presence (2004)
9. Killing Kelly (2005)

Soap Opera Subseries

1. Long, Lean and Lethal (2000)
2. Dying to Have Her (2001)
3. Killing Kelly (2005)

Harrison Investigation Series

• Haunted (2003)
• The Presence
• Ghost Walk (2005)
• The Vision (2006)
• The Seance (2007)
• The Dead Room (2007)
• The Death Dealer (2008)
• Nightwalker (2009)
• Unhallowed Ground (2009)

The Flynn Brothers Trilogy

1. Deadly Night (2008)
2. Deadly Harvest (2008)
3. Deadly Gift (2008)

The Bone Island Trilogy

1. Ghost Shadow (2010)
2. Ghost Night (2010)
3. Ghost Moon (2010)

Krewe of Hunters

1. Phantom Evil (2011)
2. Heart of Evil (2011)
3. Sacred Evil (2011)
4. The Evil Inside (2011)

Collections

• The Best of Heather Graham: Tender Taming / When Next We Love (1990)
• The Best of Heather Graham: A Season for Love / Quiet Walks the Tiger (1991)
• Untamed Maverick Hearts (1993)
• Tender Taming / When Next We Love (1994)
• Three Complete Novels: Sweet Savage Eden / A Pirate's Pleasure / Love Not a Rebel (1994)
• A Season for Love and Quiet Walks the Tiger (1994)

Omnibus in Collaboration

• All in the Family: West Virginia / Betrayed By Love (1987) (with Diana Palmer
  Diana Palmer (author)
  Susan Kyle, née Susan Eloise Spaeth is an award winning American writer well-known as Diana Palmer, who has published romantic novels since 1979. She has also written romances as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie, and under her married name Susan Kyle and a science fiction novel as Susan S...
  
  )
• Love's Legacy (1996) (with Madeline Baker, Mary Balogh
  Mary Balogh
  Mary Balogh is a Welsh-Canadian historical romance novelist.-Personal life:...
  
  , Elaine Barbieri, Lori Copeland
  Lori Copeland
  Lori Copeland is an American author of over 95 novels.-Biography:Lori Copeland had a relatively late start in writing, breaking into publishing in 1982 when she was already forty years old...
  
  , Cassie Edwards
  Cassie Edwards
  Cassie Edwards is a best-selling American author of over 100 historical romance novels. She has been published by Dorchester Publishing, Signet Books, Kensington Publishing and Harlequin.-Biography :...
  
  , Catherine Hart, Virginia Henley
  Virginia Henley
  Virginia Henley, née Virginia Syddall , is a British successful writer of historical-romance novels. She is well-known for her Medieval, Renaissance and other period piece romance novels.- Biography :...
  
  , Penelope Neri, Diana Palmer
  Diana Palmer (author)
  Susan Kyle, née Susan Eloise Spaeth is an award winning American writer well-known as Diana Palmer, who has published romantic novels since 1979. She has also written romances as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie, and under her married name Susan Kyle and a science fiction novel as Susan S...
  
   and Janelle Taylor
  Janelle Taylor
  Janelle Taylor is an American author of historical romance novels.-Biography:Janelle Diane Williams was born June 28, 1944 in Athens, Georgia. She graduated from Athens High School in 1962, and spent the next three years as an orthodontic nurse in Athens. In 1965 she married Michael Taylor...
  
  )
• Lovers Dark and Dangerous (1996) (with Helen R Myers and Anne Stuart
  Anne Stuart
  Anne Stuart, born Anne Kristine Stuart , is a prolific and best-selling American romance novelist. She has written over 60 novels and was the recipient of the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award.Her first book was published in 1974 by Ballantine Press when she was 25 years old...
  
  )
• Daughters Of Destiny (2001) (with Merline Lovelace and Patricia Potter
  Patricia Potter
  Patricia Caroline Potter is an English actress. Best known for her role as Diane Lloyd in the popular BBC medical drama Holby City, Potter has acted on stage, television, and in film. She married her partner, doctor Jim Down, in May 2007.- Personal life :Potter grew up on a farm in Kent with her...
  
  )
• Lonesome Rider / The Heart's Desire (2001) (with Gayle Wilson)
• Home and Family: All in the Family/Tell Me a Story/Saturday's Child/Wedding of the Year/Seize the Fire (2001) (with Elda Minger and Dallas Schulze)
• Reckless Hearts (2001) (with Miranda Jarrett)
• Beautiful Stranger: The Last Cavalier / Mystery Child (2001) (with Carla Cassidy
  Carla Cassidy
  Carla Cassidy, née Carla Bracale is a popular American writer of over 80 romance novels since 1988, she start signed her novels as Carla Bracale , and now she signs her novels as Carla Cassidy...
  
  )
• Lucia in Love / Lion on the Prowl (2001) (with Kasey Michaels)
• With a Southern Touch (2002) (with Jennifer Blake and Diana Palmer
  Diana Palmer (author)
  Susan Kyle, née Susan Eloise Spaeth is an award winning American writer well-known as Diana Palmer, who has published romantic novels since 1979. She has also written romances as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie, and under her married name Susan Kyle and a science fiction novel as Susan S...
  
  )
• On the Edge (2003) (with Carla Neggers and Sharon Sala)
• Forbidden Stranger (2003) (with Julia Justiss)
• The Ultimate Treasure (2003) (with Merline Lovelace and Ann Major
  Ann Major
  Margaret Major Cleaves is popular writer of over 45 romance novels since 1980 as her real name and under the pseudonym Ann Major....
  
  )
• Snowy Nights (2003) (with Annette Broadrick
  Annette Broadrick
  Annette Broadrick is an United States writer of over 55 romance novels since 1984.-Biography:Broadrick was born on November 26, 1938 and raised as an only child for sixteen years, until her younger sister, Derralee, was born. Two years after that, as soon as she was graduated from high school in...
  
  , Lindsay McKenna and Marilyn Pappano)
• Forces of Nature (2004) (with Beverly Barton
  Beverly Barton
  Beverly Marie Beaver , better known as Beverly Barton, was an American author, known for her romantic suspense novels. She has written over thirty contemporary romance novels and created the popular The Protectors series for Harlequin Enterprises owned Silhouette’s Intimate Moments lines...
  
  )
• In the Dark / Get Blondie - Intimate (2004) (with Carla Cassidy
  Carla Cassidy
  Carla Cassidy, née Carla Bracale is a popular American writer of over 80 romance novels since 1988, she start signed her novels as Carla Bracale , and now she signs her novels as Carla Cassidy...
  
  )
• I'd Kill for That (2004) (with Rita Mae Brown
  Rita Mae Brown
  Rita Mae Brown is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Published in 1973, it dealt with lesbian themes in an explicit manner unusual for the time...
  
  , Jennifer Crusie
  Jennifer Crusie
  Jennifer Crusie is a pseudonym for Jennifer Smith, a bestselling and award winning author of contemporary romance novels. She has written over 15 novels, which have been published in 20 countries.-Biography:...
  
  , Linda Fairstein
  Linda Fairstein
  Linda Fairstein is an American feminist author and former prosecutor focusing on crimes of violence against women and children. She served as head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's office from 1976 until 2002 and is the author of a series of novels featuring Manhattan...
  
  , Lisa Gardner
  Lisa Gardner
  Lisa Gardner is an American author of fiction. She is the author of several thrillers including The Killing Hour and The Next Accident. She also wrote romance novels using the pseudonym Alicia Scott. Raised in Hillsboro, Oregon, she graduated from the city's Glencoe High School...
  
  , Kay Hooper
  Kay Hooper
  Kay Hooper is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning American author of more than 60 books.-Biography:Kay Hooper was born on an Air Force base in California, where her father was stationed. The family soon moved back to North Carolina, where Hooper was raised with her younger brother and...
  
  , Katherine Neville, Anne Perry
  Anne Perry
  Anne Perry is an English author of historical detective fiction. Perry was convicted of the murder of her friend's mother in 1954.-Early life:Born Juliet Marion Hulme in Blackheath, London, the daughter of Dr...
  
  , Kathy Reichs
  Kathy Reichs
  Kathleen Joan Toelle "Kathy" Reichs is an American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic . She is a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, but is currently on indefinite leave...
  
  , Julie Smith and Tina Wainscott
  Tina Wainscott
  Tina Wainscott is an American author of suspense novels and category romance novels.-Biography:Tina Wainscott was born in Naples, Florida. She was graduated from Lely High School in Naples in 1983 and studied business at Edison College...
  
  )
• Warrior without Rules / Suspicious (2005) (with Nancy Gideon)
• A Bride by Christmas (2008) (with Jo Beverley
  Jo Beverley
  Jo Beverley, née Mary Josephine Dunn is a prolific British-Canadian writer of popular historical romance novels....
  
   and Candace Camp
  Candace Camp
  Candace Pauline Camp is a best-selling American writer of romance novels. She has also published under the pen names Lisa Gregory, Sharon Stephens, Kristin James and under her real name Candace Camp....
  
  )
• More Than Words, Volume 5 (2009) (with Stephanie Bond
  Stephanie Bond
  Stephanie Bond is a New Zealand netball player. She played two years in the ANZ Championship for the Northern Mystics from 2008–09, but was not signed for the 2010 season.-References:...
  
  , Candace Camp
  Candace Camp
  Candace Pauline Camp is a best-selling American writer of romance novels. She has also published under the pen names Lisa Gregory, Sharon Stephens, Kristin James and under her real name Candace Camp....
  
  , Brenda Jackson
  Brenda Jackson
  Brenda Jackson is an American novelist who writes contemporary multicultural romance novels. She was the first African-American author to have a novel published as part of the Silhouette Desire line, and has seen many of her novels reach the USAToday Bestseller list.-Biography:Brenda Jackson was...
  
   and Tara Taylor Quinn)

Single Novels

• Night Moves (1985)
• Double Entendre (1986)
• The Di Medici Bride (1986)
• The Game of Love (1986)
• King of the Castle (1987)
• A Circumstantial Affair (1986) aka A matter of cicumstance
• All in the family (1987)
• Lucia in Love (1988)
• Strangers in Paradise (1988)
• This Rough Magic (1988)
• Home for Christmas (1989)
• A Perilous Eden (1990)
• Forever My Love (1990)
• Wedding Bell Blues (1990)
• Forbidden Fire (1991)
• Snowfire (1991)
• The Christmas bride (1991)
• Hatfield and McCoy (1991)
• Mistress of Magic (1995)
• Between Roc and a Hard Place (1993)
• Last cavalier (1993)
• Lonesome rider (1993)
• The Trouble with Andrew (1993)
• Wilde imaginings (1993)
• Slow Burn (1994)
• An Angel's Touch (1995)
• Eyes of Fire (1995)
• For All of Her Life (1995)
• Seize the wind (1995)
• Down in New Orleans (1996)
• If Looks Could Kill (1997)
• Never Sleep with Strangers (1998)
• Night heat (2001)

Angel Hawk Series

1. Bride of the Tiger (1987)
2. Angel of Mercy (1988)
3. Borrowed Angel (1989)
   • Night Heat: Bride of the Tiger/ Angel of Mercy/ Borrowed Angel (2001)

Slater's Summer Fires Series

1. Dark Stranger (1993)
2. Rides a Hero (1989)
3. Apache Summer (1989)
   • Summer Fires: Dark Stranger, Rides a Hero and Apache summer (1998)

Omnibus in Collaboration

• Brave Hearts (1994) (with Kathleen Eagle
  Kathleen Eagle
  Kathleen Eagle is an American author of over 40 romance novels.-Biography:...
  
   and Diana Palmer
  Diana Palmer (author)
  Susan Kyle, née Susan Eloise Spaeth is an award winning American writer well-known as Diana Palmer, who has published romantic novels since 1979. She has also written romances as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie, and under her married name Susan Kyle and a science fiction novel as Susan S...
  
  )
• Destined for Love (1998) (with Annette Broadrick
  Annette Broadrick
  Annette Broadrick is an United States writer of over 55 romance novels since 1984.-Biography:Broadrick was born on November 26, 1938 and raised as an only child for sixteen years, until her younger sister, Derralee, was born. Two years after that, as soon as she was graduated from high school in...
  
   and Kathleen Korbel)
• Forever Mine (1998) (with Elizabeth Lowell and Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonym Jill March...
  
  )
• Summer Sensations (1998) (with Linda Howard
  Linda Howard
  Linda S. Howington is an American best-selling romance/suspense author under her pseudonym Linda Howard. Before she became a writer, she was an avid reader and fond of Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. After 21 years of penning stories for her own enjoyment, she submitted a novel for...
  
   and Linda Lael Miller
  Linda Lael Miller
  Linda Lael Miller , is a best-selling American author of more than seventy contemporary and historical romance novels. She has also written under the pen name Lael St. James.-Personal life:...
  
  )
• Always and Forever (1998) (with Linda Howard
  Linda Howard
  Linda S. Howington is an American best-selling romance/suspense author under her pseudonym Linda Howard. Before she became a writer, she was an avid reader and fond of Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. After 21 years of penning stories for her own enjoyment, she submitted a novel for...
  
   and Linda Lael Miller
  Linda Lael Miller
  Linda Lael Miller , is a best-selling American author of more than seventy contemporary and historical romance novels. She has also written under the pen name Lael St. James.-Personal life:...
  
  )
• Legacies of Love Collection: Legacy, No Stranger, and Wedding Bell Blues (1999) (with Stella Cameron and Jayne Ann Krentz
  Jayne Ann Krentz
  Jayne Ann Krentz, née Jayne Castle is an American writer of romance novels. Krentz is the author of a string of New York Times bestsellers under seven different pseudonyms. Now, she only uses three names. As Jayne Ann Krentz she writes contemporary romantic-suspense. She uses Amanda Quick for her...
  
  )

Single Novels

• Tomorrow the Glory (1985)
• Blue Heaven, Black Night (1986)
• Ondine (1988)
• Lie Down in Roses (1988)
• Emerald Embrace (1991)
• And I Will Love You Forever (1991)
• Gifts of Love (1991)
• Damsel in Distress (1992)
• Bride of the Wind (1992)
• Vanquish the Night (1992)
• Lovers and Demons (1993)
• One Little Miracle (1993)
• Branded Hearts (1995)
• The King's Pleasure (1998)
• Beguiled (2006)
• The Pirate Bride (2008)

No Other Series

1. No Other Man (1995)
2. No Other Woman (1996)
3. No Other Love (1997)

Vampires Series

1. Beneath a Blood Red Moon (1999)
2. When Darkness Falls (2000)
3. Deep Midnight (2001)
4. Realm of Shadows (2002)
5. The Awakening (2003)
6. Dead by Dusk (2005)
7. Kiss Of Darkness (2006)
8. Blood Red (2007)

Graham Family Series

1. Come the Morning (1999)
2. Conquer the Night (2000)
3. Seize the Dawn (2001)
4. Knight Triumphant (2002)
5. The Lion in Glory (2003)
6. When We Touch (2004)
7. The Queen's Lady (2007)

Omnibus in Collaboration

• Haunting Love Stories (1991) (with Betina Krahn
  Betina Krahn
  Betina Krahn is a RITA Award winning and New York Times best-selling author of historical romance novels.-Early years:...
  
  , Linda Lael Miller
  Linda Lael Miller
  Linda Lael Miller , is a best-selling American author of more than seventy contemporary and historical romance novels. She has also written under the pen name Lael St. James.-Personal life:...
  
   and Christina Skye)
• Christmas Love Stories (1991) (with Diane Wicker Davis, Kay Hooper
  Kay Hooper
  Kay Hooper is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning American author of more than 60 books.-Biography:Kay Hooper was born on an Air Force base in California, where her father was stationed. The family soon moved back to North Carolina, where Hooper was raised with her younger brother and...
  
   and Lisa Kleypas
  Lisa Kleypas
  Lisa Kleypas is a best-selling American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. In 1985, she was named Miss Massachusetts and competed in the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City.-Biography:...
  
  )
• Night Magic (1993) (with Rebecca Brandewyne, Jill Gregory and Becky Lee Weyrich)
• Under the Mistletoe (1993) (with Judith E French, Sara Orwig and Rebecca Paisley
  Rebecca Paisley
  Rebecca Boado Rosas was an American author of romance novels as Rebecca Paisley from 1990 to 1997.-Biography:Rebecca Boado's father, Emil Edward Boado of the Air Force, died during the war of Vietnam. With five years, she began to write a repugnant poem to her sister. Rebecca married with Mr...
  
  )

External links

• Heather Graham and Heather Graham Pozzessere and Shannon Drake at Fantastic Fiction
• Heather Graham on Internet Book List