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Heather Graham Pozzessere (born March 15, 1953) is an American writer, 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 25 languages, and has had over 75 million copies printed. Biography Born Heather Graham on March 15, 1953, she grew up in Miami-Dade County, Florida. 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. 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 could not 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. She has written more than 100 novels and novellas. Her books have been published in over 20 languages. Romance Writers of America presented her with the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and the Horror Writers Association (of which she is a former Vice President), and has received the Thriller Writer's Silver Bullet for charitable enterprises. Pozzessere is a founder of the Florida chapter of the Romance Writers of America, 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. In November 2016, it was announced that Pozzessere would co-author Chad Michael Murray in writing his second novel, titled American Drifter, released in November 2017. Family She and her husband have five children. Bibliography As Heather Graham 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) Hold Close the Memory (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) A Season of Miracles (2001; a.k.a. Miracle) 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) The Killing Edge (2010) American Drifter (with Chad Michael Murray) (2017) "The Ghost of You" (novella) (2018) Undercover Connection (2018) Tangled Threat (2019) Witness to Death (2020) Danger in Numbers (March 23, 2021) Donna Miro and Lorna Doria Series Sensuous Angel (1985) An Angel's Share (1985) MacAuliffe Vikings Trilogy Golden Surrender (1987) The Viking's Woman (1993) Lord of the Wolves (1993) Camerons Saga Sweet Savage Eden (1989) A Pirate's Pleasure (1989) Love Not a Rebel (1989) One Wore Blue (1991) And One Wore Gray (1992) And One Rode West (1992) Camerons Saga: North American Woman Trilogy Sweet Savage Eden (1989) A Pirate's Pleasure (1989) Love Not a Rebel (1989) Camerons Saga: Civil War Trilogy One Wore Blue (1991) And One Wore Gray (1992) And One Rode West (1992) Old Florida's MacKenzies Series Runaway (1994) Captive (1996) Rebel (1997) Surrender (1998) Glory (1999) Triumph (2000) Suspense Series Drop Dead Gorgeous (1998) Tall, Dark, and Deadly (1999) Long, Lean and Lethal (2000) Dying to Have Her (2001) Hurricane Bay (2002) Picture Me Dead (2003) Dead on the Dance Floor (2004) The Presence (2004) Killing Kelly (2005) Suspense Series: Soap Opera Long, Lean and Lethal (2000) Dying to Have Her (2001) Killing Kelly (2005) Suspense Series: The O'Casey Brothers Dead on the Dance Floor (2004) Killing Kelly (2005) Harrison Investigation Series Haunted (2003) The Presence (2004) Ghost Walk (2005) The Vision (2006) The Seance (2007) The Dead Room (2007) The Death Dealer (2008) Unhallowed Ground (2009) Nightwalker (2009) The Killing Edge (2010) The Flynn Brothers Trilogy Deadly Night (2008) Deadly Harvest (2008) Deadly Gift (2008) Prophecy Series Dust to Dust (2009) Vampire Hunters Series Night of the Wolves (2009) Night of the Vampires (2010) Bride of the Night (2011) The Bone Island Series Ghost Memories (2010) Ghost Shadow (2010) Ghost Night (2010) Ghost Moon (2010) Krewe of Hunters Phantom Evil (2011) Heart of Evil (2011) Sacred Evil (2011) The Evil Inside (2011) The Unseen (2012) The Unholy (2012) The Unspoken (2012) The Uninvited (2012) The Night is Watching (2013) The Night is Alive (2013) The Night is Forever (2013) "Crimson Twilight" (novella) (2014) The Cursed (2014) The Hexed (2014) The Betrayed (2014) "When Irish Eyes are Haunting" (novella) (2015) The Silenced (2015) The Forgotten (2015) "All Hallows Eve" (novella) (2015) The Hidden (2015) Haunted Destiny (2016) Deadly Fate (2016) Darkest Journey (2016) Dying Breath (2017) Dark Rites (2017) Doomed Legacy (2017) "Hallow Be the Haunt" (novella) (2017) Wicked Deeds (2017) Fade to Black (2018) Pale as Death (2018) Echoes of Evil (2018) "Haunted Be the Holidays" (novella) (2018) "Christmas, The Krewe and a Large White Rabbit" (novella) (2018) The Summoning (2019) The Seekers (2019) The Stalking (2019) "Blood Night" (novella) (2019) "Horror-Ween" (novella) (2019) "The Best Christmas Ever" (novella) (2019) Seeing Darkness (2020) Deadly Touch (2020) "The Dead Heat of Summer" (novella) (2020) Dreaming Death (2020) "A Most Unusual Case" (novella) (2020) The Unforgiven (2021) The Forbidden (2021) The Unknown (2021) Cafferty & Quinn Let the Dead Sleep (2013) Waking the Dead (2014) "Infernal Night: Michael Quinn vs. Repairman Jack" (novella; with F. Paul Wilson) (2014) The Dead Play On (2015) "Blood on the Bayou" (novella) (2016) "Toys in the Attic" (novella) (2017) "Big Easy Evil" (novella) (2017) Bitter Reckoning (2018) New York Confidential Flawless (2016) A Perfect Obsession (2017) A Dangerous Game (2018) A Lethal Legacy (2019) The Final Deception (2020) Finnegan Connection Law and Disorder (2017) Shadows in the Night (2017) Out of the Darkness (2018) The Rising The Rising (with Jon Land) (2017) Blood Moon (with Jon Land) (2022) Non-fiction Some Wore Blue & Some Wore Gray (2013) Why I Love New Orleans (2014) Collections The Best of Heather Graham: Tender Taming / When Next We Love (1990) The Best of Heat.... Discover the Merline Lovelace popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Merline Lovelace books.

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  • The Horse Soldier synopsis, comments

    The Horse Soldier

    Merline Lovelace

    Determined to find her missing husband, Julia Bonneaux and her young daughter make a dangerous journey to Wyoming. But at Fort Laramie Julie finds instead Major Andrew Garrett, the...

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    Untamed

    Merline Lovelace

    Lady Barbara Chamberlain has the face of an angel, the polish of London's most elite drawing rooms, and, behind it all, the cunning of a cat. Orphaned at a young age. she and her b...

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    A Christmas Kiss

    Merline Lovelace

    In this fun, frothy, dark and mysterious novella, vampire Delilah Wentworth chips a fang on Christmas Eve. Woozy from the novocaine the dentist pumped into her bloodless veins, she...

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    Double Deception

    Merline Lovelace

    Victoria Talbot, code name Rebel, is an Air Force Academy grad, a decorated combat pilot, a trained linguist, and a former assistant Air Attache at the US embassy in Moscow. Now an...

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    Diamonds Can Be Deadly

    Merline Lovelace

    Diamonds Can Be Deadly When exmodelturnedOmega agent Jordan Colby is sent to Kauai, she jumps at the chance to to infiltrate a suspected highdollar money laundering operation. Ther...

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    Strangers When We Meet

    Merline Lovelace

    Former Air Force pilotturnedundercover agent Sloan Hamilton, code name Dodge, jumps at the chance to get back into a flight suit. His assignment escort the head of the team conduc...

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    Risky Engagement

    Merline Lovelace

    Nina Grant's rental HAD to break down miles from her plush Cabo San Lucas resort. Then she HAD to trek miles in the searing heat to get assistance from a silvermaned, ultra sophist...

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    Duty and Dishonor

    Merline Lovelace

    Julia Endicott, daughter of the legendary Iron Man Endicott, has gone from Army brat to Air Force colonel.  Her highest goal will be met with a longawaited promotion to genera...

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    Desert Heat

    Merline Lovelace

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    Final Approach...To Forever

    Merline Lovelace

    Heartstopping action and sizzling romance played against the drama of a hijacked Federal transport aircraft that must make a forced landing in the Florida Everglades.

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    A Savage Beauty

    Merline Lovelace

    From the Uncharted Wilderness Louise Therese Chartier knows all about the hardships of life in the wilderness. She has learned to survive by trusting her own instincts. But when he...

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    Line of Duty

    Merline Lovelace

    LtCol Brenna Duggan is a career Air Force officer, and the fact that she's a beautiful woman has never stood in her way.  In command of a crack flying squadron, she's responsi...

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    A Military Affair

    Merline Lovelace

    In this actionpacked novella set on a steamy island in the South Pacific, USAF Sergeant Tess Hamilton and her elite Phoenix Raven squad provide cover for a team sent to recover the...

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    A Bridge for Christmas

    Merline Lovelace

    As commander of a USAF combat engineering team, Captain Abby Trent has a job to do and is determined not to let Special Ops major Dan Maxwell get in her way. But when they work to...

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    Alena

    Merline Lovelace

    The wild heart of a warrior beat in the breast of Alena, daughter to a queen and mother to a king. A Celtic princess, she resolved never to bend to Roman rule. But how could she fo...

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    Closer Encounter

    Merline Lovelace

    To Drew “Riever” McDowell, this seemed like a fairly straightforward assignment: get up close and personal with Tracy Brandt to discover her connection to a navy ship on a top secr...

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    To Love A Thief

    Merline Lovelace

    Nick Jensen, Code Name Lightning, was once a homeless, streetsmart kid who survived by picking pockets on the French Riviera. Now a millionaire restauranteur and chief of a supers...

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    Stranded With A Spy

    Merline Lovelace

    After one unwanted grope too many, Mallory Dawes levied charges against her politically powerful boss and soon experienced the same vicious blowback as so many other victims of se...

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    The Last Bullet

    Merline Lovelace

    Former special agent Cleo North thought she had sworn off bureaucracy foreverbut the Air Force Office of Special Investigations has other ideas. They need her expertise and are wil...

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    Mind Games

    Merline Lovelace

    For Air Force special agent Taylor Chase, invading a billionaire's island fortress was headache enough. But partnering with Dr. Mark Wolfson forced her to revisit the darkest chapt...

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    The 14th...And Forever

    Merline Lovelace

    ANGELA PARETTI, CALL YOUR MOTHER! Which is what Angie meant to do, except she wasn't quite sure how to explain how a simple chauffeuring assignment had trapped her in a mountain ca...

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    The Cowboy and the Cossack

    Merline Lovelace

    On the surface, the mission didn’t seem that complicated. All Nate Sloan, Code Name Cowboy, had to do was deliver a champion quarter horse stud to the new ruler of Karistan, a tiny...

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    Halloween Honeymoon

    Merline Lovelace

    The wedding was all in fun…but the marriage was all too real!  Unfortunately, neither the bride nor the groom discovered until after what was supposed to be a mock ceremony at...

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    The Rogue Knight

    Merline Lovelace

    In this lively novella, an unknown knight charges to the rescue of Lady Joanna as a band of thieves attacks her escort. When she offers him her heartfelt thanks, he lifts his visor...

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    Twice In One Lifetime

    Merline Lovelace

    Rugged rancher and widower Jake Henderson's life ended the day his wife was killed. Three years later he bumps into a woman with the best pair of legs he'd ever seen and a smile to...

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    The Captive Countess

    Merline Lovelace

    A Russian countess on a desperate mission to save her father's life is swept overboard off the rugged northern California coast. Using her wits and her cool, aristocratic bearing, ...

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    Undercover Man

    Merline Lovelace

    On the surface, Dr. David Jansen is perfect husband material. Moviestar handsome. A brilliant engineer. Protective and careful of his fiancee's feelings. Okay, maybe just a tad too...

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    Wrong Bride, Right Groom

    Merline Lovelace

    You may kiss…the maid of honor! When her flighty sister decided she couldn’t go through with her wedding, Abby Davis reluctantly agreed to break the news to the groomtobe. When the...

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    The Harder They Fall

    Merline Lovelace

    t was chance that brought motorcycleriding attorney Evan Henderson to Paradise, Arizonaand left him stranded there. Then again, as he gazed at the beautiful Good Samaritan who had ...

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    Dark Side of Dawn

    Merline Lovelace

    USAF chopper pilot Joanna West has always believed that there's nothing she can't handle. But when she pulls Alexander Taylor the rich, charming, darkly handsome grandson of a for...

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    Eye of the Beholder

    Merline Lovelace

    Truth is in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes guilt is, too . . . It's been months since that horrible day USAF captain Miranda Morgan flew her C130 Hercules into lethal cross fir...

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    A Price Above Rubies

    Merline Lovelace

    When the shout rang down from the watch tower that hot summer afternoon, Hugh Montmercy, Baron Exmoor, lord of Bellemeade, Charlney, and Pontvieu keeps, felt no prickle of unease, ...

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    Dreams and Schemes

    Merline Lovelace

    In this contemporary romantic suspense novel by USA Bestselling author Merline Lovelace, Albuquerque police captain Dan Kingman is called to investigate the scene of a breakin. ...

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    The First Mistake

    Merline Lovelace

    Ten years ago USAF Special Agent Cleo North ignored her gut instinct and a young sergeant wound up brutally murdered. Now a civilian, Cleo is finally in a position to find out wha...

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    The Middle Sin

    Merline Lovelace

    When a young woman vanishes without a trace, former special agent Cleo North is hired to find her. But cold trail after cold trail lead to nowhere, until Major Jack Donovan specia...

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    Ex Marks The Spot

    Merline Lovelace

    After leaving the military at the ripe old age of thirtyseven, USAF Colonel Andrea (Andi) Armstrong moves to the Florida panhandle for a fresh start. But when she knocks on the doo...

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    After Midnight

    Merline Lovelace

    Back when she was a scrappy eightyear old, Jessica Yount and her mother were escorted out of their hometown by the local sheriffand she never found out why. Now she is back in Valp...

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    Danger in the Desert

    Merline Lovelace

    Shy, unassuming Jaci Thornton saved for years to fulfill #1 on her bucket list a visit to Egypt’s famed pyramids. But when she uncovers a little beetleshaped scarab, the find cata...

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    Return to Sender

    Merline Lovelace

    U.S. Marshal Harry MacMillan is on the hunt for a woman. And it isn't Sheryl Hancock, a dedicated postal worker with an advanced case of “ifonlyIcould" wanderlust. But when Harry d...

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    Texas Hero

    Merline Lovelace

    Years ago Jack Carstairs, code name Renegade, was drummed out of the Marine Corps after tangling with the niece of a foreign president. Now an OMEGA agent, he’s assigned to protect...

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    Undercover Operations

    Merline Lovelace

    When USAF Captain Danielle Flynn walks into a seedy bar in western Oklahoma, she drops her father's Medal of Honor on the beerstained table in front of a scruffylooking crop duster...