Family Secrets Books 1-4

Overview

Who or what are the Extraordinary Five?. For fans of "Heroes" and "The X-Files," delve into the mysteries of Family Secrets with books 1-4. This first collection contains Enemy Mind by Maggie Shayne, Pyramid of Lies by Anne Marie Winston, The Player by Evelyn Vaughn and The Bluewater Affair by Cindy Gerard.

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Author Information

Bio of Maggie Shayne

Maggie Shayne began her writing career in kindergarten, when she painstakingly copied The Brementown Musicians onto construction paper in full Crayola color, complete with illustrations of her own design, and presented it proudly to her teacher. Of course this was not an exact copy. She had tweaked the story a bit, improving it greatly, in her five ' year ' old opinion. By third grade her tastes had matured. At story hour, when it was her turn to choose the book from which the teacher would read, Maggie picked Poe ' s The Tell ' Tale Heart, which she proceeded to recite from memory as the teacher began reading. Far from being suitably impressed, Maggie recalls her teacher seemed to pale a bit, and looked at her oddly from then on. Her fondness for the macabre stayed with her, as did her penchant for rewriting her favorite stories. As a teen, while watching her beloved Universal Pictures Monster Classics over and over, she became more and more certain someone had to fix the endings. It was so obvious that Dracula, the Wolfman, and the dusty Mummy had been cheated! These were not horror flicks, in her teenage opinion. They were romances. They portrayed a love that went beyond life itself. But the endings were all wrong. Anyone could see the monster was supposed to get the girl! Well, one marriage and five daughters later, Maggie has made it her mission in life to see to it that old wrongs are set right. Her stories range from down ' home Westerns (Texas Brand miniseries, Silhouette Books) to glitz (Million Dollar Marriage, 8/99) to modern ' day fairy tales (her Avon contemporary titles). But her best love is the genre known as paranormal romance. And Maggie writes these like no other author. No one else writing today manages to combine the hearts of two such diverse genres as romance and horror, while still thrilling both segments of the readership with the stunning results. Shamelessly romantic, breathtakingly emotional, chilling in their suspense, with edge ' of ' the ' seat tension, her stories capture the classic allure that makes beauty ' and ' the ' beast tales so beloved ' the key, is the redemption of the monster by the sheer power of love.

Bio of Anne Marie Winston

Anne Marie Winston is a Pennsylvania native and former educator. She began reading romances a long, long time ago and still can ' t believe someone will actually pay her to read and write them! Always a book lover, Anne Marie didn ' t begin writing her first romance novel until 1989 when she was at home with two babies, too many diapers, and too much time to consider insane, risky career moves. She sold her first book, Best Kept Secrets, to Silhouette Desire in 1991 and now she has many more books of her own than babies (a good thing, too!) Anne Marie has received various awards from the romance writing industry. Both Substitute Wife and The Pregnant Princess topped the Waldenbooks bestseller list and several of her books have made USA Today ' s extended bestseller list. Her next three books are set in the Badlands of South Dakota. Anne Marie is a member of Romance Writers of America and Novelists, Inc. She is also a member of Washington Romance Writers, where she has twice served as both vice-president and retreat chairman. In 1991, she received WRW ' s Magic Crystal Award for outstanding service to the chapter ' equal to at least two books ' worth of blood, sweat, and the occasional tear. She also has been a featured speaker at numerous RWA chapters and at the national conference in addition to many organizations outside the industry. In 1998, she represented contemporary series romance fiction at a Smithsonian Institute Writing Seminar.

Bio of Evelyn Vaughn

Evelyn began writing stories as soon as she was able to hold a fat pencil and spell out words. She's been at it ever since. Fourth in a family of five children, Evelyn has lived in Virginia, Illinois, Arizona, Louisiana and finally Texas. She currently lives in Texas with her 17-year-old, one-eyed cat and her sweet-tempered cocker spaniel. She recently bought a house with a great yard, largely for the cocker spaniel, but she loves it, too. In her alternate life, she teaches writing and literature at Tarrant County College in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex.

Bio of Cindy Gerard

CINDY GERARD is a bestselling author of nearly thirty contemporary romance novels including To the Edge and To the Limit. Along with numerous industry award nominations, Cindy is the recipient of The National Reader's Choice Award and Romance Writers of America's coveted Rita Award. As one reviewer put it: 'Ms. Gerard is a master at weaving tales that shoot straight for the heart--and she does it with incomparable style.' Cindy lives in the Midwest with her husband, Tom, two spoiled dogs and several fat and happy quarter horses. Visit her Web site at: www.cindygerard.com.

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Harlequin Enterprises

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1.27 MB

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eBook ISBN

9781552549803