About Susan Squires Susan Squires is a New York Times bestselling author known for breaking the rules of romance writing. She has published seventeen books with Dorchester and St. Martin's Press. Her contemporary Magic Series is independently published with six novels and a novella. Whatever her time period or subject, some element of the paranormal always creeps in to her work. She has been a finalist in the Romance Writers of America Rita Contest, and won numerous regional and national awards, including the Holt Medallion, the Golden Heart, and the Book Buyers' Best award, as well as garnered several Reviewer's Choice awards from RT Book Reviews and starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly. Publisher's Weekly named Body Electric one of the year's ten most influential mass market books and One with the Shadows, the fifth in her Companion Series, a Best Book of the Year. Susan has a Masters in English literature from UCLA and once toiled as an executive for a Fortune 500 company. Now she lives at the beach in Southern California with her husband, Harry, a writer of supernatural thrillers, and two very active Belgian Sheepdogs, who like to help her write by putting their chins on the keyboarddddddddddddddddddddddd. Follow Susan on Twitter, like her Facebook page at AuthorSusanSquires or check out her website at http: //www.susansquires.com for breaking news, and special features about the books.