by Irene Hannon
Captain Ed Nestor from the Chesterfield, Missouri, Police Department, continues to be my go-to person for amazing sources. Thank you, Ed!
I also give thanks every day for the professional, conscientious, and talented team at Revell. I’d name names, but I’m afraid I’d leave someone out! Please know that I feel blessed to work with each of you.
I am deeply grateful as well to every single person who chooses to read my books. You make it possible for me to give life to the characters who ask me to tell their stories, and I never, ever take you for granted.
As always, my love to the very best parents in the world, James and Dorothy Hannon. Thank you for giving me both roots and wings.
Last—but definitely not least!—hugs and kisses to my wonderful husband, who’s survived 25 years of marriage to a writer. (Trust me, that’s an accomplishment!) Thank you, Tom, for understanding when dinner is late because the characters in my head won’t stop talking; for repeating things that I don’t hear because my mind is far away, busy plotting the next scene; for listening to my angst before every book, when I’m convinced I’ll never come up with another good story idea; for hanging in when “just five more minutes” turns into an hour; and for all the other challenges you face every day because you picked a writer for wife. All I can say is, I got the gold ring—literally and figuratively! So happy anniversary, my love . . . and may our next twenty-five years be even more glorious!
Irene Hannon is a bestselling, award-winning author who took the publishing world by storm at the tender age of ten with a sparkling piece of fiction that received national attention.
Okay . . . maybe that’s a slight exaggeration. But she was one of the honorees in a complete-the-story contest conducted by a national children’s magazine. And she likes to think of that as her “official” fiction-writing debut!
Since then, she has written more than forty-five contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels. Irene has twice won the RITA award—the “Oscar” of romantic fiction—from Romance Writers of America, and her books have also been honored with a National Readers’ Choice award, two HOLT medallions, a Daphne du Maurier award, a Retailers Choice award, and two Reviewers’ Choice awards from RT Book Reviews magazine. In 2011, Booklist included one of her novels in its Top 10 Inspirational Fiction list for the year. She is also a Christy award finalist.
Irene, who holds a BA in psychology and an MA in journalism, juggled two careers for many years until she gave up her executive corporate communications position with a Fortune 500 company to write full-time. She is happy to say she has no regrets! As she points out, leaving behind the rush-hour commute, corporate politics, and a relentless BlackBerry that never slept was no sacrifice.
A trained vocalist, Irene has sung the leading role in numerous community theater productions and is also a soloist at her church.
When not otherwise occupied, she and her husband enjoy traveling, Saturday mornings at their favorite coffee shop, and spending time with family. They make their home in Missouri.
To learn more about Irene and her books, visit www.irenehannon.com.
Books by Irene Hannon
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HEROES OF QUANTICO
Against All Odds
An Eye for an Eye
In Harm’s Way
GUARDIANS OF JUSTICE
Fatal Judgment
Deadly Pursuit
Lethal Legacy
PRIVATE JUSTICE
Vanished
Trapped
Deceived
That Certain Summer
One Perfect Spring
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