Bestselling and award-winning author Michelle Rowen's books include the Immortality Bites series for Grand Central Publishing. She has been on the Waldenbooks bestsellers list as well as winning a HOLT Medallion for her first book, Bitten & Smitten. She has also written futuristic romantic suspense as Michelle Maddox. Under the new pen name Rachel Connor, Michelle is currently working on a pair of supernatural thrillers due out in 2011.