USA Today Bestselling author Cheyenne McCray has a passion for hot romance and a happily-ever-after, but always with a twist. Among other accolades, Chey has won the prestigious Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for "Best Steamy Romance of the Year."

Chey penned her first poem in kindergarten, and has been writing ever since she can remember. She always knew one day she would write novels, hoping her readers would get lost in the worlds she created, as she did in her favorites.

Now, she gets to write full time and loves what she does. For St. Martin's Press, she writes the USA Today Bestselling "Magic" series, which includes Forbidden Magic and Seduced by Magic, followed by Wicked Magic Fall 2007; she also writes contemporary erotic romantic suspense, including the USA Today bestselling high-octane thriller, Chosen Prey that was released March 2007. She's married to her college sweetheart, has three sons, three dogs, a messy house, and she will do anything to get out of cleaning, which may be why she writes so much.

Chey loves writing and traveling! The places she'd give anything to go back and visit (like now) would be Monaco, and the French and Italian Rivieras. The Bahamas and Hawaii would be nice, too. Actually, she'll go anywhere-just send her a plane ticket and she's outta here.
When writing fantasy, Chey loves to put on the soundtracks to The Mists of Avalon, all of The Lord of the Rings CD's, Anna and the King, Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, Pirates of the Caribbean , The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. Her all time favorite movie soundtrack is Gladiator--perfect for writing battle scenes to.

When writing contemporary fiction involving cowboys (okay, Chey has a weakness for men in tight Wranglers, cowboy boots and a Stetson.....) she loves the voices of Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Joe Nicols, Clint Black, and Randy Travis and will write to anything those cowboys sing ;-)

Color: HOT pink. But she loves men in all black.... <wicked grin>

Movies: Gladiator, and all of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (Aragorn is to DIE for.) She especially loves action and adventure movies, fantasy, and futuristic.

Romance Movie: Anna and the King (so, okay, they don't actually get together, but to have a man look at you like Chow Yun-Fat looks at Jodie Foster....ohmigod.)

Sport: Chey loves basketball, especially college ball and the U of A's men's team.

Foods: Thai, Indian, Mexican, Italian, French, Greek, Russian, Austrian, Chinese--she loves it all, and she'll try just about anything new.
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birthdate August 1st,
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Chey majored in creative writing
and journalism at the
University of Arizona (Go Wildcats!)

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