Mary-Rose Hayes is the best selling author of seven novels, whose genres include
        horror, suspense and romantic adventure.  A TIME TO RUN, a political thriller co-
        authored with Senator Barbara Boxer, was published in 2006.
        Her second novel with Senator Boxer, working title BLIND TRUST, is planned
        for publication in early 2009 by Chronicle Books.

        Mary-Rose's novels have been translated into fifteen languages and have regularly been
        Doubleday Book of the Month and Literary Guild main selections. 
        AMETHYST (E.P. Dutton, 1991) was chosen as a Time/Life bestseller
        condensation.

        Her current project is a trilogy with the working title PATHS TAKEN.
        The story is set in England and the United States, spans more than half a century from
        1939 - 1997, and is overshadowed by the resonances of two world wars and the
        Vietnam conflict.

        "I really do believe that a writer is born and not made," says Mary-Rose, who began to 
        write as soon as she knew how, at the age of six.  "You may not like it, but you can't help
        it."  She attributes her love for language and the written word to growing up among writers
        and artists, "and to a period in early childhood living in a remote country house with no
        TV, spotty radio reception, and constant electrical blackouts."  Entertainment involved
        reading aloud and the writing of plays, to be performed in the living room both by her
        family and various relatives, and by houseguests who included, among numerous others,
        a London theatrical director and the archbishop of Johannesburg.