Shirley Harrison grew up in South Florida, where she always had a passion for writing and art. An avid reader starting from childhood, she found she had eclectic tastes, and read everything from the classics to the eponymous Trixie Belden Mysteries during her school age years. This love of the written word led her to write skits and plays for her classmates while she sketched pencil drawings of the world around her. As a college student, she continued to flex her writing muscles with short stories, entering them in contests, and winning acclaim and publication for some. She received her B.S. degree in Business Administration, with a double minor in Economics and Art, before she moved to the Atlanta, Georgia area where she married and currently resides with her family.

Shirley never considered the possibility of a career as a published writer until the mid 90's, when she completed her first romantic suspense novel, PICTURE PERFECT. The book—the first she had ever written and one of a two-book contract with her first publisher, Kensington Publishers—was published in February, 1999, to great reviews. The story successfully united her love of a mystery and her knowledge of corporate America and the art world.

Since that debut, Shirley has written UNDER A BLUE MOON , DANGEROUS FORTUNE, and THE PROPOSITION, which reintroduces characters first presented in PICTURE PERFECT. All of her stories embrace romantic suspense elements. And now, after a self-imposed two-year hiatus from writing, Shirley is back with books five and six for her publisher, BET Books' Arabesque Book line, THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE and SWEET JUSTICE, now available in bookstores.

After so many books, Shirley now considers herself a working writer; however, she remains employed full time with the Government in the tax accounting field, and she continues to be an accomplished artist with oils, acrylics, and watercolors her favorite mediums.