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Off the Deep End, the first book in the Pajaro Bay category romantic suspense series, won the 2009 Southern Heat contest.

Cat's Blood, the first book in the Sweet Blood series about a vampire genetic researcher, is a finalist in the 2010 Write Stuff contest.

Raven's War, the first book in the Tales of the Ariane fantasy romance series, won the 2009 Heart To Heart contest.

All three books have been requested by editors and agents as a result of contests, and are currently being revised for submission.

Barbara Cool Lee writes category romantic suspense and single-title paranormal/fantasy novels. Her manuscripts have won many writing contests, including the Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart award.

She holds degrees in Foreign Languages, Political Science and Medieval Studies. Yes, she went to college for a long time. She wrote her thesis on "Cai in Welsh Arthurian Legend," hence her fascination with characters who use pointy swords to save the world.

She used to design Filemaker Pro databases for college departments, and actually writes her books in random order in a compulsively organized database (yes, she knows that's strange; it has something to do with finding order amidst the chaos of her imagination).

Her current obsessions are ancient Mesopotamian history and neurology, which figure into her current project, the Tales of the Ariane series, and her next project, an urban fantasy series called Sweet Blood.