The Queen of Hearts [Mass Market Paperback]

Heather Graham (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Dell Publishing; 1st THUS edition (1985)
• ISBN-10: 0440171652
• ISBN-13: 978-0440171652
• ASIN: B001JA1KEA
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

More About the Author

New York Times and USA Today best selling author, Heather Graham was born somewhere in Europe and kidnapped by gypsies when she was a small child. She went on to join the Romanian circus as a trapeze artist and lion tamer. When the circus came to South Florida, she stayed, discovering that she preferred to be a shark and gator trainer.

Not really.

Heather is the child of Scottish and Irish immigrants who met and married in Chicago, and moved to South Florida, where she has spent her life. (She has, at least, been to the Russian circus in Moscow, where she wished she was one of the incredibly talented and coordinated trapeze artists.) She majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write. Her first book was with Dell, and since then, she has written over one hundred and fifty novels and novellas including category, suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, horror, and Christmas family fare.

She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty-five languages, and has had over seventy-five million books in print. She has been honored with awards from Walden Books, B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times, the Lifetime Achievement Award from RWA and more. Heather has also become the proud recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers. Heather has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, Mystery Book Club, People and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including Today, Entertainment Tonight and local television.

Heather loves travel and anything that has to do with the water, and is a certified scuba diver. She also loves ballroom dancing. Each year she hosts the Vampire Ball and Dinner theater at the RT convention raising money for the Pediatric Aids Society and in 2006 she hosted the first Writers for New Orleans Workshop to benefit the stricken Gulf region. She is also the founder of "The Slush Pile Players", presenting something that's almost like entertainment for various conferences and benefits. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Page Turner!, June 12, 2000

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Denise (Gastonia, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Queen Of Hearts (Paperback)

Once again Heather Graham didn't dissappoint this reader. Queen of Hearts is not only a wonderful love story but has plenty of suspense. I liked the way the book grabbed me in the first chapter and never let up. The story takes place on a luxury yacht and it enhances the romantic setting. Rhiannan has been tragically hurt in the past and Kiel is the perfect man to bring healing. The story becomes very suspenseful in the middle and I found myself biting my nails. I highly recommend this book!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars My least favorite Heather Graham book, June 27, 2010

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Rhonda Parker - See all my reviews

This review is from: Queen of Hearts (Hardcover)

I LOVE Heather, but this was my least favorite EVER of her books. This guy was a Congressman???? And he is manhandling and threatening this lady card dealer on a cruise ship, which is supposed to be carrying world leaders for an important summit???? I don't even think a Kennedy or Bill Clinton would go that far. And to DEMAND that she "get over" the death of her husband and children, pretty much to the point of forcefulness? Was not a very believable plot. That said, PLEASE read other Heather Graham/Shannon Drake novels. Some are the best of the best!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BEYOND TERRIBLE---, September 20, 2009

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SJ - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Queen Of Hearts (Paperback)

If you like reading, "his painful grasp bringing tears to her eyes," OVER and OVER and OVER then this book is for you. Sure, it's a mainstay in romance literature for the cool-headed brooding hero to lose himself in passionate agony every once in a while and physically restrain the heroine, BUT ON EVERY OTHER PAGE??? Where's the romance in that?

This thing read like a really BAD Harlequin romance with WAY too much repetition. I also found the main characters unlikable because they never remained consistent--they were supposed to be hard and strong, but were basically weak and whiny. I thought I'd NEVER get through this book!