Shannon Drake

Shannon Drake is the pen name used by a bestselling American author named Heather Graham Pozzessere. She is famous for writing romance, paranormal, mystery, historical fiction, thriller, and contemporary novels. Besides using the pseudonym, Shannon also makes use of her original name and her maiden name Heather Graham for writing different genres of novels.

The best place to start is the Alliance Vampires series, the earliest of Shannon Drake's multi-book series: it opens with Beneath a Blood Red Moon (1999) and runs to 8 books across 1999–2007, ending with Blood Red (2007). Shannon Drake's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Shannon Drake has 34 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1985 and 2008. 21 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Alliance Vampires series with 8 books — and 13 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Shannon Drake's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Fire (1989–1993, 2 books), No Other (1996–1997, 2 books) and Alliance Vampires (1999–2007, 8 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Shannon Drake's 34 books into 5 named series and 13 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Alliance Vampires (8 books, 1999–2007); Graham Family (7 books, 1999–2007); Fire (2 books, 1989–1993); No Other (2 books, 1996–1997); Victorian Fairy Tale (2 books, 2005).