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Shari Mikels

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Shari Mikels grew up wanting to be an astronaut and went to school for aerospace engineering. That is, until she found out the realities of being an AE. She switched to computer science, much to her mom’s satisfaction. That job led to her next career—as a cosmetics direct sales beauty consultant and director. After the birth of her son, she was ready to be a stay-at-home mom, spending her time reading to him and teaching him to read.

A lifetime love of reading had been pushed to the background, until a writers’ strike in Hollywood had her picking up books to get her fix of happily-ever-afters and vampires. Her voracious appetite for books came back full force, and she found not just paranormals, but romantic suspenses and contemporaries. She ...more

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I apologize for disappearing for so long. My absence was due to many reasons including going through some issues with my son, getting my other hip replaced (I’m totally going for Bionic Woman status now), and then nearly dying because my migraine medicines permanently damaged my heart (I’m now in congestive heart failure at the ripe old age of 46).

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	Christmas Curveball 3.76 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For My Own: A Christmas for Carrie / Christmas Curveball / Kissing Her Scrooge by Shari Mikels (Goodreads Author), Alison Packard (Goodreads Author), Kinley Cade (Goodreads Author) 3.17 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drawn to the Wolves 3.33 avg rating — 42 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
$Mated: Saving His Wolf \ Wo...$	Mated: Saving His Wolf \ Wolf Summer \ Drawn to the Wolves by Kerry Adrienne (Goodreads Author), Sionna Fox (Goodreads Author), Shari Mikels (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Witch At Heart: A Cozy Witch Mystery (The Jinx Hamilton Series Book 1)

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