York, Rebecca: - NY Times & USA Today best-seller, Rebecca York, is the author of over 130 books. She has written paranormal romantic thrillers for Berkley and romantic thrillers for Harlequin Intrigue. Her romantic-suspense series, Decorah Security, is set at a detective agency where agents have paranormal powers or work paranormal cases. And her Off World series travels into the future when humanity has colonized far-flung planets, but the emotions of love, hate, greed, envy, and the like are as powerful as ever.Her many accolades include the RWA Centennial Award (for having written100 romances), two Rita finalist books, two Romantic Times Career Achievement awards, a Prism award, and several Golden Leaf awards. Her Killing Moon was a launch book for the Berkley Sensation imprint.She collects rocks and has been known to lug stones back from Hawaii, Ireland, Italy, and Alaska. Her many real-life adventures are apt to end up in her books-like the time she encountered a coral snake in the Guatemalan jungle, went down in a small submarine, took a glider flight over Ronald Reagan's former ranch, or visited the bunker prepared for Congress in case of a nuclear attack.