Sherryl Woods, author of more than 100 romance and mystery novels, is this week's Featured Author. She is a graduate of Ohio State University School of Journalism, and spent more than ten years as a journalist, most of them as a television critic for newspapers in Ohio and Florida.

Her first book, Restoring Love, was published in 1982 by Dell Candlelight Ecstasy under the pseudonym of Suzanne Sherrill. Her second book, Sand Castles, under the pseudonym of Alexandra Kirk, was published later that same year by Bantam. She began using her own name when she moved to The Second Chance at Love line at Berkley Publishing. In 1986, she began writing full-time and also began her long career at Silhouette Books

She has more than 75 romances for Silhouette Desire and Special Edition, she has written thirteen mysteries — nine in the Amanda Roberts series and four in the Molly DeWitt series.