A transplanted Canadian, Shelley Bates grew up on Vancouver Island and currently lives in California. Whether typing search warrants and making undercover phone calls for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or editing marketing collateral for the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley, Shelley has always found that everyone has a story. Most people have stopped telling her theirs in case she puts them in her books.
Shelley earned an M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania in 2002 and sold her thesis to a major publisher that year. It subsequently became a double finalist in the 2004 National Readers Choice Awards.
Grounds to Believe, the debut novel in her Elec