<b>Zane</b> is the author of <I>Addicted, The Sex Chronicles, Gettin' Buck Wild, The Heat Seekers, The Sisters of APF, Shame on It All, Nervous, Skyscraper, Afterburn, </i>and<I> Love Is Never Painless</i> and is also the editor of <I>Chocolate Flava</i> and <I>Caramel Flava. </i>She is the publisher of Strebor Books, an imprint of Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, and lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her family. Visit her website at<P>www.eroticanoir.com.