Henke is a member of the Authors Guild, Romance Writers of America, Missouri Romance Writers, Sisters in Crime, Novelists Inc., and International Thriller Writers. She and her husband Jim, a retired professor of English, have a son, Matt. Louis, Missouri, where she recently took a landscaping design course at the Missouri Botanical Garden and has designed the landscaping for her yard. Her husband took early retirement in order to assist her burgeoning writing career. She miscarries and blames him) and Orlena's stepfather and her brother try to destroy her loved one. Misunderstandings and pain keep them apart (Night Wind is tortured and blames Orlena. In her Henke has made the USA Today bestseller list and the Waldenbooks and B. Love blossoms between the two and they marry, but pregnant Orlena is recaptured by her stepfather to bait Night Wind. Two years later, she left her teaching career to become a full-time writer. Henke finally sold her first novel in 1986. After earning a job at the university in Ohio where her husband was a tenured professor, for fifteen years Henke taught history, gerontology, sociology, proposal writing for social service agencies, freshman composition, and remedial reading. After her graduation, she worked as a cashier for a loan company, a public welfare caseworker, the assistant circulation manager for a small newspaper, and an administrator of a federal information program for the elderly. in history (both from the University of Missouri). Although Henke originally planned to become a journalist, she eventually earned a B.A.

In her first year at school she met her future husband, Jim Henke, in a shared Spanish class. Henke entered the University of Missouri immediately after graduating from high school. Her father died while she was in her teens, leaving Henke alone with her mother. A beautiful Spanish captive finds love in a remote Apache stronghold in the arms of her handsome captor. She was born Shirl Nehrt, fifteen years after her next oldest sibling. Buy a cheap copy of Night Wind's Woman book by Shirl Henke.

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