Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, currently resides in Bullhead City, Arizona. Very reclusive (shy), when not writing, or mired in research, she spends her time enjoying the company of her two adopted/rescue pets, Apache, a Giant Schnauzer and Mason, a Weimaraner. Besides reference manuals and the extensive use of the Internet, quite a bit of her research is via Discovery, National Geographic, History, and Military channels watching crime/police/forensics and CIA/DOJ documentaries. She is an insatiable reader, has eclectic tastes in music, and for writing purposes, she uses Marie E. Reid, Emily Wade-Reid , and M. E. Reid depending on the genre. Writing as Emily Wade-Reid she is the author of Cruise Into Jeopardy (2011 - Passion In Print), m/f interracial romantic suspense, as M. E. Reid, author of Memories Erased

• (2008 - LooseId -Recommended Read - FAR), m/m romantic suspense, and Memories Erased: Treachery (2011 - eXtasy Books), m/m romantic suspense. Writing as Marie E. Reid, author of Memories of a Lifetime and Mystical Imagination , two short stories in the anthologies Pronto: Writings from Rome and Ship’s Log: Writings at Sea , respectively, (TripleTreePublishing). She is a published poet.