Grace Heyward is the author of The Kiss to Betrayal, Coming Through Emotional and Mental Abuse and A Costly Mistake. She is currently working with Tate Publishing with a new series of books on prayer. The first book is title 3AM Conversations with God, Disappointment.

She is employed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in Southern California and works under her given name, Mary A Speight. She grew up in small community 70 miles northest of Los Angeles, CA and can truly say she is a native Californian.

Writing has always been a big and important part of Grace's life. It has always been her way of expression. For as long as Grace could remember, she has kept a diary or journal. She took a journalism class in community college, considering a serious career in journalism or news reporting. The writing bug bit Grace hard when she received her first by line in the community college paper, The Maurader Times. She wrote using her given name, Mary Speight. This was her first story and it was placed on the front page of the college paper. What a rush! And so was writing Kiss to Betrayal and seeing it published, on the first try, it was AMAZING! But then, to submit A Costly Mistake and see it in print, is just as shocking and breath taking.

"Writing, just like so many other forms of creative outlets, ie, photography, scrapbooking, even cooking have been a wonderful outlet of not just creativity, but emotions, as well.", Grace said. There is beauty in everything around you and for Grace, the written word has always held her attention and fed her imagination. As a young child, Grace would love to color as a way to escape until she was able to read a book. Since then books have been her source of escape and writing short stories in junior high and high school continued to fuel her desire to create her own world of dreams and fantasy.