Shanna Whelan

Overview
Shanna Whelan is a 27 year old vampire and a dentist. She is the heroine of How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire. Shanna is currenlty the wife of Roman Draganesti.

Early Life
Shanna was born in 1978. She has a brother and a sister. Her father works for a CIA agency, Stake-Out, tasked with hunting down vampires, though he told his family he worked as a foreign diplomat. Due to her father's job, she and her siblings moved around a lot. At the age of fifteen, Shanna was sent away to boarding school, while her brother and sister were not. She never knew why.

At twenty-six, she became a dentist with her friend Karen. All Shanna ever wanted was a normal life, with a normal husband, a normal house in a nice neibourhood, with a normal dog. However, four months before the events of How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire, Karen was killed in a deli by the Russian coven, along with a dozen other innocent bystanders. Unknown to her at the time, the men were there to kill Shanna, but she survived by hiding in the bathroom. After the incident, Shanna had strong guilt for not saving her friend, and became afraid of the sight of blood. She testified against the Russians and had to go under the Witness Protection Programme, moving to New York under the name Jane Wilson.

How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
Shanna was working the night shift at the dental clinc, ironically listening to Strangers in the Night, when she met Roman Draganesti. He rescued her from an assassination attempt by the Russians, and brought her back to his apartment for protection. Roman was going to erase her memory of the incident and let her go, but that became impossible due to her strong psychic powers that resisted his mind control. The two marry a month later. Roman and Shanna began trying for a baby by replacing blank sperm with Roman's DNA. In Vamps in the City, the two discovered she was pregnant with her son, Constantine and two years later followed their daughter, Sophia.

Transformation
In April 2011, Shanna nearly died after coming in contact with Marielle. Roman had to transform her into a vampire, otherwise she would have died.

Personality
Shanna is a kind and affectionate person. Before the incident which killed her best friend, she was a brave and happy person. When she meets Roman, she becomes that person again.

Physical appearance
Shanna has naturally strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. During her time in Witness Protection, she dyed her hair dark brown and then platinum blonde. She appears to be 33 years old.

First appearance

 * How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire (Love at Stake #1)