After she graduated from Cass Technical High School, she attended Wayne State University, obtaining a degree in Mass Communication.
[citation needed] Mañees' third novel, Follow Your Heart, received a distinguished 4½-star Gold Medal Top Pick Classic rating from Romantic Times and earned the "Award of Excellence" from RomanceInColor.com.
Her fifth novel, Heart of the Matter, reached the top ten of Amazon's list of best-selling multicultural romances.
She also took on the role of Mrs. Murphy in the Pulitzer Prize winning play JB at the Spotlight Theater in Grand Ledge, Michigan.
Following her acting career, Mañees did commercial radio, and was an on-air personality on AM 1180, WXLA in Lansing for two years.