She stands for everything he despises. Only, the minute they meet, she becomes everything he desires. Former US Marine turned private investigator, Reilly Murdock is no stranger to high society. Thanks to his malevolent millionaire stepfather, he turned his back on that elite world years ago. But when a friend calls in a favor hes honor bound to repay Reilly finds himself stuck as glorified babysitter to a spoiled heiress with secrets of her own. Since her fathers sudden death six months ago, Cassandra Van Winter has been trying to conceal her familys millions of dollars of debt. She cant afford to let anyone near enough to discover the charade shes maintaining. At first, the discovery of a multi-million-dollar necklace seemed like the answer to her prayers, but that was before the accidents started. Now, she takes one look at the six feet of muscle her mothers hired to protect her, and curses her body for coming back to life. As the accidents increase and danger comes closer, Reilly gets closer too. Before long its not just her life in danger, but her heart.
Thanks to an aunt's love of genealogy, Christyne discovered both Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe are members in her extended family tree on her mother's side, so she firmly believes her love of writing has always been her destiny.
Her father served in the Air Force for twenty years which resulted in her birth in Taipei, Taiwan and spending her youth growing up all over the world before her family settled in New Hampshire in time for her to attend high school. She followed in her family's rich military history and joined the United States Navy where she fell in love with romance novels after discovering someone remembered women were serving aboard seagoing vessels and sent a box full of paperback romances to her ship, the USS VULCAN AR-5.
She started pursuing her own writing six years ago and sold her first ever 'finished' manuscript in 2006 and made her first sale to the Special Edition line at Harlequin in 2008. She writes contemporary romances full of life, love, a hint of laughter and perhaps a dash of danger too. Christyne loves the challenge of the boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl-back and the journey of joy and hardship two people go through. And there has to be a 'happily ever after' or she's just not satisfied.
When she's not writing, she can be found hunting for treasures at yard sales and antique fairs to add to her collection of memorabilia of women who served in the military, watching classic romantic movies and the great movie musicals of the 40's and 50's, and reading books by her favorite authors.
She lives in central Massachusetts with her family and works full time as an executive assistant at an energy technologies company. You can email her at chris@christynebutler.com or visit her website www.christynebutler.com!
