Cynthia is a former Romance Writers of America Golden Heart® Finalist in Romantic Suspense. She started out writing contemporary romance, but when all her plots began to turn dastardly, she decided to stop fighting the urge to throw explosions, dead bodies, and evil villains into her books.

With her B.S. in the chemical sciences and her love of the periodic table (yes, she’s a geek and proud of it!) she finally found the perfect potent mix of love and danger to put into her stories.

Some of the writers that have influenced Cynthia along the way: Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Jude Deveraux, Sandra Brown, Suzanne Brockmann, Roxanne St. Claire, Cindy Gerard, Dean Koontz, Louisa May Alcott and L.M. Montgomery.