Christine Rimmer was born on January 28 in California, U.S.A.. She has always admired her maternal grandmother, she says: "My grandmother, my mother's mother. She lived a life of love and adventure. When she graduated from school at age 16, she took a job teaching in the Alaskan gold fields where she met my grandfather, a gold miner. They moved to the mountains of Northern California, where she taught school and he dug for gold. She kept a wonderful garden and she loved to read and she played the mandolin (rather badly, actually). And she could still beat me at Scrabble when she was 90 years old. I think she cheated, but I never did work out how."

Always, she loves to get lost in the world of a book. But, first Christine longed to be an actress, so she earned her Theatre Degree from California State, Sacramento and then went to New York where she studied acting, became an extremely capable waitress, and starred in The Importance of Being Earnest in a church in Flatbush. Later, she moved to Southern California, where she began her writing career with short stories, plays, and poems. Her poems and short stories were published in a number of small literary journals. Her plays were produced at The Back Alley and Group Theatres in Southern California and have been published by Dramatists Play Service and West Coast Plays.

Christine wrote her first romance in 1984 and found she loved writing romances almost as much as she loved reading them. Since the publication of her first book in 1987, Christine has written 60 contemporary romances. She has been telling love stories ever since and plans to go on doing just that for decades more. She is best known for her loveable, sometimes offbeat characters and her finely honed talent for telling the kind of story that keeps readers turning pages. She has created two popular series, The Jones Gang and Conveniently Yours. Her books consistently appear on national best-seller lists. Two of Christine's romances have been nominated for the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA Award. Her 1998 Silhouette Special Edition A Hero for Sophie Jones, won Romantic Times Magazine's Reviewers' Choice Award. Three times, Romantic Times has nominated Christine for Series Storyteller of the Year.

Christine now makes her home in Oklahoma with her husband, younger son and two very contented cats named Tom and Ed.