Casey Claybourne would tell you that she was born under an entire galaxy of lucky stars. Married to the boy she had a crush on in high school, Ms. Claybourne lives in Northern California with her husband and two small children. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, she sold her first manuscript to the Berkley Publishing Group in 1993. Her second novel, My Lucky Lady, was an Affaire de Coeur finalist for Best Regency of 1994.