Jaycee Bullard was born and raised in the great state of Minnesota, the fourth child in a family of five.  Growing up, she loved to read, especially books by Astrid Lindgren and Georgette Heyer.  In the ten years since graduating with a degree in classical languages, she has worked as a paralegal and an office manager, before finally finding her true calling as a preschool Montessori teacher and as a writer of romantic suspense.