Candace Irvin
As a child, Candace believed imagination was everything—and
growing up as the daughter of a librarian and a sailor in
locales as diverse as Germany and the Philippines, she had
more than enough fodder to feed that imagination. As a
teenager, she was also certain everyone had a couple extra
people running around inside their heads. It was only when
her father warned her about people who heard voices—and
where they eventually ended up—that she realized this
wasn't the case. Candace never had the heart to confess to
her father that not only did those people talk to her, they
led full-scale lives. Unfortunately, with the publication
of her first book, FOR HIS EYES ONLY, dear ol' dad found
out anyway.
As an adult, Candace learned to blend action with her
imagination. After a brief stint in the US Army (long
enough to survive basic training), Candace accepted a
branch transfer and enrolled in the US Navy's Reserve
Officer Training Corps (NROTC). Following her commissioning
as an Ensign in the Navy and graduation from Surface
Warfare Officer's school, she finally followed her father
to sea. Tasked with securing the USS Samuel Gompers' damage
control, she spent her days fighting fires, plugging leaks,
and cleaning up toxic gases aboard the naval warship. In
fact it was during one particular watch as the Gompers'
Officer of the Deck, that Candace noticed a nuclear
transport container and began to imagine all sorts of
intriguing scenarios. It wasn't until five years later,
after she'd learned to channel her excess energy and love
of romance into writing that she turned that fateful
night's fictitious fruit into a book. Though the Navy might
not appreciate the turns her mind took along the way, she
hopes you'll enjoy the results.
Although her military days are now firmly behind her,
Candace continues to draw on those experiences and her
overactive imagination to pen tales of danger and intrigue
on the high seas and off. The rest of her time is spent
happily married to her own dashing hero, a former Army
Combat Engineer with dimples to-die-for.
The two now reside in the South, happily raising three
future heroes and one adorable heroine, who won't be
allowed to date until she's forty—at least.
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