Meet The Author

     Rayne was born in Helsinki, Finland. After graduation from college, she obtained a degree in psychology. In the United States, she studied chemical dependence and related disorders and received certification in England.

     After moving to Geneva, Switzerland, Rayne worked in a multinational company as an addictions counselor with responsibility for several of their European subsidiaries. She facilitated workshops, developed management training courses to identify troubled employees, a four-hour educational program, and co-authored a film script. While employed, Rayne wrote two non-fiction books; on alcoholism, and dysfunction in the workplace. Because of her experience, she traveled to most European countries, including what was then the East block and Moscow, lecturing in her field.

     From early childhood, Rayne read: American, French, and Russian classics, modern American literature, and poetry. Most of her life, she wanted to be a writer. Betty Smith’s “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” motivated her to want to write real books about real people speaking to real people; books about those painful life situations that are talked about in hushed tones. She shows her readers that no matter how bad the condition may seem, there is always a way out; the prerequisite is the desire to change. Telling her readers there is a solution isn’t enough; Rayne also wants to point them in the right direction to find effective help. Writing fiction started as a pastime, but it soon became a passion.

     Rayne continues to study creative writing and is active in critic groups at Writers Village University. She now writes full-time, and lives in Florida and Geneva.

     Her second novel is in its final stages of editing, and she is hard at work on her third book.