Not Quite Dating (23 page)

Photograph by Lindsey Meyer, 2012

New York Times
bestselling author Catherine Bybee was raised in Washington State, but after graduating high school, she moved to Southern California in hopes of becoming a movie star. After growing bored with waiting tables, she returned to school and became a registered nurse, spending most of her career in urban emergency rooms. She now writes full-time and has penned the novels
Wife by Wednesday
and
Married by Monday
. Bybee lives with her husband and two teenage sons in Southern California.