E. M. Lynley

E. M. Lynley spent ten years in economics and financial analysis, a year of it as a White House staff economist, with later stints in technology and the wine trade. Her Precious Gems books pair a mild-mannered gay romance novelist, Trent Copeland, with Reed Acton, a former Ranger turned federal agent who needs the map that ended up in Trent's bag at a Bangkok airport. Rarer Than Rubies starts the chase, and Italian Ice, Jaded and 24-Karat Conspiracy carry the two of them onward, the last after Babylonian gold looted from the Iraqi National Museum, with an undercover posting on a US Army base. Hostile Takeover sits outside that run: Chase Richards and Mathias Tobler trained together for the United States Olympic fencing team, and Chase returns years later with designs on the Tobler family business. A Rainbow Award winner who has lived in London, Tokyo and Washington, Lynley writes from the San Francisco Bay Area.