Lack of musical rhythm aside, she found debilitating stage fright to be an impossible stumbling block. While the glitz and gold of dancing on national television was not in her future, she managed to console herself in romance novels.

Chrystal is a Florida native living an Air Force life moving around the country with her handsome soldier husband and three amazing kids.

Chrystal is a 2007 EPPIE Award Finalist and her first book, I'll Do Anything will be re-released by Desert Breeze Publishing in March 2009.