Moonlight Becomes You

Kyle Winchester has a facility with numerous foreign languages, as well as reading and writing Braille, but when he fails to hear from the numerous colleges he's applied to, he thinks he's destined to spend his life as a busboy. Then, as luck would have it, he learns of an opening at a company in Boston where his knowledge of Braille just might get him the position. Off he goes, hoping he'll obtain a good job and an even better girlfriend. When it turns out it isn't Huntingdon that needs an expert in Braille, he turns his sights on the company's sister organization, the Washington Bureau of Intelligence and Security, which actually deals in the gathering and dissemination of intelligence. The job is good, but still no girlfriend.

April O'Shay has a secret she's been keeping for years. To prevent a spiteful coworker from outing her to friends, family, and other coworkers, she leaves the small town where she's lived all her life and moves to DC. With the help of her previous boss...ife that's happy except for one minor detail -- she's not comfortable returning to the dating scene. As much as she'd like to find a boyfriend, she's afraid her secret will come between them. 

And then, one day, Kyle is sent on assignment to the Rib Shack, to observe a shady character who wants to get his talons into the gay son of the Secretary of the Treasury. There he meets April and is quick to realize he's fascinated by her. As for April, she takes one look at his violet eyes and is smitten. It's "like" at first sight for the two, with the promise of developing into much more. But Kyle works for an organization that could send him out to kill someone at any time, and April has her own secret she's guarding. When April reveals she must return home for Christmas for the first time in many years, Kyle suggests he accompany her. Will her refusal result in their relationship teetering on the brink, or will they find a way to trust each other enough to hold on to what they have?



Tinnean has been writing since the third grade, where she was inspired to try her hand at epic poetry. Fortunately, that epic poem didn't survive the passage of time; however, her love of writing not only survived but thrived, and in high school she became a member of the magazine staff, where she contributed a number of stories.



Starting a family resulted in writing being set aside, although throughout those years Tinnean did continue to keep a journal.



Once the kids were old enough to do their own thing, she was able to dabble in writing again. It was with the advent of the family's second computer -- the first intimidated everyone -- that her writing took off, enhanced in part by fan fiction, but mostly by the wonder that is copy and paste.



While involved in fandom, she was nominated for both Rerun and Light My Fire Awards. Now she concentrates on her original characters and has been published by Nazca Plains, Dreamspinner, and JMS Books.



Tinnean is what you might call a hopeful romantic, and if you see her name on a story, it will have a happy ending.



Her signature line, a quote by Ernest Hemingway, says it all: "Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it."



A New Yorker at heart, she resides in SW Florida with her husband and two computers.