Christina Skye is the pen name for Roberta Helmer. As Christina Skye, she has written over 23 bestselling USA Today and Publishers Weekly romance novels. Her romance books have been translated into eight languages. Roberta Helmer was born in Dayton, Ohio. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned a doctorate in classical Chinese literature at Ohio State University, where she learned to speak fluent Chinese, French, and Japanese. Later, she worked as translator and as a consultant to the National Geographic Society and the American Museum of Natural History.