After growing bored with waiting tables, she returned to school and became a registered nurse, spending most of her career in urban emergency rooms.

[1] Bybee was raised in Washington State,[1] and is the survivor of child abuse and a teen who "graduated high school by the skin of my teeth."

"[2] Bybee moved to California in hopes of becoming an actress, but she eventually landed in nursing school and began working in urban emergency rooms.

[1] However, Bybee's nursing career was cut short when a fall, while helping a patient transfer from wheelchair to gurney, injured her back resulting in multiple surgeries over the course of seven years.

[8] Originally written for Harlequin, but rejected,[1] Wife by Wednesday sold 300,000 copies by the time Amazon Publishing offered her a book deal.