Chrysteen Braun

ALLi Author Member

Location: United States of America (the)

Genres: Womens Fiction

Chrysteen Braun is a California native, born and raised in Long Beach.
The mountains, where she and her husband had a second home, were the inspiration for her first three books, The Man in Cabin Number Five, The Girls in Cabin Number Three and The Starlet in Cabin Number Seven. What started out as The Guest House Trilogy, is now going to be a series of 5 books.
These fictional restored cabins from the late 1920s all had their own stories to tell.
Her writing crosses genres of Women’s Fiction with relationships, and a little mystery and intrigue. She’s published articles about her field of interior design and remodeling, both for trade publications and her local newspaper.
She lives in Coto de Caza, with her husband Larry and two Siamese cats.

Contact her at chrysteenbraun@gmail.com, or www.chrysteenbraun.com

Chrysteen Braun's books

The Man in Cabin Number Five

When seven 1920 era cabins in Lake Arrowhead, California, are restored to their original vintage charm, Annie Parker, the new owner, has no idea that the cabins have their own stories to tell. The Guest Book Trilogy, Book One, The Man in Cabin Number Five, is about two women; one who is looking towards her future and one who has discovered her father didn’t die from natural causes, but in a murder/suicide.

The Starlet in Cabin Number Seven

In Book Three, Annie Parker has turned eighty-one and works to finish writing the third installment of the Guest Book Trilogy set in the 1980’s in the mountains of Lake Arrowhead, Ca.
She struggles with her sister’s death, and while she never really knows the details, she welcomes her childhood friend, Sarah, who needs some time away from a marriage she should have never entered into.
Annie discovers her newest design client, Hudson Fisher, has ties to her restored cabins when she realizes his mother, famous actress Celeste Williams, stayed there and entered into an illicit relationship with the leading actor in the movie they were filming in the late 1920s.

The Girls in Cabin Number Three

In book two of the Guest Book Trilogy, Annie Parker’s life is coming together. Her move to the Lake Arrowhead mountains and restoring a group of 1920s era cabins was just what she needed for a new start.
She meets her new design client, Carrie Davis, and while restoring their family lake house, they discover her mother was involved with the mountain speakeasy.
Against Noah’s wishes, she takes on an out-of-town design project that leads her down a path she realizes she should have never gone down.
And just when things settle down for Annie, she takes on another client and makes a decision she will ofrever regret.

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