![]() She allowed herself to pay retail for one extravagance - a mink coat she purchased with proceeds from her first book. She braked for yard sales and once brought home an elegant maple dresser that she bought for $15. Laurent from hangers crowded with more pedestrian labels. She knew how to scour the racks at Goodwill stores, plucking Donna Karan and Yves St. She learned to coax the extraordinary out of the ordinary. She became an avid reader when she was a child, relying on her imagination to make her forget - for a while - the joyless West Virginia coal camp where she and her brother were raised. Monson was slight, with long, curly blond hair, a woman who was as at home reading books as she was writing them. ![]() Author Christine Monson, whose romance novels "Golden Nights" and "Stormfire" were the most successful of her six published books, died at her former husband's home in Greeley. Elisa_rolle Historical romance writer Christine Monson published six novels and had finished the draft of another when she died Sept. ![]()
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