Roxanne Snopek

USA Today bestselling author Roxanne Snopek writes contemporary small-town romance, usually with a dollop of crazy, and a dog or two. Praised for her strong heroines and true-to-life heroes, her award-winning stories always contain complications arising from modern family dynamics. As a former veterinary technician, mother of three grown daughters, and wife of mumble-mumble years, animals, kids, and husbands are her forte. Emotional conflict, tears, angst—those wretched "growth-opportunity" moments your friends comfort you about . . . That's what she writes, and readers love it.

Earlier in her career, thanks to her veterinary experience, Roxanne wrote a series of nonfiction books about the human-animal bond, as Roxanne Willems Snopek. During that time, she spoke with many fascinating people, and learned much about service animals, particularly dogs for children with autism. She loves including bits about this in her fiction. So far, she's written two books with autism service dogs (Three River Ranch and Finding Home) and one with therapeutic horseback riding (His Reluctant Rancher), all of which were born out of her earlier research.

In her spare time, Roxanne loves to wrangle her suburban wilderness garden, which she shares with deer, coyotes, a bear, a bobcat, and even a cougar, though thankfully she hasn't seen that one. She dabbles in many things, including painting, piano, yoga, and cooking, but her favorite pastime is, of course, reading.