She writes the friends you deserve.

Stephanie Maynard writes stories about women who are smart enough to know the world is broken, but hopeful enough to believe friendship can fix it. She writes stories that celebrate the bonds that matter: the ride-or-die connections, the found families, and the fierce loyalty that gets us through our darkest moments. She is a previous winner of the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award for Single Title Fiction.

Stephanie lives in a 1914 farmhouse along the Columbia River with her fourteen-year-old daughter and an ever-changing menagerie of rescue animals, including a troublingly intelligent African Grey parrot named Aughty. When she’s not busy being the mom of a fiercely independent young hellion or writing new stories, Steph enjoys wine, gardening, sailing, and traveling to interesting places that make her mother worry.