Winnie Alder

Winnie Alder writes cozy small-town paranormal romance: warm towns, big soft-hearted monsters, competent women with businesses to run, and happily ever afters you can count on.

Her Monster Mates of Maplemoon Hollow books are set in a town where the fire marshal is a dragon, the bakery runs on a hearth demon's fire, and everything has to be filed in triplicate. There is always a festival. There is usually a goat.

She writes open-door stories; she guarantees the happy ending, and she has never once left a reader on a cliffhanger.