Rowan Vale writes steamy, open-door romance with an edge — fated-mates shifters in the Ironwood Pack books, and dangerous family money in her contemporary mafia and marriage-of-convenience titles. Her heroes and heroines are a genuine risk to each other, and they choose each other anyway, with their eyes open and the cost counted. Every book keeps the same promise: a spicy slow burn that finally breaks, a romantic problem and an outside threat that turn out to be the same problem, and a hard-won happily ever after on the page. She is drawn to competence, to loyalty that costs something, and to the moment a careful person decides to stop being careful about exactly one thing. If that sounds like your kind of trouble, she is very glad you are here.