In additional to her paranormal and romances, Stephanie also writes the highly popular Birch Crossing series, a small town contemporary romance set in Maine. She also authors a thrilling romantic suspense series set in Alaska. Publisher's Weekly praised the series debut, ICE, as a "thrilling entry into romantic suspense," and Fresh Fiction called ICE an "edgy, sexy and gripping thriller."
A life-long reader, Stephanie began crafting stories at age ten, but didn't realize it was her dream until she was an adult. Once the light dawned, she immediately left behind "work" as the world defines it and went to "work" as she defines it, which means getting up every morning with a smile in her heart so she can spend the day doing that which makes her spirit sing.
Stephanie believes in learning to listen to your heart in order to figure out what your dreams are, and then opening yourself to the inspiration that will direct you there. She believes we all deserve the right to enjoy life, and for the ride to be as easy as we want it to be, and that we all should accept nothing less than making our dreams come true.
Stephanie lives in New England, and spends every day doing her best to fill it with people, observations and activities that uplift her soul, which include writing, hiking with her rescue dog, friends, and her amazing family.
A Real Cowboy Never Says No, (Wyoming Rebels, Book One)
Mira Cabot has never asked for help, but when a sexy, protective cowboy named Chase Stockton makes her an offer she can’t afford to refuse, she finds herself on her way to Wyoming to be the shotgun bride of a man she has every reason…and no reason…to trust. The sizzling connection between Mira and Chase turns a rescue mission into something dangerously addictive, one that could either heal two broken hearts, or shatter them forever.
A Real Cowboy Knows How to Kiss, (Wyoming Rebels, Book Two)
Betrayal got him locked up, and it shut down his heart for good…until he runs into the only woman he’s ever trusted, a woman he’s never even spoken to…until now.
A Real Cowboy Rides a Motorcycle, (Wyoming Rebels, Book Three)
Zane Stockton lives on his motorcycle, using the open road to shield himself from the dark shadows which haunt him. He has no interest in changing, until he meets a bold, spunky woman whose hidden vulnerability awakens the protector buried inside him...
Her Rebel Cowboy (A Rodeo Knights novella)
When a struggling mystery writer’s accidental house swap sends her to the ranch of a sexy bull rider with a murderer on his tail, the sassy city girl finds herself in the middle of a high stakes romantic murder mystery where it’s her own life and heart at risk. Sparks fly when city girl meets rugged cowboy, but it takes a murder to make them both realize what they really want, and what they’re willing to risk to get it.
Contemporary Romance
Unexpectedly Mine (Birch Crossing, Book 1)
He's a successful businessman determined to reconnect with his daughter. She's a single mom fighting for her and her daughter's dreams and survival. Can a chance encounter in Birch Crossing help them find the sweetest, yet unexpected, future for them all?
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Contemporary Western Romance
A Real Cowboy Never Says No (Wyoming Rebels, Book 1)
Mira Cabot has never asked for help, but when a sexy, protective cowboy named Chase Stockton makes her an offer she can’t afford to refuse, she finds herself on her way to Wyoming to be the shotgun bride of a man she has every reason…and no reason…to trust. The sizzling connection between Mira and Chase turns a rescue mission into something dangerously addictive, one that could either heal two broken hearts, or shatter them forever.
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Dark Paranormal Romance
Darkness Awakened (Order of the Blade, Book 1)
Haunted by a brutal past, Illusionist Grace Matthews will risk everything to save her kidnapped sister, including putting her life in the sinfully capable hands of an immortal warrior whose ravaging kisses and intense passion propel her ruthlessly toward a fateful destiny neither of them can afford to believe in.
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Dark Wolf Rising (Heart of the Shifter, Book 1)
Haunted by a tragic secret, she has been fighting for survival, alone in a shifter world she doesn’t fit. She’s on the run for her life, forced to choose between redemption and survival, until the man who walked away from her so long ago appears in her hotel room with a knife and a promise she can’t afford to believe.
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Romantic Suspense
Ice (Alaska Heat, Book 1)
Cort McClain is a daredevil Alaskan bush pilot who thrives on danger, but he's closing in on a crash and burn if he doesn't get a handle on the past that is still haunting him. She's an ex-climber who has turned her back on the deadly mountains that claimed those she loved. With her family now missing on Mt. McKinley, Kaylie must brave the mountains one last time to save them. Racing against a murderer that has her family in his sights, Kaylie must conquer her greatest fears, with the help of only man: a rugged bush pilot trying to outfly his own demons. Will the partnership heal two broken hearts, or break them forever?
Bounty hunter Maddox Stockton is no hero. He's a renegade from the wrong side of the tracks, and he knows he's no good for anyone…until he meets a single mom who needs him to be the man he can't afford to be.
After her sister is murdered, Hannah Crowley is on the run with her niece, desperate to find a place of safety to start again, a home far from the shadows that have chased her for so long. When their move to Rogue Valley is derailed by a deadly blizzard, Hannah must turn to the rugged, loner cowboy for the kind of help she doesn't know how to ask for, the kind of help Maddox can no longer give.
When the raging storm strands Hannah and Maddox together, their mutual need to protect Hannah's new daughter binds them together, creating a blazing connection of passion and need between the two lost souls. Can one snowbound week heal a lifetime of broken dreams and give them a chance at love?
In order to stay on the team, Natalie must agree to her teacher's requirement to be tutored by Matt, a sort-of-cute, but annoying, brainiac, who has a better social life than she does. When she is caught with Matt, she panics, and accidentally announces that he's her boyfriend.
The minute the lie is out, Natalie's life changes. Her friends are now including her in their double dates. Her parents have no clue she's failing math. And the boys' varsity captain has finally noticed her.
Having a (fake) boyfriend is the best thing that's ever happened to Natalie…except that Matt is ready to blow her cover. If only she can convince him to go along with it, everything will be perfect…or will it?
It's a no brainer for Allie, who isn't about to let her parents ruin her life. But when she shows up for her first day at work, she discovers that being assigned to a shovel dirt with a boy who thinks she's useless (which she might actually be, when it comes to farm work) is a sweaty, miserable torture that no girl deserves.
When her friends make a bet that Allie can't win his heart, she suddenly finds herself with a challenge she can't afford to lose…for more than one reason.
Bull riding is all Wyatt Parker has of the father who betrayed him, so when it's stripped from him by an attempted murder, Wyatt will stop at nothing to clear his name and reclaim the only thing that matters to him. But when a charming widow ruins his plans, he has to decide if he has been wrong all along about what really matters.
Mystery writer Noelle Wilder wants only one thing: to recover her equilibrium and find the creative spark inside her that died the day her life fell apart. The last thing she wants or needs is to get involved with a man, but when a rugged cowboy saves her from an Oregon flash flood, she discovers that her heart needs more healing than she realized.
Sparks fly when city girl meets rugged cowboy, but it takes a murder to make them both realize what they really want, and what they're willing to risk to get it.
Haunted by loss, each warrior is consumed by his relentless quest for redemption. Alone, each will fail. But when Calydon warrior Gabe Watson and mage Vladimir Hawkings team up to cross over into the demon realm to hunt down those who matter most, they finally have a chance to change the past …until they encounter two bold, sensual women who hold the key to everything that matters to them…brave, independent women who want nothing to do with them.
Sophie Flanagan has no memory of her life before she was kidnapped by demons, including how she got the wedding band that burns on her hand. Only her unbreakable friendship with half-demon healer, Maria Souvaine, has enabled her to survive. The two sisters are caught in a desperate battle against a threat so powerful it will destroy them forever.
When two fierce, towering warriors invade the demon realm, Sophie and Maria are thrust into a chaotic spiral of lust, escalating peril, and…for the first time in centuries…hope. Will the passion and danger that ignites cause the final destruction of all that matters…or finally free them all from the deadly shadows that grip them so tightly?
Chloe's life has just hit a major crash and burn, but she's determined to use that failure to springboard herself into the life she has never been brave enough to grab. Her plan definitely doesn't include dating, no matter how wildly attracted she is to Blue, with his shadowed past and dark secrets.
Despite their mutual resistance, the intense connection between Chloe and Blue drags them both from survival mode into a passionate, soul-baring connection that shatters the shields they've been hiding behind their whole lives. For the first time, they have a chance to become more, but to do so, both of them will have to trust each other in a way neither of them have ever trusted before.
Except she has noticed one particular troublemaker who wears a leather jacket and can melt any heart with his charming smile…and he just happens to be her best friend's older brother. Theo thinks of Frances as his sister's studious and uptight bff, not as potential girlfriend material. Even her matchmaking friends can't keep Frances from daydreaming about him.
But when Theo and Frances get paired on a school project, his rebellious ways threaten what really matters to her. Can Frances finally step up and how him exactly how bad a good girl can be?
Country music superstar Travis Stockton used his music to escape the Wyoming town that betrayed him as a youth, but all his money and fame can't chase away the nightmares that still haunt him. When he returns to his hometown for one final concert, he discovers that coming home is a hell of a lot harder than he'd thought...until he meets a sassy but weary single mom who needs the one thing from him he can't give, the one thing that no one else has ever wanted…himself.
Lissa McIntyre has worked hard to rebuild her life after being abandoned when she was seventeen and pregnant. After relocating to Rogue Valley, she finally feels like she belongs, for the first time in her life. She's got a great kid, and her Wildflower Café is a town favorite. The one thing she doesn't have is a man, and she intends to keep it that way. Who can afford to fall for a man who might walk away? Not her. She has no interest in men…until a dangerous, moody cowboy sits down at her deli counter and changes everything for her.
Can two battered souls find happiness with each other, or will the trauma of their past keep them apart forever?
Freshman year might have started off as zero for Blue, but when she gets a part in the school musical as her crush's mother, it's her chance to get noticed by him. Yes, Heath is much cooler than she is. Yes, he's a senior, and she's a freshman. And yes, he has to kiss another girl in the play. But when he runs into Blue at a cast party, suddenly, she's on his radar.
Things are moving fast, faster than Blue is prepared for. It takes her three best friends, and a very hot senior named Colin, to help her figure things out….until things suddenly become a lot more complicated than she ever intended…including a first kiss that's all wrong. Or is it?
Driven by the need to avenge his family's murder, billionaire Slade Cross has become a deadly assassin who kills with his kiss. He lives in the shadows and trusts no one…until a hit gone wrong thrusts him into a role he can't afford: to protect instead of kill.
Desperate for help saving her kidnapped sister, Anya Diaz refuses to allow her personal assassin-turned-guardian to retreat behind his cold mask. Her irreverent determination drags Slade out of his self-imposed isolation, forcing him to engage.
Raw, explosive passion ignites between the two guarded souls as they race to save those they love, but a brilliant and ruthless enemy is closing fast, determined to finish what he began so long ago.
Driven by his intense moral code, alpha Jace Donovan's only mission is to protect his pack, until deadly trick turns him into the monster he has spent his life hunting. Haunted by the nightmare he has become, Jace is faced with an impossible choice…until a bold, sensual woman tears him from his well-ordered path and thrusts him into the very situation that destroyed him the first time.
Raised as the daughter of a depraved killer, Abby Collins is being hunted by the pack she escaped from when she was nineteen. Haunted by the evil she was forced to do, Abby must call upon Jace to help her when her former pack hunts her down, even though he is the one man she should never trust.
Scorching hot passion ignites between Abby and Jace the moment they meet, hurtling them toward a deadly fate in a heart-pounding race against the psychopath who owns them both.
A decade ago, wolf shifter Cash Burns severed all ties to his past in order to protect his best friend, the childhood sweetheart he has never forgotten. When she's targeted for assassination by his pack on Christmas Eve, he's the only one who can save her…but at a cost greater than he can afford.
Haunted by a tragic secret, Brynn McKenzie has been fighting for survival, alone in a world she doesn't fit. She's on the run for her life, forced to choose between redemption and survival. She has nowhere to turn, until the man who walked away from her so long ago appears in her hotel room with a knife and a promise she can't afford to believe.
When passion ignites between Bryn and Cash, will it shatter what little hope they have for survival, or make them stronger than they ever thought they'd be?
Haunted by his tragic past, Cole Charbonneau has returned to Mystic Island to sever the final ties to the place he once loved so dearly. His only goal is to walk away forever, until a woman from his past winds up on his doorstep, needing from him the one thing he can't give.
After a heartless betrayal by those she trusted dearly, Willow Morgan has escaped to Mystic Island, hoping the magic of an island Christmas will heal the emptiness in her heart. The last thing she wants is love, but Mystic Island has its own plans for her…and they include a kiss she'd almost forgotten and the devastatingly handsome business mogul who touched her heart so long ago. Can she afford to fall for him a second time?
Chained to an ancient meat hook in an abandoned underground cave for over a century, former assassin Levi Hart has been focused on only one thing: surviving long enough to destroy the psychopath who once controlled him. His chance at freedom comes in the form of a sensual, desperate woman who will trade freedom for his services, the one thing he can't afford to give.
She is Maya Brennan, the achingly sensual queen of a kingdom sunk into a curse of darkness and destruction. Born to serve her people no matter what the cost, Maya cannot afford the all-consuming passion that Levi ignites in her, but without him, she has no chance to save those she loves. Will their need for each other propel them into their final destruction, or can love shatter the bonds fated to destroy them both?
After inexplicably abandoning a championship bull riding career, Zane Stockton has become a vagabond. He lives on his motorcycle, using the open road to shield himself from the dark shadows which haunt him. He has no interest in changing, until he meets a bold, spunky woman whose hidden vulnerability awakens the protector buried inside him.
Taylor Shaw's life of boardrooms and airports is her escape from her failures as a woman. When she pauses in Rogue Valley to help her best friend with her new baby, she feels wildly out of place in this rugged land of horses, endless skies, and one dangerously sensual cowboy.
When the heat explodes between Taylor and Zane, they have no chance to resist the attraction between them, a fiery combustion that ruthlessly drags them from their safe worlds into the unknown realm of vulnerability, passion, and…love?
It's been four years since Steen Stockton has been able to see the sky without having to look through steel bars. Betrayal got him locked up, and it shut down his heart forever...until he runs into the only woman he's ever trusted, a woman he's never even spoken to…until now.
There's only one person who has ever looked at Erin Chambers as if she mattered, a man she's never forgotten. She's come back to Rogue Valley to reclaim herself, not to get involved with a man…especially not the sensual, guarded cowboy Steen has become.
Can two people with no ability to trust use a magical, unspoken connection from their past to rebuild their hearts, or will the scars of a lifetime of broken dreams and betrayal keep them from finding each other the second time around?
The only reason rancher Chase Stockton and his brothers survived their brutal childhood was because they protected each other. Nothing will ever come between them…until a sudden tragedy calls in a life debt Chase can't ignore, forcing him to make a choice that could destroy the very bonds that hold his family together.
Mira Cabot has never asked for help, but when a sexy, protective cowboy makes her an offer she can't afford to refuse, she finds herself on her way to Wyoming to be the shotgun bride of a man she has every reason…and no reason…to trust.
The sizzling connection between Mira and Chase turns a rescue mission into something dangerously addictive, one that could either heal two broken hearts, or shatter them forever.
I actually started writing when I was about ten years old. I had a pen pal in Istanbul (yes, we wrote actual letters to each other, and, to this day, I still write my capital “I” the way she did, because it was so cool!). Anyway, I told her that I had written a book. She, of course, wanted to read it. So I, being ten, freaked at the thought of having to show it to her, so I immediately stopped writing to her so I wouldn’t have to show her. Thankfully, my conflict-resolution skills have progressed significantly since then, as well as my willingness to have people read my books, so it’s a win-win for everyone.
Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
All my novels have the same message: believe in your damn self, stop giving a shit what other people think, allow yourself to love both yourself and those worthy of love, and then you’ll be okay. Of course, I write that much more poetically in my books, and I mix it in with romance, sex, adventure, and super hot guys, but the message is the same. It’s also the same message I give my kid every day, so I’m hoping to have some influence somewhere with that message...
What books have most influenced your life most?
Katie MacAlister’s books taught that it was okay to be my real self when writing. The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks taught me to believe in and honor myself. Healing Back Pain by John Sarno taught me how to get past the multitude of injuries and ailments that had basically derailed my life for years, and start living a kick ass life. I now run, dance, play tennis, work out at the gym, and basically do and eat everything I decide I want to, after being pretty-much couch ridden on a limited diet, so yay for Dr. Sarno! Old Yeller taught me to be terrorized of stuffed animals turning into rabid killers during the night. Mine ’Til Midnight by Lisa Kleypas taught me that there are absolute freaking geniuses in this world who share their gifts widely.
What book are you reading now?
"Bound Together" by Christine Feehan
Can you share a little of your current work with us?
I can, but then I’d have to kill you. Just kidding. I don’t kill anyone. Anymore. Usually. Well, okay, hardly ever. So, I’ll tell you, and we can all wait and see if this is one of those “hardly ever” moments. I am writing a top secret Christmas novella for my uber popular Wyoming Rebels cowboy series. So, yeah, not top secret anymore, now that I’ve spilled the beans. I am also working on the world’s most awesome, most creative, most genre-bending, funny-as-hell paranormal romance trilogy that I will be releasing under a top secret pen name, which you will find out only if you subscribe to my newsletter, follow me on social media, email me, or just listen to the secrets the wind tells you. Oh! I almost forgot my fall books! I get so excited I can’t always think straight, which is a sign of genius (or so I’ve decided). Anyhoodles, I have a Canine Cupids romcom series coming out this fall, with back-to-back releases in Sept, Oct, and November. Every book involves…wait for it…at least one adorable pooch. The covers are seriously the cutest things ever, so even if you don’t read the books, you need to check out the covers when they come out because they are so freaking cute.
How did you come up with the titles?
Blood. Sweat. Tears. Trial. Error. Fail. Tears. Frustration. Curled in the fetal position sobbing. Eureka. You know, your basic creative process.
Do you have anything specific that you want to say to your readers?
Yes. I do.
What do you want your legacy to be and why?
I want to change the world. I want to have entire sections of history books devoted to me, and have everyone say, “Wow, one woman did all that just with her stories? That’s f*cking incredible.” I feel that is a reasonable goal.
If your book was made into a film who would you like to play the lead?
Which book? I have over fifty books out now. I think every book of mine should be made into a movie, and then I can hand select the lead actors, and they will have to invite me to their houses and introduce me to their friends and loan me their cars and private jets to go wherever I want, whenever I want. Again, reasonable goal.
Do you have a blog/website?
www.stephanierowe.com