A Maverick Worth Waiting For/Stone Creek Sheriff

Stella Bagwell is the author of over seventy-five titles for Harlequin, writing about families, the West, strong, silent men of honor, and the women who love them. She credits her loyal readers and hopes her stories have brightened their lives in some small way. A cowgirl through and through, she recently learned how to rope a steer. Her days begin and end helping her husband on their south Texas ranch. In between, she works on her next tale of love.

Laurel, raised in a small Vancouver Island town, picked up her pen to write Julie Garwood fan-fiction during junior high English class. She hasn’t put it down since. Ever committed to the proper placement of the Canadian “eh,” she loves to write books with snapping sexual tension and second chances. She lives outside Vancouver with her law-talking husband and two daughters. At least half her diet is made up of tea.