As an unabashed lover of all things happily-ever-after, Shaila Patel’s younger self would finish reading Cinderella and chuck it across the room because it didn’t mention what happened next. Now she writes her award-winning young adult stories from her home in the Carolinas and dreams up all sorts of tales with epilogues. She loves craft beer, genuine people, and reading in cozy window seats—but she’ll read anywhere. A pharmacist by training and a medical office manager by day, Shaila is a member of the Romance Writers of America and represented by Amanda Leuck of Spencerhill Associates.