Having never met an unhappy ending she couldn’t mentally “fix,” Leah Vale believes writing romance novels is the perfect job for her. A Pacific Northwest native with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington, she lives in Central Oregon, with an adorable golden retriever who thinks she’s the queen of the couch. While having the chance to share her “happy endings from scratch” is a dream come true, dinner generally has to come premade from the store.