Vivian Arend

Vivian Arend is a Canadian author of contemporary, western, and paranormal romance, based in British Columbia. She began writing during National Novel Writing Month in 2007 and published her debut novel, Wolf Signs, in 2009, launching the Granite Lake Wolves series; she has continued with the linked Takhini Wolves and Borealis Bears shifter romances and the small-town Pacific Passion series. A New York Times and USA Today bestseller, Arend writes stories she describes as humorous yet emotional, typically featuring large casts of family and friends alongside a guaranteed happy ending. Her extensive travels, including high-altitude trekking in Peru, along with hands-on skills in home construction and outdoor life, regularly inform the settings and characters of her romances.