Deborah Cooke
Deborah Cooke is an author of historical, paranormal, contemporary and young adult romance novels. She is best known for her Dragonfire series. Aside from writing as Deborah Cooke, she also uses the pen name of Claire Delacroix, and has also used Claire Cross. She is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, and received the Romance Writers of America PRO Mentor of the Year Award in 2012. Deborah was the writer-in-residence at the Toronto Public Library in 2009. She lives in Canada with her husband, and enjoys knitting, sewing and hunting for vintage patterns.