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ANTHOLOGIES
Between the Sheets: A Limited Edition Romance Anthology
Available in e-book from Amazon and in KU!
Hot and steamy contemporary romance!
Includes G Marks the Spot, featuring Gretchen Pane (40) and Geoffrey Reston (35)!
The maid of honor. The best man. A wedding meet-cute with a few hitches.
Love on the River: A Charity Anthology
Available from Amazon in e-book and paperback!
Get 20 stories from Writers On The River 2024 signing authors.
Includes Mom I'd Love to Marry, featuring Kenner Goodwin (42) and Ambrose Landry (41)!
She's happy being a single mother, but can she let love in when the right man comes along?
Her experience with men and romance made her a single mom fourteen years ago. Despite a divorce that blindsided him, he can't help but fall for the woman who comes to his rescue on a forced vacation.
Nifty & Fifty: A Limited Edition Contemporary Romance Anthology
Available from Amazon in e-book and in KU!
All the main characters are in their 50s!
Includes
Small Town Jerk, featuring Rowena Stratten (56) and Jacques Chastain (54)!
The best thing a New Year’s Eve hookup two years ago and helping with tornado cleanup have in common for Jack is Ro, a woman he can’t—and doesn’t want to—resist.
Forty & Feisty: A Limited Edition Contemporary Romance Anthology
Available from Amazon in e-book and in KU!
Have fun with these stories with main characters in their 40s.
Includes Jerk of All Trades, featuring Jude Edwards (47) and Johann Zimmermann (45)!
Their one-night stand in the Caribbean wasn’t supposed to turn into something more when Jude returned to real life, but fate has other plans—and Jack doesn’t mind in the least.
Thirty & Flirty: A Limited Edition Contemporary Romance Anthology
Available from Amazon in e-book and in KU!
Have fun with these stories with main characters in their 30s.
Includes
Jerk in the Box, featuring Mae Williams (39) and Jackson Hammer (38)!
Their meet-cute at a baseball game doesn't exactly go the way Jack hopes, but he isn't the kind of guy who gives up—especially after he realizes he and Mae crossed paths seventeen years ago.
Stud Finder: A Limited Edition Romance Anthology
Available from Amazon in e-book and in KU! Also available in print!
Ranging from fun and flirty to steamier romance, this collection will have you swooning one moment and laughing the next.
Includes No More Mr. Gneiss Guy, featuring Lydia Bauer (48) and Corbin Stein (48)!
Single mom Lydia Bauer has an empty nest and two meddling daughters. The dating app they signed her up comes in handy when her well goes on the fritz, helping her find an expert repairman in a jiffy.
Nice guy Corbin Stein would love to have a woman in his life again. He doesn’t hold out much hope until he gets a last-minute dating-app invitation from a biomedical engineer who checks all his boxes. Or is she only interested in his professional skills as a geologist?
Their practice date ends in a sleepover, but will it lead to more?
NERD LOVE
Spicy seasoned contemporary romance novel series with neurodivergent main characters
Comma Kaze (Nerd Love #1) ~ spicy contemporary romance
Now available in e-book and print!
Previously published in the Love and Coffee anthology
Loss brings them together. Will their pact help them find love and happily-ever-after?
English professor Elijah Clayton (34) needs a partner to help parent his dying cousin’s baby. Plumber Beatrix Glouster (35) can’t refuse the chance to become a mother after the loss of her unborn child. Navigating the landmine of emotional risks from an impromptu marriage and raising their orphaned newborn charge will require a profound commitment to each other and determination to find their happily-ever-after.
NERDS & BABIES
Spicy seasoned romance novella series
The Nerd Next Door (Nerds & Babies #1) ~ Spicy romcom
Previously published in the Naughty Professor anthology
Oh, baby!
Certain Mr. Right got lost on his way to find her, Zinnia Trimble (43) became a mother on her own. Geneticist Carson Hines (38) falls for his sexy new neighbor and may discover a unexpected blast from his past.
Tropes: reverse age gap, small town, promotion to parent, reverse surprise baby, neighbors, sperm-donor dad
The Nerd Upstairs (Nerds & Babies #2) ~ Spicy romcom
Previously published in the Foxy Professor anthology
Beryl Drechsler (43) and Archer James (39)
Their night three years ago went exactly as planned—no commitments and no strings, despite their off-the-charts chemistry. Fate has other plans after a very personal favor brings them back together for a second chance.
Tropes: small town, never been married, former one-night stand, second chances, surrogate surprise, babies/twins
ROMANCING THE PHONE
Steamy seasoned romance novella series
THE HOMEGROWN CAFÉ BOOK CLUB
Moderately hot seasoned romcom novella series
Print edition includes all five stories plus a bonus epilogue in 470 pages of romcom fun!
Book 2: The Farmer Takes a Husband
Book 3: The Butcher and the Baker
Book 4: When Harry Met Wally
Book 5: And Baby Makes 2½
TWO FORKS HOLLOW CHRISTMAS
THE JERK SERIES
STANDALONE SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS
Spicy Contemporary Romcom
Previously in Pucker Up
Kiss My Sass
Spicy Contemporary Romcom
Previously in XOXO
Divorce Actually
Spicy Contemporary
Behind the Mask
His scars run deeper than his skin.