Seaside Valleria

“I’m messed up,” she confessed. He’d probably figured that out, but she needed to say it.

“I know, baby,” he said softly. “That doesn’t turn me away. It only makes me want to hold you closer.”

A slow burn romance about loving and believing in yourself, as much you do the one you love.

She feels she doesn’t deserve him.

Millie could do this. Easy. No...

Her voice was a rough whisper. “Sometimes I feel like I’ll never have peace.”

He reached up to cup her cheek. “Honey.”

She loved the way he said that. Sometimes his ‘honey’ was thick and sweet, sometimes low and gruff. Other times it was full of need and want and passion for her. She wanted to drown in his words, in him.

He leaned over and pressed...

One kickass chef.

Frannie has spent years searching for herself. She’s tried ten different names so far (because why should she be saddled with Frannie just because her parents chose it?) and her latest, Jasmine, just might stick. Despite her insecurities, she’s always been confident about her abilities in the kitchen. She is a chef...

He’s never needed someone until her.

Everett wants her. In bed. On the stairs. Against the fridge. He wants the inexplicable connection they have to deepen and grow. Beyond the bed, he wants to soothe her aches and comfort her, defend her against the evils of the world. But his own world is crumbling around him, and he needs her, too. Needs her...

She’s afraid to love again.

Liz has a secret. No, it’s not her cheating ex who won’t leave her alone (everyone knows about him). No, it’s not her crazy mother acting crazier (which everyone, especially her identical twin, knows about). Her secret is about Luke. No, it’s not the fact they’ve been sleeping together (though that is a secret, sort...

Five chances to fall in love…

One Mexican Army vet falling in love with his employee.
One woman haunted by the past moving on with her many-night stand.
One kickass chef and the restaurant critic who nearly destroyed her career.
One woman who has never felt beautiful and the doctor she met by chance.
One woman recovering from an abusive relationship...