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The Fallen Hearts series — political intrigue, forbidden romance, and brutal survival as Princess Aria fights for her throne.
The Bitter Harbor series — dark mystery and suspense set in a coastal town hiding deadly secrets.
The Fractured Dynasty series — epic fantasy of power, betrayal, and royal intrigue spanning generations.
The Lethal Hearts series — dangerous romance and deadly consequences in a world where love is the most dangerous weapon.
The Wild Flowers series — underground fighting, trauma recovery, and finding strength through darkness.
Behind the seven-book Fallen Hearts saga sits a world I drew long before Aria walked into the Council Chamber. The Stormborn dynasty, the Korrathi war-mages, and the magic system I locked down before book one — opened up for paid readers.
Someone asked me at a book event how I write love scenes. My face went the color of a fire truck. The honest answer is: the same way I write fight scenes. With choreography, stakes, and sheer willpower.
I cried on an airplane. I got choked up at a coffee shop. My partner asked if I was okay and I said a fictional character just made a choice and I'm not handling it well.
A reader messaged me: I need them to kiss already. She was on chapter fourteen of twenty-eight. I framed that message. Here's why the slow burn is the most powerful tool in romance.
Writing romance gave me x-ray vision for movie dialogue and I can't turn it off. Here's what rom-coms get wrong, the rare ones that work, and why I've become insufferable on movie night.
A Fractured Dynasty short story. A palace archivist recognizes her mother's forged letter—and the captain of the Queen's Guard is the only man she can trust with the truth.
A Lethal Hearts short story. Prague, between Torn and Unbroken. A hitter from Nyx's old cohort is in the opposite building, and Declan is cooking eggs in the kitchen, and she has three hours to be the assassin and eight more to be something else.
A Bitter Harbor short story. An archivist, a brick behind a fireplace, and a forty-four-year silence finally given the chance to speak.
A Fallen Hearts short story. Early in Queen Aria's reign, spymaster Lyra Ashwind rides north to collect a missing grain tithe and walks into a count's dinner where the poison is already in the wine—and the poisoner is nobody she expected.
A Wild Flowers short story. Between Hemlock and Foxglove, Maya Chen has one night off the board in a cottage on a bad road. Alexei Volkov is already there, with soup on the stove and a pistol on the table.
I was halfway through my latest climax scene when I realized the moment I was most excited about had nothing to do with the love interest. It was the found family scene. Again.
My beta reader couldn't remember my hero's name but drew hearts next to the villain. Here's what I've learned about writing love interests that actually stick.
