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Shadows of the Crown for $2.99
The Kindle Countdown opens today at $2.99 and climbs until June 30. Book four of Fallen Hearts.
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The Fallen Hearts series — political intrigue, forbidden romance, and brutal survival as Princess Aria fights for her throne.
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Why I Refuse to Pick Between Fantasy and Thrillers
Epic fantasy romance and contemporary thrillers — warrior queens and women who hunt monsters. Why I refuse to pick a lane, and what carries across both genres.
Behind the Scenes
Writer's Commentary: Why I Wrote Fallen Hearts
I started Fallen Hearts in a bad winter. The honest answer to what the series is actually about — the question I have been afraid of in my own life, why the kingdom ends in democracy, and why the slow burn was a discipline rather than a choice.
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Introducing Bellefond: A Caribbean Dark Thriller Arrives October 6
Meet Séraphine Toussaint and Bellefond, my new Caribbean dark thriller. Book one, Saltwater, lands October 6, 2026. Here is how to follow the launch.
Behind the Scenes
Iron and Flame: Why My Queen Wins the War by Not Fighting
The epic fantasy romance where my warrior queen wins the war by refusing to fight it — the behind-the-book story of Iron and Flame, book three of Fallen Hearts.
Writing
How I Outline a Romance Novel in One Afternoon (And Why It Never Survives First Contact)
I outline a whole romance novel in one afternoon, with a spreadsheet and a label maker. Then my characters spend four months gloriously ignoring the plan.
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The Fog at Caulfield Point
A corporate attorney abandons her perfect life to uncover the truth about a decades-old murder, and finds herself falling for the victim's nephew in this atmospheric Gothic romance set in a fog-shrouded Maine town. A Bitter Harbor novella.
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Writing Steamy Scenes Without Cringing at Your Own Words
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Fallen Hearts
Iron and Flame is on sale this week only
For one week only, Iron and Flame (Fallen Hearts, Book Three) is a Kindle Countdown Deal. June 15 through June 21.
Behind the Scenes
Deleted Scene: The Letter Aria Never Sent
There is a letter that exists in two of my drafting folders and nowhere else in the world. Cut from the close of Iron and Flame. Aria, age forty-one, writing to her cousin in the monastery on the twelfth night after treaty — asking, in writing, for permission to be tired.
Fallen Hearts
The price of trust just dropped
Book six of Fallen Hearts is $2.99 for five days, then the price climbs back to $9.99.
Writing
The One Bed Trope: Why It Works Every Single Time
The one bed. The snowed-in cabin. The only room left. Why forced proximity works every single time in romance, and the exact place authors fumble it.