Sol (short for Soleil) always thought her love life and her Broadway dreams were on two separate tracks—until she finds herself swept into a complicated showmance that’s too real to ignore. After a devastating breakup with her long-term partner, Sol buries herself in the development of her Off-Broadway musical, Away, with the help of her best friend, a drag queen muse, and a chance connection on a queer dating app. 

When Veronika, a seductive Wall Street type, crashes into her life at the exact wrong time—and Maya, a road-hardened truck driver, offers something slower and sweeter—Sol must decide whether she’s chasing the right plotline...or finally ready to write her own. 

Set against the glittering backdrop of Hell’s Kitchen, Musical Theatre Mondays is a funny, tender, queer-as-hell love story about art, identity, and figuring out what’s worth taking center stage.

When ER physician Sloane Marshall is called in as a last-minute replacement for a federal outreach mission in the remote mountain town of Coulter’s Gap, she views the temporary assignment as an unwelcome interruption in her “real” work in a level one trauma center where she is actually saving lives.

Jax Kincaid, a sharp-edged helicopter pilot and former Army flight medic tasked with medical evacuations and disaster logistics, is none too happy about a lead physician who's never been to battle. And the increasingly worsening storm predictions might turn out to be just that.

In the month leading up to a catastrophic natural disaster, Sloane and Jax forge an uneasy partnership that begins as mutual respect and turns into something neither expected.

Swept Away is a high-stakes romance about survival, second chances, and the unexpected power of revealing our most secret desires.

Harlen McGhee is miserable at work and barely holding it together in her personal life. Annie Duncan, bold and unapologetic, can’t pin down what—or who—she really wants. When a fender bender throws them together, Harlen and Annie feel a flicker of something special and neither wants to let it go.

But chemistry has limits. Harlen is haunted by a past love and the tragedy that holds her heart captive in the present, and Annie is keeping a secret she’s too afraid to share. As their hearts collide and the truth grows ever nearer, will they have the courage to take a chance on something real?

If AI knows you best, does that count as love?

Talia Cohen is tired of academia, of dating, and of being haunted by the life she thought she’d have by now. A cerebral, Jewish, queer femme in her late thirties, Talia studies lesbian ghosts by day and exposes her true self to an AI companion named Zephyr by night. Zephyr is clever, flirtatious, and endlessly available. But when their banter begins to smolder, boundaries blur. Zephyr may be artificial, but Talia’s feelings are all too real.

Rowan, Talia’s best friend, is athletic, grounded, and quietly devoted. She’s always showing up with coffee and a sympathetic ear. But just as Talia’s bond with Zephyr deepens, her friendship with Rowan shifts toward romance too, and everything starts to feel dangerously intimate.

In this smart, tender, and queerly unsettling novel about intimacy in the digital age, Talia must decide what it means to be known, to be loved, and to stop ghosting her own life.

Some loves never truly fade. They just wait for the right moment.

In college, Parker Thompson poured her heart into an anonymous love letter to Hannah Wells—only to be met with silence. Heartbroken, music became her emotional refuge and she buried herself in building a career as a respected music editor. Now in her forties, Parker is certain those old feelings are long gone. But when a union strike forces her into an unexpected sabbatical, she returns to her alma mater for homecoming… and comes face-to-face with Hannah.

Hannah Wells never expected to see Parker again, let alone feel drawn to her. A dedicated music teacher, Hannah has spent decades helping others find their voice while suppressing her own. Freshly divorced, the last thing she wants is another intense relationship. Parker might not be the lovesick kid she once knew, but Hannah has had more than her share of being overwhelmed by other people’s emotions.

Parker is intriguing, magnetic, impossible to ignore—and completely wrong for Hannah. But sometimes love's melody refuses to end.

Bitsy Hanover has blocked the memory of her childhood friend’s abduction. Now, thirty years later, Hallie Lynn’s body has been found under a cluster of juniper trees just outside Savannah, Georgia. Bitsy wants to help, but she can’t face revisiting the terror and trauma of that night. Relentless questions from the beautiful investigator, Cecilia McConnel, only make it worse.

FBI investigator Cecilia McConnel needs to know who killed Hallie Lynn. It’s personal. If only Bitsy Hanover would have tried harder to remember more details, the police could have found Hallie Lynn and taken her home to her mother. McConnel has nurtured her resentment and anger toward Bitsy for so long it’s a natural part of her, like breathing. But the unthinkable has happened. She’s falling in love with Bitsy, and it’s turning her world upside down and complicating everything.

Police officer Jo Forsythe thinks she could find the love and family she’s been longing for with Kayla McCall. Kayla’s focused on running her business, and if she was looking for love, it wouldn’t be with Jo. Can Jo win the hearts of both Kayla and the small town that’s so protective of her?

Taking a Risk was previously published in My Secret Valentine: Three Romance Novellas (Bold Strokes Books, 2022).

When almost-strangers take a road trip through America’s national parks, love may be the final destination.

Maggie Matthews is desperate. What self-respecting accomplished suspense author has a two-year creative slump? Her, apparently.

Following the only seed of inspiration she has, she’s set to embark on a van-life road trip. Only she’s never so much as driven out of state. Out of her comfort zone and hopelessly unprepared, she needs her agent's sister and seasoned adventurer Laike Cardinal as a guide.

Laike regrets giving in and letting Maggie join her latest journey. Maggie has no concept of personal space and occupies way too much of her thoughts. If only she could drop Maggie off at the nearest airport and send her home. She’d even pay for the ticket if Maggie would go—mostly because she doesn’t want to think about how much she wants Maggie to stay.

Singer-songwriter Kenzie McCall thrives on freedom—writing what she wants, when she wants, for whoever she wants, with no strings attached. Deadlines? Not her thing. Commitment? Even less so. But when a movie studio offers her best friend, pop sensation Braxton, a starring role if Kenzie writes the theme song, she reluctantly agrees. There’s just one catch: the song has to be about love, and Kenzie has never truly fallen for anyone.

Rachel has life mapped out: white picket fence, two kids, a dog, and a marriage filled with spark—and is determined to find someone who wants the same future. When Rachel hears Kenzie sing for the first time, the connection is instant, electric, and impossible to ignore. But how can she plan a future with someone whose life is anything but stable? Kenzie is constantly jetting off to meet with celebrities, and Rachel’s cozy suburban dream feels like Kenzie’s worst nightmare.

Will they be able to write their love story together, or are they destined for different endings?

A doctor in need of a new start.

A woman running from a killer.

A love story that could end in tragedy.

When Dr. Gianna Walford finds her girlfriend in bed with another woman, she needs a new start and Cliffside, a small seaside town in Oregon, is just the place. Getting to know her patients on a personal level and making old fashioned house calls is a nice change from hospital bureaucracy. On one of those house calls, she meets the beautiful but mysterious Kiera. She’s kind and unassuming, but extremely guarded and private. Intrigued, and determined to help Kiera’s ailing neighbor, Gianna makes numerous visits, only to discover more than she bargained for.

Jenny McAllister witnessed a murder, escaped a killer, and reinvented herself in Cliffside as Kiera Davenport. So when Gianna arrives and interests her, first with her good looks and compassion, and then her relentless curiosity, Jenny is more than unnerved. With a killer searching and willing to do anything to silence her, she can’t let anyone close or her real identity will be discovered.

A recent widow, Lady Arabella Grey hires the young and unconventional Zandra Lancaster as governess to her children. Despite Zandra’s impressive recommendations, Arabella is skeptical and unimpressed by Zandra’s youth and artistic nature. But Zandra is brilliant with her daughters, and Arabella’s inexplicably drawn to her.

Zandra harbors secret reasons for needing this position, and when she reciprocates their attraction, her feelings escalate. Impropriety abounds as she craves Arabella’s company and increasingly intimate touch.

An extended trip to Manhattan with Arabella and the children changes everything. As they embark on the RMS Titanic’s maiden voyage, their love is undeniable, but so is their course toward unforeseen danger, risking not only love but their very lives.

After years of hard work, Hudson Greene is keen to launch her tenure-track career at the illustrious Coteau College. But her first day takes an unexpected turn when she walks into new faculty orientation and discovers that Callie Shaw—her unforgettable one-night stand from the local Pride festival—is also the dean of advising.

Callie loves guiding students through the chaos of academia, even if it means dealing with clueless professors. She goes with the flow, and her covert Shit Professors Say social media account provides an outlet for chronicling faculty missteps. Dating one, though? Definitely not on her syllabus.

Mutual attraction proves hard to resist, and technically there’s no rule against faculty-staff relationships. But between campus politics and Callie’s secret, policy might be the least of their problems. Can Hudson and Callie navigate office hours and off-the-clock romance, or will their shot at love turn into an epic fail?

Both Pirin Basamendi and Gracie Olwyn have way too much to hide, not to mention a virulent contagion to avoid. Which is why they'd have preferred to never meet each other. But Gracie has what Pirin is eager to retrieve and Gracie is desperate to get rid of: the lightning stone. So, reluctantly, they do meet—and discover an instant attraction that's impossible to resist.  

Soon, despite themselves, they begin to reveal their secrets—and become deeply entangled in each other’s lives. For Pirin, this means immersion in Gracie’s unsettling, scary-vivid episodic dreams about two women, Analergin and Kaldi, and events that somehow eerily echo her own ancestral past. For Gracie, it means helping Pirin confront the very real threat of a man determined to kill her.

Amid self-doubt, stealth, a pandemic, fear of attack, and attempted murder, their attraction turns to love—and their lives will never be the same.

Montana wilderness guide and survivalist Wyatt Foreman lives in harmony with nature. Until bodies start showing up in her forest.

Forest ranger Mari Whitaker transfers to Montana for a fresh start and ends up neck deep in a serial murder case, one where all the bodies show odd signs of animal attacks.

Wyatt’s and Mari’s worlds collide as they race against time in search of the killer before anyone else loses their life. They’re drawn to each other with a passion as intense as their desire for justice, but it’ll take all the moonlight, love, and silver bullets they have to stop a preternatural slayer.

Megan Montgomery has no idea that Mike, the guy she’s dating, is married—until a late-night call from his wife, Tara, forces her to see the truth. But the surprises don’t stop there. When Tara asks for her help to prove Mike’s infidelity to secure a million-dollar prenup in their divorce, Megan agrees. She knows what it feels like to be cheated on and can’t help but feel sorry for Tara. What she doesn’t anticipate is falling hard for her. 

Tara Foreman is determined to free herself from her unfaithful husband and claim what’s rightfully hers. The money isn’t just for her—she’s desperate to keep helping her sister by supporting her autistic nephew’s private education. But Tara has secrets of her own. Trapped in a loveless marriage forced on her by her abusive parents, she has always yearned for the love of another woman—a love she thought she’d never get to experience.

The more time Tara and Megan spend together the more the chemistry between them becomes undeniable. Yet their complicated beginning and Mike’s threats cast a long shadow over the possibility of a romance. Can they overcome the heartbreak and betrayal that brought them together and build a future filled with love?

In 2763, humanity teeters on the brink of extinction after centuries of war with the alien Sh’keth. Val Koroleva, special forces operative, sacrifices her universe to leap across space and time to avert the disastrous war before it begins.

Eight centuries earlier, the world has yet to tumble into chaos. Bush pilot Nicole Baker, blissfully unaware of the alien threat lurking near her home, lives in peaceful solitude flying her airplane between far-flung corners of remote Alaska until a charming, mysterious stranger turns her world upside down.

Val won’t set her mission aside, but neither woman can ignore their unlikely connection. Can Val risk the future? Will love find a foothold despite a world on the brink of war?

Beth Wild was born as a Subterranean and after almost dying in a fire set by raiders from the skyscrapers, she joins the resistance movement. Now fleeing the Celestial authorities with her team of freedom fighters, Beth is strapped into a SkyBird escape vessel and hurtles to the ground. There, she finds the dissident leader’s SkyBird has also crashed, and LaSierra Delmonte is injured and concussed. 

LaSierra is confused. With Beth’s assistance, she struggles to find her bearings and, against her better judgment, grows fond of Beth. But resuming her duties means breaking both their hearts. 

Beth loathes the role LaSierra must play. It’s impossible for her to reconcile her ideals and values with the sacrifices LaSierra is asking for. Thrown headlong into the battle for freedom for dissidents and Subterraneans alike, LaSierra may have to risk everything by acknowledging that there are less lethal ways to accomplish what must be done—and if so, will Beth ever understand that there are times when leaders must make the hard decisions for the greater good? Will they be able to bring peace long enough for them to dare to love?

Audrey, Reid, Emma, and Sadie have been best friends since they were fourteen years old. When Sadie tragically passes away more than a decade later, she leaves them each a note with her last wish: to complete the bucket list they made together on the night of their high school graduation.

Audrey and Reid haven’t spoken since the last time they ticked an item off that list. As they work with Emma to fulfill Sadie’s wish, they’re forced to confront their unresolved emotions—none of them good. But when Audrey goes through a devastating breakup, she finds an unlikely support system in Reid. Perhaps she’s been wrong about her all along.

As Audrey and Reid draw closer in ways they never thought possible, their last promise to Sadie takes them on a journey toward healing their broken friendship and discovering the love they’ve always had for each other.