Have you ever been to the Pacific Northwest? Washington in particular? We get a lot of flack for our weather. Mostly for the rain. Which is funny, because I feel like the rain when I lived in Southern California was way worse than anything I ever experienced here.

After the fourth of July things really warm up around here and we get a solid two months or so of summer. The last few years have been warmer than normal.

And you aren't really here for me to talk about the weather! And I get that!

Summer is interesting now that I have kids. We have one that is in daycare year-round and another that we have to find care for while we work. But we've still managed to get out and do some things.

My husband and I celebrated our nine-year anniversary and then we had a big family reunion.

On top of everything, I'm staying on top of my writing schedule. I was so excited to announce Before I Fall in the last newsletter. You have no idea how hard that was to hold that in for as long as I have. We're over halfway done and I'm absolutely in love with these characters!

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Have you heard of Dianna Roman's RoMANce Boxes? Strictly Curious is included in one of September's! The theme is Forbidden/Taboo ;) You can order your box now and the boxes will start shipping the beginning of September. And believe me, you don't want to miss out on these boxes!

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𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙣’𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩.

I’ve spent six years building a life that isn’t defined by my father’s sins—a beautiful girlfriend, a thriving nonprofit, safe dreams that won’t get me into trouble. Someone with my family’s reputation can’t step out of line without drawing attention, and they definitely can’t coach professional swimmers.

My carefully controlled world starts to unravel on my summer vacation, when a mysterious boy catches my eye. He’s intoxicating, beautiful, and an incredible swimmer. His body makes me question everything about my sexuality, and his talent makes me desperate to become his coach. Too bad the only lawyer who will help me navigate the PR nightmare of opening a coaching program happens to be a rude, self-absorbed, sexy-as-sin older man who doesn’t even like me. I shouldn’t want either of them, but my mixed up heart wants both.

When one explosive moment in an empty locker room ties all three of us together, we start down a path we can’t turn back from, even as my past threatens to destroy my future. We weren’t supposed to be more than a single night’s mistake. I can’t do anything to threaten my life’s work. But I’m not sure I can live without them, either.

Breaking free from the past has a cost for all three of us, but I don’t know if we can afford to pay it.

𝘈𝘯 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘔𝘔 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘱, 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴. 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘔𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳

Teach Me To Sin releases on August 14!

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If all's fair in love and dare, someone's heart will have to give, but how can we survive the fallout?

Being a virgin is my well kept secret. 

Being straight is the lie I've hid behind for the last twenty-one years. The truth is, I don't know what I am. But when my best friend dares me to sleep with a guy, the floodgates of foreign desire open and threaten to bury me under their current. 

Messages sent in secret to a stranger wake up my heart and libido in newfound ways, and while we trade scorchingly dirty texts, the person I pretend is on the other side of the screen has my conscience in a tailspin: my best friend's brother.

Blair Novak has been our protector for years, taking his father’s harsh words and harsher hands in stride as long as it meant me and his brother were safe. He’s always given us his everything and somehow, I never realized it. 

I see it now. In the shake of his hands as he pulls me close with a white-knuckled grip. In the ink that he wears on his skin like armor, like patches to the wounds he’s spent his whole life healing.

Blair has given up so much of himself for his brother. I want to be his balm, not the final shard that rips him apart. Our connection has bloomed from words on a screen to a galaxy of emotions I can never rein in, and I'm not sure I want to. 

Even at the expense of my best friend's heart.

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