Is it getting dark in here? 😈
May 01, 2023 4:46 am
Hello !
Here in Texas, it feels like summer already, but what better way than to turn up the heat and the darkness? While I've been writing sweet romances... sort of. I can't resist broken boys and trauma, but now I've cranked up the darkness and have broken my boys even further lol.
Honestly, I prefer darker romances. I love reading fluff and sweetness once in a while, but I usually need to switch it up to something heavier. The more traumatic, dark, and twisted the better. Sometimes. I just love emotionally heavy books. And Levi's story from No Man's Land - Ohana Surfing Club, Book 4 is just that.
But it's been fun flipping around from writing epic love stories to writing on the darker side. It challenges me. Forces me to focus on the different emotional aspects of each character and how they would react under certain circumstances. In other words, this is FUN!
Keep reading for details because this book is... 🥵🥵🥵. AND I have a little treat for you if you keep reading.
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No Man's Land - Ohana Surfing Club Book 4
All my Ohana Surfing Club books can be read as standalone.
This book has quite a bit of darkness in it. More than my first three books of this series. There will be lots of triggers. But I fill it up with lightness, fun, and humor to balance things out.
There’s only one man I will allow to know me. My mind, heart, and soul are my gifts to Mr. Carter.
Levi
I used to joke with my found family that I had daddy issues as a deflection from my problems. I didn’t want anyone to know that side of me. I had a classic case of it, keeping me from relating to young men my age. All because of my abusive father. At seventeen, I started college and developed an obsession with my advisor, Mr. Ashton Carter. He was everything I could ever want, and I knew deep down he could fulfill my needs that I couldn’t find with anyone else. But I was too young and had to wait until I turned eighteen and play my cards right. Would he want someone with my issues that no one else knew about other than my therapist? And I thought I left my past behind, only to discover that it's trying to claim me once more.
Ash
Levi Dawson was barely seventeen when he first came to me. His brilliant mind struggled to find direction, and I did my best to guide him. The more time we spent together the more he flirted. I knew he had developed feelings for me, but he was too young and I could lose my job at the university if we acted on them. When I stumbled upon Levi as the victim of a brutal attack, I saved him. Since then, he has desperately clung to me. Could I hold back my growing feelings for the young man? He was too hard to resist.
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His Death Bringer - The District Book 1
How about this cover, huh? 🥵
The District is a series of about a handful of assassins set in Washington, D.C.
This is the darkest I've written to date.
He calls me his dark angel, but I’m merely a killer. A bringer of death.
Luca Davenport
He is my angel, sent to be my death bringer to save me from my tormentors and betrayers—those who sold me into slavery when I was only eight years old. Angel came in with guns blazing and black wings that were made to crush his enemies and envelope me in love. He belongs to me and I belong to him. We are destined. After he saves me from my captors, we hunt down the remaining men who had abused me for eleven years to make them pay in blood.
Dante Varga
He is a broken boy of no more than nineteen. He sees me as an angel, but I’m simply a killer. An assassin for hire. I can’t save him. I can’t take care of him. There’s no room left in my dying soul to care about someone. Not anymore. But I can’t turn him away either. I should kill him. He’s a witness. But I feel compelled to protect him at all costs. Saving him will either shatter the ice around my heart or destroy me. Either way, Luca is dangerous.
TREAT TIME
NOTE: Please be aware that this hasn't been seen by my editor yet, so there will probably be some errors. But as my newsletter subscribers, YOU all get the very first taste of my new series.
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The Healer - Knights of Boston - Book 1
Now LIVE!
While we have a sweet romance, I didn't hold back on some darkness toward the end.
José
I lost everything. My parents were murdered, my best friend was sent to prison for a drug deal gone wrong, and eventually, my grandmother, who had raised me since I was fifteen, died. I have been living life day to day to make a good life away from gangs and violence. As a nurse, I can finally do something meaningful. But I’ve been lonely, too, until the bumbling nurse standing a foot taller than me had me constantly irritated, yet, I found him strangely endearing.
Jonas
Family is everything. Family is life and goodness, and I would do anything to protect them. Including protecting them from me. When I came out as gay at thirteen, it threatened to tear the family apart. Some supported me. Some were disgusted. So, back into the closet I went to maintain the peace. But after eighteen years of absolute loneliness, there is only one man who could finally pull me out to see the light of day. José is a fiery nurse I work with, and I want him. Unfortunately, I keep irritating him too much for him to really notice me.
Can the two men stop dancing around each other and colliding long enough to realize they are the perfect match? Will Jonas’ family finally accept him as he is? And danger lurks too close to home for José. Can he protect those he loves in time?
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Doing it on my own didn’t mean I wanted to be lonely.
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When Aiden’s worst fears become reality, Max must make a decision. Fight for Aiden with everything he had, or let him go. But Max had never been good about letting things go, and Aiden just might be worth risking it all for.
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A ROMANTIC HOCKEY COMEDY
MAKE ME CHASE YOU. MAKE ME WORK FOR YOU.
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How far is too far to go to save someone you love?
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Sometimes, the truth is the most dangerous reality of all.
Maybe, just maybe, blood was always thicker than water…
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Micah Veyhl considers himself an “opportunist.”
Meanwhile, Eden Voss has secrets of his own.
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A bad boy who lives outside the law. A compassionate soul focused on helping others. Sometimes rules are meant to be broken... for love.
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