On writing, romance, tropes, heat, and the craft of the happily-ever-after.
Victor Navarro sees everything through a chess lens. Knights, queens, pawns, board positions — it's the organizing metaphor of his psychology. Broken Oath is partly about what happens when you're so committed to the frame that you miss the moment the other player changes the game entirely.
Ava Reynolds became a prosecutor to honor a brother who died believing justice was worth dying for. Broken Oath is the book where she has to ask whether she's still doing it for him — or whether the debt has curdled into something she's no longer sure she can name.
Luke Carter has spent ten years protecting Ava Reynolds the way a man pays a debt — mechanically, comprehensively, at the cost of everything else. Broken Oath is the story of what happens when that protective structure collapses and what's left underneath turns out to be the thing he was avoiding the whole time.
Alexander Novak — Specter — has been running Meridian and hunting Operation Fracture for years. He's not wrong about the corruption he's fighting. He is catastrophically wrong about what that means he's allowed to do about it. Fractured Cover is partly the story of what happens when a villain's analytical model is accurate about everything except the one variable that matters most.
Claire Bennett found her own name on a terrorist kill list on a Tuesday night while working late. The thing she found harder to process wasn't the threat. It was the man who showed up to protect her — the man she'd buried three years ago.
Jack Kellan is a CIA operative who spent three years protecting the woman he loves by letting her believe he was dead. Fractured Cover is the story of why that decision was the most selfish thing he ever did — and the long, ugly process of facing that truth.
Victor Hayes is the villain of Silent Watcher, but he's not the villain of the ambush. He is the ambush. He engineered the event that traumatized Jack Mercer, then positioned himself as the rescue — and spent fifteen years collecting on the debt. That's a specific kind of evil worth examining.
Claire Donovan has received four death threats in two weeks. Her editor wants her to slow down. Her new bodyguard wants her to stop. She is not going to stop. This is why.
Jack Mercer has spent fifteen years believing he owes Colonel Victor Hayes his life. Silent Watcher is the story of what happens when a hero has to confront the fact that the debt he's been paying was engineered — and the man he's been loyal to built the wound he then healed.
Why the best romance isn't about what happens — it's about how long you can hold your breath waiting for it.
It's not really about the money. It's about power — and the specific thrill of watching it crumble.
Forced proximity. Secret pregnancy. Fake relationships. A defense of the architecture that holds romance fiction together.