Hello. I'm Dana.
Dana Velle writes college sports romance and dark contemporary romance for readers who want their heat earned and their men unhinged.
The sports romance line lives at Grafton University. After the Whistle (men's lacrosse) and After the Draw (women's lacrosse) share a campus with After the Horn (women's hockey), and found-family heat runs through all three. Every book is dual POV with a different couple. Slow burns and fast hands meet competence on the field and on the ice. Free short stories from the same campus live on this site.
The dark side is Holy Orders: forbidden devotion, parish money trails, confessional seals, and high somatic tension. Five books, best read in series order.
A contemporary women's fiction catalog under Mid-Life Escapes rounds out the backlist for readers who want sisterhood and midlife reckoning, with romance that welcomes women well past twenty-two.
Off the page, Dana keeps a glass of something Italian nearby and a playlist that runs darker than the weather.
First-time reader?
If you want college hockey romance: Late Ice. After the Horn, Book 1.
If you want college men's lacrosse: Short Side. After the Whistle, Book 1.
If you want college women's lacrosse: Draw Control. After the Draw, Book 1.
If you want a free Grafton story: Grafton short stories. Optional extras. Read after the related novel for the cleanest spoiler order.
If you want the darker line: Confession. Holy Orders, Book 1.
If you want the origin story: The Prosecco Protocol. Where Mid-Life Escapes begins.
If you want sunlit midlife romance: Santorini Afterglow. Mid-Life Escapes, Book 1.
If you want small-town holiday romance: The Secret Santa of Keeler Falls. Standalone Christmas romance.
Contact
For reader questions and media inquiries. Hellos are welcome too.
Email dana.velle@gvrliterary.com.
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