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. After the Whistle (men's program) and After the Draw (women's program) share a field house, banners, and found-family heat. Dual POV. Different couple each book. Slow burns, fast hands, competence on the field and off it. 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 in series order.
A contemporary women's fiction catalog under Mid-Life Escapes rounds out the backlist for readers who want sisterhood, midlife reckoning, and romance that does not require anyone to be 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 sports romance: Short Side. Grafton men's program, Book 1.
If you want the new women's program: 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. Reader favorite.
If you want romantic suspense: Nine Minutes Before. Standalone Montana romantic suspense.
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