Book 01 · Open door
Short Side
An exacting RA and Grafton's lacrosse captain turn an off-the-books arrangement into a dangerous reason to keep circling each other.
The Catalog
Books
35 titles across Grafton University (lacrosse and hockey programs), Holy Orders, Mid-Life Escapes, and standalone romance. Start with a first book below, or follow the reading order.
After the Whistle · After the Draw · After the Horn · Short Stories · Holy Orders · Standalones · The Prosecco Protocol · The Rose Rescue Protocol · The Keeper's Lie
Grafton University
After the Whistle
Dual-POV college sports romance inside Grafton's men's lacrosse program, with a different couple in each book. Found-family teammates trade sharp banter, and the heat stays on the page.
Book 02 · Open door
Fast Hands
A loud face-off specialist stops performing for the campus broadcaster who hears what lives beneath every silence.
Book 03 · Open door
Man Down
Grafton's senior goalie falls for the coach's daughter, risking the bond and final season that shaped him.
Book 04 · Open door
Man Up
A lacrosse filmmaker finds the girl he lost two years ago grading the seminar papers he cannot write.
Book 05 · Open door
Sacred Ground
She reads the game better than anyone; Grafton's captain must decide whether to let her read him too.
Grafton University
After the Draw
Dual-POV college sports romance on the Grafton women's side of the shared field house. Each book brings a new couple and its own banner fight inside the same building.
Book 01 · Open door
Draw Control
With one lacrosse program facing elimination, Grafton's draw specialist must beat the man she lets win in the dark.
Book 02 · Open door
Free Position
Grafton's eight-meter assassin meets the rival attacker who reads her lowest number and keeps watching.
Book 03 · Open door
The Crease
Grafton's goalie trusts the cage and the count, and the man who lost the right to call her Saint keeps proving he will stay.
Book 04 · Open door
Shooting Space
A cover defender chasing Grafton's first women's banner meets a grad-transfer father who stopped letting himself want anything that could leave.
Grafton University
After the Horn
Dual-POV college hockey romance at the Barn, where the women's hockey program fights for every hour of ice. She is the player in every book. Each book follows a different couple, with the heat on the page.
Book 01 · Open door
Late Ice
Grafton's women's hockey captain and the rink scheduler taking her hours start showing up early to fight in person.
Book 02 · Open door
Soft Catch
A guarded senior goalie and an early-morning figure skater share unscheduled ice before the building wakes.
Book 03 · Open door
Slow Whistle
Two seasons of closing shifts and traded playlists between a senior defender and the rink's plant tech break open on a road-trip favor.
Book 04 · Open door
Full Stride
With one season left on her career clock, the fastest player on the ice falls for a patient youth coach who lets her set the pace.
Back to Grafton.
Read three free short stories set on campus.
Cole Marchetti & Lucy Castillo
August 14
They picked the date in May. Now Cole waits in Nonna's kitchen with the sauce on low while a jackknifed trailer holds Lucy on the road.
Best after Short Side · Open door
Riley Callahan & Nate Doherty
The Dedication
The university is putting her father's name on the building.
Best after Man Down · Open door
Jonah Adler & Dani · Cooper POV
The Belt Thing
A dying serpentine belt and a Hargrove parking sticker lead to a secret gravel lot on Route 6.
Best after Free Position · Closed door
Optional extras, best read after the related novels. Reader notes & all stories
Holy Orders
A dark Catholic romance series of forbidden devotion and psychological suspense, built on the slow work of stripping away vows to claim what the body already owns.
Book 01 · Open door
Confession
A trauma nurse brings the truth of her husband's death to a priest whose scarred hands awaken something ruinous.
Book 02 · Open door
Penance
She skims the collection plate; the former agent who kept her file has counted four years of silence.
Book 03 · Open door
Absolution
A Lake Forest wife launders cartel money while the handler who owns the operation tests the discipline keeping them alive.
Book 04 · Open door
Reconciliation
A parish records keeper faces the man who reads her seventeen-year secret back to her, one card at a time.
Book 05 · Open door
Benediction
The agent built a four-year case against him; he saw through her cover in week three and stayed silent.
Standalones
Standalone romances. High-heat power exchange and Montana romantic suspense sit beside a Christmas shelf that runs from sweet to spicy.
Standalone · Open door
Echoes on the Sidelines
Two widowed parents share a poncho at a rainy lacrosse scrimmage and begin harmonizing the echoes of their grief.
Standalone · Explicit
Man Acquired
A Manhattan gallery owner meets a mechanic whose quiet authority unsettles the control she engineered to survive.
Standalone · Open door
Nine Minutes Before
Eight years after her husband's death, a fourteen-second burner call pulls Emily back toward the truth.
Standalone · Closed door
The Secret Santa of Keeler Falls
A Manhattan event producer comes to Keeler Falls to sell her late aunt's hardware store before Christmas and uncovers the quiet man behind the town's holiday magic.
Standalone · Explicit
The Christmas Committee Clause
A photographer packing up her late mother's apartment co-chairs her building's Christmas reunion with the sound engineer upstairs, on a deadline she wrote herself.
Standalone · Closed door
Holiday on Thin Ice
A sidelined hockey winger spends December in the downstairs room of the family whose daughter he let down four years ago.
Mid-Life Escapes
The Prosecco Protocol
Contemporary women's fiction with romance threads. The first of three Mid-Life Escapes sub-series, each built around a different iteration of a women's mutual-aid protocol.
Prequel · Closed door
The Prosecco Protocol
Three women meet in a service corridor at a Manhattan conference and make the mutual-aid pact that changes every life after it.
Book 01 · Open door
Santorini Afterglow
Eight months after a twenty-year marriage, Sarah reaches Santorini with ten days to learn how to want again.
Book 02
Costa Rican Bloom
A litigation partner reaches a Costa Rican retreat in her blazer and learns how to say no.
Book 03 · Explicit
Manhattan Lockdown
A blizzard traps a guarded CEO sixty floors up with a security specialist and a coordinated betrayal.
Mid-Life Escapes
The Rose Rescue Protocol
The second Mid-Life Escapes sub-series. Midlife, found-family novels about the grief and control behind the life you built, and the reckoning that arrives when you finally stop performing it.
Book 01
Big Sky Reckoning
One wine-glass emoji summons five women to a Montana ranch, each carrying a different version of the same wound.
Book 02
January Thaw
Two women answer a distress signal in Newfoundland, where the cold finally breaks open years of endurance.
Book 03
The Saudade Season
Two women reach Lisbon carrying old longing and stop performing the lives that no longer fit them.
Mid-Life Escapes
The Keeper's Lie
The third Mid-Life Escapes sub-series. Four women, each telling herself a different version of the same lie, and the cost of keeping it.
Book 01
The Orchard Bargain
At fifty-eight, the woman everyone leans on returns to a pear orchard and learns how to lean back.
Book 02
The Lisbon Equation
An ambiguous genetic result forces Tess to calculate the cost of staying in the Lisbon life she chose.
Book 03
Night Currents
A coral researcher must weigh an Azores directorship against the Lagos family care her sister has carried alone.
Book 04
Cold Water, Still Water
In her Lagos kitchen, a relentlessly competent wife and mother learns to make room for a life she wants.