Book 01
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
28 titles across Grafton Lacrosse (men's and women's 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 · Short Stories · Holy Orders · Standalones · The Prosecco Protocol · The Rose Rescue Protocol · The Keeper's Lie
Grafton Lacrosse
After the Whistle
Dual-POV college sports romance. Men's program. Different couple each book. Team as found family. Banter sharp, competence high, heat on-page.
Book 02
Fast Hands
A loud face-off specialist stops performing for the campus broadcaster who hears what lives beneath every silence.
Book 03
Man Down
Grafton's senior goalie falls for the coach's daughter, risking the bond and final season that shaped him.
Book 04
Man Up
A lacrosse filmmaker finds the girl he lost two years ago grading the seminar papers he cannot write.
Book 05
Sacred Ground
She reads the game better than anyone; Grafton's captain must decide whether to let her read him too.
Grafton Lacrosse
After the Draw
Dual-POV college sports romance on the Grafton women's side of the shared field house. Different couple each book. Same building, different banner fight.
Book 01
Draw Control
With one lacrosse program facing elimination, Grafton's draw specialist must beat the man she lets win in the dark.
Book 02
Free Position
Grafton's eight-meter assassin meets the rival attacker who reads her lowest number and refuses to look away.
Book 03
The Crease
Grafton's goalie trusts the cage, the count, and the man who knows the name she will not let him use.
Book 04
Shooting Space
A cover defender chasing Grafton's first banner meets a grad-transfer father with one season and no room for loss.
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Three short stories. Free to read here.
Cole Marchetti & Lucy Castillo
August 14
They picked the date in May. Left burner open. Oil already bought.
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. A Hargrove parking sticker. A gravel lot on Route 6 that neither campus is supposed to know about.
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 exploring forbidden devotion, psychological suspense, and the slow work of stripping away vows to claim what the body already owns.
Book 01
Confession
A trauma nurse brings the truth of her husband's death to a priest whose scarred hands awaken something ruinous.
Book 02
Penance
She skims the collection plate; the former agent who kept her file has counted four years of silence.
Book 03
Absolution
A Lake Forest wife launders cartel money while the handler who owns the operation tests the discipline keeping them alive.
Book 04
Reconciliation
A parish records keeper faces the man who reads her seventeen-year secret back to her, one card at a time.
Book 05
Benediction
The agent built a four-year case against him; he saw through her cover in week three and stayed silent.
Standalones
Standalone romance at a higher pitch than Mid-Life Escapes. Structure, consent, and power exchange rendered with operational specificity.
Standalone
Echoes on the Sidelines
Two widowed parents share a poncho at a rainy lacrosse scrimmage and begin harmonizing the echoes they cannot bury.
Standalone
Man Acquired
A Manhattan gallery owner meets a mechanic whose quiet authority unsettles the control she engineered to survive.
Standalone
Nine Minutes Before
Eight years after her husband's death, a fourteen-second burner call pulls Emily back toward the truth.
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.
Book 01
The Prosecco Protocol
Three women meet beside a terrible gala and make the mutual-aid pact that changes every life after it.
Book 02
Santorini Afterglow
Eight months after a twenty-year marriage, Sarah reaches Santorini with ten days to learn how to want again.
Book 03
Costa Rican Bloom
A litigation partner reaches a Costa Rican retreat in her blazer and learns how to say no.
Book 04
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 grief, control, and the reckoning that happens when you finally stop performing the life you built.
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 breaks open what years of endurance could not.
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 and the different shapes of the lie each of them has been telling herself about what that costs.
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.