Reading Order

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.

01 Short Side Start here
The RA in Building C closed her door on the lacrosse captain like it was a verdict. Now he cannot stop thinking about the tide charts on her desk.
02 Fast Hands
A face-off specialist who fills every silence. A campus broadcaster who hears what is underneath. Paying attention as a love language.
03 Man Down
Four years inside the cage, and the head coach is the man who gave Nate a language no one else in his life speaks. Falling for the coach's daughter is the one shot he cannot stop.
04 Man Up
He filmed everything. She's the one frame he never got to keep.
05 Sacred Ground
She reads the game better than anyone on the field. He hasn't let himself be read in years.

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.

01 Draw Control Start here
One building. Two programs. Nine days until a room of administrators decides which one survives. She has to beat him. She already lets him win in the dark.
02 Free Position
The free position is the one shot nobody can save her from. He read her assist number from the upper track and refused to look away.
03 The Crease
Behind the line, she is allowed to be exactly one thing. He already knows her order, her count, and the name she will not let him use.
04 Shooting Space
A cover defender takes the space, not the ball. A grad-transfer long pole has one season, a daughter, and no room for anything that could leave.

Grafton University Short Stories

Optional free stories. Read after the related novel to avoid spoilers.

S01 August 14 Free
Best after Short Side. They picked the date in May. Left burner open. Oil already bought.
S02 The Dedication Free
Best after Man Down. The university is putting her father's name on the building.
S03 The Belt Thing Free
Best after Free Position. A dying serpentine belt. A Hargrove parking sticker. A gravel lot on Route 6 that neither campus is supposed to know about.

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.

01 Confession Start here
She killed her husband. He holds the host with scarred hands. In the dark of the box, their bodies demand total ruin.
02 Penance
She skims twelve percent off the collection plate. He left the Bureau but kept her file. Four years of silence, and the count is almost up.
03 Absolution
She launders cartel money through her husband's practice. He is the handler who owns the operation. One count of nine, and the discipline keeping them both alive starts to break.
04 Reconciliation
She filed the parish's secret for seventeen years. He came to read it back to her, one card at a time. Neither of them looked away.
05 Benediction
She spent four years building the case that would end him. He saw through her cover in the third week and never said a word. Now the trial is the least dangerous thing in the room.

Standalone Romance

Standalone romance at a higher pitch than Mid-Life Escapes. Structure, consent, and power exchange rendered with operational specificity.

01 Echoes on the Sidelines
A shared poncho at a rainy lacrosse scrimmage. A legal pad. A storm cellar. The echoes you harmonize instead of bury.
02 Man Acquired
A fifty-three page contract. A Gallery of Control. What a person is when the tool that defines them is taken away.
03 Nine Minutes Before
Eight years of driving the road her husband died on. A fourteen-second call from a burner phone nine minutes before. The thread that finally pulls.

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.

01 The Prosecco Protocol Start here
Three strangers. One terrible gala. A pact that changes everything.
02 Santorini Afterglow
Eight months out of a twenty-year marriage. Ten days to learn how to want something again.
03 Costa Rican Bloom
She arrived still wearing her blazer. She left having learned how to say no.
04 Manhattan Lockdown
Three days without heat. Sixty floors up. One 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.

01 Big Sky Reckoning Start here
One wine-glass emoji. Five women. A remote Montana ranch and the same underlying wound in six different configurations.
02 January Thaw
Two women answering a distress signal. A yellow row house on the St. John's harbor. The cold does what therapy could not.
03 The Saudade Season
A Portuguese word for a longing so old it has a shape. And what it takes to finally put it down.

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.

01 The Orchard Bargain Start here
Anchor of a mutual-aid protocol she helped build. Fifty-eight. Finally learning how to lean back.
02 The Lisbon Equation
A variant of unknown significance. The end of jokes as armor. A life she has not finished calculating the cost of.
03 Night Currents
Your turn. Two words. A directorship in the Azores. A mother in Lagos who sometimes asks for a father thirty-six years dead.
04 Cold Water, Still Water
A woman who has never needed anything anyone could see, learning in her own kitchen how to want something.