Reading Order
Every book works as a standalone. But if you want the full experience, here is how the world connects.
The catalog has three zones. Mid-Life Escapes is the flagship: three sub-series sharing a single mutual-aid protocol and a connected cast of women. Standalone Romance runs darker, kinkier, and at a higher emotional pitch. Grafton Lacrosse is new adult sports romance with a different couple each book.
Within Mid-Life Escapes, the sub-series share characters and callbacks but each has its own entry point. You can read them in any order. The recommended sequence below gives you the richest experience of how the Protocol evolves.
Mid-Life Escapes
Three interconnected sub-series. Same world, same Protocol, different women. Best read in the order below, but each sub-series works on its own.
The Prosecco Protocol
The founding sisterhood. Three women. One pact. Start here for the full Mid-Life Escapes arc.
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The Prosecco Protocol (Start here) Three strangers. One terrible gala. A pact that changes everything. -
Santorini Afterglow Eight months out of a twenty-year marriage. Ten days to learn how to want something again. -
Costa Rican Bloom She arrived still wearing her blazer. She left having learned how to say no. -
Manhattan Lockdown Three days without heat. Sixty floors up. One coordinated betrayal.
The Rose Rescue Protocol
Five women. One wine-glass signal. A new iteration of the Protocol in a different circle.
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Big Sky Reckoning One wine-glass emoji. Five women. A remote Montana ranch and the same underlying wound in six different configurations. -
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 -
The Saudade Season A Portuguese word for a longing so old it has a shape. And what it takes to finally put it down.
The Keeper's Lie
The women who hold everyone else upright. Characters from earlier sub-series surface here.
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The Orchard Bargain Anchor of a mutual-aid protocol she helped build. Fifty-eight. Finally learning how to lean back. -
The Lisbon Equation A variant of unknown significance. The end of jokes as armor. A life she has not finished calculating the cost of. -
Night Currents Your turn. Two words. A directorship in the Azores. A mother in Lagos who sometimes asks for a father thirty-six years d -
Cold Water, Still Water A woman who has never needed anything anyone could see, learning in her own kitchen how to want something.
Standalone Romance
Darker, kinkier, higher pitch. No series order required. Each book is self-contained.
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Echoes on the Sidelines A poncho-sharing at a rainy high school lacrosse scrimmage. A legal pad. A storm cellar. The ghosts you harmonize instea -
Man Acquired A fifty-three page written contract. A Gallery of Control. What a person is when the tool that defines them is taken awa -
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
Grafton Lacrosse
New adult sports romance. Same campus, same team house. Different couple each book. Interconnected standalones, best in order.
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Short Side (Start here) The RA in Building C stood her ground. Now the captain of the men's lacrosse team cannot stop thinking about it. -
Fast Hands A face-off specialist who fills every silence. A campus broadcaster who hears what is underneath. Paying attention as a -
Man Down Four years inside the cage. The head coach is the man who gave him a language no one else in his life speaks. Falling fo -
Man Up Same team house at 14 River Street. Same found-family program. Different collision.