Books

stories about people who look composed and are not

Reading Order Content Warnings

Cover of Lights On

Lights On

A novelette set in Buenos Aires

  • strangers to lovers
  • thirtysomething romance
  • long distance HFN
  • explicit open door

Two emotionally intelligent adults meet during a weekend in Buenos Aires and discover that one perfect night might be enough to change the plans they’ve already made.

Read it free, right here — in English y en español.

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Novellas

Cover of Not Falling Today

Not Falling Today

A novella

  • friends to lovers
  • theatre world
  • he falls first
  • being seen and chosen
  • dual POV
  • explicit open door

She touches his piano onstage every night. It's in the script.

What's not in the script: the ten years of friendship, the secret that brought her into his theatre, the undefined thing they agreed not to name, and the growing certainty that the most terrifying role either of them will ever play is the truth.

A Madrid theatre. A Sondheim production. Two people who know each other too well to pretend, and not well enough to stop.

Coming Soon

Cover of Motion to Stay

Motion to Stay

A novella

  • established relationship
  • meet the family
  • snowed in
  • caretaking
  • dual POV
  • explicit open door

Cassandra Lee reads rooms for a living. As a clinical ethics consultant, she walks into the hardest moments of strangers' lives and keeps everyone steady. She's the calm one, the one who always knows what to say, the one who holds it together.

She's been in love with Alex Carter for a year. A healthcare attorney as controlled as she is composed, he loves her the same careful, deliberate way he does everything else. A January weekend meeting his family at their snowbound house in northern Michigan should be the easy part.

Then the roads close, an ordinary evening turns into an emergency, and the two people who hold everyone else together discover they have no idea how to fall apart in the same room.

A standalone contemporary romance about composure, control, and what love looks like once you finally stop performing fine.

Coming Soon

Reading Order

Good news for the chronically overwhelmed: everything is standalone. But if you like a path, here's mine:

  1. Lights On — the free short story. Start here, it costs you nothing but feelings.
  2. Not Falling Today — standalone novella, coming soon.
  3. Motion to Stay — standalone novella, coming soon.

Content Warnings

I write open-door romance about love, work, and mental health. Here's what's inside, per book — so you can choose what's right for you today.

Lights On

  • Heat level: explicit open door
  • Content warnings: Alcohol. Profanity. Dead father / abandonment backstory (mentioned, happens off page).

Not Falling Today

  • Heat level: explicit open door
  • Content warnings to be announced

Motion to Stay

  • Heat level: explicit open door
  • Content warnings to be announced