Books
stories about people who look composed and are not
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.
Novellas
Not Falling Today
A novella
- friends to lovers
- theatre world
- he falls first
- being seen and chosen
- dual POV
- explicit open door
Serena Moguer has spent her life being the safe choice. The friend who listens. The conservatory-trained voice singing in a Madrid casino to an audience that never looks up.
Then the call comes: Company, at the Teatro Pavón. A door finally opens. A door she believes she opened alone.
Jordi Trobat—musical director, and her best friend of ten years—put her name forward for that audition. And said nothing. Now he conducts every performance from a piano a few steps away from her, brings her coffee every morning, and keeps what he feels exactly where he's kept it for a decade, while the lie gets a little heavier each night.
But some gestures stop being staged. And one night that was only supposed to be one night threatens to rewrite ten careful years of distance.
Not falling today, they promise themselves.
They've been promising it for ten years.
Coming October 6, 2026
Motion to Stay
A novella
- established relationship
- meet the family
- snowed in
- caretaking
- dual POV
- explicit open door
Cassandra Lee and Alexander Carter have been together for a year. They are careful with each other, generous with each other, and give each other so much room that neither one has noticed the drifting.
A January weekend meeting his family at their snowbound house in northern Michigan should be as easy as being together.
Then it becomes something else, and Cassie discovers that being useful is not the same as belonging.
A standalone contemporary romance about what love looks like when you finally build a bridge.
Coming 2027
Reading Order
Good news for the chronically overwhelmed: everything is standalone. But if you like a path, here's mine:
- Lights On — the free short story. Start here, it costs you nothing but feelings.
- Not Falling Today — standalone novella, coming October 6, 2026.
- Motion to Stay — standalone novella, coming 2027.
Content Warnings
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