Love in Brazen Bay Series

So wrong it's right… When grumpy firefighter Leo finally answers the wrong number text he's been getting for several days, he has no idea pixels on a screen could be so hot—or make him want things he's never wanted before.   Dixie has always been quiet, shy, and reserved. Until she "meets" Leo. He's got the once shy librarian shedding her inhibitions and growing her confidence in their texts and calls—and it even starts spilling out into her everyday life. Part of her revels in her secret life—but part of her secretly wishes for more. They never share more than first names, but each texting encounter gets hotter and hotter—and more intimate than either of them ever imagined. But you can't trust a stranger on the phone. Not really. You can't ache for something you've never had. And you certainly can't fall in love with someone you've never even met, can you?   Author Confession: Welcome to Brazen Bay, a small town I crafted just to explore that feeling of so wrong it's right. Just because something is forbidden or taboo doesn't make it wrong, does it? (You'd have to see the pictures on their phones to answer that.) Gruff Leo and sweet Dixie are perfect strangers and perfectly naughty when they let their guards down with someone for the first time. What starts as an innocent wrong number turns into something much more daring. Bonus points if you read this wrong number romance on your phone.

What kind of job are you prepared for with a degree in poetry? None. That's what socially awkward Tru Stanhope learns when she loses her fortune to her embezzling ex. Now she just needs to turn her one remaining asset profitable so she can afford business school--but the infuriatingly hot Nate McKendrick refuses to sell his half of the dive bar to her. And he thinks he can use all that alpha, growly hotness and the way he fills out his jeans to sway her opinion by taking her to bed. The joke's on him--she's glacier frigid. Just ask her ex...the bigamist who embezzled her inheritance. She might highbrow and pretentious--but she is not frigid. And he can prove it. Nate McKendrick liked his solitary life just fine before Tru brought trouble and her little yappy dog to darken his door. But he's not a man to back down from a challenge, and his mousy little scholar needs a tutor in the worst...and best...way. He'll show her how to find her confidence in bed, and then he'll show her the door. Right?   Author Confession: Opposites attract, and no one is more opposite than this grumpy blue collar hero and the snooty intellectual he can't get rid of. His plan to scare her off with multiple...um...arrivals (if you know what I mean) doesn't work quite the way he intends it to. Because once she figures out she's not frigid after all? It's game on.

What would you do if the boyfriend you totally made up to get your sister off your back showed up at your place of employment? Free-spirited Stella Stone has always been the wild child in her family, but even she is surprised at the amount of trouble she's found herself in this time. Christopher Lockwood was a random name she chose from the internet. How was she supposed to know he would end taking a temporary position in the veterinary office she manages? Now she somehow has to keep the uptight, tie-wearing, self-contained Christopher from figuring out that the whole town thinks they are dating, and somehow also keep the whole town from figuring out she's a pathetic liar with a fake boyfriend. Oh, and it doesn't help that he's a major hottie under those Clark Kent glasses and stern demeanor. In fact, something about his need for control brings out Stella's inner brat, especially when he decides she needs a little discipline. Too bad there's no such thing as a secret in Brazen Bay. Not for very long. Author's Confession: This is the most opposite-y opposites attract book ever with added fake relationship crack. Stella is a fan favorite and Christopher is the Alpha Nerd Hero you didn't know you needed in your life. You are going to love the surprisingly dirty dude under the restrained and inhibited mask he shows the world. I mean unf, am I right? He's the only one who could keep up with our deliciously nutty Stella and give her a worthy HEA.  *Previously published but no longer available by Brill under a different pen name with expanded content and new characters.

He can't deny his need to claim her as his… After ten long months away on a dig, archaeology professor Dr. Nick Sanders comes home to Brazen Bay surprised his house is still standing since he left his irresponsible younger brother in charge. Tired, dirty, and hungry, he collapses into bed sans pajamas only to wake up wrapped around a luscious, fuming woman. She says she's just the house-sitter and he pulled her into bed when she was trying to wake him up. He says he's just found his future wife. She's off-limits—too young, too sweet, too innocent and a student at his university. But he's one naughty professor who doesn't care what the world says. She belongs with him. Author Confession: This story goes back to my filthy, sweet roots readers have been asking for. Insta-love, a heaping dose of immediate OTT attraction, a wildly implausible (yet completely romantic) scenario, and enough alphamallow goodness to singe your eReader. Pick up this guilty indulgence about love so wrong it's right. You know it's got the tropes you love—older man/younger woman, bad professor, possessive hero, nerdy heroine, small-town romance, and what's a Brazen Bay book without a cameo from Stella?