College freshman Kelly “Razor” Mitchell boldly asked out senior star pitcher Ashton Sharpe and was crushed when Ashton turned her down. Seven years later, Ashton is one of the team’s coaches and shows up on Razor’s doorstep asking her to don her gear once more. Razor is cautious. She hung up her cleats early for a reason. But Ashton is very persuasive and as beautiful as ever, and Razor can’t help but hope the longing in her gaze has nothing to do with softball.

Ashton has few regrets, but one is turning down Razor’s request for a date back in college. Ashton can’t think about what-ifs now, or how great Razor looks, or her dormant feelings stirring. A crisis has left the university softball team without a catcher, and their best solution is the one person Ashton never expected to see again.

Ashton and Razor’s coach-player dynamic gets tricky as the sparks fly faster than a line drive. As they struggle with old feelings and new discoveries, the season seems endless. Plus, Razor is sure Ashton won’t want to explore romantic possibilities once she discovers the real reason Razor abruptly departed the team all those years ago.

When reporter Addison Miller scores an invitation to Decadence, she hopes for an exclusive interview with Elizabeth Hathaway, the mysterious socialite behind the event. But as Addison soon discovers, there’s more to the story, and her gorgeous host, than she ever imagined.

Exclusive Content was originallly published in Decadence: Erotic Romance Novellas (Bold Strokes Books, 2023)

Nora Palmer’s goal of becoming a photojournalist is almost within her grasp, but her father won’t pay for her tuition unless she completes Firecamp, a demanding summer work program involving fire mitigation in the rugged Colorado national forest. Fallon Monroe spent her precarious youth wishing and waiting. Firecamp is her chance at stability and a meaningful life. Despite getting off to a bumpy start, Nora and Fallon’s relationship deepens, even as they are honest about their incompatible plans for the future. But when it’s Nora’s photography that creates a rift between them, their split is abrupt and painful.

Ten years later, Nora has achieved her dream. So why does that summer still intrude into her memories? When an alert goes out for a major forest fire in the area, Nora covers the Women’s Plus team working in advance of the flames. Fallon is now the unit leader and can’t be distracted by Nora’s unexpected arrival if she’s going to keep her crew safe and help save the forest. But what can she do about the heat between them that has never cooled?

A sweet and sassy HGTV-inspired romance from the award-winning author of Sweat Equity and Good Bones.

Jack Barrow is pretty old fashioned as far as progressive trans guys go. He loves his family, his work, and his quiet life in his hometown of Bedlington, Vermont. Overseeing the electrical upgrade on the historic Hempstead House is all the excitement he’s looking for.

As an artist specializing in the preservation and restoration of hand-painted plaster and lathe, Ellie Lancaster plans to showcase her skills on a grand scale at Hempstead House and ensure the original beauty of the house will be enjoyed for generations to come.

Jack and Ellie have exactly nothing in common save this job and the bad luck of getting stuck together when a blizzard rolls in. Sparks are flying, and it’s not the faulty wiring. Will close quarters ignite their romance, or will the whole thing go up in flames?

Emory Bennet is overworked and overstressed. In Vegas to relax and meet Cadence, an incredibly sexy woman she’s been talking to online, Emory agrees when Cadence all but begs her to attend Decadence. With one secret condition: Emory is the one who’s in control.

Passionate Pursuance was originally published in Decadence: Erotic Romance Novellas (Bold Strokes Books, 2023)

Max Woodbury regrets how her relationship ended. One terrible misunderstanding and Dee Talson refused to take her calls or respond to texts. Unable to let Dee walk away, Max enlists help to pull off the surprise of a lifetime at Decadence and win back Dee’s heart.

Redemption was originally published in Decadence: Erotic Romance Novellas (Bold Strokes Books, 2023)

Abigail Gardner is finally getting her chance to go to Alaska, traveling to the last frontier on her first assignment for an exclusive adventure magazine. Only the transport driver has an unexpected heart attack, and she never makes it to her final destination. Stranded in the wilderness, the only person she can turn to for help is Whitley Travers, an Alaskan native, experienced pilot, and complete know-it-all pain in Abigail’s ass.

Whitley has seen her great state at its best and its worst. Maybe she is a know-it-all, but experience matters as they’re forced to traverse the unrelenting Alaskan landscape and make impossible decisions to find a way out of this mess. Cold, rain-soaked perilous miles stand between them and safety, and they must put their personal hang-ups and stubbornness aside to survive. When they do, it turns out they don’t hate each other after all, and if they weren’t actively fighting for their lives, they just might find each other attractive.    

But Abigail and Whitley are not alone in the wild. And being stranded far from home isn’t their biggest problem. A stalker is tracking their every move, and they’re in more danger than they know.

Whisk Me Away is must-see TV. When the famous host arranges a retreat for up-and-coming pastry chefs, Regan Callahan applies. Everything she’s been working for is served up hot and delicious right under her nose: recognition of her self-taught skills, learning from a master, there’s even been a secret prize hinted at that just might give her the means to buy her boss’s bakery when he retires. It’s not supposed to be a competition, but if it is, she’ll do anything to win. 

Ava Prescott has no intention of allowing that to happen. Not that she’s worried. Regan doesn’t have what it takes. Just like she couldn’t excel with Ava as her boss when they worked together at the high-end restaurant in New York City. Their rivalry sharp as a lemon tart, Ava’s going to win, then she’ll ditch the high-pressure kitchen and open a small restaurant where she’ll have the creative freedom to follow her instincts, and her unique desserts will blossom.  

Their styles are different. Their personalities are miles apart. Regan’s a gorgeous flake. Ava, a beautiful untouchable ice queen. Let the competition, and the ovens, heat up. Everyone knows the best recipes come straight from the heart.

Only the enchanted border separates the oppressive and tyrannous land of Alba from Gaea, a haven where citizens are free to love who they please and choose their gender.

Everything changes for butch warrior Skylar when she follows the cries of a magical fox across the forbidden border and is forced on the most perilous journey of her life. As a telepath, empath, and swordsman, Skylar must hide who and what she is. Skylar aligns with proud femme Calida and her feminine son Florian to battle bandits, zealots, and the King’s guards. It’s the worst time for Skylar to fall in love, let alone to bond with Calida’s tender gender-rebel child. Skylar may be tough, but can she survive Alba in her quest to recross the border? And if she does, can Skylar leave behind the two people her heart yearns for most? 

In Alba, where hopes are crushed as easily as the dispossessed, Calida knows better than to dream of a better life. Deadly in combat, Calida will do whatever it takes to protect her child. She’s not about to trust Skylar or her little witch fox. If only her unruly heart would heed her better judgment. Even if there was somewhere she and Florian could be free, is Gaea truly a land Calida can call home?

No one would ever accuse Special Agent Ryan O’Connor of taking the easy way out of anything. At least not successfully. Her attempts to distract herself from her crushing feelings of failing, fear, and fury have inadvertently landed her in hot water that is way over her head. And she forgot to pack her arm floaties.

As much as Ryan hates to admit it, her girlfriend, Allison, is right. She isn’t trained to bring down a domestic terrorist group. None of them are. But the clock is ticking, and lives are on the line. And if she doesn’t figure out a way to remain focused and keep her head in the game, hers will undoubtedly be one of them.

Sam O’Brian might be blasting her way up the pro computer-gaming charts, but her dislike of the spotlight and her baggy clothes, undercut hair, and queer vibe make her a hard sell as a poster girl.

Enter polished marketing executive Lauren Johanssen—ambitious, driven, and a people pleaser. Her new company wants to recruit Sam for its local eSports gaming team to fix their boys’ club image. They also want Lauren to pretty up Sam’s look to appeal to the masses.

While Lauren’s up for a challenge, the more she’s pushed to change Sam, the more she likes her just as she is. She’s sworn never to date a professional gamer again, but she might be falling for the guarded, sweet gamer who still lives with her dad.

An opposites attract lesbian romance about defying expectations and being true to yourself.

Content advisory: sexism, homophobia, and racism

“I’m a Willow Bark and you’re an Elm Stem, but we’re not enemies. We never have been. Our covens are just…different.”

Tina Marks once believed that being a witch would make life easy. But when one mixes mundane police work with a dash of witch politics and a pinch of forbidden love, the cauldron is sure to boil over sooner or later.

When her Willow Bark coven mentor goes missing, Tina struggles to keep the search as separate as possible from her work with the Angbec Police Force. Then a regular beat patrol exposes a witch of the opposing Elm Stem coven in damning, suspicious circumstances.

Tina is faced with a choice that could change the course of not only her entire future, but also those of her girlfriend Nikolette and two entire covens of young, vulnerable witches. But choose she must, and soon, because the world has no time for indecision, and the maiden’s innocence is inevitably destined to fade.