The yoshi-engumi system allows merchant wealth to buy samurai status—through daughters. Mio is adopted, transformed, married off, and forbidden from ever seeing her birth parents again. One mistake exposing her origins destroys everything. So she performs perfection while secretly wielding the skills that make her valuable: negotiation, strategy, steel. When her new mother-in-law attacks and bandits strike, Mio proves merchant daughters make the most dangerous samurai wives.
A story in the Lesbian Romances Universe
Salt and Jasmine is a raw, sensual lesbian romance set in a cliffside lighthouse cottage. Through one pivotal year of storms, panic attacks, art, and jasmine-heavy nights, Susan and Nawana turn fear into fierce, unwavering love. Tender and explicit, it follows two women learning that staying—scarred, terrified, and wholly seen—is the bravest act of all. A luminous celebration of choosing each other, every single day, until staying becomes home.
A Middletown story
Pete was never the athletic type—more like the ‘extra-fries-with-that’ kind of guy. But when a mysterious new girl in town, waltzes into his life (looking annoyingly perfect), Pete finds himself lacing up sneakers, instead of hiding behind baggy clothes. This is not a story about weight loss—it’s about gaining confidence, friendship, love, and the courage to show up for yourself.
A globe-spanning inter-cultural love story about three refugees from different backgrounds whose lives collide, and the friendships, romances, and found family they build along the way. Heartbreak, healing, and hope intertwine as they create a new life, and a future worth fighting for. The story is written in rotating first person POV.
A story in the Philadelphia Stories Universe
Graduating from college, Tess DiRosa, grandniece of alleged mobster Vincent DiRosa, feels at a cross-roads, either to follow the pre-ordained path to law school or her yearning for an exciting life. Mostly for giggles, she applies for the US Secret Service, reasoning that nobody would seriously consider her as a federal agent, would they? This is the sequel to "Can't Pick Your Family".
Suki Yakamura has heard it her whole life—she's too fat for anyone to love. At 19, studying international finance in Osaka, she's resigned to loneliness. Then American student Brad Jamison witnesses her being bullied in the cafeteria and everything changes. He sees past Japanese beauty standards to the gentle, brilliant woman beneath. But can Suki believe that someone truly wants her? A heartwarming romance about finding love, defeating self-doubt, and proving that the right person sees your hea
A divorced American man in his thirties looks for a fresh start as both an ecotourism consultant and a university professor in Botswana. The assignments lead to a perspective adjustment, self-discovery, and an unexpected new love interest.
A Middletown story
She was wild—the fun kind of crazy that lit up a room and made you forget the rules. He was the kind of man who lived by those rules. She turned his world upside down… and then vanished without a trace. Now he can’t stop wondering: Who was she really? And what secret was she hiding?