Brace yourselves for 2025, because my four-book contemporary romance series will be releasing back-to-back between March and October.
Breaking Birch
Ex-con Birch Baker doesn’t run. Until he meets a woman worth running for.
Tattoo artist Birch Baker has one goal in life: to get his younger brothers out of their hometown and away from the burden of the notorious Baker reputation. An ex-con from the wrong side of the water tower, he keeps his head down, looking up just long enough to see Jocelyn Carter walk through the door of Serpent’s Tongue Ink.
Forensic accountant and former track star Jocelyn has returned to her hometown with a goal of her own: to hunt down and analyze the books of an elusive corporation with questionable connections. A chance run-in with one of Epson’s infamous Baker boys provides an alluring distraction—until she discovers the business she’ll be investigating belongs to none other than Birch Baker, the man warming her bed and stealing her heart.
She can’t afford to lose sight of her career.
He can’t afford to lose sight of his goal.
Both are losing themselves in each other.
Sooner or later, something has to break.
River’s Run
Denial isn’t just a river.
Model River Baker traded the burden of the notorious Baker reputation for the promises of LA years ago only to find himself returning to his hometown to escape the social media fallout of his impending divorce and to fill in as a piercer for his brother’s tattoo shop, Serpent’s Tongue Ink. Choosing to hide out in a hotel instead of face his brothers and his failures, he meets Angelina and is blindsided with his sudden, intense connection to the beautiful Bohemian owner of the Wholly Yours storefront in the hotel lobby.
Angelina lives a quiet life of balance and zen until the scarred, damaged River Baker catches her eye and captures her heart. She sees through his cocky model persona and falls hard and fast for the imperfect man torn between two lives and using her to hide from both.
Caught between love and expectation, River has a choice to make. If he can gather the courage.
Grey’s Gamble
He needs a friend. She needs a lover. They need the chance.
Four months after a brutal attack and kidnapping at the hands of a drug kingpin, twenty-four-year-old Grey Baker just wants to return to university and hide out at the gym where his ruthless—and stunning—personal trainer is turning him into the fighter and survivor he needs to be. Under constant pressure to become better than the Baker name and fighting a losing battle to win over the woman who haunts his fantasies, he turns to the social media account of the dog who saved him and finds an anonymous best friend on the other side.
Melody Zeher needs control. Divorced at thirty-five and determined to find herself after years of emotional and mental abuse at the hands of her ex-husband, she spends her time training her undisciplined rescue dog, talking to her online friend, and dodging the flirtations of her gorgeous young client. She doesn’t want the emotional burden of a relationship, but when Grey Baker offers himself up to satisfy the physical needs he awakens in her, it’s a temptation she can’t resist.
The rules are set. The lines are drawn. Now all Grey and Melody need to do is make sure their hearts, bodies, and minds stay in their lanes before someone gets hurt.
Waiting for Winter
Once upon a time, a boy loved a girl. And then life went to hell.
Winter Baker serves his prison sentence without complaint, knowing his sacrifice gave his three younger brothers the chance to rise above the despised Baker name their abusive father gave them alongside a childhood of bruises and broken bones. He holds tight to their every success, never letting on that his freedom wasn’t the greatest loss he suffered that fateful night. When he’s offered an early release in exchange for working for the Feds, he accepts both the terms of the contract and the knowledge he’s about to come face-to-face with his biggest regret, his savior, and the love of his life after twelve long years.
Sela Mack never recovered from the loss of her best friend and protector. Winter’s last phone call to her still haunts her dreams, keeping her heart in stasis until she sees him for the first time in over a decade. The man he’s become is hardened and cold, but she sees glimpses of the boy she once loved and it’s enough to break her all over again if she lets him.
Loving Winter is a risk. Loving Sela is a liability. But loving each other enough to walk way has never been an option.
Katja Desjarlais 