Guard Dog, Book 1 in the Guard Dog Series - She saves a crime lord’s daughter from a kidnapping and gets rewarded with forced proximity to one very irritated bodyguard. He’s tattooed, lethal, emotionally unavailable—and completely unprepared for the romance author turning his carefully controlled life into her next love story.

Watch Dog, Book 2 - When a romance-writing cartel princess attracts a dangerously obsessed stalker, the hacker bodyguard who’s loved her for years becomes the only thing standing between her and a very real body count.

Sly Dog, Book 3 - The Sandoval crime family turns to him turn when they need a ruthless cartel negotiator with knife skills. But when a Bratva princess in hiding asks for his help, it's all he can do to keep it professional. He wants to protect her from his dark side but can't stay away.

Attack Dog, Book 4 (coming Nov. 1, 2026) - He’s the Guard Dog with a heart. Loyal, laid-back, and thinks he's a lot funnier than he actually is. But he can quickly lose control and turn lethal. When he's sent to recover a stolen weapons shipment, he finds a woman who’s smart, beautiful, and not looking for anything casual. With bikers threatening her, their worlds collide and it's all heat, no mercy, and one hell of a bad idea.

Lunar Rendezvous: A standoffish deep space pilot protecting an alien lifeform from the icy depths of Europa must decide whether to trust her new lover with her secrets, knowing that once she does, there's no containing it from the rest of humanity.

Blackwater, an adult romantic dark fantasy. After a dishonest mistake, a loner pickpocket with a shadow to kill and the law to evade becomes entangled with a suave pirate captain. Now they have to work together as they disembark across the realm to the kingdom's capital. Heads roll, insults fly, and much misconduct and debauchery ensues.

Heir of Grief (The Bloodwright Chronicles, Book One): When grief cracks her open, magic answers. After the sudden death of her grandmother, Mari Pollard is thrust into the ruthless world of New York City's elite, where forbidden power stirs beneath her skin and pulls her into a hidden war between the Bloodwrights and the Stonebound. Dark academia, morally gray alliances, and a slow-burning attraction she's not sure she can trust.

Heir of Legacy (The Bloodwright Chronicles, Book Two): In the aftermath of devastating revelations, Mari races to find help before rogue magical awakenings send the city into chaos, all while the hypnotic pull toward her Twinflame keeps growing.

Of River and Spirit (The Spirit Bound Series, Book One): An atmospheric, no-spice YA paranormal romance set in small-town Montana, where sixteen-year-old Adeline Jasely is pulled into a friends-to-lovers romance shaped by tribal legends, shapeshifter magic, and secrets that turn out to be very real.

Of Mountain and Bone (The Spirit Bound Series, Book Two): As ancient shapeshifter legends wake in the shadows and target the people she loves, Adeline must choose between waiting in fear or stepping into the fight herself.

I Do CHAOS: Jamison Jones Scott should be on top of the world. Her dermatology residency is almost over, and she is two months away from a fabulous job and an extravagant wedding to a rich, sexy surgeon. But nothing seems right—including her attitude… She has been taking unnecessary chances and putting everything on the line. Can she fix things before it’s too late? But more importantly, does she want to?

Homecoming CHAOS: Life brought Jamison back to her hometown, and now she’s ready to face the consequences of her actions. What she doesn’t expect is to walk into a murder scene in the parking lot of her family’s business. She also doesn’t expect to encounter Detective Nick Marshall, the sexy and smart cop who is assigned to the case. He’s determined to find the truth, even with Jamie distracting him and interfering in the case. He’s also drawn to her like a moth to a flame, despite the constant chaos that seems to surround her.

Dating CHAOS: After a delicious date with Detective Nick that ends with both fireworks and danger, Jamie knows she’ll get an earful for her choices from her mother, but she’s ready to defend herself. But surprisingly, her mother has problems of her own when an unwanted acquaintance from a lifetime ago shows up like an unpleasant blast from the past. This long-lost individual is about to bring old family secrets to the surface. To top things off, there’s a New Year’s Eve party that’ll have everyone in one place. Everyone. Her brother’s stalkerish ex and his current girlfriend, her sister who thinks Jamison shouldn’t be making any decisions right now, and her mother, who thinks she can’t tie her shoes without supervision. And Nick. What could go wrong?

Late Match: MacKenzie thought she'd put Evan behind her. Their breakup during internship year—after they failed to match in the same city—left scars that time and distance never quite healed. Now a single mom focused on her son, the last thing she expects is to run into her ex-fiancé at an elite swim academy. The same Evan. The same chemistry. And all the feelings she thought she'd buried? Back with a vengeance. Evan never thought he’d see MacKenzie again. Their breakup was messy, their silence even messier. But seeing her now stirs up questions he thought he’d resolved: What really happened back then? Could they ever make it work now? And with their exes suddenly playing matchmaker, is fate giving them one last chance… or setting them up for heartbreak all over again?

The Match Game: Dr. Grace Robertson has sworn off bad relationship decisions. Enter: professional matchmaker. Exit: Luke Sloane, the gorgeous stranger she literally ran into. Problem? He's her matchmaker's brother, and he knew it from day one. Some lies are too sweet to walk away from.

Holler Born: Blood Hunters and Death Knockers don’t fall in love. Four years ago, Magnolia Hatcher ran from her family’s blood magic. Now she’s back in the Virginia mountains with a dying grandmother, a holler full of people counting on her, and monsters crawling out of the Bone Roads. Because where Maggie’s from, magic’s got teeth. Banishing the creatures is a full-time job for a Trinity: Blood Hunter, Dream Weaver, and Death Knocker working in perfect sync. Which means fighting beside the ex-best friend who still hasn’t forgiven her for leaving. And Sawyer Blackwood. He’s the cold and ruthless Death Knocker who’s out of patience waiting for Maggie to control her own power. But training with Sawyer is downright deadly; their powers are polar opposites, bred to kill each other on contact. Life and death don’t mix, after all. But Maggie can’t help touching him. Trusting him. Trying very hard not to notice the way he looks at her in the dark. But monsters don’t care about ancient rules. When secrets her own grandmother buried start clawing their way back up, Maggie’s got a choice to make: run back to the safe, normal life she built, or claim the blood magic that marks her as Holler Born.

The Kingdom of Aetherlyn Series (Heartbound, Soulbound, Fatebound, Skybound) and Drowning in Fate

A Divine Lie — Can you really change fate? Ophelia and Adrian believe they’ve been bought together by Divine intervention. But everything isn’t always as it seems.

The Devil is Here (and He's Demanding The Rent) · Haunts and Heats at Pointe Highview · Lonely Planet Hotel · The Night Farm · The Night Farm: The Wylder Years · Nights in New Eden: The Scrapbook Edition · His Horns Are Mine To Hold · He Hears Death · All For The Blood of The Lamb · Lover, Thy Name is Pestilence · Let's Watch The End of The World Through The Train Car Windows · Speed Demons · Afternoons at The Acid and Apothecary

The Keeper of Eden: Condemned to the Arena for a crime they didn’t commit, fae brothers Wayden and Nathan are forced to strike a dangerous bargain: serve a new master in exchange for their lives or die at one another’s hands. When their paths cross with December’s, a captive fae-hybrid who’s thrust into a deadly world she’s unprepared for, Wayden and Nathan must earn her trust as they discover that their lives are bound together by a prophecy steeped in ancient secrets and lies. As war looms between fae and human, and a fanatical cult seeks to unleash an ancient entity hellbent on destruction, the three battle not only for survival, but for each other. Hunted and pitted against each other, all three must fight to change their fates, before the world falls with them.

The Guardians of Eden: Finding the Codex was supposed to be their salvation. Instead, it only brought damnation and tore them apart. On the run from Ahren and the Covenant, Nathan and December travel to Revlain to seek the rune mage’s help to destroy the Codex. But the answers they find are not what they expected, and their relationship will be stretched to the breaking point. Soul-bound to Ahren, Wayden is forced into a role that he never wanted. With every life taken and each task completed, he fears losing another piece of his soul to the darkness that has woken within. The war is just beginning, and the stakes have never been higher for the three of them, fighting their way back to one another while trying to prevent a catastrophe.

The Lamplight Witch: Phoenix Thornwright has been told her entire life that she’ll be the death of anyone unfortunate enough to love her. As the healer of Willowshire, Phoenix has successfully maintained her solitude and kept her hands clean of as much blood as possible. Cursed with a kiss of poison and general misfortune, she’s held everyone at arm’s length since her mother’s death. But when palace guards catch her with illegal herbs, the king gives her an ultimatum: follow through the punishment for her crimes and sit at the executioner’s block or become the palace healer. As she’s settling into her new life, she crashes right into a curious stranger who doesn’t believe in curses and is eager to prove Phoenix’s isn’t real.

Olympic War, Phoenix War, Carry Me Home — a trio of sci-fi and fantasy romances, equal parts heartbreak and healing.

Bondspire Academy: In the kingdom of Slythara, power is determined by the creature you bond to. For five hundred years, only the three ruling Triarch families have bonded with the legendary Sovereigns: dragons, krakens, and kirins. But the impossible happens when a commoner bonds to a dragon, shattering centuries of tradition and dominion. As the heir to one of those families, Seraphina Velastra has spent her life preparing to uphold that order, even if it means an engagement to the Kraken heir. At Bondspire Academy, Sera finds herself questioning everything she was raised to believe. Her rare Aethergift allows her to manipulate the body’s endocrine system, but it also exposes her to the fear and pain suffered by those born with lesser bonds. The last person she should trust is Masen, the first non-Triarch dragon rider in five centuries. Yet he becomes the one person who sees beyond the title she never wanted. As forbidden feelings grow between them, so does the unrest threatening to tear Slythara apart. With rebellion brewing, war looming, and a weapon capable of severing creature bonds, Sera must choose between protecting the world she was raised to inherit, or fighting for a new one. Some kingdoms are built on power. Others are built on lies.

Daughter of the Scepter — In a world contained within the Tower, a girl bent on vengeance and marked as an abomination learns that the Void created by the Last War isn’t what they’ve all been told. A mysterious Guardian with an impossible pull. An underground rebellion. And a prophecy that demands nothing short of the ultimate sacrifice. Eliana is given an impossible choice to save the world.

Deadly Syn (Heir of Night series, Book One): When a mysterious power-enhancing drug begins infiltrating the vampire underground, a blood-hungry fledgling vampire is forced to team up with a brooding vampire hunter who wants her dead, to find those responsible before the drug's ravenous side effects can devour the world.

✨ BENEATH THE VEIL OF TIDES (Book 1) — Available on KU, ebook, and paperback. A dark gothic romantasy where The Little Mermaid meets Pirates of the Caribbean. Caelyn was born to be sacrificed to the sea… but when she survives, monsters and betrayal rises to claim her. Then a fallen god finds her, recalling the love she lost and the life she can’t remember. 🩽 Awakening the titan is their only chance at survival… but if they fail, the realms will drown beneath the tides.

✨CROWNLESS (Book 1.5 Companion Novella) — Coming October 2026. Before Caelyn, there was Calvin. A crown prince with a thief’s grin, a wicked card game, and a heart stolen by the one person worth risking everything for. While his brutal father rules with cruelty, Calvin fights from the shadows to protect his people, his love, and the home he refuses to abandon… until it’s too late.

A Curvy Girl’s Hurricane Survival Guide- Cai De la Cerda was supposed to be chasing her toxic ex to Puerto Rico. Instead, a hurricane rerouted her straight into the arms of a charming stranger named Sonny, and her loud, loving, extremely nosy Cuban family.

Between forced proximity, glowing nostalgia beetles, resurfacing family stories (or as Cai calls them, “childhood trauma”), and one too many pop culture references, Cai learns three important survival rules:

🌀Some exes aren’t worth chasing.

🌀Some storms are worth riding out.

🌀And sometimes the right man is the one sitting next to you in coach when everything else is falling apart.

Pemberley and Pastelitos- A Miami Cuban Romcom inspired by Pride and Prejudice. Lizzie Benitez is Miami’s undisputed queen of efficiency. She’s this close to landing the career-defining project that will finally give her the financial security she’s worked her entire life for… until the infuriating, far-too-handsome Mr. Pemberley shows up to see if she's really worth it. He’s rude, condescending, and seems determined to undermine her at every turn. Lizzie’s confidence is unshakable—except now she’s counting down the days until she can escape his judgmental stares without causing her to lose the project or her mind.

Enter her chaotic Cuban family: her influencer sister who thinks every crisis needs a TikTok, her no-filter Abuela dropping truth bombs over cafecito, and the sudden appearance of charming Mr. Wick with his easy smile and confusing signals. As deadlines tighten, family meddling intensifies, and the holiday season arrives just in time to cause maximum mayhem, Lizzie begins to wonder if the biggest obstacle to her perfect life isn’t Pemberley at all but her own stubborn heart.

The Confluence’s Daughter — Seraphine Lacour did not want the seat. She won it anyway. Now she has a failing covenant, a court full of people depending on her, an uncle who thinks he deserved what she has, and a much more enjoyable complication: the men. She has until the seals break to figure out which of those problems she can actually solve.

The Confluence’s Reckoning — She came home. She thought the hard part was over. It wasn’t. With the Hollowed inside the court’s walls, the Dream-Theatre fracturing, and Zoryn Vael riding in the moment he heard she was in danger, the coalition is forming, the investigation is closing, and the seals are still failing. Something has to give.

Her currently published series, The Songs of the Night, is a dark romantic fantasy with MF, FFM, and FF relationships.

Songbird in the Darkest Night: A spicy prequel novella following the parents of the Songs of the Night hero, as one night of forbidden passion sets them on an inevitable path toward a prophecy neither can escape.

Daughter of the Dark Sun (Songs of the Night, Book One): Apattar, a woman born cursed by the dead goddess of the night, is desperate to escape the man she's fated to love — a slow-burn enemies-to-fated-lovers romance for fans of dark fantasy with spicy subplots.

Dove of the Blood Moon (Songs of the Night, Book Two): Apattar's twin sister Ninann is kidnapped by a ruthless hunter and pulled into a prophecy as ancient gods stir again, in a love triangle that blossoms into an FFM relationship. Book Three is expected in fall 2027.

Ashen Blade (Part One of the Eventide Oaths Duet): An extra-spicy dark romantasy following an elf assassin sent to kill the vampire prince she's hunted for nearly a century, only to become his captive instead. Releases October 31, 2026.

All of D. Kathleen's books are dark in nature, in both romance and fantasy elements — full content and trigger warnings are available on her website.

Blood & Betrayal- Caruso Book 1

An enemy is closing in, and he knows way too much. Someone in the family is talking and when you’re in the Mafia. Loyalty is everything.

When Callum unknowingly drags an innocent woman into the chaos he has to find out who the traitor is, and quick. Her life may depend on it. But how do you figure out who you can trust when everyone looks like the enemy?

Loyalties are questioned, lives are at stake, and the risk is much bigger than the grumpy mafia man’s heart.

Vows & Vengeance - Caruso Book 2

Matti had big dreams. Good grades, college and a job in cybersecurity. He’s been paying a debt that was never his to take on and making the best of it.

Savannah is finally living the life she dreamed of as a kid in foster care—a good, steady job and a home with her best friend.

Their worlds collide in a violent fashion and when suspicious murders start getting closer to Valon the Caruso boys have to find out who’s behind them. And can they do it before another person winds up dead?

All The Things We Found - The Complete Finding Series

Three Stories. One Heartfelt Series.

The Flying J has been in Evie’s family for generations but it was never her dream. She wanted city lights and more than this small town. When she has no choice but to come home and take over the ranch with the help of her best friend Britten, she finds that sometimes home is more than a place.

Open interviews for ranch help bring the girls far more than they expected to find. This omnibus includes:

💜 Finding Home

💚 Finding Peace

❤️ Finding Hope

💛 Bonus Ending

Cycle Keeper's Shadow

Wren has survived by minimizing herself—and the unusual magic that isolates her.

Orzen grew up in violence and survived by running from it.

When an ancient god bound deep within the forest stirs, the Cycle itself begins to unravel. As the village of Thistlehold rots from within, and the Virewood corrupts at its roots, Wren and Orzen are drawn into a web of prophecy, divine conflict, and an ancient legacy built on protection and sacrifice.

Danger wears familiar faces. Trust becomes a liability. And the cost of stepping into a war between gods may be more than either of them can survive—unless they uncover the truth before the Cycle breaks completely.

Sometimes the right choice is the hardest

Soul Unbound, Book 1 in the Chaos in the Cosmos series, is out now — with a sequel already titled and on the way for next year.

"Capture by the Scaled Outlaw" - Captured by a dangerous eco-terrorist group, government scientist May must make a risky deal with the group's leader: a towering, hot-headed Lizardfolk named Lowell. Forced to work together in an unforgiving desert, May is faced with her troubled past. All while battling the blossoming feelings for the villainous Lizardfolk.

"Falling for the Angel" - After her untimely demise, Marcy must review the complicated memories of her life alongside "The Evaluator", a millennium-old angel named Astamesiophelous. Although Asta has no body or face, their growing human-like romantic emotions threaten to jeopardize Marcy's evaluation and chance at a peaceful afterlife.

(Future title — coming December 1st)

"Forsaken Wilds" - While on a mission in the enchanted rainforest known as "Devil's Maze", squadmates Adam and Idris are stranded after a harrowing accident. As they fight for their survival, Adam is burdened by the deep romantic feelings for his best friend, Idris, and the shadows of warm that threaten to ruin it all.

The Milkyway Hotel: On the same day she loses her home and her job, Celeste finds out her great-aunt left her a hotel in a tiny town in the mountains. When she moves to the French Alps, in the hope of building a new life, she doesn’t expect to also fall in love, both with the town and with Rose, chocolatier extraordinaire.

Beautiful Place by the Sea: a heartfelt coastal romance set in a small Maine vacation town, complete with a cozy bookshop, a spicy love story that starts off on entirely the wrong foot, and family secrets that refuse to stay buried. It’s about grief and healing, inherited stories, and the places that call us home even when we try to run from them.

Any Port in a Storm: an emotional dual-timeline romance about heartbreak, healing, and the shelter we find in each other. Set against the backdrop of academia and the early days of a world in chaos, this sweeping love story is the interconnected standalone sequel to Beautiful Place by the Sea.

Ghost Writing: Callie Sheffield dreams of being a novelist, but for now, she’s stuck ghostwriting other people’s stories. She takes her laptop to the local library, where she meets Will Pearson, a plaid-shirted library clerk with messy hair, a secret tattoo, and the effortless charm of a millennial heartthrob. Will makes it impossible for Callie to ignore what she’s been missing, but the deeper their connection grows, the more she realizes he has secrets that could upend everything.

By the Book: the story of Scarlett Sinclair, a romance writer about to break her publishing contract, and Jonathan Levine, the corporate attorney who has to enforce it. Set alongside the events of Ghost Writing, this novel steps behind the scenes to reveal Scarlett’s own sweeping, complicated love story, proving that while Callie fought for her happily ever after, Scarlett risked everything for hers.

Ghosts of Christmas Presents: Callie has always loved Christmas, but this year, the magic feels out of reach. She and Will are hosting their first holiday together, yet between unexpected guests, Will’s mysterious behavior, and her heart aching for the ghosts of Christmas past, Callie wonders if the season’s joy will ever return.

Saving Scrooge: Edward Scribner is haunted long before the ghosts arrive, by family trauma, the pressure to prove himself, and the nagging belief that he’s never been truly loved by anyone. Then he meets Isabelle Salvatore, who sees something in Edward that no one else ever has. As he’s forced to confront the choices and traumas that shaped him, and the bleak future awaiting him if nothing changes, Edward is given a chance to rewrite his story. If Scrooge can save himself, maybe he’ll get a second chance at love after all.

ShadowMist - Torn from her mother's arms at eighteen and molded into the perfect servant by a merciless academy, Avyn Ashwood now serves a crown built on blood and darkness. Every day is a hollow march of duty, that is, until the prince returns from battle, his victory trailed by shadows that follow him through the halls and into her thoughts.

Pulled beyond the life she knew, she uncovers a hidden world of ancient creatures, buried histories, and a mysterious voice that whispers from just beyond her reach. With every secret revealed, the boundary between rules and desire begins to fray.

Hunted by the attention of the very many she's forbidden to want, she must choose between the safety of obedience and the dangerous truth stirring within her, because some secrets refuse to stay buried, and some hearts were never meant to be bound.

ShadowMist Book 2 - In the works, can provide more as it gets closer to release

The Black Heart Tribunal Series — a three-part series (plus a prequel novella), multi-POV with queer, disability, and mental health representation, and romance subplots spanning M/F, M/M, queerplatonic, M/M/F, and hints of F/F. Themes of loyalty, sacrifice, and found family run through a world on the brink of chaos.

Between Sky and Sea (Book 1) — As the newly crowned King of All Selkies, Mira never expected to start her reign dodging assassins, saving defectors from the fae, and bargaining with werewolf packs—all while the Black Heart Tribunal, a hate group determined to kill the non-human nobility, closes in. And then there’s Lukas, her former love, now assigned as her bodyguard.

Where the Sky Dreams of Stars (Book 2) — Two of Europe’s largest werewolf Packs have merged, but the Black Heart Tribunal keeps escalating, and the Seer who can’t lie has Seen the worst days still to come. Hope arrives in the form of a mysterious selkie discovered on a diplomatic trip to New York.

The Blessed and Fallen Stars (Book 3) — The Black Heart Tribunal has stopped hiding what it is. Mira, King of All Selkies, must find an unlikely ally among the outcast siren religion to finally end them.