News & Updates

April 17, 2024

Serriously… Hello Trouble! There’s a reason Lainey gave Bodhi this nickname and in the upcoming Bay Ridge Royals installment, he more than proves why it fits him so well.

So with the cover reveal, we get a brand new release date of May 14th! Don’t forget to pre-order today!

Our cover artist Stephanie Heinritz from Vicious Desires Design has outdone herself and I can’t thank photographer Michelle Lancaster enough for finding the perfect Bodhi in model Morgan Waterhouse.

I’ve never seen the point in an emotional connection…

Madness runs in my blood or so my family history would suggest. For more than thirteen years, I’ve been driven by one quest. One desire. One goal. It’s about more than just DNA and legacy, it’s about a promise. One I swore I would never give up…

I never could have planned for her. For Lainey B. For how the girl who kept my secret became a woman who is truly my partner. I’ve been running alone for so long, I didn’t think I could be with someone.

She’s perfect for me.

She fits me.

I don’t even mind that she comes with attachments. They’re hers, that makes them mine too.

Now, someone has made a mistake. They’ve targeted what is ours—what is mine.

They have no idea the hell I will unleash.

But they are going to find out.

March 27, 2024

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Deceptive Truce, an enemies-to-lovers and dark romance, is now available on audio with the fantastic multi-cast narration from Brooke Daniels, Adam Gold, Noel Harrison and Toby Scott and produced by Audio Sorceress.

If you’ve just discovered Bay Ridge Royals, you start with Shamelessly Loyal!  Bay Ridge Royals is a follow-up and spinoff of characters first introduced in 82nd Street Vandals. Fortunately, Vandals is complete and is also available on audio (and the audio is complete). So if you want to start with Vandals, head right over Savage Vandal.

Happy listening!

xoxo

Heather

March 25, 2024

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Their love story has always been a work in progress. 

Frankie and the guys return in a brand-new installment for the Untouchable series as we revisit them post Farewells and Forever.

Save the Date for April 25, 2024.

For my beautiful children, you love to hear the stories of how Mommy met your Daddy, Dad, Pop, and Papa. You love the funny stories about fighting that Daddy should never have told you or the stories about dancing that Papa teases me with or how Dad coaxed me into singing with him. Pop says your favorite stories are the ones that tell you we are human, that we love, and have loved, and will always love you.

I get that. Family means security and safety. It means having people in your corner always. It means companions on the journey to chase your dreams and helping them achieve theirs.

Hello seems like such a simple word, my darlings. But every hello that led me to your fathers is also the beginning of the happily ever after we’re building every day. You’re a part of it, Izzy, Josh, Charlie and our new arrival. You are the continuation of the story, our work in progress—our happily ever after.

Are you ready to hear what happens next?

March 19, 2024

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As I type this up to say Wicked Surrender is now live, I’m amazed by the fact that I am well on the way toward finishing Violent Chaos (Book 5) and that only leaves Desperate Victory (Book 6) to go.

In many ways it feels like I just started this series and yet, I’ve been immersed in this world for years. The roots of this series go back to Vandals, but maybe even further back than you realize.

I’ve been planning BRR since late 2020, early 2021. Even before Savage Vandal released.

The long road from there to here, folded in a lot of changes, shifted the landscape, offered new alliances, unexpected twists, and even more surprising characters (yes, I’m looking at you Bodhi).

What began is Lainey’s story, has inextricably become all of theirs and I am so eager to share the rest with you.

Yes, I ask this every time, but are you ready?

P.S. Deceptive Truce audio will be uploaded soon, so stay tuned for more details!

February 7, 2024

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Today is the day, the Wicked Surrender cover reveal is here. As with Ezra before him, I knew we’d found Adam from the first glance at this image.   Photographer Michelle Lancaster is always fantastic to work with and she can find exactly what I’m looking for. Model Andy Murray is a whole vibe unto himself and our goddess of art and covers, Stephanie Heinritz at Vicious Desires Design brings the magic together.

Releasing March 19th, Wicked Surrender is book 4 of 6 in the Bay Ridge Royals. 

Every moment of my life was planned out before birth…

Family legacy dictates everything from type of education to suitability of friends to eligible marriage opportunities to the type of business I’m expected to go pursue. It’s more than just DNA, it’s also about birth order, gender, and unfortunately—the family name.

I was born a Reed and the weight that carries isn’t limited to the doors that it opens, but also the ones it bars shut. When I was tapped for the Royals, I saw my first way out—but it only proved to be a deeper trap.

Every single move I’ve made has been to tear us all free from King, from our parents, from our families—but there is no way out. There is only through.
We can’t break away, we have to take over.

Lies, betrayal, family.

The only woman I’ve ever loved is a the center of the board, courted and pursued on all sides by new players and old. There can be no truce.

My best friend? He’s lost his damn mind, avoiding me, and agreeing to plans he swore had long since fallen by the wayside.

Yet here we are. He’s surrendered.

I refuse to accept that.

I refuse to accept it for her, for him, or for us.

If the only way out is to destroy everyone in our path—then that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

WICKED SURRENDER is a full-length mature dark, new adult romance with enemies-to-lovers/love-hate themes. Please be aware some situations may be uncomfortable for readers. Trigger warnings can be found in the foreword should you require them. This is book four in a six book series that is a why choose with multiple new adults exploring and coming to terms with their evolving sexuality, identities, and relationships.

January 26, 2024

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Here we go! While Shamelessly Loyal actually released as part of a charity anthology last year, it was released as a standalone in September to be followed up immediately by Battle Lines. Shamelessly Loyal, of course, is a novella that serves both as a bridge for books 4 and 5 of the 82nd Street Vandals and details what Lainey and Milo were doing during those books. It’s also a good base to jump into the rest of the Bay Ridge Royals series as a whole. Book 2, Battle Lines, picks up after the end of the major events in the 82nd Street Vandals.

As a “true” sequel of sorts, we elected to keep all the voices from the Vandals audio books largely because our entire cast of characters were introduced in the Vandals. Do you have to read Vandals first? No. Will you enjoy a deeper understanding? Yes. It’s been my goal from the beginning to make this series as accessible as possible. That said, yes, there’s a lot of crossover between the two series.

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Fortunately, Vandals is complete and is also available on audio (and the audio is complete). So if you want to start with the 82nd Street Vandals, head right over Savage Vandal. That would be your starting point.

If you’re ready for the Bay Ridge Royals, you start with Shamelessly Loyal!

As always, I am a huge fan of the multi-cast that works together with the fantastic producers at Audio Sorceress to create this wonderful experience. What a great release week for the Bay Ridge Royals, book 3, Deceptive Truce just released and now we have the first two books in audio! Happy reading!

January 23, 2024

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Happy New Year! And welcome to our first release of 2024. I can’t tell you how excited I am to kick off this year. I have so much going on and a lot of plans to share with you.

Deceptive Truce is book three in the Bay Ridge Royals. I am utterly in love with this series and it’s been pouring out of me. These characters are so vibrant, strong-willed, and honestly—a little bit crazy. Okay, some of them are a lot crazy. That said, they are also my kind of crazy.

I’ve written a lot of books in my career. Some long, some short, some paranormal and other contemporary. I’ve written books where it was like pulling teeth to find each and very word and I’ve written others where it all just seems to magically coalesce on the page. I have said for years that my subconscious mind is far more clever than the rest of my brain. It thinks three, four, sometimes five steps ahead. For Bay Ridge Royals, it has legitimately been planning for three or four series ahead.

There are a lot of things coming together in this series. If you’ve read the other books, you might get a little something extra. At the same time, it’s a story about Lainey, Milo, Adam, Ezra, and Bodhi. It’s a story about corrupt families and broken relationships. It’s tale of greed and passion, friendships found and lovers lost. It’s also about fusing together for a common goal.

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More than all of that, it asks the question, what wouldn’t you do for the people you love? At the heart of it all is loyalty. I genuinely freaking adore this series. I want everyone to love it like I do. I’ve only written two or three, genuine passion projects—books I wrote because I loved the story more than anything else. Bay Ridge Royals is absolutely in that category.

Give it a chance and let these characters seduce you.

Oops, I got a little carried away there, I have a few other morsels to share with you, from new series announcements to upcoming plans and much more.

PATREON

Patreon has launched! It’s still a work in progress, so please mind our dust. The first few chapters of the Scorned Honor serial kicked off on there already.

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The first chapter of the What If story has kicked off. I haven’t decided whether it will be Wednesday or Friday… for updates. Currently, Scorned Honor is every other Friday so bear with me on this one.

For those asking, the What If is called Rules, Roses, & Rivals and it’s a what if Frankie met Frenchie over the summer and started senior year with a boyfriend rather than meeting him on day one! Don’t expect it to go exactly the way it did with a few bumps. I’m writing this as much for exploring the road less traveled as for fun!

We have some new art up, and I have more coming.

You can check it out right here.

SPECIAL STANDALONE NOVELS COMING

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We have some special new releases coming this year, a chance to revisit a few of our friends.

• Hellos and Happily Ever Afters – Frankie and the guys
• Dirty Dancer – 82nd Street Vandals
• Torched on Tour – KC and the girls

I do not have dates yet, I am working on them and have been. As soon as one is finished, I’ll put it up for preorder, etc.  I am super excited to return to these worlds! Yes, each book takes place AFTER their series finales.

I have 2 of the 3 covers to reveal, so we may make it a game to get those up for you to see!

WHAT’S NEXT??

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BAY RIDGE ROYALS | BOOK FOUR: Wicked Surrender, is currently available for preorder. Don’t mind the currently listed release date. As always, I’ll move the date up when it’s done. FUN FACT: We are on track to get to my editors by the beginning of Feb. Which will mean a March release 😀

The following have no particular dates as yet, and some are pending:

• BAY RIDGE ROYALS | BOOK FIVE
• BAY RIDGE ROYALS | BOOK SIX
• NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT: BLOOD Brothers
  • Book One: BURN
  • FMC: Grace Degas Black – yes, she is the twin sister of Blake Blessing’s Bastard Brothers of Carnage heroine: Amorette Black
  • MMCs: Yes, these are Doc’s former teammates all introduced in Vandals briefly (as was Grace).
  • Currently, Burn is up for preorder for January of 2025, it will be done well before then, but I am giving myself breathing room.
• STANDALONES listed above
• PNR STANDALONE – TO BE ANNOUNCED – I’ve missed writing PNR so this one is absolutely for me and is going to be my carrot project this year. I get to work on it when I hit my word count deadlines. When I hit the halfway mark, I’ll announce what it is (and yes, I already have a cover *winks*)

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I have quite a few more surprises planned. Including events. Be sure to visit the events tab on my website to see where I’ll be in 2024 and the preorders as they open. As always, if you aren’t in the Facebook reader group, they pretty much get the first news drops of everything.

This is gonna be a banger of a year!

December 20, 2023

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I cannot tell you how excited I am to share this with all of you. From the first moment I saw this image, I knew we’d found Ezra and oh my does he fit the bill or what?

Hats off to Michelle Lancaster, the photographer, Mitchell Wick, the model, and as always, our goddess of art and covers, Stephanie Heinritz at Vicious Desires Design. *chef’s kiss*

Releasing January 23rd (told you I would move it up as soon as it was ready!)

Remember, this is book 3 of 6 in the Bay Ridge Royals. 

Life has been a series of exquisite disasters…

Do you ever lie to yourself? I do. Making friends has been the cruelest choice I ever inflicted upon myself. I like to say I don’t regret it, and for the most part that’s true.

I resent it.

I despise him because he left me behind, following another battle in this war we’ve been waging. I thought we were partners, best friends, allies, and that he would always have my back as I’ve fought to have his.

I hate her because she’s perfection and everything he’s ever wanted, untouchable, brilliant, and capable. Yet, I want her too. Need her. Still, she gave herself to someone else.

Telling myself one taste would have to be enough even when I knew it never could be is just another deception I sold myself on this trail of disaster.

No matter what I do, I’m not enough for them, for my family, for this world we inhabit. Now—alliances are shifting, and our enemies are closing in.

I know the difference and I know I need to leave them to face it all on their own. That’s the choice I should make. That’s the choice I have to make.

Or at least, that’s the newest lie I tell myself.

DECEPTIVE TRUCE is a full-length mature dark, new adult romance with enemies-to-lovers/love-hate themes. Please be aware some situations may be uncomfortable for readers. Trigger warnings can be found in the foreword should you require them. This is book three in a six book series that is a why choose with multiple new adults exploring and coming to terms with their evolving sexuality, identities, and relationships.

December 18, 2023

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Oh, you have been good or maybe you were perfectly naughty, either way, I’m excited to share that I’ll Be Home… is now available on Kindle, in Kindle Unlimited and in print. It’s the holiday romance you didn’t know you needed or wanted. Even better, it’s a wild romp written with one of my favorite people. Tate James and I really wanted to celebrate holidays right. So what could be better than a dark romance, you know? By the way, it is a dark romance, so be sure to check out the trigger warnings in the foreword.

They say you can never go back…

‘Course, I never wanted to return. It took me years to age out. Once I made it, I took off and never turned around.

Trust me, there were only three reasons I managed to survive there as long as I did and they abandoned me as soon as they were able. I’d like to say I didn’t blame them, but that would be a lie.

I had zero desire to return. Yet here I was, on the road to Northland chasing a story cause my editor told me kids were disappearing… again.

It doesn’t matter what I want, I’m taking the fastest route to the darkest part of my past.

And then I’ll be home…

*Please note this is a reverse harem and the authors suggest you always read the foreword in their books. Contains some dark elements, mature situations, and is definitely intended for 18+.

December 9, 2023

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Money Shot is now available on audio!  So stoked to share this with all of you. You can find it on Audible and via Amazon with it coming to the Apple Bookstore soon.  Michelle Sparks, JF Harding, Lucas Allen are joined by Marnye Young as Frankie to bring the fourth and final Blue Ivy Prep book to life. Don’t miss out on the deliciousness that is Money Shot on Audio.