Cover reveal for romance anthology to benefit women's reproductive health

I was thrilled to be invited to be part of The Packing List, a romance anthology featuring twelve original, never-before-seen stories from bestselling authors. One hundred percent of net proceeds will be donated to sexual and reproductive health care organizations. The Packing List is only available for a limited time so grab your copy before it’s gone for good!

This exclusive collection brings you sizzling, later-in-life love stories where seasoned characters tumble into red-hot temptation, unexpected passion, and daring new beginnings that redefine desire. Every tale tempts you into wanting more and these happily ever afters smolder right off the page.

My story, The Sun in Her Eyes, is a first for me in two ways: it’s my first historical and my first sapphic story:

✨ THE SUN IN HER EYES: Newlywed MaryAnn Callahan believes she’ll be content with her sensible new life on a Kansas farm until her husband’s sister steps out of the sunlight and leaves her dazzled.✨

Authors included:

Karen Booth @karenbbooth
J. Calamy @j_calamy
Kate Canterbary @katecanterbary
Michelle Donn @michelledonnauthor
Sarah T. Dubb @sarahtdubbwrites
L.B. Dunbar @lbdunbarwrites
Jess K. Hardy @jesskhardy_author
Mia Hopkins @miahopkinsxoxo
Cindy Kehagiaras @cindykehstories
Angelina M. Lopez @angelinamlo
Melanie Moreland @morelandmelanie
Maria Vale @mariavaleauthor

💖 cover by @katiegoldingtx

All of the net proceeds from The Packing List will be donated to sexual and reproductive health care organizations. This anthology is not being conducted on behalf of these organizations nor do these organizations endorse this anthology or collective effort. They have, however, graciously agreed to accept the funds.

Cover reveal for FULL MOON OVER FREEDOM coming March 30

Mark your calendars!! I am so thrilled to announce that the cover of Full Moon Over Freedom will be revealed Thursday, March 30 at 3 pm CT on The Nerd Daily. 

Even though I can't give you a whole look, you can tell by the little bit above how beautiful it is! And it's so hot. My two Latinx characters--Gillian Armstead-Bancroft and her lost-and-found friend, Nicky Mendoza--are beautifully steamy for each other. The cover was designed once again by the talented Alex Cabal, the illustrator for After Hours on Milagro Street, and I'm beyond knocked out by the work she did!

Here's a peek at the back cover.

GILLIAN ARMSTEAD-BANCROFT—CLASS VALEDICTORIAN, PRIDE OF THE EAST SIDE, AND ONCE-PERFECT BRUJA, WIFE, AND MOTHER—IS GOING TO SPEND HER SUMMER GETTING GOOD AT BEING BAD.

The first time she left Freedom, Kansas, behind, she did it by doing everything right.

This time, she’ll hide from the large Mexican American family welcoming her home and work in secret to break the curse that’s erased her magical life. Only by doing it all wrong can Gillian get herself and her two children away from the ghosts of her hometown by summer’s end.

Nicky Mendoza is an answer to her prayers. He was the practical solution to the problem of her virginity when they were younger, and now, as a gorgeous artist only in town for a weekend, he’s the ideal man to launch her down the path of ruination.

But Gillian isn’t the only one who’s cursed.

Nicky has been plagued by his furtive, enduring love for her as long as he’s been haunted by his cadejo, the phantom black dog that stalks his psyche. He’ll stick around to be whatever Gillian needs him to be this summer—but he won’t touch her. Touching her, then watching her leave again, will ruin him for good.

Isn't it sooooooo good???? I cannot wait until you all can get your hands on my second-chance, small town, childhood friends, competence porn, unrequited pining, we-want-to-but-we-can't book with a touch of bruja magic!

Cover reveal for AFTER HOURS ON MILAGRO STREET

So thrilled to finally reveal the cover you will hopefully see in bookstores everywhere this summer!

After Hours on Milagro Street, available July 12, is my

🌺Latinx
🌺Small town
🌺High-heat
🌺Big family
🌺Opposites attract
🌺Forced proximity
🌺Grumpy vs. sunshine
🌺Story of my heart.

This beautiful cover, hinting at all the fun things inside the book, was illustrated by the phenomenal artist Alex Cabal who's designed covers for Bethany C. Morrow, Lillie Vale, and Nafiza Azad.

This book and series means so much to me. It's my family's story -- of a multi-generational Mexican-American family and the community they love in Kansas -- told with my spin: escapist plotlines, high heat, and lots of fantasy, fun, and emotion.

Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The “poor handsome man.”

Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra “Alex” Torres turning Loretta’s, her grandmother’s bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family’s admiration; she won’t let him have the bar and building she needs to resurrect her career, too.

Alex blowing into town has rocked Jeremiah to his mild-mannered core, but the large, boisterous Torres clan is everything he never had. He doesn’t believe Alex has the best interest of her family, their community or the bar’s legacy in mind. To protect all three, he’ll stand up to the tough and tattooed bartender with whom he now shares a bedroom wall—and resist the insta-lust they both feel.

But when an old enemy threatens Loretta’s and the surrounding neighborhood, Alex and Jeremiah must combine forces. It will take her might and his mind to save the home they both desperately need.

SERVING SIN cover reveal!

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The reveal of this gorgeous cover for Serving Sin is bittersweet: While it is my next book release (YAY!!!), it is also the last book in the Filthy Rich series (😢).

Serving Sin wraps up my debut, stand-alone series about the royal family of the Monte del Vino Real and the three powerful women who got what they want because they'd earned it. I love these three couples -- my alpha heroines and their strong heroes who stand by them -- and the wine growing community in the mountains that they've made their home.

I wrote an epilogue in Serving Sin that wraps the whole series up. There was ugly crying. I hope you enjoy it, too!

BUT, before we get to the end, we have the story of Roman and Cenobia...

THIRTEEN YEARS AGO, DECORATED FORMER ARMY RANGER ROMAN SHEPPARD RESCUED MEXICAN HEIRESS CENOBIA TRUJILLO FROM A SHOCKING KIDNAPPING THAT RIVETED THE WORLD.

In the years since, Roman’s risen from his humble Texas roots: he is now the head of an elite security firm and the reluctant half prince of a glamorous wine-growing Spanish kingdom.

And today, Cenobia—"Cen"—is finally in the CEO role she’s trained for her whole life. But serious, growing threats against her are derailing a product launch that will change the Mexican industrial landscape forever. She’s done the hard work to recover from her kidnapping, but therapy has't changed the fact that Roman Sheppard will forever represent safety in her mind.

He's the only one she can trust.

And his coming to Mexico will allow Cenobia to finally figure out if what she feels is a teenager’s daydream or a grown woman’s reality…

But there’s a reason Roman has stayed a continent away. His mission is to save people. And nothing—not duty to family, not the mistakes of his past and certainly not love—is going to get in his way.

He'll go to Mexico. He'll help Cen. He'll keep her safe.

What he won't allow himself to do?

Desire Cenobia Trujillo. He won’t allow her to become his sweet Cen.

Serving Sin, available May 25

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HATE CRUSH Cover Reveal and Exclusive Excerpt on Frolic

FINALLY!! After waiting FOREVER, I can finally share with you the cover of Hate Crush, which is getting a big reveal along with an exclusive excerpt over on Frolic.

Hate Crush, is the second book in the “Filthy Rich” series and follow-up to Lush Money. But you might notice some intense design changes between the two covers in the same series. Why? Well, I have to be coy for now. But there will be some exciting new things happening with Lush Money, so the awesome powers-at-be at Carina Press decided that a new cover theme would be appropriate. I can’t wait to tell you more!

But why are you still here?

Also, if you’re a book reviewer or blogger, Hate Crush is available now over on NetGalley. Early reviews are super helpful for just-starting-out authors like myself!

The digital edition of Hate Crush will be available on June 29 and the mass market paperback copy will be available on June 30. You can preorder now. And thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone for your excitement about this second book in the series!

HATE CRUSH cover reveal coming WEDNESDAY!

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Join me on Frolic Wednesday, April 8 for the cover reveal and exclusive excerpt of Hate Crush, my second book in the “Filthy Rich” series and follow-up to Lush Money.

You know what’s better than an enemies-to-lovers story? When the enemies were lovers FIRST (I guess that makes it a lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers story).

As a reference point for those of you who read Lush Money, Hate Crush is Mateo's sister's story. You might remember the hot-headed, long-haired Princesa Sofia? Ten years ago, when she was a 19-year-old wild child, she fell in love crazy fast with bad boy Aish Salinger during one California harvest season. Three months later, he broke her heart and she's sworn to never fall in love again.

Now she's a millionaire, and the future of her kingdom, the Monte del Vino Real, rests on the success of her about-to-launch winery. Faking a relationship with her heartbreaking ex, now a world-famous rock star, would ensure her winery's success and a future for her people. Only problem: She hates him more than any other person in the world.

Trying to recover from scandal, fallen superstar Aish Salinger jumps at the chance to be near Sofia again. Leaving her was the biggest mistake he's ever made, and he's waited ten years to win her back. He never counted on finding a woman who despised him so much she didn't want to be anywhere near him.

Folks, there is so much groveling in this story. So. Much. Groveling. And sex. And wine. And deep, intense feels. And groveling.

Sound good?

You can preorder Hate Crush now!

And don’t forget to check in Wednesday, April 8 on Frolic to check out the cover and an exclusive excerpt!

If you’re a book blogger, reviewer, or fan, Hate Crush will be available on NetGalley.com on Wednesday after the cover launch. Don’t forget to request it!

Cover Reveal!!!

The title -- "The Billionaire's Prince" -- was the first spark of inspiration I had back in 2015 during Christmas break, while I was visiting my parents at the vineyard: What if the billionaire we romance writers spend so much time writing about was a woman?

In three-and-a-half years, that spark has grown into a completed book, an agent, a three-book publishing deal, a new title, and, at long last, a cover.

I am thrilled to reveal the cover for my debut novel, Lush Money:

Preorder now available!

Creating a cover is an intricate process of me giving suggestions and then the smart people at Carina Press -- art, editorial, marketing and publicity -- putting together their much-more-experienced heads and coming up with a cover that defines the book and leaps out among a million romance novels.

There are some awesome things that make this cover distinctive from the others on the shelves.

One of the best bits -- they got the woman on top! It's super hard to find stock photographs with the woman in a dominant position. And my self-made billionaire heroine, Roxanne Medina, is certainly in charge of this book.

Initially, I thought our prince, Mateo de Esperanza y Santos, was a little scruffier here than I'd imagined him in my head. But my brilliant editor Kerri Buckley pointed out that in the opening of the book, he's in a baseball cap and muddy muck boots. She said:

"Mateo is a next-gen prince... He’s the winemaker, he’s the man-of-the-people savior, he’s down on his knees in the literal dirt. He’s the one who doesn’t want the throne or all the trappings that go with it. I think that is infinitely more interesting and appealing to depict than yet another guy in a suit."

See, I said they were smarter and more experienced than I am.

Additionally, I love the golden vineyard in the background. So many romance novels fade to black. I think the lush couple and mellow gold scene will make it stick out when people are rushing through thumbnails on Amazon.

The fact that my cover will be one of those thumbnails is a dream come true.

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