Contemporary Romance

  • On the Mend

    Sabrina Kelly has worked too hard and waited too long for this promotion to let anything derail it. All she has to do is rehab the Waves' injured center fielder and get him back on the field. The catch? That center fielder is Dan McMullen, her college ex and first real heartbreak.

    She can be professional about this. She has to be.

    Dan McMullen has loved two things his whole life...baseball and Sabrina. One he conquered, the other he lost. Now she's his physical therapist, her promotion depends on his recovery, and he's got one shot to prove he's not the man who broke her heart.

    He's not wasting it.

    She needs him healthy. He needs a second chance. And somewhere between resistance and recovery, the line between professional and personal becomes impossible to hold.

    The first time he broke her heart, she barely made it through. She can't afford to let that happen twice.

  • Fake It Until It’s Real

    She's afraid she's too much. He's convinced he'll never be enough.

    Maplemoor was supposed to be Jess Harper's fresh start, a quiet place to rebuild after a future that never happened. Now she has a book club that feels like family, a coffee shop that knows her order, and a life that finally feels steady again.

    What she doesn't have is a date to her best friend's wedding. The one where her ex and his brand-new fiancée will be.

    Caleb Ward is the guy everyone counts on when it matters most—reliable, steady, the first one through the door. He did everything right last time, and still ended up the man who got left behind. These days, he's not looking for love. He's not looking for anything.

    Which is exactly why saying yes to Jess Harper feels safe. It's just a fake date. One wedding, and then back to real life.

    Until it isn't.

    One weekend together. One very convincing performance. And suddenly the line between pretending and real is a lot thinner than either of them thought.

    The hard part is knowing which side of that line they're on.

  • Broken Down in Ballyclare

    BDBC Cover

    What happens when the woman who plans everything falls for the guy who lives life one day at a time?

    For as long as I can remember I’ve had a plan. Every time I reached a goal, I planned my way to the next and worked to make things happen.

    What I didn’t plan was that everything I worked toward would all be swiped away with one conference call. Or that my grandmother, who raised me, would die.

    For the first time in my life, I did something spontaneous and hopped on a plane to Ireland. I didn’t have a plan, a place to stay, or even proper clothes. Which felt liberating for a day, but things quickly went downhill.

    But it also brought Conor Doherty into my life. The man is the total package…handsome, sexy, sweet, and a damn good kisser. What should have been a vacation fling ended up being something much deeper.

    I was happy just spending time with him and going with the flow, then got offered a job that would put my plan right back on track.

    So what’s a girl to do?

  • Lineups & Lyrics

    Lineups & Lyrics book cover by Tina Gallagher, Coach's Playbook series, featuring a catcher's mask, glove, and lineup notebook on a blue background

    Benny Reed has a plan. Quinn Logan isn’t part of it.

    Managing an MLB team means building something from the ground up, and that challenge is exactly what drew him back to Waypoint. He knows the game. He knows the job. And he knows one rule that’s always served him well: baseball and his personal life don’t mix.

    Then he meets Quinn Logan.

    She’s Waypoint born and raised.
    She’s also a retired pop star with a name the world recognizes.

    He doesn’t remember the quiet girl from high school.
    She remembers him—and the crush that inspired her first songs.

    Getting close is risky.
    The town is watching.
    The media won’t stay quiet.
    And some connections don’t care about timing.

  • Thick Girls Pole

    Thick Girls Pole cover

    Big. Curvy. Thick. Whatever term you use for not skinny, that’s what I’ve always been.

    Pole dancing helped me learn to appreciate my curvy body and even feel sexy. And while my self-esteem has improved over the years, my taste in men has always been stuck in the tall, dark, and toxic category.

    After breaking it off with my latest mistake, I’ll admit I went a little wild. But those random hookups got old real fast and that’s not how I want to live my life going forward. So I decided to take a self-imposed man break.

    When Simon Parker asked me on a date, I had no intention of accepting his offer. We worked together for almost a decade and I never thought of him as anything more than a good friend. But my pole ladies convinced me to give him a chance.

    So I said yes, never expecting my stomach to flutter when he picked me up. Or that his lips against mine would feel oh-so-right.

    But I’d be lying if I said the thought of diving into another relationship doesn’t freak me out a little. Or a lot. I’ve been doing well on my own. I don’t know if I’m ready to risk my hard-won confidence. Plus, Simon’s definitely not my usual type.

    But that’s probably a good thing, right?

  • Fight It Until We Can’t

    The wrecking ball has arrived. And she isn't moving.

    He's a property analyst hired to find the cracks.
    She's the operations manager who will make sure he doesn't.

    Carli Porter runs The Lochwell like it's hers. The coffee shop is her living room, the book club her family, and the pub her Friday night. The building belongs to someone else, and that someone just sent his best friend to decide its fate.

    Alexander Grassi is smart, annoyingly hard to hate, and has the kind of forearms that make it very difficult to stay mad at him. (She's tried. It hasn't worked.) He was supposed to write a report and leave. He wasn't supposed to start showing up to trivia night. Or turning her coffee cup so the handle faces her. Or looking at her like she's the best thing in a building full of things worth saving.

    She says his report could ruin her life.
    He says she's not wrong.
    She says that makes him the last person she should want around.
    He says he's staying anyway.

    Because some legacies and people are worth fighting for.

  • Pitches & Pints

    Tessa Bergmann has learned one thing...it's easier to run a brewery and a major league baseball team than trust someone with your heart.

    After inheriting both businesses from her late father, she's built her life around staying in control. Relationships? They're complicated and distracting.

    Then spring training happens.

    One hotel hallway, one impulsive decision, and suddenly the woman who signs his paycheck is also the best thing Dane Mercer never saw coming.

    It was supposed to end when spring training did.

    Back in Waypoint, Tessa decides it's time to put herself back out there. Weeks of swiping past fish photos, bathroom selfies, and men who somehow make golf their entire personality only convince her she'd rather spend time with Dane.

    So she makes him an offer.

    Keep the arrangement.
    No labels.
    No expectations.
    No promises.

    Dane doesn't need convincing. Great company, even better sex, and zero complications? He'd be an idiot to say no.
    Everyone else sees two people falling in love.

    Tessa and Dane just see an arrangement they refuse to define.
    Until one overheard conversation changes everything.

  • Thick Girls Take Chances

    Thick Girls Take Chances book cover by Tina Gallagher, featuring a curvy woman with curly brown hair holding a laptop on a green background

    I came to Seaside to clear my head—not fall for the hot handyman with a Hollywood past and a smile that should come with a warning.

    After my divorce, my confidence tanked, my writing stalled, and my belief in love was totally MIA. Not ideal for someone who makes her living writing romance.

    So when my aunt offered me a temporary escape in the cozy coastal town of Seaside, I took it. I needed time to get my life—and my words—back on track. Falling for someone was never part of the plan.

    Especially not Max.

    He’s younger and hotter than any fictional hero I’ve ever written. And turns out, he used to be the kind of teen TV star who lived on after-school reruns and bedroom posters.

    Now he’s the local handyman with a protective streak, a tragic backstory, and a habit of showing up just when I need him most. What starts as a flirty distraction turns into something deeper—something that feels like a second chance at the kind of love I stopped believing in.

    But happily ever afters are just for books…right?

  • Loving London

    Safest girl meets the most dangerous thing of all…love.

    After losing my mom, I realized just how small my world had become.
    So when the chance to take the trip we always planned finally came, I did the unthinkable—

    I got on the plane.

    England was supposed to be a fresh start.
    A quiet escape.
    A way to remember who I used to be.

    I didn’t expect Bas Middleton.

    The sweet, nerdy boy I met years ago is gone, replaced by a man who’s warm, steady… and distractingly sexy.
    A carefree vacation fling with him was never part of the plan.

  • Waste of Handsome

    Jack Reagan has one rule: baseball first, everything else never. But when his ex-girlfriend publishes a tell-all book, even he has to admit he needs help.

    Enter Hannah Adams, the Waves' PR professional who knows this team inside and out and is his best shot at salvaging his reputation.

    Hannah has spent years watching Jack prove repeatedly that talent and judgment don't always go hand in hand. She knows exactly who he is. Fixing his image is just part of the job, and that annoying crush she's been ignoring for years is nobody's business but hers.

    But the more time she spends with him, the more she realizes she didn't know him at all. Turns out the hardest part of this job isn't fixing his reputation, it's protecting her own heart.

    Maybe Jack Reagan is more than a waste of handsome. The question is what she's going to do about it.