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The Cross Legacy

"He traded a boardroom for a boatyard. He didn't expect to trade his solitude for a harem."

The Captain's Claim

Harem Adventure · Contemporary

Nathan Cross is the man who keeps Port Meridian running. He walked away from a corporate empire to build something real with his own hands. But when a storm brings more than just waves to his dock, Nathan finds himself at the center of a different kind of power struggle.

Surrounded by women who need his protection—and his command—Nathan must decide if he's ready to be more than just a captain. He might just have to become a king.

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The Doctor's Fever

The Cross Legacy · Book 2

Dr. Lena Whitaker is the last line of defense for Port Meridian. For five years, she has held the island's community clinic together with stubborn self-reliance and caffeine—but a record-breaking heat dome is pushing her to the breaking point. When the clinic's ancient generator suffers a catastrophic failure, fifty thousand dollars in life-saving vaccines are warming toward disaster and critical patients are left gasping in the stifling heat.

Enter Nathan Cross. To Lena, he's a distraction she doesn't have the budget for. But as Nathan masters the failing machine with cold mechanical precision, he uncovers the truth Lena has been hiding from herself: the operator is just as depleted as the system. In the blue-tinged darkness of the clinic after hours, she finally finds someone strong enough to carry the weight she's borne alone.

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The Heir's Devotion

The Cross Legacy · Book 3

Mia Russo is a master shipwright trapped in a hobby shed, armed with a naval architecture degree and a bone-deep resentment. She has spent three years watching Nathan Cross occupy the expansion property her father died trying to save. To Mia, he's a Trust Fund Tourist—a wealthy interloper using a checkbook to improve an island that was doing just fine without him.

But when Nathan walks into her clean room with blueprints for the Meridian Hawk—a high-performance offshore hull that only Mia can build—the friction between them sparks a different kind of fire. As the chain-link fence between their properties comes down, Mia must decide if trusting the man she once called the enemy means losing her independence, or finally joining a fleet worth sailing with.

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The Tourist's Tribute

The Cross Legacy · Book 4

Isabelle Dubois has spent twenty years acquiring things — companies, assets, leverage. She arrives at Port Meridian on a 120-foot yacht with a developer's eye and the capital to back it up. When The Gilded Age grounds at the harbor entrance and the Gold Team can't fix it, the only man who can is the last man on the island she can buy.

Nathan Cross built the operating system that runs her yacht. He knows exactly what broke, and why — and the moment he tells her, Isabelle understands that the standard she's spent her career measuring against has a name, and it's standing in front of her. In the space between what she came to take and what this island already built, she'll have to choose: extract value the way she always has, or finally build something that lasts.

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The Mechanic's Horizon

The Cross Legacy · Book 5

Port Meridian protected Nathan Cross for years — closed ranks against everyone who wanted to take its most essential resource. Now the island that built a household around him is questioning what it built. The community's discomfort has found its voice, the mayor's support is quietly eroding, and the polycule at the Sanctuary is running out of goodwill. Nathan fixes things. He's about to find out what it looks like when the harbor itself breaks.

When an October nor'easter severs the island from the mainland, no help arrives. What remains is what they built: the helipad, the clinic annex, the boatyard, and five people who know exactly what to do when there is nothing left but the work. Port Meridian watches the household it tried to push out save everything it has. The series closes on the horizon Nathan has been sailing toward since Book One.

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The Ransdell Dynasty

"In bourbon country, some things are worth more than money."

Distilled

Explicit Bourbon Erotica

Treasury Agent Shelby Hensley has eight days to prove the Ransdell family is hiding millions. Eight days to make the case that will define her career. But Master Distiller Tobias Ransdell III doesn't just defend his family's legacy—he dominates it with the same quiet authority he'll use to unravel her.

The audit begins in ledgers and tax forms. It ends in the sultry darkness of century-old barrelhouses, where the professional lines she's drawn dissolve like bourbon in limestone water.

"When she whispers 'Master' in the darkness of his estate, she seals more than her fate—she ignites a five-book dynasty."

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Proofed

The Ransdell Dynasty · Book 2

Savannah Caudill is a moonshiner's daughter who did the impossible: she went legitimate. But when a federal raid ends her father's thirty-seven-year run, Savannah is left with a desperate choice. Rival distiller Caleb McBrayer offers her a deal—spy on the Ransdell empire, and his lawyers will get her father out of prison.

Entering Elk Trace Distillery as a mole, Savannah expects to find the man who ruined her family. Instead, she finds Tobias Ransdell—a master distiller who sees her rare gift for reading the mash and pulls her into a seductive world of power, heritage, and unexpected belonging. When the vendetta is finally exposed, Savannah learns that while the law can be circumvented, a Ransdell's claim is absolute.

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Refined

The Ransdell Dynasty · Book 3

Cordelia Breckinridge has spent forty years learning to read rooms — the bourbon aristocracy, the horse country set, the political families who run Kentucky in ways that don't appear on ballots. She arrives at Elk Trace carrying more intelligence on the Ransdell-McBrayer feud than she's ever disclosed to either side, and a composure built on decades of knowing exactly which truths to keep quiet.

Tobias Ransdell doesn't want her connections, her family name, or her encyclopedic knowledge of Lexington's buried history. What he sees instead is the woman underneath the poise — the one who chose silence instead of loyalty when she could have ended the feud years ago. Dee has always known the difference between what she owns and what she merely controls. She's about to discover which one Toby Ransdell intends to be.

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Casked

The Ransdell Dynasty · Book 4

Isla MacLellan runs the MacLellan Distillery the same way her family has for four centuries — without apology, without performance, and without sharing the heirloom yeast that defines their whisky. She arrives at Elk Trace for a controlled technical exchange. Nothing more. The fact that Tobias Ransdell is the only distiller in the Western Hemisphere she'd trust with it is a professional assessment, not a personal one.

Precision recognizes precision. What Isla didn't account for is what happens when someone matches her standard without trying to exceed it — when the most guarded thing she possesses is received not as an acquisition but as a trust. Four hundred years of MacLellan discipline prepared her for every professional contingency. It didn't prepare her to propose permanence to a man she's known for seventy-two hours.

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Consumed

The Ransdell Dynasty · Book 5

Maeve McBrayer has spent her career building distance from the McBrayer name — from her brother's obsession, his methods, and the feud that has swallowed her family whole. When a registrar's mailing lands in her hands that tells her exactly what Caleb has filed against Toby Ransdell, she doesn't call a lawyer. She drives to Elk Trace.

Tobias Ransdell has no reason to trust a McBrayer at his door. Maeve has no expectation that he should. What she brings is the one thing she's spent her adult life refusing to carry: the conscience her brother abandoned and the intelligence to end what he started. The last thing she expects, walking into Elk Trace with a document that could save his distillery, is to understand what she's been building toward all along.

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Firefighter's Second Chance

"He ran into burning buildings for a living. Falling for her was the only thing that ever scared him."

Rekindled

Contemporary Harem Romance · Firefighter's Second Chance

Twelve years as an EMT taught Jake Harris everything about death, but nothing prepared him for the morning he responded to a structure fire at his own address. In a single heartbeat, he lost his wife, his home, and his reason for breathing. Driven by hollow grief, Jake trades his paramedic badge for a firefighter's turnout coat—courted by a death wish that makes him the bravest, and most reckless, man in the department.

Beth Jenkins has carried her own burden of silence since the fire. As an ER nurse and the best friend of Jake's late wife, she's watched him spiral from afar. When Jake is benched after a catastrophic rescue that leaves him with permanent lung damage, Beth moves in to manage his recovery—and brings the shared history they both tried to bury. Amid the ghosts of their past, a new, fragile connection ignites.

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Ignition

Firefighter's Second Chance · Book 2

Sierra Langston was a high-powered CEO with a Porsche, a recent divorce, and a meticulously ordered life—until she hit a patch of black ice and her declaration of independence went up in flames. Pulled from the wreckage by Jake Harris, she finds herself an unlikely guest in the modest home of her rescuer and his partner, Beth.

For a woman used to corporate dominance, being accommodated feels like regression. But as Sierra applies her organizational genius to their chaotic household, her empty mansion starts to feel like a cage she no longer wants to return to. In the warmth of their kitchen and the quiet of their patio, a dangerous curiosity begins to throb—and Sierra must decide if she'll retreat to sterile success, or help build a family made from choice rather than obligation.

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Flashover

Firefighter's Second Chance · Book 3

Carly Morales has worked alongside Jake Harris for two years. She knows his read times, his technique, his tells under pressure — she catalogued every one of them and built her professional armor specifically to contain what that knowledge means. When a structural collapse traps them together for six hours and Jake shields her body with his, the armor she spent two years constructing takes a hit it wasn't designed to absorb.

Jake's household isn't a secret. Carly told herself that knowing was the same as not wanting. Six hours in the dark, listening to him breathe to make sure he was still breathing, taught her the difference. When he finally asks what she wants, Carly is the one person in his life who already knows the answer. She's been waiting to say it in a room where it won't ruin everything.

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Controlled Burn

Firefighter's Second Chance · Book 4

Kelly Glaser has made clear, to anyone who would listen, exactly what she thinks of Jake Harris and the household he runs three doors down. She has opinions. She has standards. And for the last eighteen months, she has also had a restraining order against her ex-husband that Travis treats as a suggestion.

When Travis comes through the door in the middle of the night, Jake is the one who comes up the street — not because he owes her anything, not despite everything she's said about him, but because that's who he is. Kelly Glaser, who has been making judgments from a safe distance for three years, is about to discover what it costs to have been wrong about the one person her children needed most.

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Fully Involved

Firefighter's Second Chance · Book 5

July 4th is Rebecca Harris's birthday. The annual barbecue is supposed to be her party, running without her, growing into what she always wanted it to be. When an illegal aerial firework hits a dry hillside and the main pass closes in the night, Clearwater Springs stops being a neighborhood and becomes an island. No mutual aid. No outside resources. What the town has is what it has.

Jake Harris spent three years learning to choose life. Tonight the choice is made on the line, in the smoke, with his whole household watching. The polycule that formed in grief and built itself into something that holds is about to be tested against a fire that takes everything that isn't bolted down. Some things will survive. Some won't. The series closes on Rebecca's birthday — exactly where it always needed to end.

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The Cross Legacy

The Captain's Claim

The Doctor's Fever

The Heir's Devotion

The Tourist's Tribute

The Mechanic's Horizon

The Ransdell Dynasty

Distilled

Proofed

Refined

Casked

Consumed

Firefighter's Second Chance

Rekindled

Ignition

Flashover

Controlled Burn

Fully Involved

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