A steamy and flirty standalone romantic comedy about stepping out of your comfort zone and falling in love along the way. A backpack? Ready. A packed itinerary for Latin America? Planned. A hot sailor who wants to show me the world? Unexpected. I arrived in Panama with a limited budget for maximum exploration. I’ve only got a few months between my parents’ home in Sydney and the corporate world, so I better make the best of it. What I didn't plan on was meeting Eivind. He’s got broad shoulders, top-tier flirting, and a sexy accent that pulls me in. But giving into him could jeopardize my whole trip. Ukulele ballads, long walks in the jungle, and sharing the space of a small sailboat together means the tension will be off the charts by the time we make it to the Pacific Ocean. Eivind and his boat are sailing west, while...

Two little words that will forever change the way I see my best friend’s sister: boudoir session. Bailey Price earns the big bucks in New York City, while I’m cleaning houses as a side gig in our hometown. I love the town, but Bailey only comes home when she has to. Then she shows up at my photography studio asking for a boudoir shoot and suddenly I’m the one exposed. Every click of my camera reveals another reason why I can’t look away: her curves, her wit, her defensive edge. I can’t play it safe. Not when she’s looking at me like I’m the only man who’s ever really seen her. Not when every photo taken becomes foreplay. I have to face the truth: I’ve been in love with her since we were teens. There’s just one problem: her brother. My best friend. The guy who’s protected Bailey with his...

A disenchanted superyacht chef and a hunk of a deckhand. Will a hot night between the sheets cure wanderlust? I expected this job to be perfect—fancy tasting menus while schmoozing elite clientele and island hopping in the Caribbean. Instead, we’re stuck in Antigua, with nothing but boat work. I accidentally saw my coworker naked on my first day. And I can’t stop thinking about him. When the yacht gets sidelined, will the building tension crash over me, or will I escape and find the adventure I’m looking for? The Night in Lover’s Bay is a 18k to-be-continued prequel for the Love and Wanderlust Series. It’s a hot forced proximity romance set on a superyacht with a naked meet-cute and a flirty hero!

A social media star learns to trust herself again when a quiet, shy fan meets her in this swoony, slow burn romantic comedy. Am I famous? No. But the gorgeous guy anchored next to me has seen all of the videos on my very niche sailing channel and he is star-struck. I’m nursing my wounds from a bad divorce while sailing in the South Pacific. Jonas’s insistence that I join in his fun reignites my love for the islands and this wild, crazy life. Between swimming with sharks and star-filled skies, attraction grows. And when a crisis happens, Jonas is calm and collected–nothing like my ex. A sizzling kiss sparks two blissful weeks of passion, but he’s heading to New Zealand, and my little sailboat has to stay in the gentle waters of Tahiti. Jonas asks me for a commitment I’m not ready to make. I have to decide: am...

A chef looking for her perfect job and a deckhand dreaming of being a captain. Marcella knows second chances shouldn’t be wasted. My job requirements: 1) Cook amazing food 2) See the world 3) Get paid 4) Avoid sleeping with the hot deckhand—again When I arrived in Montenegro to start my new position as the head chef aboard the superyacht Themis, I thought I was finally achieving my dream—until I realized I’d be working with Seb, the man who’d cost me my job six months previously. He thinks I ran away, and I know better than to get involved again. But the tension is building, and the crew has to stick together to get the job done. The more I see Seb, the more the memories make my heart pound. . . . The Second Chance in the Mediterranean is two angry-exes getting stuck together on the super yacht where...

That surly ex-rugby player making a ruckus in the dark corner of the bar I work at? Yeah, I try to avoid him. Too bad he’s my boss. I thought I was grumpy AF but I’ve met my match. Tane Parata has two moods when I see him in the bar he co-owns with his sister: grouchy in a dark corner or reliving his rugby days with a rowdy group that likes to cause trouble. I try to avoid him at all costs—the last thing I need is more male drama in my life after my stalker ex. He's why I came to New Zealand—to escape. When my closest friend in the country—who happens to be Tane’s sister—asks me for a huge favor, I can’t say no. Now I’m Tane’s fake date to a family wedding, and it turns out he is trying to turn his life around. Adventuring around...

Three couples. Three epic adventures. The first three spicy novels in the Love and Wanderlust series are available as a box set with over 20k bonus words. Get the whole series at once. The Night in Lover’s Bay - the series prequel featuring the steamy one night stand between Marcella and Seb. The Fling in Panama - A Spicy Forced Proximity Romance: When Lila sets out on a backpacking trip through Panama, she meets Eivind, a handsome sailor… but are their lives headed in different directions? PLUS a bonus epilogue The Slow Burn in Polynesia - A Spicy Hero Falls First Romance: Post-divorce Mia is determined to sail the Pacific on her own until the sweet and smitten Jonas drops anchor next door. PLUS a bonus epilogue The Second Chance in the Mediterranean - An Enemies to Lovers Workplace Romantic Comedy: Marcella’s just found her dream job as a private...

First crush. First kiss. First nemesis. As kids, Alex Boyd and I were best friends. Until my crush sparked a kiss and our friendship went up in flames. Years of flip-flopping between avoidance and antagonizing turned into... well, us. Now, anything I can do Alex can do better. Raise money for charity? Run a marathon? Sail a regatta? Alex is there and besting me. I’m determined to keep him out of my blossoming new photography career. But thanks to our meddling mothers, Alex winds up on a safari in South Africa with me. Same trip. Same tent. Same bed. Things are about to get wild. A novella in the Love and Wanderlust series, The Rival in South Africa is a forced proximity romance between childhood crushes who ignite into something deeper. This stand-alone contemporary romance is perfect for everyone who wants their wanderlust to continue into the happily-ever-after.

Clara I love my life—as a food and travel blogger, I make my own hours, work all over the world, and don’t have a single regret. The cherry on top is flying home to New York City to celebrate the holidays with my family—and Nash. He’s my best friend with benefits and was just named the sexiest billionaire bachelor of the year. He’s all mine—for now. But someday, Nash is going to break my heart. Nash Clara can have her cake—whether it’s pavlova, mochi, or tres leches—and eat it, too. I have twenty-four hours to convince her that she can have everything she wants right here in the city—including me. Nutcracker with Benefits is a standalone Christmas novella. If you love wealthy heroes who are secretly in love with the women they spoil, you’ll love Nash and Clara’s story. Enjoy this steamy holiday rom-com while listening to Tchaikovsky for the...

I haven’t seen my best friend in ten years. That massive crush? Still alive and well. Leaving my friends, job, and sister and moving with my now-ex-boyfriend to Chicago was a terrible idea. When he betrays me and our relationship combusts, I set off for Asia to meet up with my best friend and pen-pal, Rico. He’s handsome, sweet and adventurous. Between the jungles, pristine beaches and sharing a honeymoon suite, my childhood crush turns into something more. Except I’m falling back into bad habits, molding my life to fit someone else’s. Rico’s not the answer to all my troubles, but maybe it’s time to go for what I really want. A short story in the Love and Wanderlust series, The Best Friend in Indonesia is a forced proximity romance between childhood crushes who never got over each other. This stand-alone contemporary romance is perfect for everyone who wants their...

It was supposed to be a fun weekend in Paris with my best friends. Instead, I’ve acquired an outrageously flirty and much younger fake fiancé. I’m forty-two and recently dumped by my long-term boyfriend. I thought a happy life together was in my future, and instead I’m alone in the city of love. Alone—except for Luc, the charming and hot French tour guide. He refuses to cancel the trip and reminds me what it’s like to feel sexy and desired. He even rekindles my love for Paris by showing me a side of the city few people see. And his accent…oh-la-la! Then we run into my snobby ex . . . with his new fiancé on his arm and a smug pitying look on his face. When Luc pulls me close and tells a little lie, their surprise is so satisfying. Maybe a little too satisfying because I wind up...

Chris Rächer: brooding recluse, a member of Europe’s hottest band, and…my new roommate. I’ve pinched too many pennies. I’m in a foreign country, desperate for a decent place to live to stay close to my daughter. Enter my hero: Chris offers me a room at his house. Turns out, he’s a goth-punk musician who’s just launched into super-stardom and is striving to write the band’s next hit. I’m struggling to pay the bills by teaching yoga while trying to navigate living with a grumpy heartthrob. His gravelly voice and tortured-artist vibes shouldn’t be so sexy, but as the temperature drops outside, things heat up inside. He may not treat his body like a temple, but he worships mine. Our lives are complete opposites, and a widowed mom like me has no place in his. This can only end in heartbreak. Sex and The City meets Emily in Paris in this...

The snowstorm of the century is approaching, and my only hope of getting home for Christmas is my grumpy, rich, and definitely off limits client. A closed airport, fifty miles of Swiss countryside, and the threat of record-breaking wind and snow stand between me and flying back to my family in New York. The family that labels my job as a personal stylist as “frivolous” and “shallow.” My client, Peter, is working just as hard as I am to get me on that plane. It seems he really doesn’t want me crashing his family’s Chanukah based on the tension in the air and the grunts he aims my way. Grunts I should not find sexy. But we may not have a choice. And when his family opens their warm, cozy home to me, I may realize that, beneath his frost, Peter makes me melt. Frosty Proximity is a standalone high-spice...

My high school sweetheart left me to pursue his fortune–and I still have to spend every Christmas with him. It’s what I get for falling in love with the boy next door. His parents are my parents’ best friends, so even though we went down in flames, every Christmas we had to stay in the same crappy cabin together stuffed with holiday cheer while our families revel in their perfect lives. I’m not trying to be a scrooge about the whole thing, but it’s hard to be stuck in a snowy cabin with my first love. For Christmas present, things have changed. He seems different this year–humble and generous. But I swore that I’m done with dating in the city–I want a small town, charming man in my life, not the disastrous finance and tech bros on the dating apps. But I still see the ghosts of his past self,...

When my ex-husband shows up in Rome begging me to come back, my one-night-stand—and silver fox professor—sets out to prove that I can do better. Things aren’t going so well in my MBA program—living in a foreign country is overwhelming, I don’t remember being this terrible of a student, and my ex has just “popped in” to ask me to rekindle our relationship. Except the possibilities of that one night with Professor Santo were hotter than my entire twenty-year marriage. And when he finds out my ex is sniffing around, he wants a do-over. Even though I accidentally pepper-sprayed him...and despite the fact that sleeping with me could cost him his job. Living next door to each other means it would be easy to sneak around for some one-time extra credit. But once we start, things go up in flames, and there’s more than Santo’s job on the line. Sex...

Cows are better than people – a fact I've sworn by until the irresistibly upbeat Molly comes barreling into my life, running my farm stand, and bringing the summer heat with her. She's also working for Fork Lick’s most debt-ridden business: my family's farm. I try to stay out of that manure pile. Except the crush I have on her makes me think about doing things like smiling all day and patching up my relationship with my brother. And then I learn she has a thing for me in flannel and we’re on fire between the sheets. Just when I think Molly might be having feelings for me too, old pain comes bleating back in. Butter You Up continues the Farm 2 Forking crop of laugh out loud romantic comedies set on Bedd Fellows Farm. Get ready to grab life by the teats with an a-derp-able farm dog and baby...

My co-worker Carlos is so stiff and uptight, I’m beginning to think he’s a robot. A very attractive robot, sure. When I moved to Madrid, I asked him out. He shot me down and then avoided me for months. It’s fine, we don’t work in the same department at our pharmaceutical company and I don’t think he could handle a confident, outgoing woman like myself. I’m forty and fantastic, I don’t have time for men who are so fickle. But when an opportunity comes to travel throughout Europe, meeting with patients and their families about our product that is most personal to me–a hair regrowth treatment for after chemotherapy–it comes with strings attached. Carlos is coming as my translator, and I have to give presentations. I may be an extrovert, but I still have a healthy fear of public speaking. As we go from city to city, I start to...

Jet set away for a weekend romp in these five short and steamy standalone reads from Liz Alden. Happily-ever-afters guaranteed! This collection includes: Rosé with My Fake Fiancé: A Mature Woman Younger Man Novella (Aged Line Fine Wine #1) The Rival in South Africa: An Only One Bed Romantic Comedy Novella (Love and Wanderlust #3.5) The Best Friend in Indonesia: A Friends to Lovers Romantic Comedy Short Story (Love and Wanderlust #4.5) Beach Boss: A Short Story (Wanderlust Shorts #1) Beach Resolution: A Short Story (Wanderlust Shorts #2)

When I recruit my Christmas-loving roommate for a holiday charity fundraiser, I don’t expect a kiss under the mistletoe to risk our friendship. We have three days in a scavenger hunt to rack up as many points as possible and Brin is the perfect person to do this with—she exudes enthusiasm and energy, especially when it comes to the holidays. I would know—we share a room in an apartment in New York City. It’s close quarters. Too close, judging by how often I catch myself thinking about her. Things I try not to think about, because Brin is also too kind, too small-town sweet for someone like me. My job as the personal assistant to one of the wealthiest trust fund socialites in Manhattan is to be his fixer—when he needs someone to be an asshole, I’m the one he calls. And I'm good at my job, because that’s what...

Every time Rory Fox walks into my small-town bar with her leather jacket, dark braids, and resting bitch face, I fall a bit more in love. That’s right, folks, I’m officially off the market and hanging up my reputation. She’s the grumpy to my sunshine, the black cat to my golden retriever, the Morticia Addams to my Gomez—without the accents and the creepy kids. Rory’s an outsider in the small town of Here, New York, but as we Herevians like to say—you belong Here. Or at least, they do as long as the town can stay alive. The ski resort that brings in tourists is up for sale and our jobs are all at stake. When I inherit my grandmother’s enormous diamond ring, I know exactly what to do with it—sell it and pool the money together with my friends to save our town. If only my terrible family—my negligent...