Contemporary Romance
Chicago, Illinois
Smart heroines. High heat. Love worth the risk.
Maris Beckett spent fifteen years in brand strategy before she started writing the love stories she wished were on her nightstand—explicit, trope-forward romance across contemporary, small-town, suspense, and rom-com. She's Emberline's founding voice and the author of every title published so far.
Raised on the North Shore and now based in Chicago, Maris draws inspiration from cocktail lounges and corner offices as easily as Texas ranches and coastal towns. Her heroines are CEOs, scientists, single moms, and women starting over—they don't need saving, just a partner brave enough to keep pace. Her heroes look like trouble and love like devotion. When she's not writing, Maris collects vintage barware, eavesdrops on airport conversations (professionally, she insists), and believes every great romance needs one scene where someone has to choose love on a deadline.
Sloane Hartley returns to Chicago to rebrand Velvet Ember—and collides with Marcus Beckett, the club owner she kissed once at nineteen and spent nine years trying to forget. A fake engagement was supposed to be strategy. It was always love.
An Age-Gap Romance of Fake Love and Real Passion
Executive assistant Briana Walker never expected her billionaire boss Marcus Trent to propose a fake engagement. Strictly business—until a kiss shatters the line between pretense and reality.
Food scientist Harper Reed's one-night stand becomes a landmine when he turns out to be her department's guest chef—and the secret heir to a hotel empire funding her lab.
When desire crosses every line you swore you wouldn't cross, the only question left is whether love can survive the fallout.
Claire Whitmore fled Austin with a secret and a baby who had her ex's brother's eyes. Jace Caldwell never expected her on Heartbeat Ranch—or that a fake marriage would uncover promises buried under an oak tree.
When life delivers the storm, love is the light that finds you anyway—a small-town romance about healing, hope, and choosing each other through the weather.
Some arrivals rewrite every plan you ever made. A story of surprise, responsibility, and the love that grows when you're brave enough to stay.
The Forgotten Heiress
Sienna Collins wakes with no memory of the crash—or of who she is. Nate Ryder, her ex-boyfriend's older brother and ex-Navy SEAL, was assigned to protect her. He never planned to fall.
After a divorce at forty-two, Claire Ashford retreats to Millhaven—and to Jaxon Mercer, the tattooed neighbor who fixed her roof and painted her portrait in secret. Then a car accident steals eighteen months of memory.
Some flames never go out—they wait. A second-chance romance about two people who lost each other once and must decide whether love deserves another ignition.
When the last person you expect sets something inside you alight, the only question is whether you're brave enough to fan the flame.
Love doesn't always arrive with a plan. Sometimes it stumbles in, makes a mess, and turns out to be exactly what you needed.
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