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 our busiest author on Kindle, with thirteen romances live and more in the release queue.
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.
14 on Kindle · 8 coming soon. New Emberline titles release on Kindle about once a week—romance first, then mystery, thriller, women's fiction, and literary contemporary fiction.
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
Sloane Hartley returns to Chicago to rebrand Velvet Ember—and collides with Marcus Beckett, the club owner she kissed once at nineteen. A fake engagement was supposed to be strategy. It was always love.
An Age-Gap Romance of Fake Love and Real Passion
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
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.
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
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.
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
When desire crosses every line you swore you wouldn't cross, the only question left is whether love can survive the fallout.
by Maris Beckett · Small-Town & Ranch Romance
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.
by Maris Beckett · Small-Town & Ranch Romance
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.
by Maris Beckett · Small-Town & Ranch Romance
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
by Maris Beckett · Romantic Suspense
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.
by Maris Beckett · Emotional Contemporary Romance
After a divorce at forty-two, Claire Ashford retreats to Millhaven—and to Jaxon Mercer, the tattooed neighbor who fixed her roof. Then a car accident steals eighteen months of memory.
by Maris Beckett · Emotional Contemporary Romance
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.
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romantic Comedy
A stalled elevator, a ruthless CEO, and a fake-dating contract written by the tour manager who was supposed to stay invisible—until grumpy met sunshine and the company forgot the script.
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romantic Comedy
A live-demo glitch brands Maya Chen and Julian Reed as Meridian's power couple. Their public alignment was crisis choreography—until secrecy stopped being flirtation and started being the story.
She wrote the rules. He broke them all.
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
The label forbids dating; the tour manager wrote the no-contact clause. Nashville, secret relationship, and a love that refuses to stay off the setlist.
She guards the famous. He's her hardest case.
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
She protects a celebrity chef from stalkers; he keeps cooking at 2 a.m. like it's foreplay. Off-limits bodyguard romance with age-gap heat.
A Marriage of Convenience Romance
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
He needs a wife for a custody hearing; she needs one client to save her firm. A Seattle hockey marriage of convenience turns into the one lie they can't file separately.
A Single Dad Romance
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
Widower fire captain Declan Hale keeps showing up at the wrong door. Pediatric nurse Maya Chen keeps answering. Portland neighbors, slow burn, found family.
A Rivals to Lovers Romance
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
Political consultants who ruin each other's press cycles are forced into the same war room after a leaked memo. Banter, one bed, and surrender neither planned for.
A Roommates to Lovers Romance
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
Two strangers inherit the same Boston brownstone and neither will sell. Opposites, forced proximity, and a slow burn through shared walls.
A Tattoo Artist Romance
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
Every session starts with ink and ends with arguments a divorce attorney doesn't want to win. Austin opposites-attract banter—and he falls first.
A Small Town Romance
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
She came home to Sonoma to buy a failing bakery; the owner is the boy who broke her heart. Second chance, enemies to lovers, slow burn.
A Snowed-In Romance
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
A Manhattan blizzard traps a CEO and the reporter who was about to destroy him. One night, trust issues, and nowhere left to hide.
A Medical Romance
by Maris Beckett · Contemporary Romance
Chicago paramedic and trauma surgeon save strangers all night and barely survive each other by sunrise. Shift partners, high heat, hurt/comfort.
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