Below are all of my published or soon-to-be published projects! If you are interested in any of them, please feel free to purchase them where they are available. If you do not have the means to purchase my books or don’t wish to purchase via Amazon, you may write me an email at lauren@writersmethod.com to receive a complimentary PDF copy.
Wine Mom
A new adult romance novel available on Kindle Unlimited, ebook, and paperback from Amazon.
Rose wants it all. She wants a job that doesn’t suck out her soul. She wants to start a family with the man she sort-of loves. She wants to find some kind of balance between her need for stability and her tendency to make all the wrong decisions. Mostly, she just doesn’t want to be facing down thirty with her life a total mess. But it’s not her fault no one wants to cooperate. Chester won’t commit, her dream of becoming a sommelier is totally sidelined, and her best friend is waving her perfect life in her face, baby and all. Rose isn’t making much headway in the job department, either. As an accountant for a wealth management firm, work is mind-numbing, impersonal, and morally gray.
Or is it?
Trouble begins for Rose when her boss – handsome, mysterious, genius Jesse – brings her in on a project that will make or break the company, and in spite of her promise to never date a man so consumed by his work, Rose realizes there’s more to him than meets the eye. He’s attentive, he’s accomplished, and most importantly, he shares her appreciation for a great glass of wine. Against her better judgment, Rose finds herself falling in love, which wouldn’t be a problem if she weren’t also faking a pregnancy to cash in on her company’s generous maternity leave policy. Dreams of cruises, pool boys, and endless sun evaporate when Rose realizes she’ll have to choose between breaking Jesse’s heart or coming clean – and losing him forever.
Sweethearts in Copper Bay
A romance novella available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
Copper Bay was the last place Penny wanted to end up, a dirty sinkhole of a fishing town off the coast of Maine. When she graduated high school, she took off running, and she never looked back. She would have been content to keep on living her new life in Atlanta where she was important, respected, and well-dressed had her mother not unexpectedly died.
Her hometown is exactly how she remembers it, depressed and hopelessly out of touch with the rest of the world. Only, there are a few critical differences. One, her mother is gone, and her absence has left a rift in the community. Two, her old classmates are hatching a plan to bring economic prosperity to the town. Three, and most importantly, her childhood best friend and lifelong love is single – and still in love with her after all these years.
What was supposed to be a quick trip home becomes complicated as Penny finds herself dragged back into old relationships, old emotions, and a few mysteries her mother left behind. Will Penny go back to her new life where she is powerful but lonely? Will she be drawn back into old relationships and compromise her career? Or is there a third option that exists for a woman who knows that reality is what she makes it?
The Hemlocks Keep Secrets
A mystery novel available soon in ebook and paperback on Amazon.
Deep in the heart of the Poconos lies Hemlock Creek, a sleepy town of no importance on the edge of an old growth hemlock forest that’s recently been purchased by a real estate magnate. Robert Kent wants to turn the woods into a development of luxury cabins for wealthy buyers looking for a taste of the simple life, but he goes missing soon after his first trip to visit his new land.
Lyssa Novack is the Philadelphia Inquirer reporter dispatched to turn up leads on the missing mogul, but no one in Hemlock Creek seems to have a clue. Kent’s brother is in town along with a private investigator, but they seem to be causing more problems than they solve. None of the evidence Lyssa finds seems to point in the right direction, and although the town’s residents seem friendly enough, there’s the edge of a warning in the air.
Darla, the waitress with dreams too big to be contained in a small town. January Owens, the park ranger who would do anything to protect the forest. Sheriff Casey Williams, the strong arm of the law according to his own interpretation. Tom Burr, a woodsman who wants everyone to leave him and his town in peace. No one is what they seem, and everyone has something to hide. Can Lyssa discover the truth about Hemlock Creek before her time runs out, or will the hemlocks keep their secrets?