🌊 This is the early draft of Rosehaven Secrets. The published edition is available now in ebook & paperback. Rosehaven seems like the perfect seaside escape-quiet streets, familiar faces, and lives shaped by routine. But beneath its calm surface, change is coming, and no one is as settled as they pretend. When author Ximena Gaytan arrives determined to focus on her work and leave her past behind, she never expects to become part of the town itself. Drawn into an unexpected circle of friendships, she finds her carefully guarded independence challenged by people who refuse to keep their distance. For reserved math professor Greg Walker, an unexpected discovery reshapes everything he thought he knew about family. Car mechanic Jaden Stone is determined to move beyond old mistakes, while cook Charlie Monroe learns that healing and love rarely follow a straight path. Fairgrounds manager Brian Connor carries the weight of legacy and responsibility, and candy maker Lewis Redmont fights to rebuild stability for the sons he loves. As relationships deepen and emotions grow complicated, buried truths resurface, loyalties are tested, and unsettling events suggest Rosehaven's secrets are far from buried. Here, love arrives quietly, and second chances take courage.

[Rated R for violence, gore, and sexual content) Ever since Rina heard the tales of how her werewolf pack was saved by the Hellions of Alastar, she has wanted to join their ranks and become a Hellion herself. To be a Hellion is to be a hunter, a weapon that not only protects humans from creatures of the dark, but protects those very same creatures from themselves. Assigned to Rina as her personal instructor is Zachariah, one of the oldest Hellions to survive the job. He's not at all what she expects. Not only is he unmotivated to take his position seriously, but at their first meeting, the vampire mentions his peculiar taste in blood, which Rina-a half-werewolf half-human-apparently fulfills in every aspect! Becoming a Hellion won't be easy. Not only does she have to come to terms with her strengths and weaknesses as a halfling, but once Zachariah gets a taste of her blood, the vampire begins to rouse an addiction other than his own.