Sierra Valen
Sierra Valen writes the kind of romance where the leads end the day bleeding, broke, jet-lagged, and three inches from kissing on the roof of a moving train. Think Indiana Jones meets Die Hard: stolen masterpieces, ancient maps, jungle survival, and chase scenes through cities you've already started Googling. Her heroines are dangerously competent; her heroes are quietly furious about it. Together they steal, scheme, run, and occasionally save the world — usually while still arguing about who's driving. She writes the kind of romance she'd want to read on a long flight to somewhere she's not allowed to go back to.
Deep Sea Rivals: A Grumpy-Sunshine Romantic Suspense Novella
Romantic SuspenseShe found the wreck her family chased for a hundred years. Now she has to survive the people who were waiting for her to find it. Lucy Marlowe is broke, newly unemployed, and three months behind on the only home she has left. All she owns is her late aunt's hand-drawn map and a sunken rum-runner that might finally pay her way out. The catch: the wreck sits inside Ford Callister's salvage territory, and the ex-Navy SEAL does not share. One dive. That was the deal. Then they find the gold that was never supposed to be there, stamped with the mark of a crime family that has waited fifty years for someone to lead them to it. Now a polite killer and his volatile brother are hunting them across the Florida Keys, and the only map to the treasure is locked inside Lucy's head. To stay alive, she and Ford have forty-eight hours, one dying radio, and a partnership neither of them trusts. She has never let herself need anyone. He has never let anyone close. The sea is about to make liars of them both. Deep Sea Rivals is a standalone romantic suspense novella with a guaranteed happy ending, a slow-burn enemies-to-allies romance, and enough saltwater, gunfire, and banter to ruin you for dry land.
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Art of Obsession
Book 3 of 3: Art of Deception Series
Romantic SuspenseThe friend she trusted. The ex she buried. The walls she built to survive them both. Adrienne Lawson has spent her career exposing forgeries. Now, in Buenos Aires, she's chasing a forgery operation unlike anything she's seen. The work is too good. The techniques are too familiar. And the person behind it knows exactly how she thinks. Nico Marchetti has fought for every inch of Adrienne's trust. Now a man from her past is back, and he got the version of her that Nico never saw. The open version. The easy version. The one before the walls went up. Someone from her world is watching. Someone from her past is waiting. And the person she trusts most might be the one she should trust least. Art of Obsession is the final book in the Art of Deception series. Steamy romantic suspense with sharp banter, an art-world setting, and an HEA. Best read after Art of Deception and Art of Betrayal. Content notes: Non-graphic violence, criminal activity (art theft), past imprisonment, moderate heat level (2-3 scenes, moderately descriptive).
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Art of Betrayal
Book 2 of 3: Art of Deception Series
Romantic SuspenseThe forgery is perfect. That's the problem. Adrienne Lawson tracked nine stolen masterpieces across four countries. She matched the brushwork, traced the materials, identified a single forger with Italian training. She's three months into a partnership with a reformed art thief who knows the underground world she doesn't. The case is closing. Then Nico Marchetti sees something in the forgery that isn't in any file. Something personal. Something he won't explain. The forger is smarter than anyone Adrienne has chased. Connected to Nico's past in ways he's not ready to admit. And the closer Adrienne gets to the truth, the more it looks like the man she trusted with her career, her case, and the parts of herself she doesn't let anyone see has been keeping the one secret that could destroy both. From London galleries to Florence back alleys to a private island in the Aegean, Adrienne is running out of evidence, running out of time, and running out of reasons to believe that love and honesty live in the same person. A lost Caravaggio. A secret that goes deeper than crime. And a partnership that might not survive what it costs to close the case. Art of Betrayal is the second book in the Art of Deception series. Established couple, globe-trotting art crime, and banter that doesn't stop when things get dangerous. HFN.
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Art of Deception
Book 1 of 3: Art of Deception Series
Romantic SuspenseThree years ago, she put the most elegant art thief of the decade behind bars. Now a priceless Rembrandt has vanished, the security footage points straight at him, and the FBI wants them both. The deal? Work together or face charges. She doesn't need a partner. She especially doesn't need one who smiles like he already knows the punchline of every conversation they're going to have. But someone from Nico's past is framing them both, and every lead pulls them deeper into the underground art world — illegal auctions, old betrayals, and a ghost who wants revenge on them both. One Rembrandt. Twelve chapters. And a man she swore she'd never speak to again, sitting in the seat beside her with that infuriating, knowing quiet that always meant trouble. She put him behind bars. Now he's the only man who can save her — and if he gets her killed, she's going to kill him first.
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