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Hot Chicago Secrets
11 Oct 2026
She's stopped letting herself want things. He's done waiting for permission. And they have ninety days.
Heather Nguyen came to Chicago for one sabbatical, one unfinished manuscript, and nothing else — divorced, still carrying three miscarriages she's never fully put down, counting down to January and the flight home to North Carolina.
Then a first-year high school counselor asks her to dance at a backyard garden party, and Darby Reyes — ten years younger, a decade tired of being introduced as his older brother's kid brother — falls first, and falls hard.
He's finally building something that's his: a mentorship program for the kids everyone else stopped noticing. He didn't plan on wanting her too. But Heather is convinced the same body that couldn't give her first husband a child is reason enough for this one to leave — long before Darby ever gets the chance to prove otherwise.
Slow-burn tension. Swoony, unapologetic devotion. A found family that shows up loud and uninvited. And a happily-ever-after that earns every hard conversation it takes to get there.
Tropes: Older Woman / Younger Man • He Falls First • Slow Burn • Forbidden Attraction • High Heat • Found Family
Perfect for fans of slow-burn age-gap romance and small-town-hearted found family turned loose in a big city. Fall for Heather and Darby in Book 3 of the Hot Chicago Series
Hot Chicago Summer
1 Oct 2026
Older grumpy heroine. Sunshine hero. A workplace romance that refuses to stay professional. A high heat, he falls first, forced proximity romance
Elena Moreno runs her job sites the way she runs her life: on schedule, by the rules, no exceptions. She's built her reputation on control — and she's built an immunity to charming men the hard way. Then Nate Donovan shows up as the temp tile installer on her biggest renovation yet, and every rule she owns starts looking negotiable.
Nate needs this job too much to make waves. He's spent a lifetime keeping his head down and his shoulders loose — but the one woman on-site he's not supposed to touch is the one he can't stop watching.
She's his boss. He's the subcontractor who could cost her everything she's built. And the job that was supposed to keep them at a professional distance keeps throwing them into the same room, the same silence, the same impossible pull.
Hot Chicago Nights
1 Sep 2026
A romance novelist can only save her career by fake dating…her ex.
Four years ago, Gigi Forrest said no to the man she loved. She told herself it was the right call. She's been telling herself that ever since.
Now her publisher is threatening to drop her unless her next launch performs — and their fix is a fake-dating social media campaign with some guy from finance. Gigi doesn't even get to pick who. Fine. She's a romance novelist. She can pretend.
She just didn't expect the guy from finance to be Cal Haymont. Her ex. The one she turned down when he got down on one knee.
Cal hasn't forgotten her. He never tried to. And when someone asks him to spend the next month pretending to be her boyfriend, he says yes before they finish the sentence.
The cameras are fake. The audience is real. And whatever's still between them? That was never pretend.
