Who's writing this.
The short version is on the homepage. This is the longer one — for readers who want to know who they're letting into their head for 80,000 words.
I write antihero paranormal romance for women who were never too much — just too powerful to stay contained.
The kind of women who built careers, kept families running, and held everyone else's chaos together for decades — then woke up at 3 AM wondering when they stopped being the protagonist of their own story. The kind of women who don't want a hero to save them. They want a hero who knows they don't need saving and shows up anyway.
My heroines are antiheroes. They make morally questionable choices, hold grudges with discipline, and have approximately zero interest in being likable. They're brilliant. They're inconvenient. They're done apologizing.
I've been publishing for more than a decade — long enough to know what I'm doing, long enough to have made every mistake worth making. The brand you're looking at right now is the version that took me that long to earn. The earlier work taught me craft. This is the work that came after I stopped writing for who I thought I was supposed to be.
The Hartwell newsletter is the best place to find me. It moves slow. It's worth opening when it lands. And the next book always shows up there first.
You were never too much. Just too powerful to stay contained.
What I write. Why it matters to me.
Romance gets dismissed as escapism, and that's fine — escape is a perfectly good reason to read a book. But the thing about antihero romance is that it's not actually about escaping the world. It's about confronting it from a position of finally having power.
My heroines aren't being rescued. They're not being fixed. They're not learning to love themselves through the love of a good man. They walk in with their own power, their own agenda, and their own moral compass — and the men who get to be in their stories are the ones who recognize that and don't try to dim it.
That's the work. That's what I write. If you've been waiting for the version of romance where the woman doesn't have to make herself smaller for the love story to function, you found it.
What I don't write.
- Sexual assault as plot device.
- Women who get fixed by love.
- Heroes who "tame" the heroine.
- The trope where she's strong until he shows up and then she's softened.
- Anything where the price of love is shrinking.
If those are what you're looking for, there are thousands of authors writing them well. I am not one of them.
How I work.
I use AI as a collaborator, not a ghostwriter. The ideas, the voice, and the final execution are mine. If you want to know exactly what that looks like in practice, you can read my full AI Disclosure.
