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Cross and Rose is a later-in-life erotic romance series set in a New York that does not need to be explained. Two lives intersect on those streets and neither of them stays on their own side of the avenue. Heat that is earned.
Two adults who are done pretending that the first chapter of life is the only one that counts.
Delve deeper into the series with these companion short stories.
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ROSE QUINN
Rose Quinn lost her husband at forty-five. The hard year is behind her. At forty-six The apartment is still hers. The work is still hers. What is not settled is her body, which has started answering again, and a man who sits down in her chair at the end of her day as if the appointment were not the point.
DANIEL CROSS
Daniel Cross is late forties and has already built the life that is supposed to be enough. The company. The rooms. The calendar that runs without him in it. his life is full of everything except what really matters. He has cancelled the same appointment twice. On a Thursday he finally keeps it.
MAISIE QUINN
Maisie is Rose’s daughter: twenty-four, sharp, career on the rise, sarcasm and style are her calling cards. She has a way of keeping people guessing. Sometimes even surprising herself.
JACK QUINN
Jack is Rose’s son: twenty-three, Columbia into finance, his father’s jaw and his mother’s eyes, the quiet one who shows up. But don’t let his silence fool you, he has plenty to say and show.
JAMIE SIMPSON
Jamie is thirty-six and the woman who once shared Daniel’s life and bed. Now she manages his life with their bodies still sometimes find space for each other. Now that arrangement is shifting.
BRIGETTE WATERS
Brigette is forty-seven and the reason some doors in this city have no name: A woman who treats pleasure like a private practice. She has Daniel as a silent business partner and client.
AMBER SANTOS
Amber is twenty-two, raised in Daniel’s care since she was twelve, and the part of his life that lives in Monaco rather than in the city. She is no longer a little girl.