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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.
46th & Life
Cross and Rose Book 1
Her life took a bad turn at 45. At 46, she wanted it back.
Her life took a bad turn at 45. At 46, she wanted it back. Rose Quinn is a widow. For a year her body stayed quiet. This morning it went on the prowl.
She woke aching and took her own relief. It barely took the edge off. The hunger was still moving through her when she put on the scrubs. She spent the walk to Midtown trying to put it back in its place.
Then he sat down in her chair. Daniel Cross. Last patient of the day. She had work to do. Gloves. Light. The voice she used on everyone else. Under it the ache was pushing at every seam, close to tearing through. Every time she leaned in, she held her breath. Then he looked at her the way her body had been looking at him since he walked in.
He asked her to drinks. Home is one way. He is the other.
Later-in-life contemporary romance. Book 1 of Cross and Rose. Novella · Explicit · 18+
Park & Desire
Cross and Rose Book 2
Desire had THE WHEEL. SHE STOPPED TRYING TO CONTROL IT.
Rose Quinn is standing on the balcony of a penthouse over Park Avenue. Nothing about it is normal. The height. The air. The man behind her. She has known him days, and she is about to let him take her out here anyway.
How far is she going to let desire go? How much of her body is she going to give him? How open is a widow allowed to be when desire is asking to take control?
She spent a year keeping the wanting shut. Saturday it will not stay inside. The bed was safer. The rail is not. Desire is pushing her forward, and the part of her that still knows how to stop is losing.
She could go back in. She doesn’t.
Later-in-life contemporary romance. Book 2 of Cross and Rose. Novella · Explicit · 18+
Sutton & Her Place
Cross and Rose Book 3
The next door opens at her pace.
Rose Quinn wants to give him all of her. The problem is her bed and the parts of her body that still feel like Peter’s even a year after his death. She has let Daniel take her everywhere except this room.
He is in her place, at her table. But will she allow him in her sheets. Desire is ready to let him it, grief is still in the mattress. She can feel both of them when she looks at him in the doorway.
She has to decide if this apartment stays hers or if she is going to let him come everywhere.
Later-in-life contemporary romance. Book 3 of Cross and Rose. Novella · Explicit · 18+
Tudor & The Tunnel
Cross and Rose Book 4
She LET HERSELF BE SEEN. THEN ASKED FOR MORE.
Rose Quinn has given him her bed. That was for him. This is for her.
There is a door she asked to walk through. Behind it she will have to stop managing her own pleasure and start taking it seriously—look at her body the way it actually is, want what it wants, and not put it away when the wanting gets inconvenient. Daniel Cross can come with her. He cannot do this part for her.
The old bargain is simple. Stay decent. Stay in control. Take what he gives and call it enough. The new one is not. It requires her open. To him. To the room. To herself. She can keep the version of her body that only answers when someone else reaches for it.
Or she can take her own pleasure in both hands and stop apologizing for how much of it there is.
Later-in-life contemporary romance. Book 4 of Cross and Rose. Novella · Explicit · 18+
Delve deeper into the series with these companion short stories.
Book 2 Companion: Jamie’s Afternoon
He is heading in a new direction with a woman Jamie is beginning to like.
Jamie takes the train downtown without asking permission from a life that has already moved.
Explicit · 18+
Book 3 Companion: Maisie’s day
Tonight her mother is cooking for a man Maisie has not met. Dinner is at seven.
The day should have been a countdown to the buzzer. It wasn’t.
Explicit · 18+
GET TO KNOW THE CHARACTERS
ROSE QUINN
Forty-six. Widow. Midtown hygienist. Mother of two grown children. The life still stands. She has started wanting it to do more than that.
DANIEL CROSS
Late forties. The company, the rooms, all built. What he doesn’t have is a reason to stay in them after the work is done.
MAISIE QUINN
Maisie is Rose’s daughter: twenty-four, sharp, career on the rise, sarcasm and style are her calling cards.
JACK QUINN
Jack is Rose’s son: twenty-three, Columbia into finance, his father’s jaw and his mother’s eyes, the quiet one.
JAMIE SIMPSON
Jamie is thirty-six and the woman who once shared Daniel’s life and bed. Now she manages his life.
BRIGETTE WATERS
Brigette is forty-seven and co-owner of The Private Drawer. A woman who treats pleasure like a private practice.