Holiday Slay
Holiday Slay
Seven holidays. Seven bodies. One roller derby league that refuses to fold.
The Austin Knockout Roller Derby league runs out of a converted warehouse with a leaking roof, a taco truck, and a mascot nobody suspects. Every holiday hands them a new reason to decorate. Every decoration seems to come with a body, a secret, or a person somebody swore they'd never fall for.
Interconnected standalones. Each book solves its own murder and closes its own love story, and leaves one thread for the next. Start anywhere. Nobody ever does.
Obsession without assault. Dark romance where the danger and the devotion are two different people. Everything on the page, negotiated out loud, between two consenting adults.
Coming October 15, 2026
No One Skates Out Alive
He never called. He never knocked. He never once stopped watching.
Marlo Bishop builds haunted houses for a living, which means she knows exactly how long a scream should last. Her league's Halloween fundraiser is the only thing standing between the Crucible and the bank, and she has spent six weeks teaching a warehouse how to hunt people.
Then a body turns up in the morgue room, and it isn't wearing latex.
The detective who answers the call is the man who disappeared from her life six years ago without a word. Grady Whitlock left, and built a respectable life, and every window in it faced her. Four away bouts watched from the back rail in six years, rationed like a man saying grace. A box on a closet shelf that keeps getting heavier.
He tells himself the rules make it something else.
They don't.
Now there's a killer inside her building who knows its blind corners as well as she does. There's a loan nobody voted on. And there's a masked figure standing at the end of her corridor at eleven at night, perfectly still, waiting to see what she does.
Marlo should run.
She's about to find out exactly what happens when she does.
masked man · he fell first · six years of watching · fair-play murder mystery · forced proximity · found family that would bury a body · dual POV · open door, no fade to black · HEA
Dark romantic suspense · 67,000 words
This book includes six years of non-consensual surveillance by the hero — watched public appearances, kept records of the heroine's addresses, a tracker placed without her knowledge. It's named, confronted, and answered for on the page. It is never framed as harmless. Explicit content throughout, always negotiated out loud. Not present, in this book or anywhere in the series: sexual assault of any kind, cheating, or harm to animals. The dog makes it.
The rest of the league
Title Coming
The lights go up, the tinsel goes on, and a forensic auditor with a festive tie takes far too much interest in the league's books, and in one particular captain who does not have time for a grim man with a spreadsheet and a smile that never reaches his eyes. Forced proximity. Very cold building. Very warm ending.
Coming December 2026New Year's Eve · Valentine's Day · St Patrick's Day · Easter · Pride
Every one of them is somebody in that league finally getting cornered by a person they swore they'd never fall for. Rivals. Teammates. The medic who is supposed to stay professional.
I know who. I'm not telling.