Books
The Heart & Hustle Series
Seven books. One gym. Every fight worth having.
Vale Athletics wasn't supposed to exist. It was built by a disgraced trainer, funded by a fighter who shouldn't have trusted him, and staffed by people the sport had already thrown away. No corporate backing, no preferred opponents, just a converted warehouse, a borrowed cage, and a refusal to become what the sport kept insisting it had to be.
Over seven books, the series follows the people who built something in that warehouse, and the ones who tried to tear it down. A cutman who learns he can be loved without being useful. A blacklisted fighter and the journalist who writes about what he becomes. A disgraced rival learning the difference between being good at something and being a good person. This is a series about chosen family, about what it costs to be truly known, and about what happens when a group of people decide that heart is a strategy, not a weakness.
No release dates yet. Titles and covers below are subject to change until each book is closer to launch.
The Takedown
The broken-down trainer and the golden rookie shouldn't want each other. They do, right before the championship that could destroy them both.
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The Corner
The man who's always been in everyone else's corner finally has someone in his, if he can stop trying to protect Nate from a past that's already following him through the door.
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The Counter
The fighter the whole system wrote off. The journalist who wrote the story that changed everything, if he can decide whether he's covering the gym or protecting it.
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The Submission
The man who ended his career shows up at his door asking for a second chance, and the worst part is he doesn't even remember doing it.
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The Decision
Rafael has spent his whole career hiding the thing that makes him who he is. Cam spent his whole career being destroyed for it. Neither is the right person to help the other, and both of them are exactly that.
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The Clinch
She's spent a decade cleaning up the wreckage he helped create. He's spent a decade helping create it. They've both finally run out of reasons to keep doing this.
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The Title
Five years later. Leo's defending the belt again, and the man who taught him everything is in his corner, legally, publicly, permanently. That doesn't make the next fight easier. It just means there's more to lose.
Coming SoonWhat to expect
Raven's work sits squarely in the darker end of romance. Not every reader wants that, and that's okay. Here's a quick read on what's on brand for her catalog.
Antiheroes
Morally gray love interests with sharp edges. Power plays welcome. Redemption optional.
Slow-burn Obsession
The kind of wanting that builds for chapters. Fixation. Possession. The delicious ache of nearly, not yet.
High Stakes
Love that costs something. Danger that earns its place on the page. No tidy endings, just honest ones.
Emotionally Driven Heat
Explicit, yes. But intimacy that carries weight — the kind that says something about who these men are becoming together.