Under the Stars: An Age-Gap Romance

Theater director and high school drama teacher Tessa Flowers is still carrying a torch for her old college roommate, Roxy Bright, despite not having seen her in years. When they end up in Provincetown over the winter, Tessa convinces Roxy to help her put on a Shakespeare production. What better way to fan the long-held spark of attraction into the roaring fire of passion? Cue the instant attraction they long to explore. But when Roxy unwittingly saves a stranded mermaid named Mo, things go off script.

Mo is tall, curvy, and stunning, with long green hair and absolutely no clue about life on land. Lured into Cape Cod Bay by an evil spell, she cannot return to her true form. In gratitude to Roxy for having saved her, she vows to help Roxy find her true love. This would all be great, except that Mo doesn’t actually know anything about human courtship, and her help creates more problems than it solves. Throw in Tessa’s icy ex, who has the lead role in the play, and the stage is set for a comedy of errors that even the Bard could appreciate.

When Dr. Elizabeth Cowrie shows up in Salem, Massachusetts to study the witch trials, Hazel and her best friend, Roxy, are both instantly attracted to the workaholic professor. Roxy snags a date with Elizabeth first, but when their chemistry fizzles out, Hazel sees an opportunity to pursue Elizabeth herself—until she realizes Elizabeth is avowedly anti-magic.

That’s definitely a problem since Hazel is a bona fide witch: rides a broom, has a black cat, brews love potions, lives in a haunted house, and has a vampire ex-girlfriend. Roxy is the only person who knows the truth, and Hazel has gotten used to hiding who she is, but she can’t live a lie with the person she loves most. Can Hazel give up magic to make it work with Elizabeth? Or will she give up on the love of her life instead?

Advance praise from Publishers Weekly: "Klein’s lovely debut paranormal romance showcases the value of friendship and authenticity in the face of scheming exes and magical mayhem...The novel’s greatest strength is the unshakable friendship between Hazel and Roxy, who find ways to support each other even while pining for the same woman. The healthy communication keeps the love triangle from dragging, and the grounded magic system delights. Klein should win plenty of fans with this."

In the superficial world of Hollywood glamour, tenacious journalist River Westwood’s path collides with Maxine Stone, the ice queen CEO of Stone Enterprises. Maxine is reluctantly paired with River as her biographer for a six-month project, sparking a battle of wills that ignites an unexpected burn of attraction. 

As they clash and spar, their animosity might not be animosity at all. Perhaps it is something deeper. Caught in the crossfire of their own making, River and Maxine are inexorably drawn to each other. Are image and ethics too dangerous to comprise or will the demands of the heart rule in the end?

Librarian Willa McCourt has made peace with her predictable life, bringing books and conversation to the outlying communities near Washington’s coast. Until rookie State Patrol officer Steph Douglas crashes into her life, bringing with her a missing person case that pulls Willa off her quiet coastal route and into danger.

Steph Douglas’s plan is to prove herself, earn a better posting, and always move forward. But when a local man vanishes, a routine search quickly spirals into a potential homicide. With few leads and a community full of secrets, Steph reluctantly accepts Willa’s help, and her bookmobile becomes a base of operations.

As clues twist and turn and the case edges toward murder, Willa and Steph are drawn together by an undeniable attraction they don’t expect or know how to handle. On roads where everyone is hiding something, trusting each other could be the most dangerous risk of all.

Will the echo of Casanova open two romance nonbelievers to the possibility of love?

Rowan Whitney believed love was like the romance novels she read growing up, until her engagement party exploded in very public heartbreak. With New York gossiping about the scandal, Rowan and her sister escape to Venice for the summer.

Dante Morosini grew up in one of the most romantic cities in the world, but even though she’s a professor teaching romance, she isn’t a believer. The women in her life are temporary. So the last thing she needs is her new, extremely aggravating American neighbor stirring up feelings. Rowan Whitney has a talent for getting on her nerves, but their sisters Valentina and Wilhelmina are not having that problem.

Rowan and Dante don’t believe in love, but they’re about to discover the one thing neither of them saw coming—each other.

Former prosecutor Raleigh Drake walked away from the courtroom when justice failed her, leaving her with a lingering bitterness and an unshakable resolve to seek justice on her own terms. Now a true crime investigator and host of the hit podcast, <i>Two Truths and a Crime</i>, Raleigh’s latest case brings her to a small Texas town to uncover the truth behind Lily Collins’s tragic death. But as she gets closer to the victim’s aunt, Quinn, Raleigh is caught between her growing feelings and the chilling suspicion that Quinn knows more than she lets on.

Quinn Collins has spent years guarding her secrets. When Raleigh arrives, digging deep into Lily’s murder, Quinn fears that her hidden past will finally be exposed. Drawn to Raleigh’s intensity yet wary of her intentions, Quinn is forced to confront the guilty memories she’s long buried. As their attraction deepens and the investigation unravels, each woman must decide how much she’s willing to risk—and who she can trust.

In a town where silence conceals deadly mysteries, will Raleigh uncover the truth, or lose herself in Quinn's secrets?