Wicker Men
It begins with one impossible heartbeat.
In a small contemporary town, a group of women discovers that a man woven from living willow can be brought to life, but only when one woman surrenders something that has kept her bound and speaks a truth she can no longer hide.
The first Wicker Man changes everything.
Soon, other women begin facing the same impossible choice: what are they willing to release, and what kind of man might answer?
Each Wicker Man is powerful, unmistakably nonhuman, and entirely his own person. The woman who awakens him gives him life, not ownership. He can choose. He can leave. And if he stays, love must be freely given on both sides.
As word spreads, so do the questions, the fascination, the outrage, and the desire.
Wicker Men is a high-heat contemporary monster-romance series about women letting go of what no longer serves them, men unlike anything the world has seen, and love that can never be commanded.
I came to the bonfire to burn the last piece of a marriage I barely managed to escape.
My friends and I are supposed to be working on the wicker bear we’ve spent weeks building for the town festival. Instead, after too much wine and too much truth, somebody brings up the question women have been arguing about for years: would you rather meet a man or a bear alone in the woods?
Someone says there ought to be a third choice.
The joke should end there.
Instead, later that night, I throw my wedding ring into the bonfire and whisper a wish I’ve never said aloud to another living soul. The wicker bear begins to move.
Willow twists. Branches rearrange. And when I press my palm to the chest of the Wicker Man standing where the bear used to be, something beats beneath my hand.
He’s alive.
Locke is powerful enough to frighten half the town and gentle enough to make me question everything I thought I knew about strength. Somehow, he also heard us before he ever had ears, including the things women say when we think no men are listening—and the wish I never wanted any man to know.
I wanted to feel safe again.
I never expected safety to look at me like I’m the only woman in the world. And I definitely never expected people in town to decide a man like him shouldn’t exist.
Her Wicker Guardian is a high-heat contemporary monster romance featuring a woman who has sworn off men, a powerful living wicker hero with a mind and heart of his own, a small town with very strong opinions, and one wildly unconventional happily ever after.
I asked for another great love. I didn’t expect the right man to be nothing like the man I thought I wanted.
Three years after my husband died, I’d somehow convinced myself that being sexless was a perfectly reasonable plan for the rest of my life.
When a younger colleague dies without warning, I realize I’m not ready to quit living.
So one night, armed with an old wicker basket and a spectacular lack of good judgment, I set fire to the granny panties I chose for my new celibate life and say the thing I haven’t been willing to admit I want.
I wish I could have what I had again.
What I get is Kell.
Warm living willow, broad shoulders, and a hunger for absolutely everything.
Kell attacks life like he intends to taste all of it. Music. Food. Art. Sex. He makes enormous abstract paintings, turns nearly every disagreement into foreplay, and looks at me with enough heat to make three years of celibacy feel like an exceptionally bad decision.
Having spectacular sex with him is the easy part.
The problem is what happens afterward.
Because Kell isn’t content to just be the exciting man in my bed. He builds a life of his own—work he loves, money he earns, friends who are his, a place that belongs to him—and he wants me in that life because, somewhere along the way, I stopped being an adventure and became the woman he chose.
When I try to keep what we have safely contained to the bedroom, Kell refuses to settle for half a relationship.
Now I have to decide whether the differences I keep calling incompatibility are actually the very things that make this love worth choosing.
Maybe I didn’t get what I had before.
Maybe I got another chance at something just as real… only different.
Her Wicker Temptation is a high-heat contemporary monster romance about a widowed heroine, a wildly creative living wicker hero, scorching chemistry, a second chance at great love, and discovering that the right relationship may look nothing like the one you thought you wanted.
I thought I wanted a man independent enough to walk away. I never dreamed how much I’d want him to stay.
I’ve built a life that works. A successful career. A house of my own. A cat who worships me when it’s convenient. No one to answer to, depend on, or lose.
Then Thanksgiving forces me to face one uncomfortable truth: maybe independence isn’t the same thing as enough.
So I make a wish.
I want someone to choose me, and I want to be brave enough to choose him back.
What I get is Senn.
Warm living willow, quiet confidence, and a man who looks at me like loving me is the first thing about this world he’s completely sure of.
The problem is, I don’t want him choosing me because he needs me.
So I watch as Senn builds a life that belongs to him. Friends. Purpose. Work he loves. Money he earns. A gift for finding what’s lost.
Everything I wanted for him.
Everything that makes it possible for him to leave.
Somewhere between Christmas lights and stolen kisses, I make a terrifying discovery.
I don’t just want Senn free enough to choose me.
I want him to choose me forever.
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