She returned to Coral Key to help her father, not to fall in love again.

After years of chasing a fast-paced career far from home, Lena returns to the quiet rhythms of the Florida Keys expecting only a temporary stay. The island feels smaller than she remembers, yet warmer and full of memories she thought she had left behind.

Including Evan.

As Lena reconnects with old friendships, family ties, and the peaceful life she once outgrew, she begins to question what success really means. Is moving forward always the answer, or can finding your way back be the bravest choice of all?
Set against sunlit beaches and cozy island charm, The Way Back to Us is a heartfelt, sweet romance about second chances, healing, and the courage to choose love when life offers a new beginning.

Perfect for readers who enjoy small-town settings, clean and wholesome romance, and stories that feel like a warm ocean breeze.

THE WAY BACK TO US is the prequel novelette that introduces Lena and Evan's story, leading into three full-length novels, a part of the Florida Keys Romance Collection.

Mia didn't come to Ridgeview to fall in love. She came to disappear.

After a devastating betrayal dismantled her career and her engagement in one spectacular fall from grace, Mia flees Portland for a temporary job in a mountain town so small it barely has a zip code. The plan is simple: keep her head down, do the work, and leave before anyone gets close enough to see the cracks.

Jack wasn't looking for anyone either. Three years ago, he inherited his father's hardware store and a grief he hasn't learned to name. He's built his life around routine, silence, and the kind of walls that keep people at a comfortable distance. It works. Mostly.

But Ridgeview is the kind of place where strangers don't stay strangers for long — where a sharp-tongued diner owner serves wisdom with your pie, where autumn surrenders to winter one breath at a time, and where two people who've mastered the art of keeping their distance keep finding reasons to stand a little closer.

As the temperature drops and the first frost arrives, Mia and Jack must decide: stay safe behind the walls they've built, or risk everything for a connection that feels like the beginning of something neither of them saw coming.

Before the snow falls, the air always changes first.

BEFORE THE SNOW FALLS is the prequel novellette leading to the Snowbound Desire Trilogy — a sweeping contemporary romance series set in the mountains where love arrives like winter: slowly, then all at once.

The Way Back to Us: Still Water

"Some journeys take you home. The hardest ones teach you to stay."

Lena Marquez left Coral Key seven years ago with a suitcase, a fellowship, and a silence she never explained. She built a career on the mainland, studied the ocean from the safe distance of a laboratory, and tried not to think about the island — or the man — she left behind.

Now she’s back. Her father needs her. The island remembers everything. And Evan Cross is still standing on the same dock, sun-weathered and steady, as if he’s been waiting for her all along.

He has.

But coming home isn’t the same as staying. The café hums with gossip. The sunsets still burn the same pink and gold. And every quiet moment between Lena and Evan pulls at the thread of something unfinished — something that seven years couldn’t erase.

The question was never whether she’d come back. The question is whether going back can ever mean going forward.

THE WAY BACK TO US: STILL WATER is the first novel of the Lena & Evan Trilogy — a sweet, slow-burn island romance set in the Florida Keys. Perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber, Elin Hilderbrand, and Jenny Colgan.

The Way Back To Us: Open Water

"Some journeys take you home. The hardest ones teach you to stay."

Lena Marquez left Coral Key seven years ago with a suitcase, a fellowship, and a silence she never explained. She built a career on the mainland, studied the ocean from the safe distance of a laboratory, and tried not to think about the island — or the man — she left behind.

Now she’s back. Her father needs her. The island remembers everything. And Evan Cross is still standing on the same dock, sun-weathered and steady, as if he’s been waiting for her all along.

He has.

But coming home isn’t the same as staying. The café hums with gossip. The sunsets still burn the same pink and gold. And every quiet moment between Lena and Evan pulls at the thread of something unfinished — something that seven years couldn’t erase.

The question was never whether she’d come back. The question is whether going back can ever mean going forward.

THE WAY BACK TO US: OPEN WATER is the second novel of the Lena & Evan Trilogy — a sweet, slow-burn island romance set in the Florida Keys. Perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber, Elin Hilderbrand, and Jenny Colgan.

Before the Don: A Mafia Romance - Prequel Novelette

The streetlights on his block went dark six months ago. He arranged it — through the alderman's office, in ordinary language, as a property owner with a concern. That is how he works: through the architecture of the ordinary, the infrastructure of patience.

For twelve years, Vincenzo has built and sustained a Chicago organization so precisely engineered that it requires almost no visible force to run. His world has load-bearing walls. Every element is in its place.

Mara Amato follows numbers. She was transferred from Minneapolis three years ago, and right now the numbers have led her to a $140,000 discrepancy in the accounts of Aegean Maritime Partners — and from there, to South Halsted. To a second-floor office above a kitchen supply company. To a two-inch gap in a walnut door.

Two people who should never occupy the same room. The moment before everything shifts.

BEFORE THE DON: A MAFIA ROMANCE is the prequel novelette to the Sold to the Don Trilogy — that begins here.

Bound by Loyalty: A Mafia Princess Romance

In Chicago's underworld, loyalty is inherited, enforced, and paid for in blood.

She was raised as mafia royalty - protected, watched, and promised to a future chosen by men who call control a family duty. Every elegant room, every guarded doorway, every whispered alliance reminds her that a mafia princess does not belong to herself.

Then he steps closer.

Older. Powerful. Dangerous. The kind of man who understands that love can be a weakness, a weapon, or a vow. He should be forbidden to her. He should be the last man she trusts. But in a world where rival families circle and betrayal waits behind every polished smile, he becomes the one person who sees the woman beneath the title.

As passion collides with family duty, she must choose between the loyalty that shaped her and the desire that could destroy everything.

BOUND BY LOYALTY begins a dark, steamy Mafia Princess Romance trilogy.

The Hidden Thread: From a Sicilian Archive to a Manhattan Revelation

Power built an empire. Paper trails preserved the truth. In The Hidden Thread, N. S. Gorman uncovers the origin story of one of America’s most quietly influential Mafia families—long before the headlines, the indictments, and the bloodshed.

When forensic genealogist Lucia Ferrante is hired to map the Caruso family’s lineage, she expects dusty records and forgotten names. What she finds instead is a pattern of marriages, migrations, and alliances that reveal how a small Sicilian clan transformed into a Chicago powerhouse. Every document she touches exposes another secret—one the Carusos never intended anyone to see.

At the center of it all stands Enzo Caruso, the founding patriarch whose rise from immigrant laborer to criminal architect reshaped the underworld. His story isn’t just about crime—it’s about loyalty, inheritance, and the cost of building a dynasty that could survive for generations.

THE HIDDEN THREAD is the prequel to Gorman’s Mafia nonfiction pentalogy, offering readers a gripping, meticulously researched look at the family’s earliest moves—the ones that determined everything that came after.

If you’ve ever wondered how Mafia empires are truly built, this is where the story begins.