Elle Ashwell
Elle Ashwell has always been a hopeless romantic.
Dedicated to the swoon and happily ever afters, it makes perfect sense to combine her love of all things romance with the charm of small town life in New Zealand.
Her romances are sweet and a little spicy, with green flag guys and ride-or-die friendships.
When not lost in fictional small towns, Elle works in administration, is a farmer's wife and mum of three girls in rural New Zealand.
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Pat Backley
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Elliott Rose
Elliott Rose is a bestselling author of romance on the forbidden and deliciously dark side. She lives in a teeny tiny beachside community in the south of Aotearoa, New Zealand with her partner and three rescue dogs.
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N.J. Weeks
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Before becoming a writer, Steffanie worked as an archaeologist and museum curator. She loves to explore historical settings and ancient conceptions of love and possession. From Dark Age Europe to crumbling gothic estates, Steffanie is fascinated with how love can blossom between the most unlikely characters.
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Elizabeth Bright
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Remi Rose
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Lila Dawes
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She has been writing since she was a teenager but the penny didn't drop until last year, she's a little slow sometimes...
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Arianne Nicks
Hi there! I'm Arianne Nicks, a coffee-fueled self-published author who loves writing romance woven with magic ✨
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My debut work is a paranormal romance trilogy, the "Soul Erosion" series, completed in 2024.
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Brooke Montgomery
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Drea Scott
Drea has been a hopeless romantic for as long as she can remember. She became an avid romance reader in 2015 when the Fifty Shades of Grey craze broke out, and never looked back since.
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Stories written by Jennifer Hartmann and Mia Sheridan are her absolute favorite, inspiring her to give writing a shot in 2022 when she settled down in her career. No, writing is not her full-time job, but a side project for now.
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Lainey Lawson
Lainey Lawson is a romance author living in a small southern town with her two kids and husband of ten years. She writes rural setting love stories, usually with a flair of suspense, and always with heartwarming found family and friendship.
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K. Wish
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Kat Paige
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Alexandra Lee
Alexandra Lee is a mid-twenties Canadian born and raised in Central Ontario. She's an avid romance reader & loves listening to her favourite music. Writing gives her a way to combine what she loves most: books & music. She writes for an escape—from poetry to songs to novels, she loves being able to share her stories with you.
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When she's not writing, you can find her studying to become a communicative disorders assistant, designing book covers for other authors, rewatching her comfort TV shows & movies, listening to Taylor Swift or Daughtry, reading her way through her TBR, or spending time with her boyfriend & their witchy black cat, Salem.
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Jessica Jude
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Her favorite scenes to write are arguments. She's been known to stir up drama in her own life when she gets bored, and her family is glad she has an outlet for her occasional Blair-Waldorfism. She lives in a big old house in the midwestern United States with her high-school sweetheart. She has dreamed of being an author since she was six and wrote her first book about a girl named Mary who got -
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Julie Milo
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Julie Milo spends most of her time reading and writing. When she’s not reading and writing scholarly stuff for her day job, she’s reading romance, nonfiction, and literary fiction for fun. She writes closed door/kisses only (also called “sweet”) romantic comedies.
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D.M. Henderson
D.M. Henderson is an Australian Spicy Romance & Erotica Author.
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After joining the Bookstagram community during her maternity leave in 2024; she finally got the courage to write her debut — Fires Creek — a taboo, scorchingly spicy cowboy novella.
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R. Alexander
R. Alexander loves to write about bad men. Mafia men, to be exact. But all their power, all their ego, all their authority comes crashing down when they meet that one woman who brings them down to their knees. Power plays, mistakes, drama, plot twists, sacrifices, back arching spice - R Alexander's books will have you binging, screaming, laughing, and crying late into the night.
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K.B. Brookes
K. B. Brookes is a passionate writer and storyteller with a deep love for crafting empowering and engaging romance novels. With a wealth of travel experiences, including visits to remote locations, K. B. brings a unique perspective and rich detail to her writing.
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Inspired by her love for reading and a desire to create stories where women have positive, empowering experiences with intimacy, K. B. has found her niche in the romance genre. Although she has never been in a survival situation like some of the characters in novels, her extensive travels and love for hiking—including on some of the trails mentioned in her books—have helped her create vivid, immersive settings for her stories.
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Eve Blakely
Eve Blakely writes contemporary romance novels with an edge. She currently resides in a small town south of Sydney, Australia with her husband and two crazy kids.
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She’s an avid daydreamer and a self-confessed chocoholic who ditched her city-based career to enjoy a simpler life. When she isn't writing, she's probably trying to get through her never-ending TBR pile, painting or rewatching One Tree Hill for the millionth time.
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Vi Summers
Vi Summers hails from New Zealand. She is a confetti queen, tea addict, cheese fiend, and hot-mess Mumma, all rolled into one international bestselling romance author.
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When you read Vi’s books, you can expect heat, heart and suspense. She specialises in "Alpha Rolls and Broken Souls", and loves breaking her characters before piecing them back together.
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K. Wish
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Lynda Tomalin
Lynda Tomalin is an author of contemporary Young Adult novels with sweet romances, an emphasis on strong friendships and empowering mental health representation.
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She lives in a small town in New Zealand, where she writes sweet, swoony kissing books about teenagers finding their place in the world.
Lynda is a mum of three girl and a farmer's wife, and when she's not daydreaming about her fictional characters and trying to find space for all the books she keeps buying, she works in administration (but mostly only to fund making more books).