May Alder

For the third month in a row, I’m sick to my stomach when I have to face my roommate, Blake, and tell him I can’t pay my share of the rent after my boss cut back on my shifts at work. Blake reluctantly offers to cover the difference once again, but only if I do something for him first… Short on Rent is a spicy, over-the-top, 14k-word romance novelette. All characters are 18+. Please read the Author’s Note at the beginning of the book. Happily ever after guaranteed.

My step-brother and I have hated each other since we met, so it’s a nightmare being forced to share one seat in the back of Dad’s truck, jam-packed with moving boxes, for the next two days until we get to our new house in Arizona. Tired of my squirming and complaining, Samir pulls me onto his lap for the remainder of the drive, and I find out just how nice my step-brother can be… Back Seat Baby is a spicy, 12k-word romance novelette. All characters are 18+. Please read the Author’s Note included at the beginning of the book. Happily ever after guaranteed.

James I’ve only had guardianship of my three-month-old nephew, Grayson, for four days, and I’m already failing miserably. I don’t know how to help him since he refuses to eat and sleep until sheer exhaustion pulls him under for an hour or two at a time. I pace by the front door, waiting for my neighbor from across the street with children of her own to come over after she offered to help when she saw how panicked I was. Except it’s not her who appears on my front porch at midnight—it’s her daughter, Shayla…the woman I’ve been obsessed with since I moved into the neighborhood a year ago. She smiles sleepily in her pajamas and fuzzy pink slippers, haloed by the porch lights like an angel—my angel. Shayla My mysterious, older neighbor—the one I can’t stop ogling—offers me an afternoon babysitting job on the spot after I get Grayson to settle. I agree so long as I can bring my daughter, Lainey. James has a momentary freakout when he finds out that I’m a senior in high school, though I’m not sure why, but the stricken look is wiped from his face when I tell him I’m eighteen. The more time Lainey and I spend with James and Grayson, the harder it is to leave them at the end of each night, especially when James starts calling me his angel. The closer we get, the more we feel like a family—four pieces of a puzzle. But I can’t let myself continue to get lost in James, no matter how right it feels to be with him, because what we’re doing is risky. We’re playing with fire, and if we’re not careful, our four-piece puzzle will soon become five. The Guardian’s Angel is a standalone, full-length, spicy, age-gap, single-parent romance. All characters are 18+. Please read the Author’s Note at the beginning of the book. Happily ever after guaranteed.

Bailey I’ve been in love with my dad’s best friend, Isaiah, since I was thirteen years old, which is when I started planning our future together—down to the song we would dance to at our wedding and the paint color of our bedroom walls. After five years of Isaiah pushing me away and breaking my heart, I hoped he would sweep me into his arms when I turned eighteen and confess he was secretly in love with me…Instead, I received a handwritten letter from the love of my life that shattered every dream I had of the future. Isaiah My best friend, Sherman, and his family meant as much to me as my own, though I kept my distance from Sherman’s young daughter, Bailey. Everyone expected her to grow out of her crush on me and move on, but she only grew more obsessed as time passed. After making a mistake that I deeply regretted when she came to me on the night of her eighteenth birthday, I knew what I had to do. In the almost four years since I’d last seen Bailey, I deluded myself into thinking she couldn’t possibly be as beautiful as I remembered. I was so wrong. I tried to push her away, just as I always did, but the tempting little angel’s schemes to get my attention finally worked…and now, she’s not the only one obsessed. His Relentless Angel is the 2nd book in the Their Angels series but can be read as a standalone. HRA is a full-length, spicy, dad’s best friend, age-gap romance. All characters are 18+. Please read the Author’s Note at the beginning of the book. Happily ever after guaranteed.

I may not be interested in the career my parents pushed me into, but I have them to thank when I meet my handsome boss on the first day of my internship after college graduation. He’s the only man ever to spark my interest—some may say obsession. Hoping the old adage is true that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, I spend the summer baking, searching for the recipe that will have my boss tasting and falling in love with more than just my desserts. A Taste of His Angel is a standalone, spicy short story featuring Shayla & Bailey’s parents, Miranda & Sherman, which takes place nearly twenty years before The Guardian’s Angel. All characters are 18+. Please read the Author’s Note at the beginning of the book. Happily ever after guaranteed.

A woman in need of safe passage. Hitchhiking from Nevada to Texas on my own at nineteen years old and nearly nine months pregnant to reunite with my dad is terrifying, especially after being attacked by a man who wants me to pay for my ride—and not with money. I barely manage to fight him off when he gets spooked after an eighteen-wheeler pulls into the truck stop parking lot, and he takes off with half of my luggage in the back seat. Freezing cold, out of money, and scared of being attacked again, I watch and wait for the truck driver to go into the convenience store, then sneak inside his unlocked eighteen-wheeler. For the first time in a week, I feel a sliver of safety and curl up into a small ball, hoping the driver won’t find me hiding behind his seat when he comes back. A trucker who vows to help her. I confront the person who broke into my truck, and the burn that’s been building in my chest for the last few days finally eases when I realize it’s a young woman—a heavily pregnant young woman—who needs safe passage to my home state of Texas. Angry at her father for making his daughter hitchhike alone across four states in her condition, I vow to take care of her until they’re reunited. Except, as soon as we get to Texas, I find out she’s been hiding her labor contractions, and there’s no time to take her to her dad’s apartment. At the hospital, she begs me to stay, afraid of giving birth all alone, and neither of us corrects the staff who think I’m the baby’s father. After helping her throughout her labor and watching her give birth, it’s a battle to remind myself… She is not my woman. Her daughter is not my baby. But if I have my way, they will be. Stowaway Whirlwind is the 2nd book in the Big Boys of Berenson Trucking series but can be read as a standalone. Stowaway Whirlwind is a full-length, spicy, age-gap romance. Please read the Author’s Note at the beginning of the book before proceeding. Happily ever after guaranteed.

A woman on the run. After my dad forgets to set the house alarm, I grab the duffel bag I’ve had packed and hidden for months and sprint into the night to the closest truck stop. My future and safety rely on finding a trucker willing to let me hitch a ride out of town before my dad discovers I’ve run away. Legally, he can’t drag me back home if he finds me now that I’m eighteen, but the law has never stopped him from doing what he wants before. Faced with one rejection after another, I become desperate…desperate enough to throw myself in front of an 18-wheeler pulling out of the lot, forcing the driver to slam on their brakes or run me over. Heart pounding and losing hope, I drop to my knees in front of the older mountain of a man who steps out of the truck. I’m willing to do anything he wants so long as he agrees to take me with him. At least, that’s what I tell myself… A trucker who is her last hope. I’ve never been tempted to pick up a hitchhiker before, but when the young woman risks her life running in front of my truck, then kneels in the dirty parking lot and begs me for a ride, I give in against my better judgment. She doesn’t have to follow through on her promise to do anything I want since I won’t touch her with a ten-foot pole. At least, that’s what I tell myself… When I find out why she’s so desperate to get out of town, I make a promise of my own. A promise to take care of her and protect her until we go our separate ways. Except, I can’t let her go. Not now. Not after my monumental mistake. Not after knowing she could be pregnant with my baby. Runaway Whirlwind is a standalone, full-length, fast-burn, spicy, age-gap romance. Please read the Author’s Note at the beginning of the book. Happily ever after guaranteed.

After nearly causing multiple car accidents when my power steering goes out, a driver with serious road rage chases me off the interstate. The towering cowboy looks ready to murder me with his bare hands until he realizes who I am.It’s been seven years since I’ve seen my older brother’s ex-best friend—the only one who was ever nice to me growing up. It soon becomes clear, however, that his looks aren’t the only thing that’s changed when he tells me I need a Daddy’s firm hand after being so irresponsible with my safety.Unfortunately for me, he doesn’t stop with just his hand…Road Rage Daddy is a dark, spicy 17k-word romance novelette. All characters are 18+. Please read the Author’s Note at the beginning of the book.

My world is upended when I find my mom packing her suitcases. She tells me I don’t have to call my stepfather Dad or Daddy anymore since we’re leaving and moving in with the man she’s been cheating on him with for the past eight months. But I don’t want to leave or call someone else Daddy. What I want is to ease the sting of Mom’s betrayal, to apologize for my selfish behavior over the last three years, and to make sure he will still want to be my dad even after he’s no longer legally my stepfather. Thinking back to some of my parents’ recent arguments, I think I know what I can do to help Daddy feel better. It will be my way of saying, “I’m sorry, Daddy.” I’m Sorry, Daddy is a spicy, age-gap, 11k-word romance novelette. All characters are 18+. Please read the TWs & CWs included at the beginning of the book. Happily ever after guaranteed.

I thought I was living happily ever after with my ex-husband despite giving up my dreams of having children to be with him. At least, I had been until I turned thirty, and he started losing interest in me. Now, single at thirty-seven years old and feeling foolish for sacrificing too much for my ex, my internal clock was ticking faster than ever. When the school year resumed, I introduced myself to the new history teacher, who turned out to be my younger former neighbor. When the giant of a man called me Mama, I discovered we shared the same dreams and fantasies. I went a little overboard in my baby-making quest and thought I scared him off…until he came back with a wicked plan to give me what I deserved—payback. Payback, Penelope is a standalone, spicy, reverse-age-gap romance novella. All characters are 18+. Please read the Author’s Note included at the beginning of the book. Happily ever after guaranteed.

Previously published as Mr. Hall’s Sunshine by May AlderRevised September 2024 with an added epilogue All I need is a few seconds of Mr. Hall’s time to sign my maternity leave papers, but every attempt to get him to do so has been met with a cutting eye and sharp refusal. When he threatens to give me permanent maternity leave after my latest attempt, I decide I’ve had enough of his belligerent behavior. My temper gets the best of me, and after slinging the most ridiculous insults his way, he follows through on his threat to fire me. I can’t afford to lose my job and its generous maternity leave, not since my ex-fiancé abandoned me and our unborn child. There’s only one quick crazy thing I can think of to hopefully ease Mr. Hall’s maxed-out blood pressure and get him to reverse his decision, and it starts by getting on my knees… Mister Hall’s Sunshine is a spicy, 9k-word, office romance novelette and is intended for an 18+ audience. Please read the Author’s Note at the beginning of the book. Happily Ever After guaranteed.