Celebrating endings

When Serving Sin comes out in one month, it will mark the end of my debut romance series. In the hustle of writing, publishing, promoting and deadlines, it’s so easy to lose sight of accomplishments like these. I’m trying to take a moment to celebrate and be grateful.

I WROTE THREE BOOKS, PEOPLE!!!!

When Serving Sin releases on May 25, I will have three books out in the world with my name on it. I will have successfully completed a three-story arc about the loves and lives of a wine-growing royal family in the mountains of Spain. I will have told a series of stories based on a theme intensely important to me: What does power look like when strong, worthy, alpha heroines wield it, and strong, worthy, alpha heroes support them?

I was a 20-year aspiring author, but I wanted this job for my whole life. As a longtime romance fan, I can’t help but reflect on series that I’ve loved – Cecilia Grant’s Blackshear Family series, Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s Chicago Stars series, J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood – and hope that someday, somehow, some way, my Filthy Rich series joins their ranks.

Hey, I write fantasies for a living!

With the publication of Serving Sin, I say goodbye to:

  • Roxanne and Mateo, the billionaire businesswoman and winegrowing prince of Lush Money, who are now the responsible royals and semi-frazzled parents they were always meant to be

  • Sofia and Aish, the star-crossed ex-lovers of Hate Crush, who’ve grown out of their childish, tempestuous love affair and into their strong, focused, and happy forever

  • Roman, the former Army Ranger and reluctant prince with secret wounds finally healed

  • the Monte del Vino Real, the beautiful winegrowing village in the mountains of Northern Spain, and the hardworking people who populated it, who at long last are prosperous and excited about their futures

  • incredible side characters who enriched the Filthy Rich universe – bodyguard Henry and his barrel-making wife Gina, friend and grower Carmen Louisa, the best nanny in the world Titi, and the awesome priest and father figure, Father Juan.

Wrapping up all of their stories in the Epilogue of Serving Sin was one of the proudest moments of my life. It was so wonderful seeing them all on the page together, toasting what they’ve (and I’ve) created.

I’ve never cried harder.

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