The Island Series
One island. Ten brothers. Hot days, hotter nights.
Welcome to La Isla.
These are dark romances, involving explicit sexual encounters, interracial couples and Alpha Males. Latin Lovers.
Happy Endings, as always ;)
Appropriate for ages 18+.
Each of these books are considered stand-alone, though characters are recurring and they are best read in order.
Hot Getaway: Book One
He pulled her from the storm, but she’s the one drowning in desire.
Maya Harper is a woman adrift. Freshly unemployed and hiding the truth from her successful sisters, she arrives at the exclusive La Isla resort for a bachelorette week desperate for a distraction. She expected cocktails and sunbathing, not a near-fatal slip off a dock during a tropical storm.
Gabriel Santos knows the ocean gives, and the ocean takes. When he spots the woman in white falling into the churning waves, the rugged fisherman doesn’t hesitate. Pulling the unconscious beauty from the water is instinct; keeping her in his bed to recover is dangerous.
Gabriel is supposed to be just a fisherman—one of ten brothers running the family empire—but tending to Maya awakens dreams he buried long ago. Trapped in his quarters while she heals, a tentative friendship ignites into a scorching passion that neither of them expected. But Maya’s life is back in Philadelphia, and Gabriel is anchored to his family’s legacy on the island.
With the vacation clock ticking down, Maya must choose: return to the safety of the life she planned, or risk everything for the man who breathed life back into her.
Tropes:
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Strangers to Lovers
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Hero Rescues Heroine
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Caretaking / Nursemaid (He takes care of her)
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Vacation Romance
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Forced Proximity
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He Falls First
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Steamy Island Setting
Hot Beats: Book Two
Six months. One island. A melody that changes everything.
Audrey Winters is burnt out. After years of navigating the cutthroat politics of the New York music industry, the high-profile sound engineer needs a reset. A six-month contract at a remote island resort seems like the perfect escape—a quiet "vacation job" where she can keep her head down and her heart guarded.
She didn’t count on Enrico Santos.
As the owner of La Noche nightclub, Enrico is more than just a charming island playboy with a killer smile. He’s a man who treats sound as a religion, and he isn’t about to let a stiff corporate hire dictate how to run his venue. Their first meeting is a disaster. Their second is barely civil. But when the arguments stop and the music starts, the friction between them sparks a fire neither can extinguish.
Bonded by a shared synesthesia and hidden musical talents, their late-night recording sessions turn into something far more intimate. But Audrey’s time on La Isla is ticking away, and the ghosts of her career failures—including her ex—aren’t ready to let her go.
Audrey has spent her life making other people sound good. Now, she has to decide if she’s brave enough to listen to her own heart.
Tropes:
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Workplace Romance
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Opposites Attract (Grumpy/Sunshine)
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Forced Proximity
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He Falls First
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Shared Passion (Music)
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Island Setting
Hot Claim: Book Three
She owns a piece of his island. He wants to own her heart.
Clara Rivero is a professional fixer. She steps into chaotic luxury hotels and restores order with ruthless efficiency. She values control above all else and has no room in her life for messy emotions. When she meets the brooding and devastatingly handsome Rafael Santos at a wedding, she allows herself a rare moment of weakness. The chemistry is instantaneous and terrifying. Fearing for her carefully guarded independence, Clara flees the island before their connection can deepen.
Rafael doesn't do temporary. Not in business, not in family, and never again in love, not since he traded his twenties to raise nine younger brothers into the men his parents never lived to see. When Clara shows up on his island with a lawyer and documents that could unravel everything, he's certain the wedding, the beach, the night that wrecked him, was never real. Just a con with better lighting.
Now a hundred year old secret stands between a woman fighting for the only inheritance her family has left, and a man who has never once let anyone all the way in. Every boardroom battle brings them closer to a truth neither of them saw coming: some claims were never about money at all, and the hardest one to walk away from might be each other.
Tropes:
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Enemies to Lovers
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Business Rivals
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Forced Proximity
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Secret Inheritance
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Billionaire Romance
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He Falls First and Harder
