Sweet, closed-door romances full of longing, emotional second chances, and love stories worth waiting for.
Come for the romance. Stay for the friendships, family, mystery and occasional royal scandal.
START WITH THE SCANDAL CLUB
The Mystery of the Lost Relics
Lila & Daniel’s Complete Story
Five women meet at a royal summit. Hours later, an entire collection of priceless royal relics has vanished—and the police think they stole it.
Lila has only just met the other four women, but she is certain none of them is a thief.
With the police watching their every move, Lila starts following the details that don’t add up. But she isn’t investigating alone. Daniel Harrowind, the Duke of Eastmoor, has decided he’s staying—and the closer they get to the truth, the harder it becomes for Lila to ignore the man beside her.
A royal mystery, an unlikely friendship, and a closed-door romance between an archaeologist who notices everything and the duke who refuses to walk away.
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BEFORE THE SCANDAL
Five women. Five stories. One night that will bring them together.
Before they became the Scandalous Five, Aurelia, Celeste, Isadora, Eloisa and Lila were five strangers arriving at the same royal summit for very different reasons.
Before the Scandal tells each woman’s story in the hours before she enters the museum — and before one extraordinary night brings all five of them together.
Meet the women of the Scandal Club before the mystery begins.
COMING NEXT FROM THE SCANDAL CLUB
THE ACCIDENTAL DUKE
Eloisa & Nicholas
Nicholas Meier was perfectly happy being an emergency-room doctor. Then an inheritance he never expected leaves him with a title, an estate in trouble — and absolutely no idea how to be a duke.
Eloisa Wagner does.
As a royal protocol expert, she knows the rules Nicholas needs to learn. She knows how to help him face the world that has suddenly become his. And she knows there are very good reasons to keep their relationship professional.
Knowing the rules is one thing.
Following them when she begins to fall for him is another.
A sweet, closed-door romance about an accidental duke, the very competent woman teaching him how to become one, and two people trying very hard not to fall in love.
COMING OCTOBER 2026
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MISS MARCHAND AND THE BARON’S FAKE ROMANCE
A fake boyfriend. A Christmas chalet. And a ghost who has very inconvenient timing.
Investigative journalist Genevieve Marchand agrees to spend Christmas posing as Baron Stefan von Liermont’s girlfriend. He needs to stop his sister arranging his future. Genevieve has another reason for saying yes: she wants to find out who—or what—is walking the sealed corridors of Silverfen Chalet after midnight.
Three days together bring Genevieve closer to Stefan and the noisy, welcoming family she never expected to enjoy. The trouble is, their fake romance is beginning to feel much too real.
Sweet • Closed-Door • Fake Dating • He Falls First • Christmas Mystery
EVERY COLD MORNING
Eight years ago, Luca let his family drive Tessa away. Now he has four weeks to prove he won’t make the same mistake twice.
Tessa Hartley returns to Queensland’s Granite Belt to create a winter wine festival that could save a beloved vineyard. The last person she expects to be working beside is Luca Manelli—the billionaire heir who broke her heart when he failed to stand up for her.
Four weeks of working side by side bring back the laughter, the attraction, and feelings Tessa thought she’d left behind eight years ago.
This time, Luca intends to get it right.
Sweet • Closed-Door • Second Chance • Billionaire • He Falls First • Queensland Wine Country
AVANI CLARE
Avani Clare writes sweet, closed-door romances about capable women, good men, and the sometimes complicated business of falling in love.
Her stories have room for friendship, family and a little mystery alongside the romance, but the heart of every book is the same: two people finding their way to each other and a happily-ever-after worth waiting for.
When she isn’t writing, Avani is usually reading, working in her garden, or going walkabout in her lovely city of Brisbane. Most likely, she’s trying to work out how to get her heroines and heroes out of the difficult situations she’s put them in.