Love stories about real people — ordinary adults who find extraordinary heat in honesty, permission, and trust.
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Beginner Model — Book One
Mandy said yes.
And somewhere between a muddy Jeep, long evenings that run past midnight, and a woman who finally stopped apologizing for wanting more, an ordinary marriage turned into something braver.
Muddy Ginger is the first Beginner Model novel: a love story about real people, written the way real heat actually happens — in conversation first, and everything after.
Beginner Model — Book Two
The door opens all the way.
Mandy and Dennis have stopped apologizing for wanting more — and in Shangri-La, the braver version of their life stops being a weekend thing. Old friends open their home, their pool, and their rules; new trust gets tested in the open, where heat is just part of an ordinary evening among people who tell each other the truth.
This is a love story about real people: a marriage that got stronger by getting honest, and the friends who meet them there.
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Beginner Model — Book Three
Ann said yes first.
Butler, Pennsylvania, 1986. A girl from Mars walks into an art department and answers an ad — and meets the boy who will spend thirty years looking at her exactly like that.
Where the whole series began. Coming soon.
The Beginner Model novels are best read in order: Muddy Ginger, then Shangri-La.
The Beginner Model series is a planned world, not a one-book accident. Book Three is already taking shape: an origin story — how Ann and Greg Betts, the couple at the heart of Shangri-La, became the marriage everyone else measures themselves against. More couples, more decades, the same promise: real people, braver lives.
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