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Grey Romance

Welcome to A.L.'s darker side.
Still contemporary romance, but with morally grey MMCs & FMCs.

A.L.'s darker contemporary romances explore the morally grey side of romance, where MMCs and FMCs break all the laws to get what they want. There's even a little murder happening . . . but you'll have to pick up one of her darker contemporary romances to find out what happens.

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All of A.L.'s darker contemporary romances can be found on the Lulu Direct website, where you can purchase the paperbacks and eBooks, and fall in love, one book at a time with her morally grey side of romance.

Even If It Hurts

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“There’s nothing more dangerous than a quiet man with a long memory.”

Elias Winchester was raised alongside death.

As the son of Mosswood’s funeral home director and coroner, he’s spent his life with the dead, and comforting the grieving. He’s buried his darker wants so deep no one would ever suspect what lives beneath his pressed suits and polished restraint.

The dead are simple. It’s the living who are complicated to him.

Especially Tate Ellison.

She was the obsession that consumed him in high school, the girl he watched from afar. When she left after high school, Elias was forced to see his obsession with her for what it was: a big fucking problem.

Thirteen years later, she walks into his funeral home, and every instinct he’s suffocated roars back to life.

She’s not the untouchable girl anymore.
He’s no longer the boy from high school.
And his hunger for her never died; it just learned patience.

Tate’s homecoming stirs more than old feelings. What Elias discovers in the weeks after her return drags a dark, buried bloodline into the light; one that puts her life in the crosshairs of a dangerous legacy.

Elias must decide who he’s willing to become to protect her.

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Obsession remembers.
Devotion waits.
But a love like his never comes without ruin.

 

Content warning: This book features a morally grey protagonist who engages in extensive stalking, voyeurism, and surveillance.
Contains violence and explicit sexual content with BDSM/Dom-sub dynamics. Check the trigger and content warnings listed inside.

Releasing Friday, November 13th 2026

Currently in interior formatting stage.

Releasing Friday, November 13th 2026
 

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