Jessica Gadziala Books in Order

Private investigator Xander Rhodes is haunted by his failure to protect a client from a stalker. When battered Ellie seeks his help, he offers refuge, but her concealed past and his growing attraction complicate another dangerous protection case.

Six years after escaping an abusive religious upbringing, Isaiah remains unable to trust women. His determined pursuit of outspoken neighbor Darcy Monroe develops into something more serious, but an emerging threat forces both to confront betrayal and painful vulnerabilities.

This companion novella revisits Chase and Ava's relationship from Dr. Hudson's perspective. It explores his childhood, his decision to become a sexual surrogate, and the feelings that developed while treating Ava, then continues their story through an extended epilogue.

Hunter moves to a new city to escape his past and encounters neighbor Fiona, a phone-sex operator whose nightmares keep her out at night. Their attraction challenges carefully maintained defenses just as old wounds threaten their chance at intimacy.

After a painful breakup, Cece seeks a fresh start with a new roommate, whose disappearance soon draws her into a search. Working with the woman's abrasive brother Jasper reveals a hidden fae world and unexpected questions about Cece's own identity.

Hacker Alex's campaign against the crime lord who ruined her life is interrupted when hired enforcer Breaker kidnaps her. As he holds her for the man she hates, an unexpected attraction forces Breaker to question the loyalties behind his assignment.

Outlaw biker Reign's dangerous but familiar life changes when a desperate woman crashes into it. She has learned things she should not know and brings the attention of a powerful human trafficker, entangling Reign in her struggle to survive.

Ava seeks help from psychologist and sexual surrogate Chase Hudson after years of difficulties with sexual intimacy. Their sessions produce an immediate attraction that deepens into emotional attachment, forcing her to confront the blurred boundaries between treatment and love.

Anxious Cordelia Cameron has accepted a limited romantic life until confident Dane Broderick pursues her in the small town of Stars Landing. His unconventional approach challenges her expectations, while emerging trouble threatens to disrupt the life she knows.

Lena Edwards accepts an assignment at Stars Landing's inn, hoping to earn a promotion, but finds herself involved in corporate espionage. Mechanic Eric O'Reilly's persistent attention complicates her plans as the inn's manager begins to suspect what she is doing.

Emily has devoted herself to running the Stars Landing Inn and resents its sale after the owner's death. Determined to drive away buyer James Michaels, she instead finds his charm and interest in her undermining the confrontation she had planned.

Hannah Clary finally secures a corporate job under demanding Elliott Michaels, only to develop an attraction to her difficult boss. Threatening letters warn her away from him, leaving her torn between a dangerous new connection and returning to familiar safety.

Annabelle Goode inherits her aunt's estate and farm business, prompting a move to Stars Landing. Between attraction to neighbor Sam Flynn and mechanic Eric O'Reilly, she investigates her aunt's puzzling history while an unidentified enemy tries to drive her away.

A woman discovers that an entire year of her life has vanished and rejects the authorities' explanation of simple memory loss. Private investigator Sawyer takes her suspicions seriously, but their search for answers develops into an increasingly personal connection.

Willow Swift arrives bloodied at the Henchmen compound and calls in a favor Cash owes her. Helping her brings him close to a woman determined to conceal her past, while his carefree approach to relationships faces an unexpected challenge.

Faith and Danny work at a mafia-connected bar for reasons neither admits to the other. Their growing attraction threatens the secrets behind her bargain to stay employed and his fabricated bartending credentials, making intimacy a risk for them both.

A woman approaches Byron St. James hoping to negotiate repayment of her father's debt. Instead of accepting money or a payment plan, the dangerous creditor demands her as compensation, drawing her into an unequal arrangement with a cold, controlling man.

Penny's ordinary life is disrupted by a violent conflict between the Henchmen motorcycle club and an unidentified enemy. Her closeness to Duke grows during the danger, but his hidden history raises doubts about whether she can accept a future together.

A call forces professional killer Shooter to return to the home he fled as a teenager. His interest in Amelia challenges her determination to avoid him, especially when unexpected trouble leaves her dependent on the answers only he can provide.

Maze seeks membership in the Henchmen motorcycle club to escape people who want her dead. Repo is ordered to drive the female prospect out, but his respect and attraction conflict with that assignment as her pursuers close in.

Elsie's investigation of a mystery puts her in danger on the streets of Navesink Bank, where Paine intervenes to save her. Helping her threatens to drag him back into the violent world he has worked desperately to leave behind.

Loan-shark enforcer Shane Mallick hires phone-sex operator Lea to pose as his date at a family dinner. A simple arrangement becomes harder to contain as repeated meetings foster attraction and the secrets in Lea's past threaten their developing bond.

Returning home for Thanksgiving after six years, a woman learns that her brother's best friend and her former teenage crush will also attend. Work worries and holiday stress mingle with a determination to show him how much she has changed.

Lyra heads toward secluded Vermont cabins determined to give herself a traditional Christmas, even if she must celebrate alone. An interruption before she reaches her destination introduces an unexpected man and the possibility of sharing the holiday after all.

Wolf intervenes when Janie's actions leave several criminal groups wanting her dead. Her fiery personality disrupts his solitary routines, while learning why she took those risks draws him deeper into a connection that challenges his role as protector.

Former wild child Kenzi has rebuilt her life around a successful business, only to find herself threatened by new trouble. Private investigator Tig takes the case others refuse, and their growing attraction becomes entangled with the search for answers.

Five Christmas stories return to established Navesink Bank couples, including Reign and Summer, Cash and Lo, and Wolf and Janie. These holiday follow-ups revisit relationships introduced in earlier novels rather than retelling their original romances.

Cyrus feels a connection with shy bookworm Reese but believes he should keep their relationship strictly friendly. She agrees to that boundary despite finding him irresistible, until their growing closeness makes the limits of friendship increasingly difficult to maintain.

Seeking a fresh start, Enzo pursues a new job in a new city, only to find himself competing with spirited Espen. Office politics, an unexpectedly complicated case, and attraction to his rival interfere with the second chance he wants.

Lenny has devoted her life to revenge and sees Henchmen biker Edison as a distraction from that mission. His persistent interest draws him beneath her guarded exterior, but a sudden upheaval exposes secrets that change the stakes of their connection.

After six years in prison, Eli plans to avoid another loss of control by cutting himself off from family and friends. An unexpected woman disrupts that isolation, pushing him to confront old beliefs about himself and the past he fears.

Underground fight-club owner Ross Ward avoids other people's problems until frightened Adalind Hollis needs help. Protecting her draws him into an intimate connection that threatens to expose his own past, while his desire for vengeance complicates her recovery.

As the Henchmen rebuild after a devastating conflict, Lazarus discovers Bethany overdosing in an alley and refuses to abandon her. His experience with addiction informs his efforts to help, while their developing relationship tests the difficult work of recovery.

Loan-shark enforcer Mark Mallick avoids commitment until a chance encounter with guarded Scotti piques his interest. Her life revolves around a secret mission pursued for ten years, and his attention offers possibilities that could overturn the purpose consuming her.

Pagan has built his life around fighting and casual encounters, while Kennedy relies on hard work to escape a difficult childhood and rebuild after setbacks. Meeting each other introduces an unexpected attraction neither had planned to accommodate.

At twenty-seven, a woman returns to her small hometown after her partner of five years proposes and then leaves her within a day. Embarrassed and uncertain, she begins reevaluating her future and encounters an unexpected possibility for romance.

Following the devastation of the Henchmen's conflict, Renny and Mina try to build a relationship amid the club's recovery. Both excel at reading other people's motives, but recognizing their own feelings proves harder as unfinished dangers threaten their organization.

Ryan Mallick is drawn to Dusty, whose anxiety makes leaving her apartment nearly impossible. She struggles to understand his interest and imagine sharing his close family life, while dangerous complications involving her business partners threaten the connection developing between them.

Convinced she faces imminent danger and unable to get help from police, Aven turns to professional fixer Quinton Baird. Though he initially dismisses her problem as unsuitable for his team, her urgent warning draws him into a more personal rescue.

A man makes violent justice his purpose, targeting criminals and convincing himself that the lives he takes correct otherwise unanswered wrongs. Meeting a woman interrupts that single-minded existence, introducing a connection that challenges the way he has chosen to live.

Adler joins an arms-dealing motorcycle club hoping for a quieter life, then becomes fascinated by his new neighbor's guarded confidence. He recognizes familiar darkness beneath her defenses, but her unexplained disappearances complicate his attempt to share secrets and imagine a future.

An experienced Dom prefers casual encounters until online exchanges with inexperienced Adley become something more. Teaching her to trust him leads to a connection that challenges his boundaries and raises the question of whether she will stay.

Designer Brinley Spears gets a chance to appear on a renovation show, provided she works with irritating contractor Warren Reyes. Because producers mistake them for spouses, she proposes a fake marriage for one season, complicating their already combative relationship.

Set in the 1980s, this story returns to the beginning of Charlie and Helen Mallick's relationship. A young woman raised amid cruelty finds help escaping, opening a romance shaped by danger and the family they will build.

Event planner Sage Walters accepts a last-minute commission for a huge corporate New Year’s Eve party. As she struggles to deliver a career-changing event, demanding CEO Grant Calgary becomes both an obstacle and an unexpected romantic temptation.

Reeve believes his siblings and motorcycle club are all he can have until he meets Rey, whose quieter life offers connection. The return of someone from his past forces them together while threatening the future he has begun to imagine.

A failed gun delivery gives biker Roderick six weeks to recover stolen weapons and find replacements. Working with Livianna, the arms dealer responsible for the theft, complicates the assignment when attraction interrupts his plans to remain unattached.

Sugar wants more than the casual relationship Peyton is willing to offer, but winning her trust also means facing her protective criminal circle. Meanwhile, someone he believed dead returns from his past with a threat he must unravel.

After years in prison following the destruction of her empire, V has had ample time to plan retaliation. Multiple viewpoints follow people in Navesink Bank confronting the consequences of a revenge scheme whose reach they did not anticipate.

A woman coerced into false testimony against one of the Mallick brothers vanished after a scandal involving a senator's family. Her late-night call to Quinton Baird & Associates reopens the story and brings a new request for help.

Sloane seeks help after one encounter destroys the security of her carefully built life. A specialist known as the Ghost takes her across the country toward a hidden identity, but their close quarters reveal more than professional protection.

A man gives up on the woman he has loved for years when she prepares to marry someone else. Finding her tearful and needing help on her wedding day offers an unexpected chance to show what she overlooked.

Bookshop owner Liam prefers fictional worlds to connections with his customers until Riley arrives in town. Her ability to challenge him and see past his defenses sparks a relationship, but a concealed truth threatens the bond they are forming.

Barrett has arranged a solitary life that protects him from pressure to change who he is. Impulsive, talkative Clarke disrupts that careful existence, offering an acceptance that makes him consider whether connection could belong in his future.

Camden has accepted loneliness until he meets Annie, a woman whose constant moves have kept her from putting down roots. Their attraction offers both a reason to build lasting ties, but her past threatens the possibility of staying together.

A woman burdened by an unpayable debt signs a three-month contract that promises financial freedom. The man behind the arrangement unexpectedly falls in love, but his deceptions threaten the trust needed to turn their bargain into a relationship.

When a family friend arrives frightened and begging for protection, a man shelters her while investigating who is pursuing her. His attraction to someone he considers off-limits complicates his focus on a case whose dangers keep growing.

Newly released biker Thayer plans to recover the life and club taken from him, while Sera wants back the one thing she values. Their practical alliance becomes personal as shared grievances and growing attraction complicate the pursuit of revenge.

Roan built a life around changing countries and identities to track criminals until a relationship disrupted his work. After moving into a different world, he meets the woman from that past again and seeks a second chance she may reject.

A man isolates himself in the woods to escape his past and limit contact to occasional clients. Finding an injured, traumatized woman prompts him to share his refuge, but growing feelings force both to confront the pain they carry.

Gemma pursues causes even when the risks become too great to manage alone. Lincoln wants lasting love but finds himself drawn to someone he should avoid, creating a conflict between protecting others, personal loyalties, and their developing relationship.

Juliette dreads sharing Thanksgiving with Trip Martin, the man whose behavior always irritates her. A long weekend with her family gives both a closer look at each other, challenging the assumptions behind their mutual dislike and sharpening an unexpected attraction.

Biker Virgin expects his life to revolve around brotherhood, parties, and casual encounters until he meets Freddie. She is intent on rebuilding old connections and carrying out revenge, but their attraction challenges the future she has planned.

With the club president missing and supplies dwindling, Colson faces threats inside and outside the Henchmen. His troubled new neighbor adds an unexpected personal connection, forcing him to weigh the club's mounting crisis against a relationship he wants to protect.

Counterfeiter Finch flees an enemy and meets Chris, who needs money for her campaign against dangerous people. She uses his past to pressure him into helping, but unexpected attraction complicates an arrangement built on blackmail and shared criminal experience.

Huck struggles to establish an arms-dealing motorcycle chapter amid hostile local criminals, while neighbor Harmon wants quiet for her work. A drive-by attack draws her into his world, turning an irritating proximity into danger and an unexpected connection.

Nixon expects Reagan's stalking to fit familiar patterns, but her concealed purpose challenges his assumptions. She becomes attracted to the man assigned to stop her, wondering whether he might understand her mission rather than simply stand in its way.

After a zombie outbreak leaves her apparently alone, a woman encounters the ex who broke her heart. Survival may depend on cooperating with him, despite lingering anger and the complications of being the last people alive.

A woman paid to make men fall in love and then ruin them targets scandal-prone billionaire Fenway Arlington. Developing real feelings for her client threatens both the assignment and any future they might have once he discovers her deception.

An exhausted professional expects to return home after weeks of work but instead finds herself forced onto an assignment in Greece without her team. Attraction to Christopher Adamos complicates her resentment at being trapped far from her usual support.

Ferryn leaves home after devastating harm and spends years training herself to pursue a dangerous mission. Returning as a capable fighter also means confronting unanswered questions, unfinished promises, and personal bonds that challenge the life she has built around that purpose.

Chosen to fulfill an ancient treaty, a young witch must leave her coven and enter the custody of demons. Unexpected feelings for one captor complicate her fear as she tries to understand what they want and what the arrangement will cost.

Romy enters mafia-controlled docks to investigate her sister's disappearance and attracts the attention of capo Luca Grassi. Their developing connection clashes with his duties when the answers she seeks may lie within the criminal business he controls.

Held as collateral for her father's mafia debt, a woman determines to save herself rather than await his help. Attraction to underboss Lorenzo Costa complicates her struggle as shifting power and old grievances threaten violence among New York's crime families.

When a woman’s mother cancels their Christmas plans, her best friend sees an opportunity to reveal his love. With twelve days together in the city, he hopes to turn their familiar friendship into something more.

West travels down the coast expecting sunshine, casual encounters, and a relaxed introduction to a new motorcycle-club chapter. Meeting a woman there changes the trip's stakes, challenging his assumption that the visit will involve nothing more serious than fun.

Che hopes his motorcycle club will have time to recruit and recover before another threat arrives. An acquaintance he has not seen in nearly a decade returns to claim a favor, bringing trouble and the possibility of a lasting connection.

Rival motorcycle-club presidents Fallon and Danny hate each other until an unknown enemy forces them into cooperation. Attraction emerges beneath their hostility, threatening the loyalty of their members as well as their lives while they confront the shared danger.

After her friend leaves a billionaire's household job because of surveillance cameras, Wynn applies to replace her. Rather than resent being watched, she uses the cameras to tease her employer, turning the unusual working arrangement into an erotic connection.

Malcolm enjoys the quiet routines of his club, family, and woodland cabin until he meets a woman who changes what he wants. A sequence of unfortunate events begins to look deliberate, prompting him to investigate before the danger develops further.

An ultimatum pushes Shy into a dangerous encounter with an outlaw motorcycle club to protect her family. After her plan fails, brooding McCoy offers unexpected help, but their growing relationship faces an enemy whose many faces make identification difficult.

Joining the Henchmen seemed inevitable for Niro, but the club complicates his feelings for childhood friend Andi, a member's daughter. Her return after years away revives the connection just as new enemies threaten the people who matter to him.

A woman secretly calls a coworker's phone-sex line, knowing his identity while concealing her own. When their boss discovers the situation, a supposed work retreat traps them together in the woods, forcing them to confront feelings and the deception between them.

True-crime podcaster Poppy investigates a suspected serial killer operating unnoticed in Navesink Bank. Meeting an anxious man with a compulsive need to clean complicates her focus, while an unsuspected connection between him and her investigation threatens their developing attraction.

Bellamy's planned killing is disrupted by Shawn, forcing him to take her away on his jet for their safety. Hiding together brings attraction between the billionaire and his unwilling companion while armed threats complicate an already volatile relationship.

Demon leader Ace wants to return his crew to hell before earthly attachments keep them trapped. Josephine's attempt at a fresh start is interrupted by abduction, drawing her into an unfamiliar supernatural world and a connection neither expected.

A captive woman believes escape is impossible until demon biker Drex rescues her. Their flight sparks conflict between ancient immortals, and the connection growing between them becomes entangled with a war neither can simply leave behind.

Tragedy draws a man who once rejected the mafia back toward the Family and a desire for revenge. An unexpected woman becomes central to his hopes for a future, but hidden enemies threaten the life they could share.

Seeking escape from a miserable life, a woman makes an arrangement with New Jersey mafia capo Lucky Grassi. Their professional deal develops into attraction, but the dangerous plan that brought them together threatens their ability to pursue a future.

A woman believes Matteo Grassi is simply her attractive, kind boss until she witnesses something forbidden. Drawn into the mafia world she denied existed, she struggles with growing feelings for him while wondering whether she will survive the danger.

Primo Esposito forces a woman into marriage as the price of peace between rival mafia families. With her relatives' lives at stake, refusal is impossible, but unexpected affection complicates their union while enemies threaten the fragile connection forming between them.

A woman seeks help from Cary years after their prison pen-pal correspondence ended. Their limited connection offers no clear right to ask, but desperate circumstances leave her needing the kind of assistance only someone with a criminal background can provide.

An isolated woman is drawn out of seclusion by work, only for biker Crow to interfere and nearly get himself killed. Their shared demons challenge both people’s plans to remain alone as an unexpected attraction develops.

Leaving prison, Judge accepts a new future as an arms-dealing biker and reconnects with bartender Delaney. Their attraction crosses boundaries imposed by others, while a threatening enemy makes pursuing the relationship increasingly dangerous for them both.

Unhappy with her job and her life, Maribelle returns to the cabin where she spent childhood summers with her grandmother. The old stories about creatures in the woods prove real, and one has taken an interest in her.

A woman unexpectedly meets Remy while committing a crime and assumes their encounter is over. When the offense grows into trouble she cannot handle, she turns to the attractive criminal for help, bringing them into each other’s lives again.

Billie has tried to avoid Rowe since a painful conversation ended her hopes about the man she had long admired. When trouble strikes the motorcycle club and a cousin calls in a favor, circumstances force them face to face again.

An injured arms-dealing biker returns to the woman he once befriended and then deeply hurt. She wants nothing to do with the man Seeley has become, yet helping him brings childhood memories and unresolved feelings back into her life.

A demon repeatedly answers the call of a woman whose purpose is to destroy beings like him. When she needs help with a case, working together challenges her rejection of the feelings he already cannot escape.

As ancient gods begin waking, demon Bael seeks answers from a human expert. He resents everything about humanity, yet the knowledgeable woman he consults challenges his conviction that he could never become attached to one.