I’ll update this post as I release new books, but here’s my backlist organized by theme, trope, and subgenre.
- Bold Moves: a showrunner adapts the best-selling memoir of the ex who left him shattered, the bad girl of international chess, and they explore if they’ve grown enough to be together, or if secrets will tear them apart a second time. It’s forced proximity with high school exes, and it’s fairly high heat and high angst.
- Bad Reputation: A workplace romance about two people who want to change their bad reputations with their good work on an Outlander or Bridgerton-esque television series. It’s a friends to lovers contemporary romance with a sweet himbo male protag and a former teacher female protag.
- Funny Guy: Childhood best friends to lovers + forced proximity with chaos Muppet/order Muppet vibes, it’s a contemporary romance about a comedian hiding out from a media firestorm in the tiny apartment of his best friend, who happens to be in love with him.
- Chick Magnet: A grumpy-sunshine, forced proximity, contemporary romance about a backyard chicken keeping social media influencer and a small town veterinarian who are uneasy neighbors, then tentative friends, until their midnight confessions—about her gaslighting ex and his failing practice—blossom into something like love.
- The One You Want: An opposite-attract contemporary romance about an idealist union organizer and a cynical Capitol Hill playboy who can’t stay away from each other during a budget negotiation.
- The One You Need: A friends to lovers contemporary romance with a normal guy journalist + Park Avenue princess fundraiser centered on a money laundering scandal.
- The One You Hate: An enemies to lovers contemporary romance about a steamy secret affair between aides to rival campaigns during a presidential election.
- The One You Crave: This anthology features contemporary romances about a political aide and a rock star (“Aspiring”); legislative aides (“Kissing and Other Forms of Sedition”); journalist rivals (“The Fourth Estate”); and a campaign manager and a candidate (“Run”). These are all political romances, many with workplace settings and one set in a small town. The tropes are rockstar, friends to lovers, rivals, and second chance with a first love.
- Star Dust: It’s a forced proximity (neighbors) historical romance with an astronaut male main character and a divorced, single parent female main character. It’s like Pillow Talk but with astronauts.
- Earth Bound: It’s a historical romance with workplace, secret affair, and STEM protagonists tropes. It’s like Apollo 13, but with a major amount of steam. This is a reader favorite!
- Round Midnight: This holiday anthology (Christmas and New Year’s Eve), with love at first sight (A Midnight Clear) and best friend’s sibling (A Midnight Kiss) tropes. These are historical romances set in the late 1940s/early 1950s.
- A Midnight Feast: This historical romance novella has marriage in trouble, holiday (American Thanksgiving), and astronaut male main character tropes.
- Free Fall: This is a historical marriage of convenience/shotgun wedding/accidental pregnancy with an age gap, astronaut male main character, and plus size female main character tropes.
- Appassionata: This is a contemporary romance that features second chance with a first crush/friends to lovers, workplace romance with a concert pianist female main character and a piano technician male main character.
- Free: This is friends to lovers, workplace, and small town tropes. It’s a contemporary romantic suspense that subverts motorcycle club romance tropes.
If you want something fluffy and swoony, try Star Dust or The One You Want.
If you want angst (knowing it’ll all work out), try A Midnight Feast or Bold Moves.
If you want a grumpy-sunshine pairing, try Chick Magnet or Free Fall.
If you want heroes who break the romance mold, try Appassionata and The One You Need.
If you’re looking for happily child-free couples, try Earth Bound and The One You Hate.
If you want “one of us is famous,” try Bad Reputation or Funny Guy.
Emma Barry 