Sunset Rising

Babysitting for Taylor Brzezinski was a mistake. High school dropout, single mom, spontaneous, punctuality-challenged artist—she’s the all-around blight of humiliation in Jason Maxwell’s conservative, suburban neighborhood.

But she’s also an irresistible splash of color against his charcoaled plans for grad school.

Mired by prejudices, Jason weighs his professional ambition against a share in Taylor’s stigma. Caring for her kids will cost him tuition, career, and family, but ditching her means abandonment to an abusive ex. When Taylor’s dreaded monster shows up anyway, with blood on his mind, even the best of choices is a cliff jump.

SUNSET RISING is a dual POV, 89,000-word commercial romance exploring themes of domestic abuse, family dynamics, and self-empowerment. It blends the hopeful tone of Colleen Hoover’s Reminders of Him with the heartfelt exploration of love and restoration in Claire Daverley’s Talking at Night.