Annie Dyer

What happens when a hook up leaves you hooked?Ripped muscles. Sharp suit. Sharper wit. These weren't usually enough to make me bite, but Jackson Callaghan was a treat I wanted to taste. But return visits weren't something on my agenda. I wanted my sole focus to be on my marketing company. I didn't want just a hook up to turn into an addiction.The woman in my gym was better than coffee for waking me up. Gorgeous, driven, ambitious - she was exactly what I didn't need. But I was hooked from the moment I saw her doing pull ups, and it didn't take long until I had stopped trying to get away. The problem was, Vanessa Moore didn't want to be hooked by me.Two workaholics, two people with their own dreams. One desire. But will being hooked be enough to reel them in?

The Callaghan Green Series

Engagement Rate

Her heart is not up for negotiation… Noah Soames needed to get married, only there was one small problem – he didn’t have a suitable contender to be his wife. Until a few glasses of red wine later, and I’d volunteered for the position. He was charming, wealthy and panty-melting gorgeous, which meant that this small favour should be no problem. Shouldn’t it? A twelve-month deal and we’d separate as friends, nothing messy, no tangled emotions and definitely no difficult divorce settlements. I could find out if married life was better than my single, career-focused one, and see if I was really missing out, and at the same time put an end to the horrendous blind dates my friends kept setting me up on. It’s the perfect solution. Isn't it? It should be. Until my heart gets involved, and I have to decide whether it’s time to re-negotiate the terms of our agreement. But will Noah sign on the dotted line?

The Wedding Agreement

Penalty Kiss

❄️He ploughed a path straight to her heart...❄️Zack Maynard likes to keep things simple in his small town: he runs his care home for the elderly, spends his evenings at his brother's bar and climbs the hills and peaks of his area. His life is going just fine until Severton's newest resident opens her hotel, steals his builders, complicates his Christmas and makes him crave more than just her baking.Sorrell Slater thought she'd be starting her hotel with a husband; instead she's in a new town, with a new business and trying to begin a new life as a single woman, and she isn't entirely sure she can do it. However, Severton isn't a place that lets anyone struggle on their own, and Zack is more than happy to be her tour guide, making sure that both their Christmases sparkle. As much as she tries to keep him in the friend zone, his persistent charm keeps ploughing through her barriers, right towards her heart. But Severton is a town of secrets, ones that have been buried beneath the caves and peaks of the area. As independent as she's become, this time Sorrell might just need Zack's help to escape something deadlier than she thought a small town could hide.Sleighed is the first book in the Severton Search and Rescue Series.

Sleighed

She's feisty. He's fiery. Compromising is going to be a problem...It began with an argument over a room and who was going to use it. It didn't end in that room.It simply started.Maxwell Callaghan has long since accepted his place as the bachelor of his family. Married to his career as a lawyer specialising in medical negligence and committed to lecturing in his subject, Max is in no way prepared for the sheer feistiness of the curvy Victoria Davies, admin extraordinaire and history PhD student.Victoria Davies has a plan: to get her doctorate and a prestigious post abroad at a top university. What isn't on her agenda is Maxwell Callaghan and in fact, she'd much prefer him not to be on anything - except maybe... her?Two individuals, two different ideas about their futures, and enough heat to melt the arctic. But if they want that future to include each other, can a compromise be agreed?Maxwell Callaghan has long since accepted his place as the bachelor of his family. Married to his career as a lawyer specialising in medical negligence and committed to lecturing in his subject, Max is in no way prepared for the sheer feistiness of the curvy Victoria Davies, admin extraordinaire and history PhD student.Victoria Davies has a plan: to get her doctorate and a prestigious post abroad at a top university. What isn't on her agenda is Maxwell Callaghan and in fact, she'd much prefer him not to be on anything - except maybe... her?Two individuals, two different ideas about their futures, and enough heat to melt the arctic. But if they want that future to include each other, can a compromise be agreed?

Callaghan Green Book

Compromising Agreements

Chandelier

He's the plot twist she wasn't planning on...Workaholic? Check.Poor choice in men? Check.Debatably losing the plot? Check.Payton Callaghan has had enough. She needs time away from her stressful job, time away from her disaster of a love life and what she really doesn't need is a hot bookshop owner trying to verbally outwit her in the middle of his store.Owen Anders believes in creating his own plot. Successful businessman, talented musician and book nerd, he hadn't accounted for Payton and her wrath at the exact moment his well-constructed world was hitting an unplanned crisis. However, he needs a lawyer and he thinks she needs him.With Payton insistent that a relationship is not in an upcoming chapter, can Owen persuade her to change her plot and ensure her happily ever after stars him?

Between Cases

I could always ask my roommate for her advice – but then, I’d prefer to extract my own teeth.

I wasn’t expecting my temporary housemate to be Freya. My housemate was meant to be a lot taller, bald and male – not a wispy fairy-like creature with a thing for incense and crystals.

Freya loved meditating. I preferred to code.
Freya adored people. I thought they should be online only, except for special occasions.
Freya was always smiling. I rationed my smiles for birthdays only.

But Freya was only smiling on the outside. My irritating, meditating, meddling, temporary housemate would do anything for anyone, but never herself. Those smiles concealed what was going on beneath, something I first saw when she thought I wasn’t looking, then she let me see inside a little more.

I liked what I saw, although I pretended not to. She thought she had to be perfect. I thought she was perfect already.

Maybe Freya wasn’t my opposite. Maybe she was the piece that fitted in perfectly to complete my future, the one her tarot cards told me was complicated.

I just need to code myself into hers: I want to be the man who makes her smile.

Puffin Bay #4

Samphire Shores

Heartbreak led me to Puffin Bay, searching for peace in a small, coastal town. Four years later, my bar is thriving and my next business is just what the town needs.

It doesn’t need Roman Tominey. Arrogant, city-boy, suit-wearing grump - he knows how to push every one of my buttons, and after an evening of bad decisions, he knows how to push that one too.

When Roman’s newly found teenage son joins him, Roman’s summer stay is extended. We spend the days arguing over a building project the local council insist we do together, and the evenings with him sneaking into my room.

Then Roman’s ideas for Puffin Bay’s development cause all out war between us.

Those sparks between us? They become weapons.

Only Roman doesn’t fire his. It seems he wants something more than another zero on the end of his bank balance and he might just discard his suit - and its buttons - to keep on pressing mine.

Puffin Bay

Heart Keeper

Hollywood Ball

Her assignment is to not fall in love with him…

Zeke Brooksbank is in need of a wake-up call. One that shakes him out of the grump he’s permanently in and turns him into a reasonable human being.
I’m not staying at his country residence to tame the beast. I’m meant to be cataloguing his art collection, not fangirling over his own paintings, or becoming attached to his little daughter.
A three-month assignment and I’ll be back in London. Job done. I can try to tolerate him for that length of time. Should be easy.
Shouldn’t it?
Only the grumpy, temperamental artist turns out to be the sort of man I thought only existed in my fantasies, and that wake-up call – I could be just the person to give it.

The Atelier Assignment is a grumpy billionaire single dad, enemies-to-lovers romance

The English Gent Romances #2

The Atelier Assignment

Back then things were simple, being together was easy and exciting. Back then, their only concern was keeping their relationship secret from her brothers. Until she had a choice to make; the hardest decision she'd ever have to face. Claire Callaghan has dedicated her adult life to two things: her career as a family lawyer and trying to move on from the love she had to give up. Killian O'Hara has spent years fighting for his country, growing his business, and trying to forget how it ended back then, all the while wondering why Claire took herself out of his life, breaking his heart. But fate has a funny way of bringing the past into the present.Claire's latest case puts her in danger, not just from the man who her client needs to hide from, but from the man she's had to leave behind. Killian can protect her, if she'll let him, because being close to him reopens old wounds. All he wants is to try again, to prove he's the man she needs and maybe have an explanation. However, even choices made long ago have consequences, and only Claire can decide if she can give both Killian and herself a second chance at the happily after after they never had - back then. White Knight is the second in the Callaghan Green series. Each book is a standalone and can be read separately from the others.

White Knight

Enemies. Foes. Until one night changed them forever.The small town of Severton doesn't have many secrets. One of the few is exactly why Scott Maynard, bar owner and search and rescue hero, refuses to speak, acknowledge or even breathe the same air as Keren Leigh.Keren has been Severton's dentist for far too long and now she's ready to move to the city, escaping the war with Scott and broadening her dating circle in the hope of a future that doesn't just consist of evenings at home alone with a book, ancient pyjamas and a glass of wine.All it takes is a one-night ceasefire for all of her plans and their decade-long feud to be stirred up. But they're not the only ones to be shaken: Severton has acquired its own arsonist and other secrets are being exposed, leaving a completely different battle to be fought.Warning: contains alpacas, retired ladies who make their own gin and have an eye for younger gentlemen plus an alternate use for a bath.This steamy small town enemies to lovers romance is part of the Severton Search & Rescue series but can be read as a stand-alone.

Stirred

I was hoping for two things from my new job as the head teacher of Puffin Bay’s primary school: zero relationship complications and a quiet life where I could focus on my career.

Meeting Romy McAllister, widow of the town’s maritime hero, was unavoidable given that she had a daughter at my school. She was fierce and beautiful; becoming friends with her was going to make my life complicated, but I did it anyway. She’d said she had a crush on me - I pretended I didn’t feel the same.

Life could’ve been simple if Romy hadn’t delved too deep into what was going on in the private life of one of her friends. Nowhere does secrets like a small town, and when those secrets started to threaten Romy and her daughter, I chose to throw my chances of a quiet life away.

Even if it meant I risked breaking my heart and hers in the process.

Puffin Bay #7

Copper Cliffs

I was connected to Iris through a shared loss - Ivy - her older sister, who was also my best friend.

For a long time, we corresponded through letters. Old fashioned ink and paper on which we shared everything.

A mistaken one night stand when we were both drunk with grief didn’t ruin our friendship. We moved on. We carried on writing to each other. We stayed friends.

Four years later, and Iris is asking me for a favour. She wants a baby and needs a father, which isn’t going to be straightforward for either of us.

I say yes, pretending this will be easy. Knowing it won’t be.

Especially when that one night stand with Iris doesn’t feel like a mistake anymore - and I want more than a repeat.

I want forever.

Tropes: older sister’s best friend; friends-to-lovers; small town; planned pregnancy
TW: death of a sibling, infertility, IVF

Puffin Bay #6

Ivy's Arch

Clover Carew has no job, no home and has never had a proper boyfriend, unless you count the several hundred book-shaped ones. Stopping to help the stranger whose car has broken down on the bridge to the island doesn’t seem like a bad idea, even if it is Halloween. Only the stranger is definitely not Prince Charming, however handsome he looks. Grayson Wynne has enough problems in his life: a difficult ex-wife, a new position as the island’s doctor, a young son and no form of childcare; he doesn’t need Clover knocking on his door determined to be his good Samaritan. Especially when she comes with feline shaped baggage and legs that are too much of a distraction for a straight-laced single dad. He needs a nanny, and Clover needs a place to live and a job. She also needs dating lessons, but that’s where Grayson draws the line, one in permanent marker, until Clover has an offer from elsewhere. Then all of a sudden, those straight laces become very very undone…

Breeze Bridge

It’s the season of giving, and some gifts keep on doing just that… Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents, and Seph Callaghan has zero idea what to buy his siblings. Throw in a wedding, a mother taking a romantic trip down memory lane and the arrival of the livelier side of the Green family, and Seph’s lack of gifts – or girlfriend – might go completely unnoticed. Then there’s that small mystery of the positive pregnancy test which someone forgot to throw away… Snow fights, mistletoe and steamy nights, this could be the most spectacular Callaghan Christmas ever. This is part of the Callaghan Green series and is definitely not a standalone! It's highly recommended you read Compromising Agreements, Between Cases, Changing Spaces and Mythical Creatures first (just read them all; you won't regret it!)

Evergreen

There was something scarier than flying: falling in love with Callum Callaghan. He was the confident playboy who never promised more than one night. Back in college he was my friend, and the boy who could’ve broken my heart, if I’d trusted him with it. Instead, I chose his best friend. The last time I saw him, he looked at the heart I held in my hands and walked away. It hadn’t been my heart. It had been his. A decade later, Callum and I are thrown together under the African sun. We're here to save animals, but this could be a second chance with the boy whose heart I still hold. But can I trust him with mine? Mythical Creatures is part of the Callaghan Green series but can be read as a stand-alone. Full of very steamy scenes that are hotter than the African sun, inappropriate family texts, a touch of angst and a second chance romance with a HEA and no cheating.

Mythical Creatures

He’s setting the rules. She’s breaking them all… Playboy. Poser. Partner. It’s always the first two I’ve been known for. With the rest of my siblings in grown-up relationships, I decided it was time to prove I was more than just my reputation, and take my partnership in my family’s law firm seriously. Ambitious. Hardworking. No more spilling coffee on the photocopier. Forget my love life, I was taking a vow of celibacy; padlocking away the crown jewels; the bedroom was closed for business – and every other room too. I was going to find who I was as an individual. Focus on just being me, Seph Callaghan. And then she turns up. This wasn’t how it was meant to go.

Annie Dyer

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