Tamsen Parker: 14 books

Newly minted professor Evangeline “Van” Thompson’s academic dreams have turned into nightmares. She can’t wait to escape the pressure cooker of the university to spend the summer at Camp Firefly Falls with her bestie, Nate. Unfortunately, Nate breaks his leg halfway through the season,...

Ryn Abbott has been living the life of her dreams: a great job in a city she loves, far from the cornfields of her youth. The only thing lacking is a partner. She hasn’t found a man who suits her as well as Boston’s busy streets. Until she meets Sam. Considerate, charming, and a little...

When Astrid Zhao slams into Kinsey Malone’s life—also known as Kinsey’s hastily opened car door—Kinsey has no idea her life is about to get very complicated. Astrid’s a dapper-dressing med student whose brazen confidence and sense of style awaken Kinsey’s dormant attraction to women....

I like my men the way I like my drinks: tall, stiff, with a few aches the only proof I pounded them the night before. I don’t do relationships. I don’t do romance. I do kinky AF strangers I never speak to again. Or I did, until Cris Ardmore comes along. Handsome, charming, and cooks...

Singing about love is one thing. Finding it is another. Teague Martell has been License to Game’s bassist for over a decade, and he’s played Casanova for just as long, sleeping with almost everyone in his path. But unbeknownst to even his bandmates, it’s always felt like going through...

I have all the money, power, and partners a man could ever want. In short, it’s good to be king. And I fancy myself a benevolent ruler. Nothing pleases me more than playing matchmaker to my subjects and giving them their Kinkily Ever Afters. I would almost call helping people a compulsion...

I’m an a**hole. Ask anyone. My staff, the press, my ex-wife. They’d also tell you I’m a playboy, but they’d be wrong about that. I’m so much worse. Humiliating women, hurting them. That’s what gets me off, even though it makes me sick with shame afterward. I broke up my marriage...

Love might mean coming as you are, but staying is a different matter. Nick Fischer is a screw-up; everyone knows it and they’re not afraid to tell him so. The only thing he’s got going for him is that he plays a reliable rhythm guitar for License to Game, and his big fat bulldog, Princess...

Tzipporah Berger is thirty-seven and single, which is practically unheard of in the Orthodox Jewish community she now calls home. Her increasing religiosity and need for kink may have broken up her first marriage, but she’s decided it’s time to try again. And the rabbi’s wife has just the man...

Lucy I’m proud of going from a coffee-fetcher and copy-maker to an assistant my demanding boss can’t live without, but I can’t wait to go home for Christmas. I’ve been busting my ass and I could really use a break. But when I’m desperately needed on a project over the holiday, I can’t...

Going to college is the escape I’ve been waiting for. The cage of my Upper East Side childhood may have been gilded, but it was still a cage my toxic family kept me in. I have a new best friend who introduces me to kink, and also to the man who will rule my world for the next six years. After...

Matchmaking? Check. Surfing? Check. Falling in love? As if. Sunny, striking, and satisfied with her life in paradise, Theodosia Sullivan sees no need for marriage. She does, however, relish serving as matchmaker for everyone who crosses her path. As the manager of her family’s surf shop in...

School counselor Sean wants to fix the world, or at least he’s willing to bear the weight on his slim shoulders. No social justice slouch himself, Sean’s medical researcher husband Isaiah is exhausted by one assault to decency after another. Their world is crumbling, their marriage is in trouble,...

I let Cris into my life and look what happened: I got attached. Now I have feelings, and feelings are the worst. The truth is that I more than like him. I other-L-word him, which doesn’t solve anything; it makes everything worse. I’ve loved people in the past and it got me heartbroken,...