Hey, I’m Caroline.
I write romance novels about what happens when the curtain closes and life begins. Grab a coffee. Stay Awhile.
I believe in second chances, slow burns, and the kind of love that doesn't ask you to be fixed first.
I'm a romance author, a nonfiction writer, a podcast editor, a tarot reader, and a total book nerd who co-hosts a podcast about the stories that wreck us in the best way. I live in Colorado Springs with my husband, three daughters and cats named Calcifer and Howl. If you get that, we can be friends.
My debut novel is coming soon, and it's the book I've been writing in my bones for years
without knowing it.
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A grumpy wine bar owner. A holiday-obsessed lawyer. One tiny community theatre trying to save itself.
Stella Monroe is busy. Between running the wine bar, keeping her brother out of trouble, and barely surviving the holidays, she has exactly zero interest in being cast as the “Star” in Everglen’s Holiday Play.
Then Nick St. James happens. He’s warm, infuriating, embarrassingly festive, and always in the right place with the wrong smile. As rehearsals turn into tree lightings, decorating, late-night practice sessions, and one charming kiss after another, Stella suspects her life is getting a little too merry.
There’s just one problem: the play isn’t just a play. It’s Nick’s way of saving the town theatre he loves, and Stella’s chance to prove she’s interested in more than just work. But as the play starts to matter more than she thought, she has to decide whether she’s willing to risk everything for a man, a town, and a joy she’s spent years avoiding.
The Everglen Series, Book One
Ballet was the only thing that ever made Ivy feel like herself, until an injury took it away, and took her with it.
She finds herself in Everglen on Pinewood Corner, starting over, dealing with her hip injury, and pulling espresso shots.
Ben is a plaid-wearing, indie musician who looks at Ivy like she’s a masterpiece, not a tragedy. But Ben has ghosts of his own that surround him, his band family, and the coffee shop itself.
As the two of them find sanctuary in each other, the reality of their trauma and past lives comes between them. Will Ivy let her tragic Ballet past decide her future? Or will she choose joy and find a new version of belonging, love, and family? Will Ben start living his own life and not the one laid out for him?
This is a story about what happens when the curtain closes, and life begins. And it all starts with a cup of coffee.
Coming Soon
Not just romance.
Before Ivy and Ben, there was Let Her Return — my self-pubished nonfiction book for the woman who's done the work and still feels lost. If you found me through that book, welcome. You're still in the right place.
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I co-host Bookish Ambitions with my cousin Catherine — a podcast about books, book-to-screen adaptations, and the fandoms that take over your whole personality. New episodes out regularly.
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