Escape to a place where book boyfriends are real
and love always wins!
Hiya! I’m Mary and I write clean, contemporary love stories that will make you want to curl up with a hot cup of cocoa and sigh happily. My books are about real-life issues like loss and grief, anxiety, body positivity issues, all while telling sweet love stories that always end with a happily ever after.
My heroes are real men with real struggles, but a heart of gold who are looking for their true love. My heroines are also real-life women who are strong, vulnerable, on a journey to find themselves, who are looking for the man God has for them.
If this sounds like your jam, welcome to my world!
She came to redesign his home. He found his home in her.
At twenty-four, curvy designer Vicky Lazzara has big dreams, a lot to prove, and zero romantic experience. In fact, she’s never been kissed!
When she lands her first job working with her mentor, redesigning the house of tech innovator Miles Austin, she’s determined to focus on her work, not his ocean-blue eyes or mesmerizing tattoos.
Miles isn’t seeking love. Juggling his role as a single dad to his daughter and managing his health tech company, his heart has remained closed off since his ex-wife left seven years ago, saying she never really loved him.
But Vicky’s faith, the way she treats his daughter like a princess, and how much he laughs when they’re together, draw him in, one quiet conversation at a time.
The only problem is that she’s eight years younger than him and has an overprotective brother back in Rome who has made it clear she’s off-limits.
But sometimes, love doesn’t follow the blueprints. Sometimes God rewrites them completely.
Love by Design is a beautiful love story, rich in God’s love, His perfect timing, and healing between a single dad who doesn’t believe he will ever be chosen and a younger woman who struggles with her body image.
Tropes:
Age Gap, Curvy Girl, Faith Themes, Never Been Kissed, Forced Proximity, Forbidden Romance, Found Family, Single Dad
He’s been in love with her for years. Too bad she considers him enemy #1.
Leyla Cooper has an amazing life. She’s the CEO of a multimillion-dollar beauty company in sunny San Diego, surrounded by fiercely loyal friends and a family who loves her. She’s feisty, no-nonsense, and proudly living under a strict, self-imposed man ban after her ex completely shattered her heart. Because of that life-altering experience, she has lost herself.
Nikolas Demir is a shy but brilliant neurodivergent scientist who has been in love with Leyla since college. Unfortunately, she’s convinced he tried to derail her college career, and now she can barely stand him. So, of course, he accidentally ends up hired as the head of R&D at her company, thanks to her best friend, Luke, who conveniently forgot that she’s sworn to loathe Nikolas until the end of time.
When unexpected circumstances throw them together, Leyla agrees to be Nikolas’s dating coach so he can win another woman’s heart.
Their strategy sessions quickly turn into laughter, lingering glances, and a kissing lesson that makes Leyla realize she no longer wants to help him win this other woman.
Because she wants him for herself.
How very inconvenient.
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Faith Themes, Workplace Romance, Secret Tattoo, Dating coach, Neurodivergent rep, He falls first and hard
He needed a wife. She needed to stay to open her business. Neither of them planned on falling in love.
When California scientist and surf-obsessed genius Mike Walker realizes his grandmother’s health scare might be her last chance to see him married, he does the only logical thing.
He proposes a fake relationship.
Enter Renata Valenti—a feisty Italian interior designer with big dreams, stubborn independence, and a visa that’s running out faster than she’d like to admit. Staying in the U.S. means everything. But love? That’s a risk she’s not willing to take.
What starts as a carefully crafted arrangement quickly becomes complicated as real feelings crash through their perfectly planned boundaries when Mike proposes, literally and figuratively, that they pursue a real marriage.
Because he doesn’t just want a wife for show.
He wants Renata forever.
But she’s not sure her heart is capable of giving him the kind of love he deserves, and he’s worried she will find out the secret he’s been keeping from everyone.
Throw in a group of inappropriate grannies and the friend group you’ve come to love from the rest of the series, and love and hilarity ensue.
A swoony, closed-door romance featuring fake dating, a marriage of convenience, found family, and a hero who falls first and falls hard. Perfect for readers who love funny, heartfelt stories where faith leads the way to forever.