For Dark Mafia Romance
Start with the Dominant Love Duet for dangerous devotion, secrets, obsession, and surrender.
Evelyn Montgomery
Books
Romance that haunts. Love that ruins. Magic that lingers. Explore dark mafia romance, contemporary love stories, romantic suspense, paranormal worlds, and the Escapism Universe.
Choose Your World
Enter the Bookshelf
Find your next obsession by universe, series, trope, or mood.
Escapism Universe
Peter Pan retellings, myth, magic, fate, and beautiful ruin.
Explore the universeContemporary Romance
Small-town longing, complicated hearts, and love worth fighting for.
Browse Destined HeartsDark Romance
Mafia love, dangerous devotion, secrets, obsession, and surrender.
Begin the dark sideFirst Time Here?
Start Reading by Mood
Not sure where to begin? Pick the doorway that fits the kind of story you want first.
For Fantasy Retellings
Enter the Escapism Universe for Peter Pan, Merlin, Hades, Persephone, gods, fate, and magic.
For Contemporary Romance
Start Destined Hearts for emotional love stories, complicated hearts, and beautiful second chances.
For Standalone Stories
Choose a complete story with romcom sweetness, romantic suspense, crime romance, or paranormal love.
Fantasy Romance
Escapism Universe
Retellings filled with fate, gods, magic, fractured fairytales, and love that refuses to stay buried.
Lost Boy
A darker Peter Pan retelling where Neverland is dangerous, love is complicated, and growing up may be the only way to survive.
Peter Pan Retelling • Fantasy Romance • Found Family • Dark Fairytale
Saving Tink
Tink’s story expands the Escapism Universe with gods, magic, heartbreak, and the kind of love that refuses to stay quiet.
Tinker Bell Retelling • Gods & Magic • Fantasy Romance • Second Chance Energy
Losing Neverland
A haunting Peter Pan-inspired romance where love, identity, obsession, and Neverland blur into something beautifully dangerous.
Peter Pan Retelling • Dark Romance • Morally Gray Hero • Twisted Fairytale
Merlin
A dark fantasy romance retelling of the legend, where fate, magic, and forbidden longing threaten everything Camelot believes.
Arthurian Retelling • Forbidden Magic • Fate Bond • Dark Fantasy Romance
Hades & Persephone
A mythological romance about power, possession, fate, and the queen who was never meant to belong quietly to the underworld.
Greek Myth Retelling • Underworld Romance • Forced Proximity • God of Death
Dark Mafia Romance
The Dominant Love Duet
Dangerous men. Forbidden devotion. Love with teeth.
Amico
A dark mafia romance where loyalty is lethal, desire is dangerous, and falling for the wrong man may be the only choice left.
Mafia Romance • Possessive Hero • Forbidden Love • Dark Romance
Amante
The conclusion to a dangerous mafia love story where devotion, betrayal, and survival collide in the shadows.
Mafia Romance • Obsession • Redemption • Duet Conclusion
Contemporary Romance
Destined Hearts Series
Emotional, romantic, and full of the kind of love that changes everything.
Catch
An emotional contemporary romance about timing, chemistry, and the kind of love that catches you when you least expect it.
Contemporary Romance • Small-Town Feel • Found Love • Emotional Romance
Indecision
A heartfelt romance about complicated choices, tangled feelings, and the love you can’t quite walk away from.
Contemporary Romance • Angst • Complicated Love • Emotional Choices
Reckless
A passionate contemporary romance about risk, longing, and the kind of love that makes careful hearts reckless.
Contemporary Romance • Enemies to Lovers • Workplace • Second Chance
Deliverance
A powerful romance about healing, devotion, and being loved through the parts of yourself you thought were too broken.
Military • Second Chance • Romantic Suspense • Single Parent
Rebellion
An undercover FBI romance where hidden identities, drug cartels, and forbidden desire collide with a dangerous mission that could cost everything.
Undercover FBI • Drug Cartels • Dark Romance • Hidden Identity • Forbidden Love
Standalone Romance
Standalones
Complete stories for when you want to fall hard, break a little, and stay haunted.
Peaches
A publisher-writer workplace romance with billionaire tension, forced proximity, a fake engagement, spicy banter, and heat with heart.
Publisher x Writer • Workplace Romance • Billionaire • Forced Proximity • Fake Engagement • Romcom • Spicy Banter • Heat with Heart
Resurrection
A haunting romance about grief, survival, mental health, and the love that finds you in the aftermath of loss.
Romantic Suspense • Healing • Grief & Hope • Emotional Romance
Off the Record
A crime romance about a reporter, a detective, dangerous truths, and the secrets some people would kill to keep hidden.
Crime Romance • Reporter x Detective • Secrets • Suspense
Paranormal Romance
Eternal Love Series
Interconnected standalones filled with witches, vampires, old magic, and immortal love. These books can be read in any order.
Cursed Lifeline
A paranormal romance tangled in witches, vampires, magic, fate, and an immortal love that refuses to die.
Witches • Vampires • Magic • Fated Love
Eternal Love Book Two
Coming soon.
Coming Soon
Eternal Love Book Three
Coming soon.
Coming Soon
Hollywood. Broadway. Obsession.
All the World's a Stage Duet
A dramatic romance duet about fame, secrets, fairytale love, obsession, and the cold case that refuses to stay buried.
Opening Night
A dramatic romance about Hollywood, Broadway, obsession, fairytale love, and the secrets hiding behind the curtain.
Hollywood Romance • Broadway • Obsession • Cold Case
Final Curtain
The conclusion to the All the World's a Stage Duet, where love, fame, jealousy, and buried truths take their final bow.
Duet Conclusion • Romantic Suspense • Fame • Secrets
Where to Begin
Reading Order
Some worlds are best read in order. Others are made to be entered whenever they call to you.
Escapism Universe
- Lost Boy
- Saving Tink
- Merlin
- Hades & Persephone
Losing Neverland is a standalone in the Escapism Universe and can be read at any time.
Destined Hearts Series
- Catch
- Indecision
- Reckless
- Deliverance
- Rebellion
The Dominant Love Duet
- Amico
- Amante
All the World's a Stage Duet
- Opening Night
- Final Curtain
Standalones
- Peaches
- Resurrection
- Off the Record
These can be read independently.
Eternal Love Series
- Cursed Lifeline
- Eternal Love Book Two
- Eternal Love Book Three
Interconnected standalones. Readers do not have to read them in order.
Behind the Curtain
Publishing Journey Calendar
A look at upcoming releases, audiobook plans, and hopeful future projects through 2028.
2026
August 20, 2026
Peaches Audiobook
Performed by James Cassidy and Amanda Willow.
September 30, 2026
Resurrection Audiobook
Performed by Jason Clarke and Savannah Thomas.
2027
February 23, 2027
Merlin: An Escapism Novel
A dark fantasy romance retelling of the legend.
May 12, 2027
Amico Audiobook
Performed by Joe Arden and Savannah Thomas.
June 9, 2027
Amante Audiobook
Performed by Joe Arden and Savannah Thomas.
August 24, 2027
Opening Night
All the World's a Stage Book One.
September 28, 2027
Final Curtain
All the World's a Stage Book Two.
November 18, 2027
Cursed Lifeline Audiobook
Performed by James Cassidy and June DeBorahae.
2028
January 25, 2028
Eternal Love Book Two
Planned release for the next interconnected standalone in the Eternal Love Series.
March 21, 2028
Merlin Audiobook
Hopeful audiobook release. Not yet contracted.
April 2028
Hades & Persephone
Planned mythological romance release in the Escapism Universe.
May 16, 2028
Opening Night Audiobook
Hopeful audiobook release. Not yet contracted.
June 20, 2028
Final Curtain Audiobook
Hopeful audiobook release. Not yet contracted.
August 22, 2028
Off the Record
Planned crime romance release.
October 24, 2028
Eternal Love Book Three
Planned release for the third interconnected standalone in the Eternal Love Series.
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