Outlaws #1
Illegal Contact
Xavier + TaylorForbiddenWorkplace
🌶🌶🌶🌶 4/5
A Vonda Howard holiday romance
The Crown and
the Cookie Shop
She left the light on.
He knocked.
A runaway prince. A small-town bakery.
Twelve days that change everything.
♡ BIG FEELINGS ♡ BOLD WOMEN ♡ BLACK LOVE ♡ HIGH HEAT ♡ GUARANTEED HEA ♡
A Christmas romance • Available for presale
The Crown and
the Cookie Shop
She left the light on.
He knocked.
Pastry chef Garland Wilson came home to Juniper Falls to keep her late grandmother’s bakery alive for one last Christmas season. The plan is simple: twelve days, twelve cookies, one line out the door every morning, and no time to feel anything.
Then a blizzard shuts down the town, and a stranger with a bleeding forehead and very expensive gloves knocks on the door of The Sugar Box.
His name is Zee. He can’t crack an egg. He’s never folded a napkin, and he’s hiding something big.
Zamir Okoro is the Crown Prince of Saint Oriel, a man with a coronation waiting, an arranged bride he’s never met, and a whole kingdom looking for him. All he wanted was one moment where nobody knew where he was. He didn’t plan on flour fights at four in the morning, a town that refuses to give him up, or a baker who threatens him with a rolling pin and then makes him a bed.
Twelve days. That’s all they have before the snow melts and the world comes to collect him.
But some things don’t stay snowed in. And some doors, once they’re open, never really close.
A steamy, swoony holiday romance about a runaway prince, a small-town bakery, and the kind of love that knocks when you least expect it.
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Broken Coverage
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Forced Fumble
Nyx + LisaEnemies to loversForced proximity
🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶 5/5Outlaws #4
Personal Foul
Malachi + AsiaAge gapBest friend's sister
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Delay of Game
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in order.
Every love story stands alone, while the friendships, locker-room chaos, and road to one unforgettable destination wedding build across the series.
Meet the whole team
Hi, I’m Vonda.
I write kissing books and am emotionally invested in fictional people.
I’m a Washington, D.C. native writing contemporary romances filled with confident women, complicated men, chosen family, laugh-out-loud moments, and enough spice to keep the pages turning.
When I’m not building worlds, I’m probably reading a thriller, dreaming up my next series, or explaining why my fictional people absolutely needed that scene.
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