Before Lilly's name ever appeared on a cover, she spent years writing for others as a ghostwriter, quietly pouring stories into work that wasn't hers to claim. Through a long corporate career, fiction was her constant companion: the novels she devoured on commutes, the worlds she slipped into when the real one needed tuning out. Eventually, she decided to keep the byline for herself. Her books are romantic suspense with an edge—the kind where the love story burns at the center, but something else is always simmering underneath it. An undercover mission, a supernatural undercurrent, or a secret that could change everything. The romance is the heart, but the tension is what keeps you turning pages at midnight. A life spent traveling and living all over the world has left its fingerprints all over her writing—in the settings, the atmosphere, and a deep belief that love stories can find you anywhere, often when you least expect them. She's also the creator of Ruined (coming soon!), an interactive fiction app where readers don't just follow the love story—they live it. Chat with the MMC, shape the story, and meet the book boyfriend who actually talks back. It’s where where fiction flirts back. When she's not writing, Lilly is reading tarot, curled up with a good book, or enjoying life with her husband and their dog. She's also, almost certainly, already plotting the next story.

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by Lilly Manning

Elena Varela built her career on reading people. Adrian West is the first one who reads her back. As a crisis intelligence analyst newly recruited by the secretive Directorate, she's trained for difficult assignments. She isn't trained for Adrian West—controlled, severe, infuriatingly attractive, and convinced she has no business in … [Read More]

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