Books

Three women. Three Valentine’s Days. One night that changed everything.

On February 14, 2008, in three different rooms, three women discover something they can’t unfeel.

In San Francisco, a twenty-five-year-old consultant orders her first bourbon in a hotel bar and catches the eye of a man who sees exactly what she’s becoming. By morning, she’ll...

Three scoops. Six ounces. Shaken, not stirred.
That’s the formula for her daughter’s bottle. Not for the rest of her life.
It’s Valentine’s Day, 2008. Priscila Oliveira dos Santos is twenty-two, alone in a 412-square-foot studio apartment in Astoria, Queens, with a six-month-old daughter, a broken radiator, and a bag of rice that needs to last...

She made a list. Candles. Champagne. Red lingerie. Chicken piccata. Be spontaneous.
She didn’t plan what happened in the bathroom.
It’s Valentine’s Day, 2008. Claire Seamen is twenty-three, seven months married, and determined to make tonight perfect. The apartment is ready. The Sade playlist is loaded. The red teddy from Victoria’s Secret is laid...

Previously published as Champagne and White Sheets: What Her Husband
Never Gave Her by Mariposa, Selene (AUTHOR)
Before the Peninsula. Before the bourbon ritual. Before she became the most dangerous woman in every room.
It’s Valentine’s Day, 2008. Selene Mariposa is twenty-five, six months into her first corporate job, and about to discover who...

Step into the shadows of Howl-Oh-Ween, where every Halloween ignites a forbidden fire. Selene Mariposa, a 44-year-old tech mogul, has lived 20 years haunted by a masked stranger who claims her body and soul every decade. On October 31, 2024, in Coral Gables, her pulse races as she prepares for his return, the air thick with spiced anticipation....