The Exception
A married couple struggling with infertility decide to go outside of their marriage for a consensual affair.
One month, one exception and then they'll decide if IVF is right for them.
Becca and Mark have been trying to have a baby for years. Technically, there's nothing wrong with them. They fight a lot, but what couple doesn't? Everyone tells them to relax and it will happen. The next logical step is in vitro, but that’s invasive and scary. If it isn’t physically meant to be, why force it? The conundrum leaves Becca feeling anxious, depressed, and alone, until the day her neighbor Macy, a wild-spirited music producer, introduces her to Heathcliff, an undeniably attractive and attentive photographer. Becca’s loins are awakened, and she wonders whether she and Mark are truly compatible. When Mark’s mom, a sociology professor, admits to swinging and preaches about the social imposition of monogamy, an idea brews: what if they went outside of their marriage?
Twin Flames
OOPS! I KIDNAPPED MY BOSS
Wendi Holt works in Los Angeles as a Night Editor for the most popular dating show on prime-time television, Twin Flames. She’s thirty-one, single and tired of working the same hours as prostitutes and bloodsucking bats. She wants to move up to a producing role and have a colorful, exciting life like the glamorous women she spends her late nights editing, but nepotism in the industry gets in her way. Wendi feels guilty over her part in the edit that ruined Samantha’s life and promises to help develop a scheme to save her reputation. Their plan goes awry when Samantha “accidentally” kidnaps the Executive Producer of the show, Jay Berkowitz. Jay and Samantha have a history and it’s steamy but how can their romance take off when she’s got him drugged and tied up in Wendi’s living room? How can she possibly save her reputation while also committing a felony? Will Wendi be able to weasel out of the situation and finally get her dream job or will she land back in the gutter of her former life?
For fans of dating reality television bestselling author Marian Bruno presents Twin Flames a FUN SEXY THRILLER with friendship drama and jaw dropping plot twists
THE NEXT MATRIARCH
In an act of rebellion, pure madness, rage, or grief—she’s not even sure why—Claire, a retired actress and mom of two young toddlers isolated in Los Angles, shaves her hair off after the loss of her grandmother, Nona, the perfect southern matriarch. In an attempt to simplify her life and reconnect to her roots, she moves her family home to New Orleans where she’ll face her demons and find out who she’s meant to be in the second half of her life.
This is the closest to me, the author, you’re gonna get.
Writing in progress. Coming Spring 2025
NOT the cover. Pic generated with AI. That shit is cray.