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This series follows Craig Sullivan and Kels Stevens, exploring love, friendship, family, grief, parenthood, and the ordinary moments that quietly shape who we become.
They’ll make you laugh, cry, fall in love, get angry, and somehow keep rooting for them anyway.
Because the best love stories are lived by ordinary people.
this won’t end well
Some people are worth the risk.
Kels Stevens and Craig Sullivan are wired the same way: both need control, and both are terrified of vulnerability.
Kels has spent years keeping her world small, convinced it’s easier not to need people than risk discovering they don’t need her back. Craig has spent more than a year quietly orbiting Kels, wanting her from a distance and waiting until he’s certain where he stands before risking more.
So when they finally stopped pretending there isn’t something between them, she offers him closeness without vulnerability, convinced she can keep him at arm’s length and survive when it ends.
What starts as something controlled quickly becomes anything but. Craig is patient in ways Kels has never experienced before, steady enough that she finds herself giving him more of herself without realising it. For the first time, she experiences what it feels like to be truly known, and lets herself believe she might actually get to keep it.
THIS WON’T END WELL is an emotionally intimate contemporary romance about vulnerability, learning what it means to be loved, and discovering that some people are worth the risk.
BOOK 1 Available December 28, 2026
Genre:
Literary Fiction
Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Slow burn · Friends to lovers · He falls first · Forced proximity · Yearning
Triggers: Past physical assault · Trauma and recovery · Anxiety and panic attacks · Strong language
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these things happen
Kels Stevens thought the hardest part of loving Craig Sullivan was letting him step into the future waiting for him.
She was wrong.
Determined to make the distance work, Kels and Craig throw themselves into building a future from opposite sides of the world. But when an unimaginable loss leaves Kels unable to recognise herself, she pushes Craig away, believing the only way to protect his future is to carry it alone.
As they slowly find their way back to each other, they discover they’ve been loving each other in completely different ways all along.
And when the future they’d each imagined finally begins to change, they’ll have to decide whether love is something you hold on to… or something you make room for.
Because wanting each other wasn’t the hard part.
BOOK 2 Available April 2027
Wanting each other wasn't the hard part.
Genre:Literary Fiction
Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Long distance · Found family · Established relationship
Spice Level
Triggers: Pregnancy loss · Abortion · Depression and anxiety · Suicidal ideation · Domestic abuse · Strong language
don’t get used to it
Even good intentions can leave damage.
Kels spent years believing loving someone meant carrying the hardest things alone.
Craig does too.
He makes impossible decisions long before Kels knows there’s one to make. He keeps things from her, handles the conversations she never knows about, and quietly deals with the people determined to come between them, convinced he’s doing what’s best for the woman he loves.
This leaves Kels exposed in ways he never intended.
When everything finally comes to light, Kels is forced to question every certainty she thought she had.
Can love survive when trust no longer does?
BOOK 3 Available 2027
Genre:Literary Fiction
Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Spice Level
Tropes: Found family · Established relationship · Family conflict · Betrayal of trust
Triggers: Strong language
it could be worse
Some risks are worth taking twice.
Getting back together was easy.
It only required honesty.
Staying together means something else entirely.
Craig has one last chance to stop deciding what’s best for Kels.
Kels has one last chance to stop making Craig’s hardest choices for him.
Because the life they’ve fought so hard to build demands more than the people they’ve always had to be.
BOOK 4 Available 2027
Genre:Literary Fiction
Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Spice Level
Tropes: Found family · Established relationship · Reconciliation · Domestic romance · Family conflict · HEA
Triggers: Strong language
we’re too old for this
You can lose someone without leaving
Nothing happened.
Until one day they realised everything had changed.
Now loneliness has settled into the spaces routine used to fill, and neither realises the other is trying to save the same marriage.
Because by the time you notice what’s missing…
…you’ve already learned to live without it.
BOOK 5 Available 2028
Genre:Literary Fiction
Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Spice Level
Tropes: Found family · Established relationship · Domestic romance · Family conflict · Rekindling
Triggers: Strong language
it’s probably nothing
Every story has a beginning
What if the love of your life had already walked past you a hundred times?
Craig Sullivan never meant to think about Kels Stevens this much. She keeps living her life, completely unaware of the quiet way she’s beginning to take up space in his. Before long, she’s in his thoughts. His dreams. Relationships that never quite feel honest because some part of him is always looking for her instead.
She doesn’t know his name.
He can’t imagine she ever will.
So he reminds himself of what he’d believed from the beginning.
It’s probably nothing.
PREQUEL Available 2028
Genre:Literary Fiction
Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Slow burn · He falls first · Yearning · Found family
Triggers: Domestic abuse · Physical assault · Strong language
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the second chance
He never really let her go
What if the person you never stopped loving came back into your life?
Years after choosing different paths, Kels and Craig unexpectedly find themselves back in each other’s lives. This time, Craig refuses to let her go, convinced they’re finally being given the future they were always meant to have.
But Kels knows something he doesn’t.
Can she let him choose her again…
...knowing they’ll only have borrowed time?
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE 2 Available 2029
Genre:
Romantic Tragedy
Spice Level
Tropes: Second chance · Found family · Reunion · Yearning
Triggers: Strong language · MC Death
the book boyfriend
Some stories you never want to leave.
What if you could step inside the romance you’ve always wanted?
When Kels is unexpectedly transported into the pages of a love story, she’s swept into a world where every chapter feels more real than the life she’s living.
Surrounded by unforgettable characters and a romance that seems too perfect to let go, she begins to wonder whether she ever wants to leave.
But every story has an ending.
The only question is whether she’s already reached it.
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE 1 Available 2028
Genre:
Romantic Tragedy
Spice Level
Tropes: Found family · Grief · Second chance · Yearning
Triggers: Mental illness · Grief · Strong language · MC Death
the festive nonsense
'Tis the season for things to go well.
What if everything that went wrong…never did?
In a world where every wrong turn became the right one, the people they love grow into happier versions of themselves.
But if they became different people, would Kels and Craig still find each other?
And more importantly…would they still choose each other?
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE 3 Available 2029
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Spice Level
Tropes: Friends to lovers · Workplace romance · Feel good · HEA
Triggers: Strong language
here we go again
Different roads. Same ending.
It starts as a question neither of them expects to answer.
Then one accident changes everything.
When Kels and Craig wake in a place they don’t recognise, they have no memory of the life they built together or the love they spent years choosing. As two strangers finding their way back to each other, they’re given the chance to answer the one question they never thought life would ask them.
If they met for the very first time today… would they still choose each other?
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE 4 Available 2029
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Spice Level
Tropes: Strangers to lovers · Established relationship · Alternate timeline
Triggers: Strong language
