🖤📚 VOTING IS NOW OPEN! 📚🖤

Caution Lights is getting closer and closer to the finish line, which means there is one very important question waiting for me on the other side:

WHO AM I WRITING NEXT? 😈

I have six books officially in the running, plus two bonus wild cards, and this time I don’t just want you voting for a pretty cover or whichever title catches your attention first.

I want you to meet the couples you’re actually voting for.

Because let’s face it. We romance readers can forgive an alarming amount of fictional nonsense if the chemistry is chemistry-ing. 😂

So…

🖤 VOTING IS OFFICIALLY OPEN. 🖤

Which couple gets their story finished after Caution Lights?

🎞️ LAVENDER + COPPER
Midnight Submission

Lavender never intended to become the focus of Copper’s attention, and Copper certainly never planned for fascination to turn into something much harder to control.

Their relationship begins in the shadows, behind a camera, with Copper seeing pieces of Lavender she doesn’t realize she’s revealing. But when another set of eyes turns toward her with far more sinister intentions, the line between obsession and protection begins disappearing very quickly.

Copper may have started out watching Lavender…

But eventually, he’s going to have to decide exactly how far he’s willing to go for her.

THEIR CHEMISTRY: Dark obsession • voyeurism • morally gray MMC • possessiveness • dangerous devotion • psychological suspense • I saw you before you ever saw me

🐇 ANNMARIE + SYD
Down the Rabbit Hole

She’s a hacker.

He’s a profiler.

Which means AnnMarie has spent years learning how to hide while Syd has built an entire career around figuring people out.

Ann is colorful, brilliant, curvy, quirky, and capable of doing some genuinely terrifying things with a keyboard. Syd is a towering former homicide detective turned GBI profiler who isn’t accustomed to meeting people he can’t quite read.

Unfortunately for him, Ann keeps giving him new layers to uncover.

Unfortunately for her…

He really enjoys looking.

THEIR CHEMISTRY: Hacker × profiler • intelligence kink • banter • protective giant MMC • opposites attract • romantic suspense • Would you stop profiling me? × Would you stop being so damn interesting?

🥀 DAVINA + RORIK
Bound by Desire

Davina is only beginning to understand what she is capable of when her emergence as a Nightmare Dragon turns the magical world’s attention toward her.

Rorik has had centuries to understand exactly what he is.

Where others see something dangerous awakening inside Davina and immediately start wondering how it can be controlled, Rorik isn’t interested in making her smaller, quieter, or easier to contain.

He wants to see what happens when she finally realizes just how powerful she actually is.

And Davina may have finally found someone powerful enough to stand beside her without needing to stand in front of her.

THEIR CHEMISTRY: Nightmare Dragon × ancient drow • power couple • dark romantasy • forbidden magic • supernatural attraction • They’re afraid of what you’re becoming × I’m not

⚔️ WREN + CADE
Contracts and Curiosities

Wren has already lived an entire lifetime before Cade ever enters her story.

Fifty years bound to an immortal contract have given her plenty of time to love, lose, survive, change, and become someone entirely different from the young woman who once accepted the promise of a better life.

Cade doesn’t meet that girl.

He meets her.

The woman who survived everything that came afterward.

Their romance isn’t about finding someone before life has had the chance to leave scars.

It’s about discovering that love can still find you afterward.

THEIR CHEMISTRY: Immortal romance • demons • supernatural cabaret • found family • mature love • healing • Maybe you weren’t late. Maybe you arrived when I was finally ready for you.

🌹 RIVER-ROSE + DALLAS
Swamp Rose

She’s the river girl.

He’s the sheriff’s son.

And River-Rose has approximately zero reasons to trust him.

River has spent her entire life being judged by people who think where she comes from tells them everything they need to know about her. Dallas grew up on the opposite side of that divide, carrying one of the most respected names in town.

Except River has questions about that name.

Especially when it comes to the disappearance of her mother.

Attraction is inconvenient enough without wondering whether the boy you’re falling for belongs to the very family you’ve spent your life distrusting.

And Dallas may eventually have to decide what matters more: the truth he’s uncovering beside River or everything he was raised to believe.

THEIR CHEMISTRY: Enemies-to-lovers • sheriff’s son × river girl • Southern Gothic • class divide • family secrets • reluctant trust • I don’t trust your family × Then don’t. Trust me.

💀🌸 LISETTE + LYKOS
The Bone Giant and the Failed Necromancer

Lisette wanted to become a necromancer.

She’s just…

Not particularly good at it. 😂

So naturally, instead of accomplishing what she intended, she manages to summon Lykos Skalli, an ancient Bone Giant associated with Hecate who wears the terrifying visage of a wolf skull.

She should probably be frightened of him.

Lykos would probably prefer that she were.

Instead, Lisette has questions.

So. Many. Questions.

And somewhere between ancient magic, death, things that should probably have remained buried, and Lisette’s questionable survival instincts, Lykos begins developing the deeply inconvenient realization that this strange little mortal has become his strange little mortal.

THEIR CHEMISTRY: Monster romance • necromancer × Bone Giant • accidental summoning • ancient magic • unlikely tenderness • gothic humor • Fear me × Okay, but can you hold this for a second?

🖤 AND THEN WE HAVE TWO BONUS WILD CARDS…

These two come with a little extra weight.

Because voting for either of them doesn’t just potentially choose one book.

It chooses the beginning of an entire interconnected universe. 👀

🧠💗 DELILAH + SOREN
Dopamine

Delilah is an art editor. Soren is a photographer.

They’re both incredibly comfortable examining art and considerably less comfortable when someone starts examining them.

Delilah is creative, complicated, guarded, messy, passionate, and accustomed to people misunderstanding pieces of her. Soren isn’t interested in sanding those pieces down until she’s easier to love.

Their relationship isn’t about one damaged person being rescued by someone who magically fixes everything.

It’s about being seen.

The beautiful parts. The difficult parts. The sexy parts. The uncomfortable parts.

All of it.

THEIR CHEMISTRY: Dark contemporary romance • art editor × photographer • creativity • mental health • sexuality • vulnerability • messy intimacy • Don’t try to fix me × I wasn’t planning to

And voting for Dopamine opens the entire PROSE Universe, continuing with Serotonin, Adrenaline, and Oxytocin, each exploring a different couple, relationship, and piece of human chemistry.

🐝🍯 SHAYLA + DONOVAN
Honey Bee

Then we have the two people quietly growing something beautiful while everybody else on this list is dealing with demons, murder, surveillance, necromancy, missing people, and questionable moral compasses. 😂

Shayla and Donovan’s relationship isn’t built around one enormous explosion.

It’s built through the little things.

An orchard. Bees. Family. Community. Healing. Learning someone’s rhythms. Showing up again tomorrow. Becoming part of someone’s everyday life until neither of you realizes exactly when you and me quietly became us.

THEIR CHEMISTRY: Small-town romance • beekeeper MMC • Georgia orchard • family • healing • community • slow-growing love • I didn’t fall for you all at once. I just kept choosing you.

And a vote for Honey Bee opens another entire interconnected universe, this one traveling through Georgia counties, introducing new towns, families, couples, histories, and stories that weave into one another along the way.

🖤 NOW CAST YOUR VOTE!

🎞️ Lavender + Copper
🐇 AnnMarie + Syd
🥀 Davina + Rorik
⚔️ Wren + Cade
🌹 River-Rose + Dallas
💀 Lisette + Lykos

BONUS WILD CARDS:
🧠 Delilah + Soren
🐝 Shayla + Donovan

Eight couples.

Eight completely different flavors of romance.

One writing slot waiting for me when Caution Lights is finished.

👇 VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE COUPLE IN THE COMMENTS!

Tell me who you’re voting for AND what about their relationship hooked you. I want to know which dynamic made you immediately think, Yep. Those two. Give me their book.

Campaign for your couple. Recruit your reader friends. Plead your case. 😂

Voting is officially OPEN. 🗳️🖤

Now let’s see which fictional couple is about to hijack my writing schedule.

🖤 Jess Bicknell

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