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Him Lessons

Not your typical love story.

Not your neurotypical girl.

Andalise Rhodes Whittenbalm has two goals when her helicopter parents jet off to Europe for the summer. One, land a promotion at ManCave Outfitters. Two, score a date with the man she’s been secretly crushing on. The first should be a walk in the park. The second may take some work. Because her mystery man is the hottest surfer at Pacific Beach, and Andy has a slight aversion to sand. That and her mystery man’s freaky-deaky best friend: a scary-handsome dude with a penchant for stealing towels.

Lucas MacCallum probably shouldn’t have swiped the creeper’s towel, but she left it behind after their awkward meet-cute at the beach, and he was provoked. Provoked and a little intrigued. Okay, a lot intrigued. This girl is different. Luke can’t put his finger on it, but there’s something about her. Something in those shifty blue eyes that’s got him hooked. That’s got him doing crazy things. Crazy things like agreeing to teach her how to seduce his best friend.

Yeah, it’s going to be a really hot summer.

Because the lessons are about to get steamy.

The first book in a sexy new series, Him Lessons is perfect for fans of The Kiss Quotient and Things We Never Got Over.

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Lily Darling: The Browning Series: Book 4

Eli’s known Lilith Browning since she was a bossy little princess who used to hide in trees and spy on him making out with girls. He’s known her since she was just a kid devastated by her parents’ divorce. He was there for all of it…

And he’s still there years later. Only now, Lily isn’t a girl anymore. She’s a woman. A gorgeous, infuriating woman who up and decides to crash his new bachelor pad. This after revealing she secretly writes kinky books for a living. Yeah, Eli’s known Lily forever, but has he ever really known her?

Lily’s had her eye on Elias Park for a while. Yes, there was that one incident in the tree. And all the times she used to ogle him in his rock-boy skinny-jeans as a teen. Truth? She’s been hard-core crushing on her cousin’s best friend for years. So, when an impulsive decision leads to a brilliant idea, Lily seizes the moment…

What better way to write a sexy story about a bad-boy musician than to move in with one?

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The Browning Series: Book 3

PJ Bruister has a major obsession with makeup and a slight history of violence – neither of which fly with her conservative Catholic high school.

On the heels of her third school expulsion, PJ runs into her other major obsession: Beau Browning. PJ’s been in serious lust with the sweater-vest wearing hottie for a while. Problem is, said hottie doesn’t seem too in lust with her.

So when PJ learns Beau’s thinking about enrolling his son in an ASD therapy program in town, she decides to get a job at the clinic. Working with a bunch of autistic kids sounds like exactly the sort of thing she needs to get her mess of a life back on track, and if she just happens to get a little closer to one of their dads in the process… that’s a total bonus.

Beau Browning has a new business on his hands, a serious co-parenting gig, and a five-year-old on the spectrum. PJ Bruister is a complication his busy life doesn’t need. But suddenly, she’s popping up everywhere. Airline flights. Roadsides. His son’s therapy clinic. He can’t seem to get away from her. Problem is, he’s starting not to want to… because he’s starting to have some serious lusty thoughts about his cousin’s former stepdaughter.

And she’s starting to steal his heart.

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The Browning Series: Book 2 

Korinne Wilkes wakes up in a crazy prison, overseen by an even crazier keeper. It’s the stuff of nightmares, but it’s real. Desperate to escape a madman and determined to return to the boy she made a promise to, she will need to find strength in the extraordinary power of her imagination.

At seventeen years old, Grayson Browning found the love of his life. At eighteen, he lost her. Now, with the help of an odd assortment of newfound friends and reunited family members, he will do everything he can to get Kory back.

They aren’t giving up on the light in their future

Even if it is being threatened by the darkness in their past…

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The Browning Series: Book 1

Kory Wilkes doesn’t believe in posing. She won’t pretend she didn’t grow up in a trailer park. And there’s no hiding the fact that her old man sleeps in a prison cell. The haters in high school can whisper all they like. Kory knows who her real friends are – even if one of them exists solely in her imagination.

Gray Browning has never stepped foot in a high school. He’s rarely ventured from the secluded Northern California home he shares with his brothers. And his eccentric father hasn’t slept well in years. It’s a quiet world they live in. Until her…

She didn’t plan on running to that fort in the woods. 

He had no idea their paths were about to cross.

Love isn’t a dream. It’s an awakening.

D. Barrett Books

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Thoughts from DB

September 15, 2022 – Him Lessons

90,000 words in, and I’m up to Chapter 27! I seriously cannot believe how fast I’ve been flying through this thing. Knock on wood that I don’t stall out with another bout of writer’s block. I just need to get through one more really dramatic moment, then the wrap-up. At this rate, I might be […] Read More

September 9, 2022 – Him Lessons

One of my favorite things about Chapter 24 is the Lamborghini. I just had to work one in for my super-car-obsessed eleven-year-old. My boy loves his Lambos. He owns several. Of the pocket-sized variety. Also, all the video game sessions in the book are a nod to my older son who is a hardcore gamer. […] Read More