Sometimes I get ideas that just don’t feel like “Zoe York” stories.

The first time that happened, Ainsley Booth was born. I wasn’t going to tell my mother-in-law that I wrote a book called Hate F*@k. Until that book hit the USA Today bestseller list, and then…well, she said she probably wouldn’t read it, but she was proud of me anyway.

But last year I got another wild idea. And this one is definitely not for my mother-in-law to know about. And also, maybe not for my Zoe readers, either? Well, I wasn’t sure. And mostly I just needed a fun writing escape, totally separate from the pressure of meeting the expectations that follow when one has written seventy books.

Six books later, Chloe Maine is probably here to stay. And I know some of you might really enjoy her books. [Some of you will hate them, and if that’s you, please just do your best to pretend this never happened; I plan to keep the two brands very separate]

These books are all short (30k words, similar length to my Navy SEAL novellas), and deeply smutty, pure fantasy, not-for-real-life type of stories. The consistent notes are:

• age gap (young, innocent heroine, older and experience hero)

• “call me Daddy” kink

• reckless or no use of birth control, getting knocked up is always a delight

• instalust and/or instalove

If that sounds like your cup of tea, you can check out my newest release, Operation: Wife Her Up, where a growly Navy SEAL meets a sunshine-y heiress with a penchant for lock picking. He’s 36, she’s 22, and it goes from zero to sixty pretty quickly.