Novels by Dulce De Leche

"I think we should break up." Dani Costa said it to a stranger at a red light. A guy on a motorcycle, visor down, face hidden. A joke, thrown out the window of her beat-up Civic on graduation night. She never expected him to lift that visor and show her a pair of dark, amused eyes. She never expected to see him again. She does. Three days later, at an underground drift race, she finds him on the starting line. He's Rook, the ghost racer nobody can beat, the heir to a fortune she can't imagine. And Roman Castellano doesn't just want to race her. He wants to know her. What Dani doesn't know is that Roman has six weeks before his uncle takes everything. Before an arranged marriage seals his fate. Before the family name she's falling for becomes the thing that destroys her father's shop. She doesn't know he's been given a bride. She doesn't know men like his uncle don't lose. She knows he makes her laugh. She knows he looks at her like she's the only light in a dark room. She knows she should run. She doesn't. Break Up With Me is a high-heat mafia romance about a girl who builds race cars in secret and the boy whose last name could burn her world to the ground. Told in a clean, cinematic voice, it's a story about choosing someone when the price is everything you've ever built. I

Some words are doors. Once you walk through them, you can’t come back. Josie Vargas didn’t know that when she moved to Ash Harbor for a fresh start. She didn’t know the city was run by things that weren’t human. She didn’t know the two men buying coffee from her every morning had been alive for centuries, or that they were beasts wearing skin like suits. She didn’t know they’d made a bet. The terms were simple. The first one to get her to say three words during sex wins. “I am yours.” That’s all it takes. One human. One phrase. One territory claimed for eternity. She doesn’t say it. Harlan Voss owns half of downtown and runs hot like a furnace. His eyes flash gold when he wants her. His teeth are too sharp. His scar looks like something with claws tried to open him up. Dane Kowalski buys companies like shoes and cooks pierogi from memory. His tongue moves wrong. His skin is too warm. His ring bears a symbol she can’t place. They both say she’s theirs. She never says it back. Because Josie pulls tarot cards in the back of a coffee shop, and every card she’s pulled since arriving has been a warning. The Lovers. The Devil. The Tower. The Moon.

Ember & Ashes Broke waitress Sera Dalton hacks a game server for free gems and accidentally breaches the Veil Network — an ancient dragon communication system. She meets Ash_King, who is secretly Kaelthar Veyndrath, a four-hundred-year-old dragon king. Both hide their truths: he conceals his wealth and power, she conceals her poverty. Through screens and late-night conversations, they fall in love. When a rival dragon lord weaponizes a magical plague against Kael’s territory, Sera is brought to his world. She faces hostile dragon courts, learns to touch scales without flinching, and when the keep is attacked, she hacks the plague’s code and turns it against itself. In that shared battle, their bond completes — making her the first human queen in dragon history. Years later, with three dragon-human children and a keep full of too many windows, Sera still games with her dragon king at midnight, still trash-talks his strategy, and is still the sharpest person in any world.

“You want to know what I am?” he murmured against her mouth, his hands shoving her dress up around her waist. “I’m a man who takes what he wants. And I want you. Here. Now.” Nina Falcone is LAPD. Undercover. Posing as a high-end escort, she has one mission: get close to El Sombras, the drug lord no one can name, photograph, or catch. Every night, powerful men buy pieces of her. Every morning, she washes them off her skin and turns their secrets into evidence. She tells herself it is duty. She tells herself she is still in control. Then Cruz finds her. Dark. Beautiful. Dangerous. He doesn’t buy her. He sees her. He strips through every mask she wears with one look and leaves her a card that feels like a command. Next time, don’t look away. She doesn’t. One night becomes obsession. Obsession becomes surrender. He touches her like he owns her, protects her like she is sacred, and ruins her for every life she had before him. Nina forgets the badge, the case, every line she swore she’d never cross. But the case won’t die. Every lead she pulls turns up dead before she can use it. Someone is watching. Someone who sees her coming before she arrives. And the clues keep circling closer to the man in her bed — doors that open for Cruz without a knock, men who lower their eyes when he speaks, phone calls at three in the morning in a voice she’s never heard. The ghost she’s hunting keeps getting closer close enough to touch, close enough to hold her in the dark and whisper stay. The only thread left to pull is the one tied around her own throat.

Mara Vale is a literature teacher with a secret: she’s The Velvet Abyss, an adult content creator with millions of subscribers, specializing in alien-themed erotica. Her double life stems from a traumatic childhood — a mother who shamed her, a father who frightened her, a sister who reinforced her prudish exterior. When the Veyr invade Earth, Mara survives fourteen days trapped in her dungeon before escaping. Captured and assigned as a servant in the Spire of Avarra, she secretly catalogues the Veyr language and builds community with fellow humans. Assigned to clean Prince Xyren Vossk’s quarters, she discovers a copy of Paradise Lost — and a silent conversation through folded pages becomes something neither expected. Xyren hides his own secret: secondary arms bound since childhood by a queen who called them shameful. When Mara accidentally touches a sacred Genesis Sphere, Xyren claims her through an ancient bond to save her life. Their connection deepens — physical, chemical, emotional. Mara confesses her Velvet Abyss identity. She becomes pregnant with hybrid offspring. And when the queen moves to destroy them, Xyren challenges her in single combat, using the arms he was taught to hide as weapons. He wins. The old law falls. Mara becomes Queen of the Velvet Spire. A story about desire, identity, and the bonds that transcend species

Some hearts are made of paper. Some people are worth the burn. Wren Delacroix thought escaping to Aurelia University meant leaving her controlling father and quiet household behind. She never expected to run into Kai Sterling—the boy who slept down the hall for three years, outran his father’s ghost, and somehow knows her better than anyone else. While Wren tries to hold on to a toxic relationship with campus golden boy Trent Bellamy, Kai quietly becomes the only person she trusts when her life starts to unravel. Between hidden bruises, broken trust, and secrets lurking behind closed doors, Wren soon realizes that Trent isn't the hero she thought he was. When a shocking revelation changes everything, Wren and Kai must face the truth they’ve been avoiding for years. But as buried secrets come to light, loving each other means risking a fire that could destroy everything they thought they knew about family, loyalty, and love.