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With Wine Comes Wisdom
Book 1 

They were supposed to meet in a boardroom.
Instead, they collided in a crowded Cincinnati bar—celebrating the same real estate deal, but chasing very different dreams.

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Alex Kennedy wasn’t supposed to be there. Not on that street. Not out of gas. And certainly not on the porch of a stranger’s historic Victorian home, listening to stories that made her heart ache in ways she’d long shut down. The neighborhood was old, worn, full of soul—and suddenly, she couldn’t just walk away.

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Later that night, exhausted and overwhelmed, she brushes past a stranger in a packed bar, thinking little of it as she opens a tab for “Team Alex.” But Roman King notices everything. The way she holds herself. The weariness in her eyes. Her name. And when he sees her sitting alone, he doesn’t send a drink. He sends a $200 bottle of wine—her usual.

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What neither of them knows is that they’ve been working opposite ends of the same deal. She’s the realtor. He’s the contractor. She wants to save the neighborhood’s historic charm. He’s been hired to tear it down and rebuild. From the very beginning, their chemistry is tangled in conflict.

But just as Alex begins to let her guard down, to trust again, the story takes a darker turn. Alex slips further into a fractured reality where love and danger blur.

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With Wine Comes Wisdom is a slow-burn, emotionally rich romance threaded with suspense, forgiveness, and the cost of confronting your deepest wounds. It’s about learning to trust what you feel, even when your mind says you can’t. And the kind of love that holds on—even when it’s breaking.

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With Wine Comes War
Book 2

Some battles are public.
Others are deeply, dangerously personal.

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Alex Kennedy has spent months trying to reclaim her life after a violent attack left her physically safe but emotionally shattered. She's finally beginning to believe what her heart always knew—Roman King didn’t hurt her. But by the time her memory returned, too much damage had already been done.

Now, just when Roman begins to find his way back to her, Alex starts pulling away. Again.

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She drinks too much. Sleeps too little. Trains in secret. And no one—not her friends, not her mentor Grant, not even Roman—knows what she’s planning next.

The courtroom trial for her attacker, Tanner Ellington, is approaching—and Alex isn’t preparing for closure. She’s preparing for war. But the real battle isn’t just about Tanner. His brother, a powerful politician with a corrupt reach, has been manipulating zoning ordinances and shielding Tanner from accountability.

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What no one sees coming is the truth behind the people Alex thought she could trust—and the lengths she’s willing to go to make sure Tanner can never hurt anyone again.

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When Grant reveals his secret mafia ties to Roman in a last-ditch attempt to protect Alex, everything changes. Now Roman must decide whether to walk away… or step into a world of secrets, violence, and sacrifice to stand beside the woman who won’t stop fighting—even if it destroys her.

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With Wine Comes War is a gritty, emotionally explosive romance about justice, power, and the danger of carrying a war inside your heart. It's about a woman on the edge, a man determined not to lose her again, and the hidden cost of vengeance dressed as survival.

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With Wine Comes Wellness
Book 3

Some journeys begin with a breakdown.
 

Alex Kennedy’s began with a bottle—and ended halfway across the world.

After a chaotic court case, spiraling grief, and a final act of self-sabotage, Alex’s therapist sends her where no one can reach her: a luxurious wellness retreat in Bali. There, surrounded by ocean air and unfamiliar silence, Alex begins the slow, sacred work of healing. She learns to craft medicinal tinctures for anxiety, depression, trauma—and for people like her, who need something to hold instead of a drink.

What starts as self-care becomes something more: a mission. A purpose. A new kind of wine. One that heals instead of harms.
One that gives alcoholics a place at the table.

 

Back in Cincinnati, Roman King is still waiting. He doesn’t know if Alex is coming back—or if she’s still his. But when her abandoned community project explodes into national news, and her name is once again on everyone’s lips, hope starts to bloom.

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With Wine Comes Wellness is a redemptive, heart-deep finale about rising from the wreckage, turning pain into purpose, and redefining what it means to love—and live—well.

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