NEWEST RELEASE
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Sensitive Content Notes:
This story contains themes of medical misogyny, prenatal depression, pregnancy complications, a traumatic birth scene, addiction and recovery, and emotional neglect.
In emergency medicine, the golden hour is the crucial sixty-minute window after a traumatic injury-the brief span of time when the right care can mean the difference between life and death.
Dr. Mason Carpenter lives for that hour.
At St. Mary's Trauma Center, he is the golden boy of the Emergency Department. He's brilliant and calm under pressure. He's also addicted to the adrenaline, the thrill, and the absolute rush of saving patients knocking on death's door.
At home, he's a devoted husband to his high school sweetheart-the love of his life-Honey.
Or, he used to be.
Now Honey is pregnant with their first child.
And Mason is married to his work.
He misses ultrasound appointments, pregnancy milestones, and the baby shower. Worst of all, he is never there to support Honey through an increasingly difficult pregnancy. No matter how many times she tells him she is lonely, exhausted, and afraid, Mason gives her the same answer.
"They need me."
But Honey needs him too.
As her pregnancy progresses and she feels something is deeply wrong, her doctor dismisses her symptoms as first-time-mom jitters. Her husband is too busy saving strangers to see his own wife fading away.
Until Honey collapses at home and is rushed into Mason's emergency room, fighting for both her life and their daughter's.
Mason must reckon with what he was chasing, what he ignored, and what his absence may cost him-the woman he loves more than anything.
Now, the golden hour belongs to Honey.
And Mason may already be too late.
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With her marriage on the brink, a burnt out wife and mother finally puts her foot down to her husband’s neglect of her and their sons, and files for divorce. When her husband begs her not to leave him, she finds out that he’s been keeping secrets from her…
And they have everything to do with his brother’s late wife.
**COMING SOON TO AUDIBLE!
A professional hockey player on a losing streak takes his frustration out on his wife in one very ugly, very public moment…
Then a man wearing his jersey assaults her outside the arena.
With his wife broken and humiliated, he has to face the damage he’s been too blind to see, the online abuse his wife has faced from fans and puck bunnies, and the man standing behind the curtain, pulling the strings.
The deeper he digs, the more he realizes the violence against his wife may not have been random at all…
**COMING TO AUDBLE ON SEPTEMBER 15
After being diagnosed with breast cancer, she thinks the worst has already happened…
Until her fiancé confesses that he’s been cheating on her.
Broken and terrified, a chance encounter at a local bookstore with the gentle giant owner gives her hope, and the invitation to his happy ending only book club…
Dr. Indiana “Indie” Miller never believed in fairy tales—until Teddy Williams promised her a happy ever after.
But Teddy’s overbearing mother doesn’t think Indie is good enough for her son, and let’s her know it at every opportunity.
Caught between the mother he was raised to obey and the woman he loves more than life itself, Teddy chooses wrong and loses Indie.
If he wants any chance of winning Indie back, he'll have to do more than apologize—he'll have to become the man she deserved all along.
Because Indie Miller is done waiting for a fairy tale.
This time, she's going to make one for herself.
Hi, I’m MJ Allen!
I’m a romance author from the Garden State (go birds).
I love writing contemporary romance that hurts before it heals. My stories will always feature a strong heroine, a man that’s completely devoted to her, and a dreamy romance to root for.
I like to write about delicate topics in my books such as women’s unpaid labor, gender dynamics, misogyny, enmeshment, and mental health.
My favorite tropes to write are friends to lovers, second chance, and marriage-in-trouble.
When I’m not writing, I can be found with my husband and our two cats.
Thank you so much for being here!

