Riley Locke writes romance for readers who talk back to the book. Her Second Life novels all begin from the same gloriously unfair premise: a burned-out modern woman dies and wakes up inside the trashiest novel she ever read — cast as the doomed side character that kind of story always throws away — with exactly one advantage. She's read this before. She knows every cliché coming. Knowing, it turns out, is not the same as surviving. Each book strands a sharp, genre-savvy heroine on a different shelf — a villainess fantasy, a dark-academia romantasy, and more on the way — for a standalone story with a dry, funny first-person voice, a slow-burn romance, and a happily-ever-after she has to out-write the story to earn. When she isn't stranding heroines inside other people's novels, Riley writes contemporary rom-com — including the Billionaire Baby Daddy series, where a by-the-book single mom is assigned to audit the company whose CEO has quietly been looking after her and her daughter for years. For years he took care of them. Now she's auditing the money. Every Riley Locke book promises the same things: a heroine who thinks too much, a love interest worth the wait, real stakes under the jokes, and an ending that earns its happy. New releases and deals turn up here first — tap Follow so the next one finds you. less