Welcome to D.R. Grady Books - D.R. Grady Books

Contemporary romance | romantic suspense | paranormal romance | fantasy

My stories are all heartwarming, sweet, community based romance books.

Rally

Creative Kennedy Brooks has her dream home, her dream job, maybe her dream life, with one glaring exception. The man she’s dating is a gold-digger. The evening turns around when she runs into old friend Ian McBride after cutting ties with her greedy ex.

Geeky Ian McBride trudges home from his dream life in New York City. His parents need him, so he reluctantly leaves his life behind in NYC for Prescott, PA. A place he vowed he’d never live again. Now he’s here and trying to see the good in his situation.

Good thing he runs into his college buddy Kennedy. Ian and Kennedy soon begin to view each other as more than mere friends… Is love worth it to ruin the friendship? Release Date: 7/28/26

The Gift

Drika steps in front of a sorcerer’s spell to protect two healers. That one action completed her transition into an Aasguard warrior. The sorcerer’s magic also found her worthy and therefore gifted her with his magic. She’s now a new Aasguard warrior and a mage.

Wystan the Gentle is one of the oldest Aasguard warriors. He finds his mate to be young, a new warrior, and now a mage. He’s fighting their age difference, but he can’t fight that she’s his fated mate.

Now the two must battle sorcerers, Drika’s new gifts, and navigate being fated mates. They both have broad shoulders, but will the weight of all these changes crush them? Release Date: 3/24/26

Revive

Endearing Emerson “Emmy” Cooper has a Ph.D., her dream job, and a boyfriend, but life has turned lackluster. She doesn’t want to get out of bed and when did her boyfriend become repulsive? Her inability to advocate for herself punishes her at every turn.

Charming Wim de Lange is tooling along. Things are ok. He just landed a promotion, and he has his eye on his dream house. But he’s single and isn’t excited to change that status. Until he runs into the one woman who captured his interest a year ago. The good news is she’s newly single. The bad news is men have left a bad taste in Emmy’s mouth.

Emmy soon learns speaking up for herself causes amazing things to happen. Then, during this transformation, she and Wim run into each other and a tiny spark is kindled in them both.

Are their lives about to be revived? Release Date: 11/4/25

Savage Secrets

Poised Skylar Addison is starting a second career as an agent for Oceanic Shift. This cynical Alaskan native is a fierce, unusual marine shifter and has never exerted a single feminine wile in her life. She knows who she is, what she is, and even where she’s going. However, her lonely self has always assumed that her mate got run over by a garbage truck…so when gorgeous Malcolm tells her they’re mates, color her skeptical.

Veteran Malcolm Vasquez has been an agent for Oceanic Shift for four decades. He and his beast have been impatiently waiting for their mate. When she finally arrives, he almost overlooks her. He never expected a quiet, ready-to-rumble woman who can take him down in seconds. Once he meets her, he wants no one else. Now he has to convince her they’re mates. Release date: 6/20/25

The Bane

The bane of her existence has plagued her for a thousand years.

Resilient, renowned healer Eliza has unexpectedly met her mate. Only she harbors a traumatic secret that will forever prevent them from being together. To this day she is unable to speak of the curse of her youth. Now, here is Restan, her mate, but she cannot have him because of the misguided choices of her parents.

Tenacious warrior mage Restan has been hunting sorcerers since his youth. From the moment this evil killed his parents, he has trained to remove their scourge from the land. He has long awaited the one woman made for him. Yet she shows no awareness of him as her mate. Restan is certain they belong together, but he is determined to discover the reasons behind her reservation.

When Eliza’s tragic childhood comes to light, will the bane of her existence ruin all chances of them being together or will Restan and Eliza rid the land of the vile blight who has tormented her for centuries?

If you love short, fantasy romance with mages, healers, sorcerers, dragons, lake serpents, sea serpents, and a community of characters, this story is for you! Release date: 3/28/25

Scary Secrets

Feisty Marty Mays might resemble a cocker spaniel, but this Oceanic Shift agent is a fierce, savvy fighter who takes out bad guys with ease. Now that she’s made friends with the creature inside, this unusual marine shifter has her sights set on a certain man whose beast is rumored to be even scarier than hers. Only every time she tries to ask him whether they are possibly, maybe… mates, she’s thwarted.

Empathetic Logan Marxin hides the most intimidating beast known to the shifter community. To the extent that he got a Doctorate in Psychology in order to deal with his terrifying monster. Too bad his likely mate has only just made friends with her own scary beast. While it’s time to reveal that he believes they’re mates, they won’t know for certain unless they shift together. Only he’s reluctant because he can’t bear for her to swim shrieking into the night at the first glimpse of his colossal beast.

If you love workplace romance, fated mates, sweet romantic reads, adventure, and unusual shifters, this story is for you!

The Geek Outgeeks the Scientist

Geeky espionage! Okay, it’s not that dramatic. But enemies Neevie Harrington and Jackson Collins suspect someone has snuck into their respective labs. These reluctant allies are determined to discover who is trying to steal their precious research data.

Proud geek Neevie Harrington has to deal with an ever-shrinking budget, sleep deprivation, and now the bane of her existence is bleating about lab break-ins. She doesn’t need this man insisting they discover the identity of who is after their precious data. Then again, she doesn’t need additional long hours spent at work either. She does need more sleep and less coffee.

Patient, gorgeous Jackson Collins, like Neevie, is just trying to find a cure for superbugs. No biggie. But he’s distracted by whoever keeps sneaking into his lab. He is not distracted by his prickly, adorable colleague, who somehow manages to make her nerdy glasses look cute.

Playing footsies might be tempting with snarky Neevie but he’s got a cure to find and a lab breaker to catch. Whether it’s wise to join forces or not is still in question.

The Dragon Chronicles are here again. Check them out!

Nerds in Paradise

Intense Eric Monnette can’t get skilled Riley D’Arpino out of his mind. He’s a retired Navy SEAL who uses his skills to keep people safe. Except unanswered questions from his past has placed him in jeopardy himself.

Computer nerd Riley is set to retire from the US Army in three weeks. She has civilian life to figure out. She doesn’t need her childhood crush riding to her and her commanding officer’s rescue.

Okay, so said commanding officer took a couple bullets and their boat sank. Now they’re facing near hurricane conditions, a stormy sea, limited fuel, and her commanding officer is going to die if they don’t hustle him to safety soon. Oh, and then there are the bad guys who very much want to silence them. Permanently. Falling in love is certainly not on the agenda.