James E. Lorraine

James E. Lorraine is fascinated by appetite. Not simply hunger for money or power, but the quieter appetites people are better at disguising: the need to be chosen, to win, to control the room, to keep the relationship, to have the last word, or to possess the one thing good judgment says to leave alone.

He writes people who are accomplished enough to believe they can manage the consequences, then gives them something they want badly enough to test that belief. His stories move through boardrooms, bedrooms, churches, marriages, and spectacular romantic disasters, because he is less interested in genre boundaries than in what happens when desire collides with self-control.

He is the author of Heavy Is the Crown, the Unholy Creed novels (The Saint of Nothing, The Apostle of Ruin), and the Second Thought series (No, Not That Email, No, Not That Wedding). The tone changes from book to book. The question underneath rarely does: what does wanting something reveal about you once wanting it begins to cost you?

James E. Lorraine is published by Crown Cipher Publishing.