Still My Wife
The league’s most hated enforcer gets traded to Sacramento—and back into the city of the wife he never divorced.
ROMANCE • SUSPENSE • SCI-FI • FANTASY
Character-driven fiction from E.S. Arden — classified experiments, world-crossing romance, buried identities, living fortresses, dangerous routes, and people who refuse to let power make their choices for them.

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Different shelves. Same E.S. Arden promise: capable people, hard choices, fierce loyalty, sharp emotion, and consequences that follow them home.
The league’s most hated enforcer gets traded to Sacramento—and back into the city of the wife he never divorced.
An A-list actress comes home with her late father’s Bronco. The mechanic restoring it is thirteen years younger—and far too easy to want.
Project Origin created her. Biology may recognize a match. It doesn’t get to choose her family.
Start with Project Field Study.
Take me there → HIGH-HEAT ROMANCE + TRAVELStart with Until Landfall.
Take me there → ROMANTIC MYSTERY + POWERStart with The Wrong Heir.
Take me there → ROMANTASY + LIVING MAGICStart with The Fortress That Chose Her.
Take me there → OMEGAVERSE + FOUND FAMILYStart with The Omega They Made.
Take me there → SCI-FI ROMANCE + MYSTERYStart with Where the Stars Fail.
Take me there → FATED MATES + WOLF SHIFTERSStart with The Alpha’s Unshifted Mate.
Take me there →HOCKEY + SECOND CHANCEStart with Still My Wife.
Take me there →HOCKEY + LAKE LIFE + SECOND CHANCEStart with Second Shot, First Love.
Take me there →MOTORSPORT + RIVALRY + ROMANCEStart with The Last Tenth.
Take me there →FAMOUS WOMAN + BLUE COLLARStart with RED CARPETS & GREASE STAINS.
Take me there →FORBIDDEN + REVERSE AGE GAPStart with MY EX’S MOM.
Take me there →MYTHOLOGICAL FANTASY + CONSPIRACYStart with THE POWER NO HOUSE COULD OWN.
Take me there →VAMPIRE + HUMAN + TRUE MATCHStart with THE MORTAL SHE CLAIMED.
Take me there →SMALL-TOWN OREGON + SUSPENSEStart with FAR ENOUGH TO STAY.
Take me there →AVAILABLE NOW
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Five lifelong friends. One classified experiment. Every successful test moves the boundary.
The experiment is over. The capability it created is not.
The team survived becoming a capability. Now the family around it changes the mission.
When violence reaches home, the people left behind are anything but helpless.
The war ended. The system behind it didn’t. The original ten build the kind of power they can live with.
They found the program. Now they have to find the children it still owns.
She pulled the trigger. Nobody who loves her believes she chose it.
A refuge should never become a prison. The fortress has already chosen Mara.
The walls are learning to forget her. Love has to remember without possessing.
A kingdom built on buried authority reaches the vow that can finally unmake it.
Project Origin created her. Biology may recognize a match. It doesn’t get to choose her family.
A dangerous route, a ship with too much history, and a mystery hidden where the maps stop making sense.
Calder and Saela chose each other. Now corrupted route knowledge and impossible data threaten the home they built aboard Wayward.
She’s the most powerful Alpha in the Northwest. Fate gave her a maintenance man who can’t even shift—and he refuses to call it destiny.
The league’s most hated enforcer gets traded to Sacramento—and back into the city of the wife he never divorced.
He can handle the spotlight. What he wants with her was never for show.
A second chance fifteen years in the making, with pro hockey, lake life, and a first love that never quite stayed in the past.
On track, a tenth of a second can change everything. Off it, the risk gets personal.
An A-list actress comes home with her late father’s Bronco. The mechanic restoring it is thirteen years younger—and far too easy to want.
Rhea Mae Benton can sell out an arena. What she can’t do is keep one Oregon lineman from seeing straight through her.
Mara Voss already carries the power of Hermes. She is not supposed to answer Poseidon too.
She was born to inherit a vampire crown. He was hired to fix her house.
Claire came to Blacktail Ridge to build a safe life. Falling for Erik was supposed to be the uncomplicated part—until the past finds the road home.
A 114-day world cruise. One night without promises. Their problem is morning.
Singapore glamour, family power, buried motives, and a disappearance that turns romance into a fight for the truth.
A fresh start looks different when the cameras stop and real life starts.
A princess chooses the American man she loves. Somebody else decides he has to disappear.
A fake-couple campaign, one very real attraction, and a rule that was never going to survive contact.
One forbidden relationship is easy to understand in three words. Living with what happens after Nolan falls for Vanessa is the hard part.
Fourteen years of friendship. One terrible idea. Zero chance the group chat survives it.
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SERIES
Series titles are grouped here so readers can find the right doorway without digging through the whole catalog.

A twelve-book saga about lifelong friendship, institutional power, family, and what happens when a system discovers people it cannot reproduce.

Living architectural magic, dangerous vows, political pressure, and love that has to protect without owning.
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A romantic-suspense Omegaverse series about manipulated biology, survivor agency, found family, and the people who choose one another anyway.

Spacefaring mystery, dangerous routes, alien biology, and relationships built under pressure far from home.

High-heat interconnected wolf-shifter romances where fate can identify a mate, but it never makes the choice for them.
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High-heat professional hockey romance built around Sacramento’s expansion team, found family, second chances, and love that has to survive life off the ice.

A same-couple hockey romance saga built around second chances, Minnesota lake life, family, and learning how to build a home together.

High-heat elite motorsport romance where ambition, rivalry, precision, and love all compete for the same fraction of a second.

Famous, powerful older women meet younger blue-collar men with lives, careers, and pride of their own. Each interconnected romance ends with a complete HEA.
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In modern Seattle, inherited divine powers are managed like infrastructure—until power answers someone the Houses insist should not exist.
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Old vampire Houses built power on blood, law, and inherited control. The people inside those systems still get to choose who they love.

High-heat romantic suspense in small-town Oregon, where building a safe life does not mean the past agrees to stay gone.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
E.S. Arden writes emotionally intense, character-driven fiction where love, loyalty, ambition, and survival collide.
A night-shift truck driver from the Pacific Northwest, Arden develops stories during the hours most people are asleep, filling them with chosen families, complicated relationships, sharp humor, and characters forced to prove what they believe when the stakes become real.
Arden’s work ranges from military and espionage thrillers to contemporary romance, romantic suspense, Omegaverse, science-fiction romance, and fantasy romance. Whatever the setting, the stories center on people who love hard, protect fiercely, and rarely make the easy choice.
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