HOCKEY + SECOND CHANCE
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
Stories where love, loyalty, and survival collide.
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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FEATURED STARTING POINTS
CELEBRITY + BLUE COLLAR
RED CARPETS & GREASE STAINS
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.
OMEGAVERSE + SUSPENSE
The Omega They Made
Project Origin created her. Biology may recognize a match. It doesn’t get to choose her family.
CONSPIRACY + BROTHERHOOD
Give me loyalty under pressure.
Start with Project Field Study.
Take me there → HIGH-HEAT ROMANCE + TRAVELPut me on a ship with feelings.
Start with Until Landfall.
Take me there → ROMANTIC MYSTERY + POWERGive me glamour with teeth.
Start with The Wrong Heir.
Take me there → ROMANTASY + LIVING MAGICGive me magic that has opinions.
Start with The Fortress That Chose Her.
Take me there → OMEGAVERSE + FOUND FAMILYGive me biology versus choice.
Start with The Omega They Made.
Take me there → SCI-FI ROMANCE + MYSTERYPut me somewhere the maps fail.
Start with Where the Stars Fail.
Take me there → FATED MATES + WOLF SHIFTERSGive me fate with a choice.
Start with The Alpha’s Unshifted Mate.
Take me there →HOCKEY + SECOND CHANCEGive me hockey with unfinished business.
Start with Still My Wife.
Take me there →HOCKEY + LAKE LIFE + SECOND CHANCEGive me first love with another shot.
Start with Second Shot, First Love.
Take me there →MOTORSPORT + RIVALRY + ROMANCEGive me speed with something to lose.
Start with The Last Tenth.
Take me there →FAMOUS WOMAN + BLUE COLLARGive me celebrity power with grease under its nails.
Start with RED CARPETS & GREASE STAINS.
Take me there →FORBIDDEN + REVERSE AGE GAPGive me the relationship everyone will have an opinion about.
Start with MY EX’S MOM.
Take me there →MYTHOLOGICAL FANTASY + CONSPIRACYGive me old gods inside a modern power structure.
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Take me there →VAMPIRE + HUMAN + TRUE MATCHGive me an immortal woman who refuses to let biology decide for her.
Start with THE MORTAL SHE CLAIMED.
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Start with FAR ENOUGH TO STAY.
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The E.S. Arden catalog.
Browse all 30 currently published Kindle titles. Every book has its own detail page, plus a direct Amazon link.
FIELD STUDY ALPHA • BOOK 1
Project Field Study
Five lifelong friends. One classified experiment. Every successful test moves the boundary.
Military / Espionage Thriller
FIELD STUDY ALPHA • BOOK 2
Alpha Team
The experiment is over. The capability it created is not.
Military / Espionage Thriller
FIELD STUDY ALPHA • BOOK 3
The Original Ten
The team survived becoming a capability. Now the family around it changes the mission.
Military / Espionage Thriller
FIELD STUDY ALPHA • BOOK 4
The Ground We Hold
When violence reaches home, the people left behind are anything but helpless.
Military / Espionage Thriller
FIELD STUDY ALPHA • BOOK 5
Alder Meridian
The war ended. The system behind it didn’t. The original ten build the kind of power they can live with.
Military / Espionage Thriller
FIELD STUDY ALPHA • BOOK 6
CALYX
They found the program. Now they have to find the children it still owns.
Military / Espionage Thriller
FIELD STUDY ALPHA • BOOK 7
No One Owns You
She pulled the trigger. Nobody who loves her believes she chose it.
Military / Espionage Thriller
THE UNCROWNED VOWS • BOOK 1
The Fortress That Chose Her
A refuge should never become a prison. The fortress has already chosen Mara.
Romantasy
THE UNCROWNED VOWS • BOOK 2
The Woman the Walls Forgot
The walls are learning to forget her. Love has to remember without possessing.
Romantasy
THE UNCROWNED VOWS • BOOK 3
The Vow That Unmade Kings
A kingdom built on buried authority reaches the vow that can finally unmake it.
Romantasy
THE DESIGNATION PROTOCOLS • BOOK 1
The Omega They Made
Project Origin created her. Biology may recognize a match. It doesn’t get to choose her family.
Omegaverse Romantic Suspense
THE LONGFRAME SERIES • BOOK 1
Where the Stars Fail
A dangerous route, a ship with too much history, and a mystery hidden where the maps stop making sense.
Science-Fiction Romance
THE LONGFRAME SERIES • BOOK 2
WHERE THE MAPS LIE
Calder and Saela chose each other. Now corrupted route knowledge and impossible data threaten the home they built aboard Wayward.
Science-Fiction Romance / Romantic Suspense
CROWN FIR MATES • BOOK 1
The Alpha’s Unshifted Mate
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.
Fated-Mates Wolf-Shifter Romance
SACRAMENTO UNDERTOW • BOOK 1
Still My Wife
The league’s most hated enforcer gets traded to Sacramento—and back into the city of the wife he never divorced.
Professional Hockey Romance
SACRAMENTO UNDERTOW • BOOK 2
Not For Show
He can handle the spotlight. What he wants with her was never for show.
Professional Hockey Romance
LOVE, LAKES & SLAPSHOTS • BOOK 1
Second Shot, First Love
A second chance fifteen years in the making, with pro hockey, lake life, and a first love that never quite stayed in the past.
Professional Hockey Romance
RACE WEEKEND • BOOK 1
The Last Tenth
On track, a tenth of a second can change everything. Off it, the risk gets personal.
Motorsport Romance
FAMOUS WOMEN, WORKING MEN • BOOK 1
RED CARPETS & GREASE STAINS
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.
High-Heat Reverse-Age-Gap Romance
FAMOUS WOMEN, WORKING MEN • BOOK 2
LOVE SONGS & LIVE WIRES
Rhea Mae Benton can sell out an arena. What she can’t do is keep one Oregon lineman from seeing straight through her.
High-Heat Reverse-Age-Gap Romance
THE STOLEN MANDATES • BOOK 1
THE POWER NO HOUSE COULD OWN
Mara Voss already carries the power of Hermes. She is not supposed to answer Poseidon too.
Adult Mythological Fantasy
THE HOUSE HER BLOOD BUILT • BOOK 1
THE MORTAL SHE CLAIMED
She was born to inherit a vampire crown. He was hired to fix her house.
High-Heat Vampire Romance
BLACKTAIL HOLLOW • BOOK 1
FAR ENOUGH TO STAY
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.
High-Heat Romantic Suspense
STANDALONE
Until Landfall
A 114-day world cruise. One night without promises. Their problem is morning.
Contemporary Romance
STANDALONE
The Wrong Heir
Singapore glamour, family power, buried motives, and a disappearance that turns romance into a fight for the truth.
Romantic Suspense
STANDALONE
Year Zero
A fresh start looks different when the cameras stop and real life starts.
Contemporary Romance
STANDALONE
The Man She Chose
A princess chooses the American man she loves. Somebody else decides he has to disappear.
Royal Romantic Suspense
STANDALONE
Doesn’t Count
A fake-couple campaign, one very real attraction, and a rule that was never going to survive contact.
Contemporary Romance
STANDALONE
MY EX’S MOM
One forbidden relationship is easy to understand in three words. Living with what happens after Nolan falls for Vanessa is the hard part.
Forbidden Reverse-Age-Gap Romance
STANDALONE
14 YEARS, JUST FRIENDS?
Fourteen years of friendship. One terrible idea. Zero chance the group chat survives it.
Friends-to-Lovers Contemporary Romance
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SERIES
Choose a world and stay awhile.
Series titles are grouped here so readers can find the right doorway without digging through the whole catalog.
MILITARY / ESPIONAGE THRILLER
Field Study Alpha
A twelve-book saga about lifelong friendship, institutional power, family, and what happens when a system discovers people it cannot reproduce.
- Project Field StudyBook 1
- Alpha TeamBook 2
- The Original TenBook 3
- The Ground We HoldBook 4
- Alder MeridianBook 5
- CALYXBook 6
- No One Owns YouBook 7
ROMANTASY
The Uncrowned Vows
Living architectural magic, dangerous vows, political pressure, and love that has to protect without owning.
Explore the series →OMEGAVERSE ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
The Designation Protocols
A romantic-suspense Omegaverse series about manipulated biology, survivor agency, found family, and the people who choose one another anyway.
- The Omega They MadeBook 1
SCIENCE-FICTION ROMANCE
The Longframe Series
Spacefaring mystery, dangerous routes, alien biology, and relationships built under pressure far from home.
- Where the Stars FailBook 1
- WHERE THE MAPS LIEBook 2
FATED-MATES WOLF-SHIFTER ROMANCE
Crown Fir Mates
High-heat interconnected wolf-shifter romances where fate can identify a mate, but it never makes the choice for them.
Explore the series →PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY ROMANCE
Sacramento Undertow
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.
- Still My WifeBook 1
- Not For ShowBook 2
COZY HIGH-HEAT HOCKEY ROMANCE
Love, Lakes & Slapshots
A same-couple hockey romance saga built around second chances, Minnesota lake life, family, and learning how to build a home together.
- Second Shot, First LoveBook 1
ELITE MOTORSPORT ROMANCE
Race Weekend
High-heat elite motorsport romance where ambition, rivalry, precision, and love all compete for the same fraction of a second.
- The Last TenthBook 1
HIGH-HEAT REVERSE-AGE-GAP ROMANCE
Famous Women, Working Men
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.
Explore the series →ADULT MYTHOLOGICAL FANTASY
The Stolen Mandates
In modern Seattle, inherited divine powers are managed like infrastructure—until power answers someone the Houses insist should not exist.
Explore the series →HIGH-HEAT VAMPIRE ROMANCE
The House Her Blood Built
Old vampire Houses built power on blood, law, and inherited control. The people inside those systems still get to choose who they love.
- THE MORTAL SHE CLAIMEDBook 1
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
Blacktail Hollow
High-heat romantic suspense in small-town Oregon, where building a safe life does not mean the past agrees to stay gone.
- FAR ENOUGH TO STAYBook 1
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
E.S. Arden
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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