Roll For Romance

Lenora Woods

For years, Sadie Brooks has declined her best friend’s standing invitation to join his Dungeons & Dragons campaign. But when she unexpectedly loses her marketing job and flees New York City to Texas, she also runs out of excuses to say no.

In the game, she becomes Jaylie, a powerful and self-assured human cleric. But in real life, Sadie believes her luck has run out, and she hopes the distraction will give her time to clear her head and plan next steps. She never expected Noah Walker—the handsome, outgoing bartender roped into joining them—to factor into that plan. He’s something of a traveling bard—just like his character Loren, the charismatic, lute-strumming elf. While Jaylie finds herself succumbing to the bard’s charms over the course of their party’s travels, Sadie also begins to fall under Noah’s spell.

As their relationship progresses in both worlds, Sadie can’t help but wonder if they might last beyond the game. But when a surprising new opportunity opens in New York, she finds herself torn between her career dreams in the city and the exciting uncertainty of a new adventure.

Dungeons and Drama

Kristy Boyce

Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school’s spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom’s car without permission, she's grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad’s game shop.

Riley can't waste her time working when she has a musical to save, so she convinces Nathan—a nerdy teen employee—to cover her shifts and, in exchange, she’ll flirt with him to make his gamer-girl crush jealous. But Riley didn’t realize that meant joining Nathan's Dungeons & Dragons game…or that role-playing would be so fun. Soon, Riley starts to think that flirting with Nathan doesn't require as much acting as she would've thought...

Roll for Love

M.K. England

Dungeons & Dragons loving Harper Reid's summer is off to a rough start. First, she moved with her mom to Virginia to live on her Poppy's farm, which meant saying goodbye to her friends and finding a new D&D group to play with. The only thing keeping her going is the opportunity to polish her carpentry skills in the farm's woodshop so that she can secure an apprenticeship after graduation. That is, if she can tell her mom that she doesn't want to go to college. What Harper really needs is to channel the confidence and bravery of her awesome D&D character.

The one encounter Harper wasn't expecting was running into Ollie Shifflet: neighbor, childhood best friend, and, oh yeah, first crush. Unlike Harper, Ollie seems to have everything figured out. But when beautiful, bold Harper Reid comes waltzing back into her life and joins her D&D group, suddenly Ollie's plan seems to have a Harper-shaped hole in it.

So when feelings start to develop in their Dungeons & Dragons game between Harper's brash Barbarian character and Ollie's proud Paladin, Harper and Ollie begin wondering if they are falling for each other in real life or if it is all just a part of the game.

Losing Hit Points

Kristopher Mielke and K.A. Mielke

Trans teen Journey has the chance to play an epic game of Dungeons & Dragons. Surprise encounters are common in D&D, but what they don’t expect is to reconnect with an ex-friend whom they still love and have wronged in the past. The last time Journey saw Rumour, they were dumping her as a friend -- unable to understand why Rumour was transitioning. Now trans themselves, Journey has a new perspective on the end of their friendship. If Journey could get Rumour to forgive them, maybe they could be friends again ... just maybe, they could be more.

You've Got Chain Mail

Samantha Parks

Morgan has felt left behind since her best friend moved away. On a quest for something more, she dreams of stepping out of her comfort zone and maybe becoming her own knight in shining armour. Jack's life isn't going to plan. The small-town life he retreated into after a bad break-up is starting to feel less idyllic and more isolating.

Trying to write new, more exciting stories for themselves, they lean hard into weekly role-playing games with their friends and plans for a fantastical Renaissance Faire adventure. But as they embrace the magic of their alter egos, is it possible they might just be falling for each other in real life?