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WHERE THE LENS ENDS
Cindy Buchanan wants more than the life she can afford to imagine. Modeling could be her way forward—if she can learn to stand in front of a camera without disappearing inside every insecurity she carries.Sabre Black is the one person she trusts to see her clearly. Quiet, disciplined, and guarded by a past he rarely names, he has spent years helping Cindy believe in the woman she might become. But when friendship moves behind the lens, the distance between safety and desire begins to vanish.As ambition draws Cindy into a world built on image, attention, and exposure, she and Sabre must decide whether being truly seen will bring them closer—or reveal the limits of everything they thought they understood about each other.Paperback ISBN: 978-0-557-87925-0
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-557-87974-8
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THE RULE WE BREAK
Catalina Reyes needs a home she can afford. Ronan Diaz understands consequences. Their solution is simple enough: pretend to be a committed couple, secure a coveted apartment at The Maravilla, and keep the lie convincing until neither of them needs it anymore.The building has rules. Their lease has expectations. And Catalina and Ronan have boundaries designed to keep an arrangement from becoming something neither intended.But performance becomes dangerous when it begins to feel honest. Every shared room, practiced touch, and partial truth draws them deeper into a relationship that was supposed to exist only for everyone watching. Soon, the hardest rule to follow is the one meant to protect them from each other.Paperback ISBN: 978-0-557-87722-5
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-557-87642-6
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WHAT RUIN COULDN'T TAKE
Silas Sterling built his future carefully: a marriage, a plan, and the quiet financial security meant to give the woman he loved room to breathe. Then one discovery turns certainty into evidence and leaves him standing inside the life he thought they shared.Mira enters the aftermath without promising to repair what someone else destroyed. She has her own history, her own strength, and no interest in becoming an escape from grief. What grows between them must survive the difference between being needed and being chosen.As Silas learns that rebuilding is not the same as returning, he and Mira confront the risks of trusting a future that cannot be calculated. Ruin may take the life a person planned—but it does not always get the final word.
IN DEVELOPMENT
NO GRAVE BUT MINE
Gideon Falk has spent a decade alone on Mercy Null, a remote black-site platform where the condemned arrive only after the world has been told they are dead. His work is precise. His isolation is deliberate. Seven hundred twenty-nine executions have given him no reason to question either.Then investigative journalist Dahlia Fontaine arrives as number seven hundred thirty.She has uncovered evidence powerful people will kill to erase. Gideon has orders to make her disappearance permanent. Instead, one impossible decision turns executioner into captor, witness, and the only barrier between Dahlia and the system determined to silence her.On an installation built to leave no survivors, control becomes obsession, defiance becomes intimacy, and keeping one woman alive threatens every rule Gideon has ever obeyed.
FEATURED AUTHOR
C. M. Clark
C. M. Clark writes emotionally intense fiction about private lives under pressure—relationships tested by ambition, deception, loss, danger, and the terrifying possibility of being fully known.Moving between intimate contemporary romance and darker romantic suspense, Clark’s stories center complicated men and resilient women whose connections demand more than attraction. They must confront the choices, fears, and consequences that shape who they become together.The result is fiction built to linger: sensual, psychologically observant, and unafraid of what intimacy reveals.
"The most meaningful love stories are not about perfection, but about what two people choose after certainty is gone."
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September 10, 2026
The paperback and hardcover editions for Where the Lens Ends and The Rule We Break are now available through the Lulu Bookstore.September 9, 2026
The Kindle editions of Where the Lens Ends and The Rule We Break are now available on Amazon!
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Fiction by Featured Author C. M. Clark.Paperback and hardcover editions are sold and fulfilled through the Lulu Bookstore.
Kindle editions are sold through Amazon.