Raze and the Heart Thief by Birdie D’Avo

Emma Baker is quiet, awkward, and painfully shy. But she’s okay with her careful life, even though, on the inside, she yearns to be courageous. That small percentage of time where she’s actually pretty kinky, sexy, and adventurous? That’s a secret.

Emma is content only showing her true self behind closed doors, with her recurring sexual fantasies starring Raze—the smoldering, way out-of-her-league MMA fighter she covertly stares at whenever he comes into her coffee shop—and with her blog where she reviews romance and erotica fiction, under the pen name The Heart Thief. Add in a drawer full of sex toys and no social life, and Emma has everything she needs.
Until one day, Raze convinces Emma to give him a chance. At first, she thinks it’s a joke, having no idea why he could possibly want her. But Emma doesn’t realize that Raze is already half in love with her.
Emma must decide if she can push past her boundaries, be brave, and let Raze in on her secrets and deepest fantasies. But Raze is keeping secrets of his own, and when they fall fast and hard for each other, he needs to decide if he’s ready to be honest with her or if the truth will break what they’ve built.
Love, insane sexual chemistry, and a history between the two bring them together. Secrets, fame, fans, and scandal may break them apart.

This work of fiction has been republished, rewritten, and re-edited under the same title, Raze and The Heart Thief: a stand-alone, dual POV, friends-to-lovers romance with plenty of steamy sex scenes, no cliffhanger, no cheating, HEA. At 77K words, it includes [content warning]: descriptions of very graphic/sexually explicit scenes intended for mature (18+) audiences only and one consensual MFM threesome scene.