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Danielle Lori

Danielle Lori is an American romance novelist whose work focuses on dark contemporary and fantasy romance, often featuring morally gray heroes and hate-to-love dynamics. She is best known for the Made series, including The Sweetest Oblivion—an Amazon Charts bestseller—alongside The Maddest Obsession and The Darkest Temptation. ((https://daniellelori.com/about/))

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Danielle Lori is an American romance novelist whose public profile is strikingly concise compared with the heightened emotion of her fiction. In her own author materials, she presents herself less through a detailed childhood or academic backstory than through sensibility: a writer based in small-town Iowa, living with her husband, son, and “too many dogs,” and committed to romance whether the setting is fantastical or contemporary. That spareness has become part of her author image. Rather than foregrounding formal credentials, she foregrounds taste, mood, and genre allegiance—coffee, vintage-style historical romances, and 1990s romantic comedies as the atmosphere behind the work. ((https://daniellelori.com/about/?utm_source=openai))

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She’s a romantic at heart, living in the most unromantic of worlds
-The Sweetest Oblivion
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They say first impressions are everything
-The Sweetest Oblivion
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She fears the dark
-The Maddest Obsession
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He rules it
-The Maddest Obsession
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She boards a plane to Moscow
-The Darkest Temptation
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Revenge is a dish best served cold
-The Darkest Temptation
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It’s an interracial enemies-to-lovers romance with lots of heat and heart
-The Vintage Club
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This book is about how relationships fall apart – or mainly, how they don’t even start
-My Dear Husband
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Set in Colombia, the tortured heroine will bring playboy Sebastian to his knees
-The Purest Attraction

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"Danielle Lori's writing is intoxicating and uniquely beautiful at times"

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"Danielle Lori's writing is beautiful and immersive, pulling you into the dark, intoxicating world of organized crime"

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