A sweet, but focused woman. A stalker out to bring the woman down. A man willing to swoop in and save the damsel. And a ride or die best friend. All the right ingredients for a comical romance with heart. After college, I vowed to focus all my energy on fulfilling my promise to my mom: to open up the hot chocolate store we’d always dreamed of running together. No distractions. My plans are set. But things heat up faster than I can handle when a bronzed lifeguard pursues me in the most delicious of ways. Mix in a stalker determined to throw me off my game, and a comical, ass-kicking Squad of friends…well, then you have a situation that requires time I don’t have. I may appear to be a damsel in distress, but I can save my own damn self, thank you very much. And I might just keep that hottie lifeguard as the whipped cream on top of my sweet dreams. Sweet Dreams is the first book in a series of comedic contemporary romance novels. If you like strong, sassy heroines, witty bantering, and happily ever afters, then you’ll love the first book in Marika Ray’s Beach Squad series.

Awkward female athlete meets hottie lifeguard. Dean This girl should have a warning label: comes with baggage. But hell, we all have baggage and mine is saying I need to save Brinley. She pushes me away at every opportunity and then drops the most ridiculous jokes that catch me off guard. She’s so much more than a beautiful face. I want to show her how a real man treats the woman he loves. If she lets me... Brinley I had a nightmare of a childhood surviving the abuse of my father. Through it all I’ve had one goal: become a professional beach volleyball player. My life plan was going so well until I met Dean, a gorgeous lifeguard determined to save me from myself. And don’t get me started on the crazy Beach Squad that tries to befriend me and pull me out of my shell. When everything I thought I knew about my past changes, can I find lasting love with Dean while still achieving my pro career? \*Warning: This novel does contain some brief flashback scenes of childhood abuse (physical, mental, emotional), and explicit sexual content.

Any chemistry teacher will tell you opposites attract. Unfortunately, I teach English. I spend my days a buttoned up high school teacher and spend my nights with my book boyfriends, not daring to think I could procure one in real life. It's precise, it's controlled. It's boring as hell. The tide shifts and I find myself with a hippie lifeguard who provokes me as much as he turns me on, a Senior class in upheaval, a crazy Beach Squad that wants to befriend me, a wild twin sister back in my business, and a public challenge to expose my long-held secret for the greater good. Do I deduce this chaos is all serendipitous, meant to thrust me into my true place in the world? Ultimately, I have to decide if I can kick off my shoes, dig my toes in the sand, and trust in love again. Barefoot Chaos is the third book in a series of small town romance novels with a splash of humor. If you like strong, sassy heroines, witty banter, and happily ever afters set at the beach, then you’ll love Marika Ray’s Beach Squad series.

Release Date: June 21, 2018 Can an heiress get down and dirty with a local lifeguard...for longer than one night? When a hippie girl with a free spirit grows up in an "old money" conservative family, arguments are sure to ensue. Right before her thirtieth birthday, Sage's father, sick of her bohemian lifestyle, gives her an ultimatum - tear down The Surf Shack in Huntington Beach and build a five-star restaurant, or lose her trust fund AND his multi-billion dollar company. Jax, the owner of The Surf Shack, has vowed to keep his late father's shop running while juggling his full-time job as a beach lifeguard...even if the hot little thing in a business suit tempts him with her conflicting personalities. Is she a business shark in a designer suit? Or a Mother Earth loving hippie who wants to get dirty with him? Ultimately, they'll have to decide what's worth fighting for: love or legacy.

This opposites attract romantic comedy is a must-read novella in the Beach Squad series featuring a sassy heroine and an alpha cop too serious to handle her. Jack In my world as a cop, things were either black or white. Right or wrong. Then Bailey arrived, challenging all my principles. She had a mouth on her, the level of sass matching the exaggerated swing of her hips. I couldn't get her out of my head, even knowing she wasn't right for me. I tried to stay away, I really did. But once I had a taste, I kept coming back for more. Something didn't add up though, and I would figure it out even if it ultimately meant we couldn't be together. Bailey The only thing sexier than his dimple was the set of handcuffs the hottie detective threatened to use on me. If only he'd give me a chance to show him I was more than the tough-girl exterior I'd carefully crafted over the years. Oh yeah, and if I wasn't engaged in criminal activity that would land me in handcuffs... and not in a sexy way. More like an orange jumpsuit way, and I can tell you now, no way in hell would I be caught dead in an ugly jumpsuit. No matter which way this thing ends, I'll be in handcuffs. The question is, will Jack join me in the grey area? Or will I have to do the impossible and admit I was wrong?

When Christmas Eve leads to disaster of epic proportions, fate should give you a do-over, don't you think? Shasta A chance encounter with a Harley-riding Santa and a bulging sack of goodies on the worst day of the year turns my world upside down. Too bad I’m on a man diet, especially from silver foxes who give me heart palpitations and hot flashes. I cling to willpower like a starving woman front and center at a buffet and say no to each of his swoon-worthy attempts to rekindle the romance I walked away from decades before. Duke She’s got so much baggage I’m tripping over it in my efforts to show her how great we could still be together. When she makes an offer most men would jump at, I almost accept. But everything I’ve ever wanted has slipped through my fingers and I won’t let us be another casualty. Just one question: how do you woo a woman who has sworn off all men forever? Christmas Eve Do-Over is a second chance romance novella for the over 40 crowd in the Beach Squad series. Read as a stand-alone or at the end of the series. Warning: reading this novella will give you a '90s song mind virus and make you believe in second chances no matter how badly you’ve been burned.