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Lost in Austin
Series · 4 books · 2021-2024

Books in series

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#1

Up for Air

2021

At a funeral on her 29th birthday, Ari takes stock of her life and comes to a startling conclusion: she’s not happy. Mired in a relationship that’s gone stale, she approaches her husband Greg about opening their marriage. To her shock, he agrees. Ari throws herself headlong into an adventure through the bars and bedrooms of Austin. For the first time in her life she’s living in the moment – sex and kink, karaoke and drink – new friends, new lovers, new boundaries to cross. It’s all just innocent, no-strings fun…until she meets Alex. Alex changes everything. While Ari and Greg grapple with their changing relationship, Ari struggles to control her heart. During hedonistic self- discovery, has she stumbled across love? Book one of the Lost In Austin series, Up for Air was a 2021 Good Sex Awards Winner for "Sexiest Consent," won the 2021 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal for Romance - Sizzle, and won the 2021 Independent Press Award for Romance.
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#2

The Road Home

2021

Sex and rock & roll are Jake Sixkiller’s top priorities. As frontman of one of Austin’s most popular bands and with a long line of lovers knocking on his bedroom door, he has it all. Until a car accident shakes his world to its core. With his best friend in the hospital fighting for her life, he’s flooded with memories of the night he lost his entire family at the hands of a drunk driver. Amid the turmoil, he finds solace in the arms of a woman he should probably avoid. Nicole, aka Arson Nic, a roller derby dynamo, is a prickly spitfire who throws Jake into a tailspin. When he’s offered a once-in-a-lifetime tour opportunity that brings him back to the Cherokee reservation where he grew up, Jake must decide what matters most, a future still unwritten or a past he buried long ago. Book two of the Lost In Austin series, The Road Home was the 2022 winner of the Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal for Romance – Sizzle and a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist for Multicultural Fiction.
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#3

After the Storm

2022

When Greg Hendricks agrees to his wife’s request for an open marriage, he doesn’t anticipate she’ll fall in love with another man and leave. He doesn’t anticipate losing his job either. Drowning in self-destruction, Greg clings to his memories of New Orleans nine months before—the night he wandered into a movie theater called Paradise and spent an evening talking with the beautiful owner, Violet Devollier. Their connection was brief but intense. A connection so intense that when Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans, Greg will stop at nothing to return to Paradise and find Violet. But what good is a broken man in a broken city? For Greg to have any chance of a future with Violet, he’ll have to find the courage to piece himself back together as they rebuild Paradise after the storm. Book three of the award-winning Lost In Austin series, After the Storm is a slow burn interracial romance that can be read as a standalone.
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#4

All the Rest

2024

It's been five years since I found my family. Not my bio-family—my found family of friends. I love them to pieces, but lately they aren’t enough. I want a baby. All my friends have family units with cuddly babies, and I want that too. But I turn thirty-five in less than a month. Clock’s ticking, so I’ve got to hustle. I need some baby batter to bake a bun in my oven as soon as possible. One problem: baby batter comes from men, and I’m really tired of men and their heartbreaker BS. Manic, though, is different from the other men. A retired sideshow circus performer with piercings all over the place, he’s different from everyone. I really like him, and I think he really likes me, too, but he flat out refuses to get me pregnant. Is Manic worth giving up my dream of being a kickass mom? Maybe. The fourth and final book of the award winning Lost In Austin series, All the Rest is a grumpy/sunshine romance with tons of laughs and heart and dirty, dirty smut. It's the last book in the series, but it can be read as a standalone.

Author

Christina Berry
Christina Berry
Author · 8 books

Christina Berry is an award-winning author of sex-positive contemporary romance. Her debut novel, Up for Air, won "Sexiest Consent" in the 2021 Good Sex Awards, and her first two Lost in Austin series books won the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal in Romance - Sizzle in 2021 and 2022. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Christina is originally from Oklahoma, and currently resides in Austin, Texas. When not writing, she's usually helping her husband with their never-ending home remodeling adventure or marathon watching true crime television.

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