Adult Fiction Author
Traylor Vale
Adult Fiction — Romantasy · Dystopian · Mystery & Suspense
Where boundaries blur, secrets run deep, and every story leaves a mark.
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Mystery / Suspense · Speculative Thriller
My Summer at the Point
The Point has always looked beautiful from the other side of the lake.
Exclusive. Untouchable. Off-limits.
Twenty-two-year-old nursing student Desi Carter has spent her life watching its lights from a distance—until one summer night strands her too close to its private shoreline and puts Beckett Ashford directly in her path.
A summer job inside The Point should mean money, parties, and a dangerously attractive distraction. Instead, Desi begins noticing things that don’t make sense: people who barely sleep, secrets surrounding a devastating crash, and a medical program called Wake that promises something almost impossible—
more time.
As attraction pulls her deeper into Beckett’s world and another man challenges everything she thinks she knows, Desi uncovers a connection between The Point, her mother’s past, and research that was never as finished as anyone claimed.
Because the most dangerous secrets aren’t always the ones people would run from.
Sometimes they’re the ones everyone would want.
My Summer at The Point is a darkly seductive speculative romantic thriller about privilege, ambition, desire, and what people are willing to trade for more time.
Romantasy · Psychological Suspense
Beyond Office Hours
Dr. Mara Rivers teaches power, persuasion, and the illusion of choice.
She knows how control works. She knows how language can make pressure look like consent. She knows exactly why a professor should never want the adult student sitting in the last row.
Bennett Shaw is not like the other students. Older. Watchful. Controlled. A former security consultant with access to rooms Mara did not know existed and a way of seeing her that feels both intimate and dangerous.
Their attraction should be the problem.
It is only the beginning.
When Mara’s private life becomes evidence, her home no longer feels secure, and a powerful university system begins turning truth into liability, she has to decide who can be trusted: the institution protecting its secrets, the man who may have been sent to manipulate her, or herself.
As desire and danger blur, Mara discovers that some doors do not need to be forced open.
Some are designed to make you choose them.
Beyond Office Hours is a sexy psychological suspense novel about forbidden attraction, institutional secrets, surveillance, consent, and the terrifying question of who gets to control the story after the truth comes out.
Coming October 2026
Spider Veins
Some Secrets Run Deeper Than Blood.
A Hidden Past. A Dark Legacy. One Truth That Was Never Supposed to Survive.
Mystery / Suspense · Gothic Thriller
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