Lexi Blake

Lexi Blake is a New York Times bestselling American romance novelist based in North Texas, who began publishing in 2010 and has since sold several million copies across a large backlist -- including the Masters and Mercenaries series, the Lawless novels, the Courting Justice novels, and co-written series with Shayla Black such as Masters of Menage and Perfect Gentlemen. She started out writing plays and journalism before finding her footing in contemporary romance, and has described a fondness for finding humor in unexpected places alongside a firm commitment to happy endings. In this catalogue she appears as M.J. Rose's co-author on The First Night (2016), the launch novella of the 1001 Dark Nights collective -- a Scheherazade-inspired novella series that Rose co-founded with Liz Berry and Jillian Stein. The First Night pairs Blake's contemporary-romance instincts with Rose's own interest in desire and storytelling, marking the start of a novella collective that would go on to include contributions from dozens of romance and thriller authors.