THE LUST DIARIES

Desire is easy. Truth is not.

The Lust Diaries is a contemporary erotic romance series about love that refuses to be simple, bodies that remember everything, and the emotional labor required to be honest about your desires—especially when what you want doesn’t fit neatly into a single shape.

At the center of the series is Yves Santiago—a sex-positive Latina writer navigating intimacy, power, authorship, and survival in modern relationships. Across lovers, partners, and evolving configurations of love, Yves must confront the difference between erotic freedom and emotional avoidance, between being wanted and being known.

This is a series about choosing desire without disappearing.

In In Her Closet, Yves is chasing desire, managing truths, and performing freedom like armor. When an editor who refuses casual intimacy steps into her life, she’s forced to ask whether what she calls independence is actually fear.

In Everything She Never Wanted, for the first time in her life, Yves has stability—and instead of relief, it terrifies her. Domestic routines, long-term love, and the possibility of children drag buried grief and autonomy into the light.

In Having It Both Ways, the question won’t stay quiet: what if the truth isn’t choosing, but wanting both men? Desire refuses to simplify, and Yves must renegotiate love through honesty, consent, and deliberate language.

In Seventy Two Ours, the fantasy has worn off. What remains is the work—time, jealousy, care, power, and the daily choice to sustain love without accidental hierarchy or quiet self-betrayal.