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Haythen Construction Anthology: 6 stories +2 Haythen Adjacent Bonus Romances
Sometimes life just gets in the way.
Haythen Construction is the backdrop as six friends go through life challenges with a bit of matchmaking to make it interesting.
Racing Hearts
Leah is a contradiction. She is a vegan who worked as an electrician and raced motorbikes on the weekends. Once her daughters were born, she switched to the office for better hours and flexibility, vowing her girls would always be her priority. Mark has known Leah for years. He appreciates the way she furiously protects her daughters from her ex's idiocrasy. While he loves her devotion to her children, he’s never wanted kids? Will her daughters be an insurmountable obstacle?
Rugby Relationships
A familiar voice across the rugby field changes everything. Gail is fed up with her ex-husband’s overbearing ways. He’d wanted her to be the perfect wife, now he was forcing their kids to conform - unacceptable. Detective Dean Reynolds has a full life as a single dad to his teenage daughter. He never expected to see Gail again. Especially not as coach to her seventeen-year-old son. She was his first. Could she be his last? Or would a jealous team mom cause an irreparable rift?
Mail Escort,
Viv already had her second chance at love. These days, he’s addled with dementia and no longer recognizes her. Still, she feels guilty every time she teases and jokes with Mikail, the mail carrier at work. Even though she’d never cross the line, he’s become a bright spot in her day. Fresh from a divorce which left him questioning his assumptions about what makes a successful relationship, Mikail thinks Viv is the perfect friend to help him regain his equilibrium. Yet when she has a crisis, nothing can stop him from being there for her. Can Mikail be the help she didn’t know she could ask for?
Isolated Complications
Arif is a big-hearted, teddy-bear of a friend. Always, the friend. He recently left the safety of Haythen Construction to work for himself. Now he just needed to find a woman who wanted more than friendship. Kamilla is intrigued by the handsome guy she meets at her nephew’s rugby fundraiser. He’s funny, kind and a fellow business owner. Just when it looks like they have a chance, the pandemic pauses everything.
Mistaken Identity
Dave Hannah strikes up an online friendship with fellow single dad, ALVIE on the Single Parent’s Anonymous online forum.
ALVIE is really Alison Vietz, who wonders if her forum-friend DHANNAH, is her old friend Dhannah, from elementary school. Online, she and DHANNAH bond over exasperation with another member, who constantly breaks the rules.
They don’t realize they’ve just met in real life. Sparks fly until Dave mistakes her for someone else.
Falsely Accused
Rick’s life gets blown apart when his ex-girlfriend’s vengeful daughter accuses him of the unspeakable. As his court date grows closer, he worries being innocent isn’t enough to clear the shadow over him. Tamera works for CPS and has no doubt that Rick is innocent… and not just because he’s exactly her type. Can Tamera risk her career by being with him?
+2 Bonus Haythen Adjacent Novels set in the same universe as the Haythen Construction Series.
Re-Defining Naomi
Naomi was a dutiful daughter and an obedient wife until she adopts an alter-ego to help her protect her son. She’s fierce, especially after she discovers someone is stealing from her father’s company. Ben remembered Naomi from school.
Haythen Construction is the backdrop as six friends go through life challenges with a bit of matchmaking to make it interesting.
Racing Hearts
Leah is a contradiction. She is a vegan who worked as an electrician and raced motorbikes on the weekends. Once her daughters were born, she switched to the office for better hours and flexibility, vowing her girls would always be her priority. Mark has known Leah for years. He appreciates the way she furiously protects her daughters from her ex's idiocrasy. While he loves her devotion to her children, he’s never wanted kids? Will her daughters be an insurmountable obstacle?
Rugby Relationships
A familiar voice across the rugby field changes everything. Gail is fed up with her ex-husband’s overbearing ways. He’d wanted her to be the perfect wife, now he was forcing their kids to conform - unacceptable. Detective Dean Reynolds has a full life as a single dad to his teenage daughter. He never expected to see Gail again. Especially not as coach to her seventeen-year-old son. She was his first. Could she be his last? Or would a jealous team mom cause an irreparable rift?
Mail Escort,
Viv already had her second chance at love. These days, he’s addled with dementia and no longer recognizes her. Still, she feels guilty every time she teases and jokes with Mikail, the mail carrier at work. Even though she’d never cross the line, he’s become a bright spot in her day. Fresh from a divorce which left him questioning his assumptions about what makes a successful relationship, Mikail thinks Viv is the perfect friend to help him regain his equilibrium. Yet when she has a crisis, nothing can stop him from being there for her. Can Mikail be the help she didn’t know she could ask for?
Isolated Complications
Arif is a big-hearted, teddy-bear of a friend. Always, the friend. He recently left the safety of Haythen Construction to work for himself. Now he just needed to find a woman who wanted more than friendship. Kamilla is intrigued by the handsome guy she meets at her nephew’s rugby fundraiser. He’s funny, kind and a fellow business owner. Just when it looks like they have a chance, the pandemic pauses everything.
Mistaken Identity
Dave Hannah strikes up an online friendship with fellow single dad, ALVIE on the Single Parent’s Anonymous online forum.
ALVIE is really Alison Vietz, who wonders if her forum-friend DHANNAH, is her old friend Dhannah, from elementary school. Online, she and DHANNAH bond over exasperation with another member, who constantly breaks the rules.
They don’t realize they’ve just met in real life. Sparks fly until Dave mistakes her for someone else.
Falsely Accused
Rick’s life gets blown apart when his ex-girlfriend’s vengeful daughter accuses him of the unspeakable. As his court date grows closer, he worries being innocent isn’t enough to clear the shadow over him. Tamera works for CPS and has no doubt that Rick is innocent… and not just because he’s exactly her type. Can Tamera risk her career by being with him?
+2 Bonus Haythen Adjacent Novels set in the same universe as the Haythen Construction Series.
Re-Defining Naomi
Naomi was a dutiful daughter and an obedient wife until she adopts an alter-ego to help her protect her son. She’s fierce, especially after she discovers someone is stealing from her father’s company. Ben remembered Naomi from school.
569 pages, Paperback
Published May 15, 2024
About the author
Susan Lyn
10 books3 followersSusan Lyn is the merry widow with a naughty twinkle in her eye. She has a great appreciation for a fantastic set of abs and vows to be that resident on the front porch of her nursing home who 'accidentally' drops her cane to watch the delivery men bend over to retrieve it for her.
She got hooked on romances when she was twelve. Her mother and grandmothers were voracious readers but they refused to let Susan read the books they deemed too steamy for her delicate pre-teen sensibilities. There are unconfirmed reports, she may have pilfered some of the forbidden books. Which would also explain her ability to read quickly, as it was imperative to finish those novels before their absence was discovered.
Susan grew up, got married, got divorced, and then stayed single until she learned how to love and value herself enough to have a healthy relationship. Marriage #2 is proof she learned her lesson. Mr. Lyn inspired more an a few heroes. Even though she misses him terribly, she still loves romance.
When asked what type of books she likes best, she’ll tell you it’s romance stories that deal with real life. Where ordinary, relatable people can find their happily ever after, even after several false starts in the love department. During her decade and a half of singlehood, those were the books that gave her hope that she wouldn't be single forever.
Her books are about regular people, in real bodies, with everyday jobs. Her characters encounter stressful situations and find love as they overcome the obstacles in their path.
She got hooked on romances when she was twelve. Her mother and grandmothers were voracious readers but they refused to let Susan read the books they deemed too steamy for her delicate pre-teen sensibilities. There are unconfirmed reports, she may have pilfered some of the forbidden books. Which would also explain her ability to read quickly, as it was imperative to finish those novels before their absence was discovered.
Susan grew up, got married, got divorced, and then stayed single until she learned how to love and value herself enough to have a healthy relationship. Marriage #2 is proof she learned her lesson. Mr. Lyn inspired more an a few heroes. Even though she misses him terribly, she still loves romance.
When asked what type of books she likes best, she’ll tell you it’s romance stories that deal with real life. Where ordinary, relatable people can find their happily ever after, even after several false starts in the love department. During her decade and a half of singlehood, those were the books that gave her hope that she wouldn't be single forever.
Her books are about regular people, in real bodies, with everyday jobs. Her characters encounter stressful situations and find love as they overcome the obstacles in their path.
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October 3, 2021
These are delightful tales, set at mid-life changes for the staff and other folks who are in and out of the offices of a construction company. The characters from one book re-appear as co-conspirators in another, setting each other up, getting into confusing situations, coming up with unusual solutions to uncomfortable situations.
Vengeful exes cause trouble in several cases, and the solutions and maneuvering are completely believable. And the kids come out well, despite being in the middle of some of the conflicts.
And people do get together in the end, as is proper for romance novels.
All in all, masterfully done, with a light touch. I enjoyed all of these tales.
Vengeful exes cause trouble in several cases, and the solutions and maneuvering are completely believable. And the kids come out well, despite being in the middle of some of the conflicts.
And people do get together in the end, as is proper for romance novels.
All in all, masterfully done, with a light touch. I enjoyed all of these tales.
October 18, 2024
i love a book with short stories one of my favorites as of now is this one, i love how you see how all the different characters intertwine with each other and how there stories come together, if you want a feel good book with ups and downs and some spice this is it. highly recommend
July 24, 2025
Love that this has multiple short stories and the characters are interconnected. Getting is glimpse into each of their love lives was truly a treat! nice and smutty but the pacing was a tad slow for me.
August 23, 2024
Super smutty, super good. Loved that it features couples over 30!
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