Liz Tomforde (2025)

Her success caught the attention of the "Big Five" publishers. In a landmark deal, Bloom Books (an imprint of Sourcebooks) acquired the Windy City series, republishing the titles with stunning new covers that turned them into immediate collector’s items.

The series interconnects beautifully. You see Zanders and Ryan being best friends. You see the team dynamics. Liz Tomforde has built a universe where the secondary characters are so compelling that readers are already begging for books about the side characters (a common phenomenon called "side-character-syndrome"). Liz Tomforde

Released most recently, Caught Up follows Kai Rhodes, a single-dad baseball pitcher, and Miller, a free-spirited pastry chef. Tomforde tackles parental grief and the fear of abandonment here. It is softer than the previous two books, focusing on found family and the chaos of parenting a toddler. It proves Tomforde can write "closed door" tension just as well as she writes explicit heat. Her success caught the attention of the "Big

If you want gritty realism, look elsewhere. If you want a warm hug that challenges what you think you deserve in love—and makes you laugh at a hockey player saying “I’d like to formally apologize for not listening to your rant about overhead bin space”—buckle up. Liz Tomforde has raised the bar, and I’m scared my back will hurt from picking it up. You see Zanders and Ryan being best friends

Liz Tomforde’s origin story is the modern American dream of publishing. A former collegiate soccer player and current coach, Tomforde wrote her first novel, Mile High , while juggling a career in athletics. Unlike traditionally published authors who have massive marketing teams, Tomforde released Mile High quietly to Kindle Unlimited (KU).