Dana Wilkerson

Closed-Door Romance and Cozy Mystery Author

Coming October 28, 2025

Can a single dad hockey player and his neurodivergent lifelong best friend find love after fifteen years apart? Find out in Blocking the Chaos, a fade-to-black hockey romance in the new KC Crew Sports Romance series.

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Welcome to my website! If you love cozy mysteries and/or fade-to-black romance novels, you’re in the right place.

My Totally 80s Mysteries series brings you a quirky amateur sleuth, a charming Midwestern small town, delightful side characters, a combination of murders and heists (because nobody wants to live in a small town where there’s a homicide every few months), fun 1980s nostalgia, and a secondary romance storyline.

The Throwback RomComs feature a friend group in Chicago in the late 1980s. These books provide many popular romance tropes, including friends to lovers, workplace, single dad, road trip, one hotel room, grumpy/sunshine, and more.

The new KC Crew Sports Romance series is a spinoff of the Throwback RomComs. It’s set in modern-day Kansas City and features the children of the Throwback characters. At least one main character in each book plays professional sports, is a retired pro athlete, or works for a pro team. These books feature hockey, baseball, women’s soccer, and football.

All of my romance novels are fade-to-black. They don’t shy away from adult topics and conversations, but romantic scenes fade out before they get steamy and explicit.

I hope you love reading my books as much as I enjoy writing them!

- Dana