Lina Kara

Lina Kara

Love you shouldn’t want.

Forbidden romance with a dark edge.

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18+ · Spice & content notes before release

The series

Blackthorn Chronicles

Three connected standalones set around Blackthorn, a Philadelphia nightclub. Each book has its own couple and its own happy ending. The characters and plots of all three are planned, and we start the next one as soon as Book 1 is done.

Book 1 · currently writing

Off-Limits

“My family warned me about America.
Nobody warned me about the man I’d be living with.”

Leyla left Turkey to escape her family’s rules. Her new host dad, a widowed ex-boxing champion with two little girls, has rules of his own. Four of them, taped to the fridge. The fifth one he keeps to himself: she’s off-limits.

  • forbidden love
  • age gap
  • single dad
  • forced proximity
  • grumpy x sunshine
  • slow burn
  • romantic suspense

Adult romance with explicit scenes and dark themes. Full content notes before release.

Coming soon on Amazon · Kindle, Kindle+, paperback & hardcover
“My house. My rules.”

“I’m fine.”

“You’re not.”

“No,” I say. “I’m not.”

Lines from Off-Limits, first draft.

Who we are

About

Lina Kara is the pen name of a couple, one of us in Germany, one in Turkey. Every idea, every character and every twist comes from the two of us.

We write it together across two countries and rewrite every chapter until it feels right to both of us. How exactly we work is in the FAQ.

Newsletter

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Free advance copy

Early readers (ARC)

Before Off-Limits comes out, we’ll send a free advance copy (ARC) to a small group of readers. We’d be glad if you left an honest review on Amazon around release day, and a post on TikTok or Instagram if you feel like it. Good, bad, anything in between: honest is all we want.

Adult romance with explicit scenes and dark themes.

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Good questions

FAQ

Who is Lina Kara?

Lina Kara is the pen name of a couple in a long-distance relationship, one of us in Germany, one in Turkey. Writing this book together is our shared project.

How do you write?

Every idea, every character and every twist is ours. We plan the story together, then write the chapters with the help of AI and rewrite them again and again until they sound like us. Nothing goes into a book that we haven’t both read and argued over. The visuals we post on social media are AI-generated.

How spicy is Off-Limits?

It’s an adult romance for readers 18+, with explicit scenes and dark themes. We’ll share the exact spice level and full content notes before release, so you know what you’re getting into.

Is it part of a series?

Off-Limits is Book 1 of the Blackthorn Chronicles: three connected standalones set around Blackthorn, a Philadelphia nightclub. Each book has its own couple and its own happy ending. We start writing Book 2 as soon as Book 1 is done.

When and where does it come out?

We’re writing it right now. It will be on Amazon as Kindle, Kindle+, paperback and hardcover. Newsletter subscribers hear first, and early readers get it before everyone else.

Say hello

Contact

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