Stories of Survival, Second Chances, and Love in the Corridors of Power
Some writers discover storytelling early. Others carry the dream quietly for years, waiting for the right season of life to finally place their words on the page.
For Kimberly Croft, that dream began during her childhood in Geneva, Ohio. Her love of reading was sparked by the Nancy Drew mysteries and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved stories. She began writing poetry at an early age, but somewhere beneath those first creative efforts was a larger ambition: Kimberly wanted to write a novel.
It was not until she left the workforce to raise her daughters that she began pursuing that dream seriously. Her two daughters became her greatest motivation to continue writing.
That support helped Kimberly transform a lifelong love of stories into novels filled with passion, danger, ambition, complicated relationships, and characters fighting to overcome the circumstances that once defined them.
Although her books move between small coastal towns, luxurious estates, courtrooms, and the politically charged world of Washington, D.C., the emotional heart of Kimberly’s work remains remarkably consistent. Her characters often begin their journeys carrying difficult histories. They may be surrounded by wealth, glamour, and power, but beneath the surface they are confronting abuse, addiction, family dysfunction, betrayal, or the painful consequences of choices made long ago.
Most importantly, they are searching for the courage to create a different future.
Today, we are introducing three of Kimberly Croft’s novels: Unbroken, Secrets on the Potomac, and Dear Prudence.
Unbroken
Scarlett has spent her life dreaming of escape.
Raised in the small fishing town of Cutler, Maine, she longs to leave behind poverty, a troubled home, and the dead-end job that has come to represent everything she fears her life may become. When Hugh Cruz enters the restaurant where she works, he appears to offer everything she has ever wanted.
He is handsome, sophisticated, enormously wealthy—and interested in her.
Scarlett is swept into a life she could barely have imagined: private planes, designer clothing, lavish homes, household staff, and a romance that seems almost too perfect to be real. For a young woman who has spent much of her life struggling simply to survive, Hugh’s world feels like the fairy tale she has been waiting for.
But fairy tales can conceal terrible truths.
The attention that once felt intoxicating slowly becomes control. The man who promised Scarlett a beautiful new life begins stripping away her freedom, confidence, and sense of self. What looked like rescue becomes another kind of prison—and Scarlett must decide whether she can reclaim the woman she was before it is too late.
Kimberly wrote Unbroken for women who may feel frightened, trapped, or convinced there is no way out. At its heart, this is not only a story about domestic abuse. It is a story about survival, courage, and a woman’s determination to take her life back.
Scarlett’s journey carries a message Kimberly wanted readers to remember: there is always a way out.
Read Unbroken
For readers who appreciate emotionally intense fiction about survival, resilience, and the difficult journey back to oneself, Unbroken offers a story that is painful, powerful, and ultimately rooted in hope.
Discover Scarlett’s story and follow her fight to become truly unbroken.
[Purchase Unbroken here.]
Secrets on the Potomac
Sebastian Reed has been preparing for the presidency for most of his life.
Born into a powerful political family, Sebastian has inherited not only wealth and influence but also the burden of expectation. His mother is a former governor. His late father served in the Senate and once pursued the White House himself. From childhood, Sebastian has been taught that public service—and political power—are his destiny.
Now, with his first presidential fundraiser underway, that destiny finally appears within reach.
Sebastian has the pedigree, confidence, ambition, and carefully managed public image required to become a serious contender. He also has Annalise Martinez, an accomplished attorney who seems like the ideal partner for a man seeking the highest office in the country.
But behind the polished campaign lies a family filled with secrets.
Sebastian’s younger brother, Garrison, has spent years struggling with addiction. Their mother has repeatedly protected him from the consequences of his behavior, while Sebastian has been left trying to contain the damage. And when Daria—a woman connected to both brothers and to Sebastian’s past—returns to Washington, carefully buried feelings begin rising to the surface.
As the campaign gathers momentum, Sebastian finds himself caught between the future he has always wanted and the past he has never fully escaped. Old love, divided loyalties, addiction, family expectations, and political calculation collide as every personal decision threatens to become a public scandal.
Secrets on the Potomac explores the world behind political ambition: the compromises, relationships, rivalries, and private vulnerabilities hidden beneath the speeches and carefully staged appearances. It is a story of power and passion—but also of the secrets people protect when the truth could cost them everything.
Read Secrets on the Potomac
For readers who enjoy political drama mixed with romance, family conflict, forbidden history, and the high stakes of a presidential campaign, Secrets on the Potomac opens the doors to a world where private desire and public ambition are never easily separated.
Step behind the campaign curtain and discover the secrets flowing through Washington.
[Purchase Secrets on the Potomac here.]
Dear Prudence
Prudence Romaine knows what it means to reinvent yourself.
Named after two Beatles songs by a mother whose life was consumed by addiction, Prudence grew up surrounded by instability and poverty. But she refuses to remain defined by her childhood. With the help of her grandmother, she builds a new life through education, determination, and hard work.
By the time readers meet her, Prudence has earned a degree in criminal justice, entered law school, secured a position at a prestigious Washington law firm, and successfully managed the campaign of Alex Conrad, Virginia’s charismatic new senator.
Alex is confident, commanding, and nearly impossible for Prudence to resist.
He is also older, involved with another woman, and no longer merely the man she admires from a distance. Their lives have intersected before, and the connection between them is filled with history, attraction, gratitude, and emotions neither can easily ignore.
On the night of Alex’s election victory, Prudence decides she is finished hiding how she feels. But a late-night accident changes the course of their relationship and pulls her deeper into Alex’s personal and political world.
As Alex’s ambitions grow, so do the pressures surrounding them. Love must compete with public scrutiny, career demands, old relationships, political opponents, family history, and the relentless expectations placed upon a man rising through Washington.
Yet Prudence is more than the woman standing beside an influential politician. She is intelligent, ambitious, funny, outspoken, and determined to build a meaningful career of her own. The frightened girl from the other side of the tracks has become a woman capable of navigating courtrooms, campaigns, and the complicated realities of loving someone whose life belongs partly to the public.
Dear Prudence combines romance and political drama with the story of a woman who has worked hard to leave her past behind—even as that past continues to influence the choices she makes.
Read Dear Prudence
For readers drawn to passionate romance, ambitious women, Washington politics, and characters determined to overcome troubled beginnings, Dear Prudence delivers love, humor, conflict, and plenty of political intrigue.
Meet Prudence Romaine and follow her from a painful childhood into the demanding world of love, law, and national politics.
[Purchase Dear Prudence here.]
Women Who Refuse to Remain Powerless
The settings of Kimberly Croft’s novels may be filled with wealth, prestige, designer clothing, political influence, and larger-than-life romance, but her stories are not simply about glamorous lives.
They are about what happens behind the appearance of perfection.
Scarlett discovers that wealth cannot protect her from cruelty. Daria and Sebastian confront the danger of allowing ambition and appearances to dictate their personal lives. Prudence must learn how to love someone powerful without surrendering the identity and future she fought so hard to build.
Each woman has known instability. Each has been shaped by circumstances she did not choose. And each must decide whether her past will determine who she becomes.
Through these stories, Kimberly writes about women who are vulnerable without being weak, wounded without being defeated, and capable of rebuilding their lives even after those lives have been shaken apart.
Her characters fall in love. They make mistakes. They chase dreams, ignore warnings, revisit old wounds, and sometimes lose themselves inside the lives they believe they are supposed to want.
But they also fight their way back.
Perhaps that is what connects Kimberly Croft’s novels most strongly: the belief that no matter where a person begins—or how far they have fallen—their story is not necessarily over.
Sometimes, the most important chapter begins when a woman finally decides to write the rest of her life for herself.
Discover More From Kimberly Croft
Whether you prefer an emotional story of survival, a romance unfolding amid presidential ambition, or a determined heroine finding her place in the worlds of law and politics, Kimberly Croft offers passionate stories filled with flawed characters, difficult choices, and hard-won second chances.
Explore all three novels and discover which journey speaks to you first.
Read Unbroken
A powerful story of abuse, survival, and reclaiming one’s life.
[Purchase Unbroken.]
Read Secrets on the Potomac
A provocative blend of presidential politics, family secrets, addiction, ambition, and forbidden love.
[Purchase Secrets on the Potomac.]
Read Dear Prudence
A passionate political romance about a woman determined to rise beyond the circumstances of her childhood.
[Purchase Dear Prudence.]