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Delilah Drake
🎒Back to SchoolSeptember 2026 event author
How it was earned: Participated in Lantern’s September 2026 Back to School event.
Pearls and champagne in the daylight, sin and danger after dark.
Contemporary spicy romanceDark Mafia Romance
9,410published words across 1 Lantern story
Behind the byline
About the author
Delilah Drake writes romance the way she lives, with champagne in one hand and a little danger in the other. A native of Los Angeles with a taste for the finer things, travel, glamour, and dramatic flair. She brings that same indulgence to the page in her Milf Mafia series: sexy, spicy romance with real plot behind the heat. But Delilah has a darker side too. Her In Death series was born on a trip to Chicago, where the city's shadows left an impression she couldn't shake, and readers can feel it in every page. Whether she's writing sin in silk or something a little more sinister, one thing stays the same: Delilah doesn't do subtle.
⌖ L.A. glamour, with a taste for Chicago's dark side.
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- Never order cheap champagne. Danger looks best in a little black dress. Writes spice with plot, and plot with a little sin. Subtlety is vastly overrated.
On Lantern
Stories by Delilah Drake
Adult Romance
M.l.L.F. Mafia
Jake Decker was turning twenty-seven, single, and completely unprepared for the birthday gift he actually got: news that he's a father.
Years after a brief fling with Emily, her sudden death leaves behind five-year-old twins Jake never knew existed. Now he's got a house full of tiny socks, a son who won't speak, a daughter who never stops, and a family that shows up uninvited to make sure he doesn't do this alone.
He's figuring it out one impossible day at a time. Then Piper and Noah's kindergarten teacher walks into his life, a beautiful widow raising a thirteen-year-old daughter of her own, who knows exactly what it costs to love someone you're terrified of losing.
Tamara Bennett isn't looking for love. She's definitely not looking for a man ten years younger with two kids and a chaotic found family of self-proclaimed "uncles." But Jake and his twins have a way of getting under her skin, and some things are worth the risk.
Keep Me is a heartfelt, steamy age-gap romance about second chances, chosen family, and learning that love doesn't always arrive the way you expect it to.
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