Lea Hart writes luxury crime fiction about smart women, dangerous families, beautiful lives, and the choices that make power expensive.

After more than a decade as an independent novelist and thirty-eight published books, Hart turned her attention toward the stories she most wanted to tell: glamorous, character-driven crime fiction where money opens doors, loyalty creates obligations, and women are rarely standing on the sidelines.

Her Dynasty Protocol series moves through the old-world power structures of Sicily and the modern families determined to reshape them. Florida Confidential trades Palermo’s villas for sun-drenched coastal enclaves where polished surfaces conceal old grudges, private appetites, and the occasional body.

Across both worlds, Hart is interested in what happens after people get the things they thought they wanted — wealth, freedom, influence, love — and discover that every acquisition comes with terms.

Before luxury crime, Hart wrote romance. Those novels remain available in the Romance Library, a collection spanning more than a decade of stories and the readers who made them possible.

She lives in Southern California and writes fiction for women who know that glamour and danger have always looked particularly good together.

Dangerously good fiction for women who know better.