Book Series by Ashley Salazar
Welcome to the Imperfection Book Club Series. All characters and elements of our stories are completely fictitious and created from our conversations during the virtual book club LIVES on TIKTOK. In 2025, the original series debuted, followed by the Erotica Series and Spicy Holiday Series in 2026.
Erotica Series
Second Servings
He cooks to seduce. She delivers the temptation.
Rebel is running on fumes. After a brutal breakup with a body-shaming ex who shattered her confidence, she’s living out of her sedan and grinding through endless DoorDash shifts. She’s this close to saving enough for a fresh start—until a reckless truck driver crushes her car, her temporary home, and her livelihood in a single afternoon. Stranded on the hot asphalt with bleeding knees and a broken heart, Rebel thinks she’s hit rock bottom.
Until the city’s most dangerous, devastatingly handsome chef steps into the alley.
Easton is thirty years of raw, tattooed muscle and unfiltered alpha energy. As the mastermind behind the exclusive aphrodisiac menu at Second Servings, he’s spent weeks watching the soft, voluptuous Aphrodite from his kitchen window. He’s spent countless nights fantasizing about exactly what he’d do to her. And seeing someone dare to hurt his silent muse activates every dark, protective instinct he possesses.
Warning: This short, high-heat story features a dirty-talking, possessive hero, a gorgeous, curvy heroine, and enough delicious, sensual torment to keep you squirming long after the final page. Grab a cold drink. You're going to need it.
Book 2
Second Servings: Brunch
They thought one serving would satisfy them. They were wrong.
Rebel found sanctuary in Easton’s high-stakes kitchen, but her presence has just added a second master chef to the mix. Enter Marcus—the brilliantly sharp, dangerously charming co-creator who handles the sweet to Easton's savory. Marcus doesn't just want to create masterpieces for the menu; he wants to use Rebel as his ultimate canvas.
Now, Rebel is caught between two fiercely possessive, dirty-talking titans of the culinary world. Easton wants to protect what’s his, Marcus wants to taste what he’s been missing, and Rebel is finally ready to indulge every single craving she's ever suppressed. The kitchen counters are spotless, the desserts are prepared, and the private tasting is about to begin.
Warning: This short, high-heat MFM romance features two alpha chefs who share anything—including the gorgeous, curvy muse who drives them wild. Expect plenty of delicious, sticky torment, sweet indulgence, and enough melt-in-your-mouth heat to leave you breathless.
Second servings are always sweeter. Dig in.
Book 3: Trilogy Finale
Second Servings: Dessert
The Menu Has Changed. And Tonight, They're Serving Trouble.
An exclusive invitation to Velvet Devine, the city’s most decadent VIP masquerade club, changes everything. The rules are simple but lethal: a multi-course dinner for an elite, masked audience, culminating in a live, unrestricted performance where Rebel becomes the ultimate living canvas. Coated in rich chocolate and sweet pomegranate reduction, she is on display for a room full of starved voyeurs who would pay a fortune just to breath her air.
They are allowed to watch. They are allowed to crave. But they will never touch.
As the boundaries between professional focus and unadulterated exhibitionism blur under the scorching stage lights, Rebel is pushed to her absolute limits. Bound by Marcus’s razor-sharp precision and Easton’s unyielding, possessive commands, she has to decide if she can handle the thrill of an audience... or if the fire in her chefs' kitchen will completely consume her.
The curtain is rising, the VIPs are waiting, and dessert is about to be served.
Original Series
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Apothecary Awakens
Two souls. One sanctuary. A debt written in shadows.
Ava Ivy and her husband Taalish thought they had found peace in the mountains, a timber-framed sanctuary where they could bottle the scents of the wild and lose themselves in the "frantic discovery" of each other. But the House was never just a home—it was a battery, fueled by their passion and charging a legacy they didn't know they inherited.
When a jagged rift in reality—the Void—swallows Taalish as collateral for an ancient aetheric debt, Ava is left in a silence that screams. To the clinical Masters of the surrounding realms, life is a commodity and lineage is a game. They want a legacy? Ava will give them one they can’t handle.
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Mirror Lake
Chloe Olive, The Romantic Imp, craves devotion more than breath. She lives for the safety of absolute control, yearning for a master who sees her submission not as a weakness, but as power to be claimed. When the house's flame chooses her first, she steps through the shimmering veil and onto the lonely island of Mirror Lake, where her reflection waits for the man who will claim her. Russ, The Reflective Master, is all raw cedar and calm fire. He doesn't offer gentle promises; he provides a covenant— a set of rules and desires woven into a silver thread of wish-beads that binds their terms. He sees the absolute devotion in Chloe's eyes, and he intends to test it, break it down, and rebuild it until she is irrevocably his. However, the magical vials that Ava is collecting depend on the true surrender of every imp. If Chloe's heart holds back a single secret, the entire structure of the house will shatter, risking not just her freedom but the master's eternal claim. There is no running from The Lake. The waters listen. The Reflection never lies. What price will Chloe pay for the safety of being entirely claimed?
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Obsidian Scriptorium
Three Trials. Three Masters. One Shadow.
Solis never wanted a hero. As the Spooky Imp, she was never meant for the light—but she is the one chosen to seek the Obsidian Potion. To claim it, she must survive the Obsidian Scriptorium, a place where the air is thick with ancient ink and the weight of a thousand debts.
But the Scriptorium is a cage guarded by the Servitude Masters, three shadows of the same soul who demand everything in exchange for the truth:
Benjamin: The masked psychopath who finds beauty in the break.
Pike: The Raven Shifter whose eyes see every secret you try to hide.
Finch: The brilliant professor whose lessons are as seductive as they are deadly.
Each brother holds a piece of the puzzle, and each intends to test Solis until there is nothing left of the girl she used to be.
In the Scriptorium, the most dangerous thing isn't the dark—it’s the men who master it. -
The Crimson Observatory
The mountain doesn’t want your prayers. It wants your pulse.
When Raine enters the White Granite Observatory, she expects a monster. What she finds is a Master.
Clove is a predator of celestial proportions, a vampire whose heartbeat is tethered to the very foundations of the realm. For centuries, he has guarded the gates of reality as a statue of ice. Now, Raine’s arrival has set him on fire.
From the freezing depths of the ritual pools to the searing heat of the quartz dais, Raine is mapped, marked, and claimed. But as her blood begins to hum with Clove’s ancient essence, the line between prisoner and partner blurs. The "slaughter" he promised is a transformation she never saw coming.
The Key has found its lock. The Master has found his obsession. And the stars will never be the same. -
Conductive Currents
Two opposing forces. One explosive connection.
When Molly is unexpectedly selected for the trials deep within the dormant volcanic mountain, she knows the stakes are more than survival. Her ultimate goal seems straightforward, if nearly impossible: survive the subterranean depths and Master Jax to forge the conductive vial.
In a trial where one misstep means being swallowed by the awakening magma fissures, Molly and Master Jax must learn to channel the current between them—or be destroyed.
As they push deeper into the heart of the mountain, the atmospheric tension reaches a boiling point. The task demands a dangerous fusion of her strength and his raw, bio-electric power. But the deeper they delve into the forge, the more the lines between Enemies and allies begin to blur, sparking a magnetic connection neither of them saw coming. -
Council Trials
Rules are meant to be broken. But in his hills, his word is absolute law.
Willow is the ultimate wild card—a firecracker who doesn’t do kneeling, and certainly doesn’t follow rules. Sent into the deep timber of Council Hills to secure a council Vial. She wears the scandalous, sheer green uniform packed for her. She welcomes the thrill. What she doesn’t expect is Master Rook.
A conqueror who rules his territory with effortless, terrifying control, Rook doesn't negotiate with brats—he breaks them to his will. From the high-velocity canopy ziplines to a grueling campsite test, he matches her bratty defiance with unyielding dominance and a relentless, remote-controlled penalty that leaves her soaking wet, breathless, and entirely at his mercy.
This favorite scout will have to find out exactly what happens when you push a conqueror to his limits—and just how far Master Rook will go to protect what is officially his.
Spicy Holiday Series
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#1 Ground For Praise: Summer
Kira is a one-woman demolition derby. As the owner of K’s Blade Runner, she’s up before the birds, out-working her bloated competition, and handling heavy machinery with a thick, fit grace that leaves the locals staring. She doesn’t need a crew; she doesn’t take shortcuts, and she sure as hell doesn't take attitude from city slickers who don't know a tractor from a tiller.
Enter Colby Weston.
A ruthless, white-collar alpha in a New York boardroom, Colby just inherited his family’s sprawling, overgrown New Mexico ranch. He’s used to giving orders and watching people bow. But when he tries to dictate terms to the dirt-stained, potty-mouthed landscaper clearing his perimeter, he gets a swift lesson in blue-collar reality. Kira isn't the one to back down, and her sarcastic, lightning-fast banter gives him a headache—and a run for his money.
But as the blistering June heat rises, the friction between them sparks into an absolute inferno.
Warning: This scorching, enemies-to-lovers seasonal novella contains sharp tongues, heavy machinery, cast-iron restraints, and enough blistering praise to ruin your favorite pair of panties. Ground rules are about to be broken. -
#2 Choking Hazards: 4th of July (M/M)
The annual Fourth of July festival is more than just a holiday—it’s a battlefield. For top-tier EMS supervisor Garth and his legendary, broad-shouldered firefighter rival Victor, the rivalry between the medical tent and the fire station isn't just professional; it’s personal.
Years ago, Garth and Victor shared more than just a cramped college apartment—they shared a burning, explosive passion that vanished the day Victor failed his paramedic exams. Since then, they’ve lived as rivals, each dominating their respective fields while secretly nursing the wounds of an unresolved past.
When their professional posturing culminates in a high-stakes, public hot-dog-eating contest, everything goes sideways. A mid-contest emergency turns into a terrifying medical crisis, and a split-second, oxygen-deprived reaction leaves Victor with a shattered nose and Garth with a heavy weight of guilt.
This spicy, masculine, and humorous M/M novella proves that sometimes the hardest lessons are learned in the heat of the moment—and the best stress relief is found in the arms of the one man you never should have walked away from. -
#3 Back to Night School: August
Some secrets are kept in the dark. Others are buried in the fire.
Tory Steel is used to being invisible. As an HVAC night intern, she moves through the campus like a ghost, doing the grueling chores of survival while hiding from a system stacked against her. She never expected to stick out. And she certainly never expected a routine work order to shatter her quiet life, leaving her with a problem that requires a permanent, lethal solution.
Deep in the subterranean maintenance wings, she seeks the only fire hot enough to burn her past away. Instead, she walks straight into the private sanctuary of Professor J.T.
To the university, he is a prestigious academic. To the shadows, he is a calculation of pure, predatory control. J.T. has spent twelve years hiding his true nature behind brilliant lectures, never looking for an equal, let alone a companion. Until a little lamb wheels her darkest sins right into his workspace.
Now, the door to his Sanctuary is open. Bound by an unhinged chemistry, a taste for the lurid, and a dangerous game of complicity.
Tory is about to learn exactly what happens when a beautiful, tortured soul finally surrenders to her own darkness.