MARS
FITNESS

Where the jocks of Mars
Fitness meet the nerds
of their dreams.
Romance book cover titled It's All You by Linden Bell featuring a muscular man lifting weights.
Romance book cover titled It's All You by Linden Bell featuring a muscular man lifting weights.
IT'S ALL YOU

When your secret admirer is hiding in plain sight.

Gavin
I’ve been in love with my childhood best friend since forever. But he’s straight and married and lives halfway across the country, so all I can do is try to get on with my life. Until he shows up on my doorstep one day, jobless and newly divorced.

Beau
My life has fallen apart and there’s only one place in the world I want to be: with my best friend. But Gavin’s being all weird and cagey and I’m suddenly feeling things I shouldn’t be feeling.

I came to him because he’s safe and familiar, and now we’re standing on the cusp of something new and terrifying. We’ll always be best friends, but do we have the courage to be more?

It’s All You is a friends to lovers, bi-awakening, low angst MM romance between a workaholic who’s harbored a secret love for years and his oblivious childhood best friend who is trying to piece his life back together. Expect couch cuddles, stumbling on ice skates, a packed subway car, and a kiss cam mishap. It’s All You is the prequel to the Mars Fitness series and can be read as a stand-alone.

Release Date: June 14, 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-1-0693490-7-1
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-7390763-4-4

Romance book cover titled Ripped by Linden Bell featuring a muscular man lifting weights.
Romance book cover titled Ripped by Linden Bell featuring a muscular man lifting weights.
RIPPED

Sometimes heartache is a blessing in disguise.

Connor
It was just another Friday night, bringing home takeout for a cozy evening in with my boyfriend. Only to find him wearing nothing but a towel and my best friend frantically trying to put his clothes back on. It didn’t take a genius to figure out what was going on.

Now I’m homeless and friendless and stumbling mindlessly through the doors of Mars Fitness, straight into Donnie’s strong, comforting arms. He offers me a place to crash, then shows me how much more life can be when I have him by my side.

Donnie
What was I supposed to do? Let the guy sleep on the street when I had a perfectly good guest room at home?

Letting Connor stay with me was supposed to be a temporary thing, but I never expected to feel so much around him. Attraction, joy, protectiveness—emotions I haven’t felt in ages are suddenly breaking through my grief and overwhelming me.

It’s been four years since my husband passed, and I’ve been caught in a limbo of merely existing ever since. But with Connor in my house and awakening all these feelings in me, maybe it’s time I start living again.

Ripped is an age gap, nerd/jock, hurt/comfort MM romance between roommates who cuddle while watching classic movies. Expect low angst steamy shower rooms, teary confessions, disapproving family, and brand-new beginnings. It is the first book in the Mars Fitness series and can be read as a stand-alone.

Release Date: April 7, 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-1-0693490-8-8
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-7390763-0-6

Black and white book cover for Stacked by Linden Bell featuring a muscular man lifting a heavy dumbbell.
Black and white book cover for Stacked by Linden Bell featuring a muscular man lifting a heavy dumbbell.
STACKED

When the person you desire is so close, and yet so far.

Sawyer
I’ve been in love with my best friend and roommate since the first day of boarding school over a decade ago. But Preston has always been oblivious, obsessed with his PhD research, and more importantly, straight.

When the new, sexy grad student walks into my gym, I have to wonder… is it time for me to move on?

Preston
Some guy is trying to steal my best friend. I won’t let him. Sawyer’s mine.

Maybe I haven’t appreciated Sawyer enough over the years, but that’s going to change now. I’ll do whatever it takes to keep him by my side. Even if it means kissing him.

Stacked is a best friends to lovers, bi-awakening, nerd/jock MM romance between possessive, protective, and co-dependent roommates. Expect the most tender caretaking, slipping into each other’s beds in the middle of the night, and adorable clinginess. It is the second book in the Mars Fitness series and can be read as a standalone.

Release Date: March 17, 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-1-0693490-9-5
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-7390763-3-7

Romance novel cover for Under the Radar by Linden Bell featuring a young man in a black tank top.
Romance novel cover for Under the Radar by Linden Bell featuring a young man in a black tank top.
UNDER THE RADAR

I’m in love with a stranger… who happens to be my boyfriend.

Logan
My boyfriend is perfect. He drinks red wine, watches Drag Race, and loves the theater. So what if I don’t know what he does for a living, where his family is from, or who his friends are? Those are just details, and he’ll tell me when he’s ready. I know his heart, and that’s what’s important.

Jared
I never meant to keep my real identity a secret for so long. Logan was only supposed to be a one night stand, but this adorable himbo has become the sunshine in my dark world. I can’t risk losing him by telling him the truth.

When danger from my past comes calling, my selfishness puts both of us at risk. Now our lives are on the line, and more importantly, our hearts.

Under the Radar is a forced proximity, opposites attract, one night stand MM romantic suspense with an absolutely clueless himbo and a hardened FBI agent who can’t resist some cuddles. Expect gunfights, car chases, and get better soon kisses. Under the Radar is part of the Accidentally Undercover shared romantic suspense series.

Release Date: April 30, 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-1-0673944-0-0

Muscular man lifting a dumbbell in a gym for the book cover of Pumped by Linden Bell.
Muscular man lifting a dumbbell in a gym for the book cover of Pumped by Linden Bell.
PUMPED

Love is co-parenting with my worst enemy.

Owen
Everest is an irresponsible, delinquent, attention-hungry man-child.

Ever since my brother married his sister, we’ve hated each other with an unrelenting passion. It was bad enough when I had to see him at occasional family gatherings, but now I’m living in a nightmare and he’s right here with me.

Everest
Owen is arrogant, uptight, snobby, and cold-hearted.

I don’t want to have anything to do with him, but I don’t have a choice. After a tragic accident, we’re forced to raise our niece together, but our grief and mutual animosity is turning the house into a pressure cooker. We have to make peace and learn to work together, if not for our sake, then for the little girl who’s already lost everything.

PUMPED is an enemies to lovers, forced proximity, grumpy/sunshine, opposites attract MM romance between a free-spirited personal trainer and his overbearing veterinarian brother-in-law. Expect reluctant cuddling, teasing as a love language, annoyingly hot backwards caps, pillow chastity barriers, pool wrestling, begrudging I love yous, and a little girl who has them both wrapped around her little finger. PUMPED is the third and last book in the Mars Fitness series and can be read as a standalone.

Release Date: February 23, 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-1-0673944-1-7
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-7390763-9-9