JAMES E. LORRAINE
Power. Appetite. Love. And the trouble people cause when they want too much.
James E. Lorraine is fascinated by appetite.
Not simply hunger for money or power, but the quieter appetites people are better at disguising. The need to be chosen. The need to win. The need to control the room, keep the relationship, protect the reputation, have the last word, or possess the one thing good judgment says to leave alone.
That fascination is what keeps bringing him back to the page.
Lorraine writes people who are accomplished enough to believe they can manage the consequences, then gives them something they want badly enough to test that belief. His stories move through boardrooms, bedrooms, churches, marriages, political power, friendships, and spectacular romantic disasters because he is less interested in genre boundaries than in what happens when desire collides with self-control.
From Heavy Is the Crown to the Unholy Creed novels and the Second Thought series, the tone may change dramatically. The question underneath rarely does:
What does wanting something reveal about you once wanting it begins to cost you?
THE WRITER BEHIND THE STORIES
Lorraine has little interest in perfect people. He prefers contradiction. Ambitious people who are vulnerable in precisely the wrong place. Intelligent people making emotionally ridiculous decisions. Powerful people discovering there are things status cannot negotiate away. Lovers who know better. Friends who should probably stop talking. People who mean well right up until meaning well becomes inconvenient.
That is where he finds both drama and comedy.
For Lorraine, a love story and a power story are often the same story at different volumes.
READ JAMES E. LORRAINE
Heavy Is the Crown
Power, status, desire, and the relationship that should have been left alone.
The Saint of Nothing
The beginning of Unholy Creed, where faith, corruption, appetite, and power start occupying the same room.
No, Not That Email
Second Thought begins with adult chemistry, emotional baggage, and one message that absolutely should not have been sent.
No, Not That Wedding
The relationship survived the email. Now it has to survive everybody else.
NEXT FROM JAMES E. LORRAINE
The Apostle of Ruin
September 8, 2026 | Unholy Creed Book 2
The world of The Saint of Nothing widens, and the consequences start finding new addresses.
WHAT HE IS BUILDING NEXT
Let That Church Candy Testify
Second Thought, Book 3
The Second Thought series continues. After the email and the wedding, the church has something to say.
In development. Release date to be announced.
Mark Spade: The Architecture of Hunger
Power has a memory. Appetite has an architecture. And some men spend a lifetime learning exactly how much of the world can be moved when they understand what everybody else wants.
In development. Release date to be announced.
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