Contemporary romance
Desire is only the beginning.
Gina Wong Martin writes sophisticated, open-door romances about intimacy, freedom, and the emotional truths we reveal when love refuses to follow the rules.
The series
Stories of sophisticated adults negotiating passion, marriage, jealousy, consent, and the beautiful complications of choosing more.
Book one
Out now
What happens when a conservative Asian wife is given permission to want another man?
It started with an article about couples who open their marriages.
Then came sex in the same room.
Eventually, they swapped partners.
A steamy contemporary romance about marriage, desire, jealousy, and discovering what lies on the other side of an open marriage.
Book two
Launching November 20, 2026
The boundaries have shifted.
A year after opening their marriage, Mei Ling and Meng have discovered something unexpected: giving each other freedom has brought them closer. But when a new couple enters their lives, old questions about trust, jealousy, and desire return in ways neither of them expects.
Angel wants what Mei Ling once needed. Ethan has secrets of his own. And when kindness is offered, the line between generosity and desire becomes dangerously difficult to see.
What begins as an act of compassion soon becomes something far more complicated—a test of marriage, friendship, and the promises people make when they believe they can control what they want.
Permission can be given.
Trust has to be earned.
And some debts are impossible to repay.
Borrowing Kindness is Book Two of the Revealing Joy series, a contemporary romance about marriage, desire, jealousy, and the complicated boundaries between love and freedom.
Read Revealing Joy first.
Book three
A standalone companion · Launching January 20, 2027
Return to the world of Revealing Joy. A standalone story for adult readers—full of longing, late nights, and the quiet negotiations between what is promised and what is wanted.
About the author
Gina Wong Martin writes contemporary romance where desire is candid, consent matters, and intimacy has consequences. Her stories explore the complicated spaces between devotion and freedom, fantasy and reality, certainty and want.
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