Series: Birdsong Trilogy
Author: Nina Lane
Genre: Contemporary Forbidden Romance
Tropes: Age Gap, Teacher/Student
Father’s Best Friend
SPARROW & HAWKE
He shouldnโt touch her.
Nell Fairchild knows how to survive. How to stay quiet, stay invisible, keep the worst parts of herself hidden. Sheโs good at it.
Sheโs not good at Darius Hawke.
Her fatherโs oldest friend. A war photographer with a dangerous past, a talent for disappearing, and eyes that see far too much.
Darius knows better than to want Nell. Sheโs too young, too vulnerable, and completely off-limits. Heโs spent a lifetime navigating war zones, captivity, and the darkest corners of human nature. The last thing he should do is drag his best friendโs daughter into his shadows.
But some lines were made to be crossed.
And when Darius takes a temporary teaching job at Nellโs high school, staying away isnโt an option. Sheโs everywhere โ too close, too tempting, too determined to draw him out of the darkness. And the more he resists, the hotter the tension between them burns.
If they give in, thereโs no coming back.
*****
Sparrow & Hawke is a slow-burn, high-heat romance filled with forbidden desire, forced proximity, and a love so wrong it might ruin them both.
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FEATHER & FLAME
He walked away to save her. From himself.
Four years ago, Darius Hawke left his mark on Nell Fairchild โ and sheโs never been the same. He didnโt just change her. He ruined her for anything safer, anything lesser, anything that doesnโt burn.
Then he decided she deserves better than what he is.
She hasnโt forgiven him.
Now Darius is back, and one look is all it takes to bring everything roaring to life again.
He still wants her. He never stopped.
When the violence of Dariusโs past comes for them both, the heat between them goes from impossible to incendiary. But the most terrifying thing isnโt the danger closing in.
Itโs what theyโll destroy to stay together.
*****
Feather & Flame is a scorching second-chance romance of both reckoning and desire between two people who are finally out of reasons to stop.
Note: This is the second book in the Birdsong trilogy, to be read after Sparrow & Hawke (Book 1).
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WISHES & WINGS
Everyone is telling Nell that Darius Hawke is dead.
Everyone is lying.
She knows it the way she knows her own heartbeat. His absence doesnโt feel like a loss. It feels like a locked door.
Nell knows how to open locked doors.
What she finds on the other side is worse than a disappearance. Darius has been keeping secrets โ about his past, his choices, the life he kept carefully separate from everything they built together. The man she finds may not be the man she thought she knew.
She still wants him back. She canโt reason her way out of that.
To reach him, sheโll have to trust a man who frightens her in ways Darius never did. Wade into darkness she canโt walk back from. And decide, when the truth finally surfaces, what sheโs willing to forgive.
Some loves are worth setting the world on fire.
*****
Wishes & Wings is the explosive conclusion to the Birdsong Trilogy โ a gripping, obsessive romance of danger, devotion, and a love tested until thereโs nothing left but the truth.
Note: This is the final book in the Birdsong trilogy, to be read after Sparrow & Hawke (Book 1) and Feather & Flame (Book 2).

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AUTHOR BIO
Though she was born and raised in California, Nina Lane now lives in Wisconsin where the winters are freezing and the cheese is exceptional. Mom to two teenagers and a neurotic dog, she lives in two worldsโone world of laundry, driving, horses, Girl Scouts, and football, and the other of epic romances between hot alpha heroes and the women who bring them to their knees. Nina only cooks when she canโt avoid it (i.e., there are no frozen pizzas left), binge-watches serial TV whenever she can get control of the remote, and checks in about the weather daily with her meteorologist husband. Sheโs a fan of popcorn, actual print magazines, French Roast coffee, working out, and trying new things…especially if itโs food.
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