Lana Dunmore is a Thistle & Storm Press author who specialises in dark contemporary romance set in the less picturesque corners of Scotland — the parts of the country that never make it onto tea towels. In her fiction, she favours morally compromised protagonists and heroines who are not so much saved as claimed by men whose damage matches or exceeds their own.
The pseudonym is a deliberate piece of world-building: 'Dunmore' derives from the Gaelic for 'great dark fort', a structure built not for comfort, but for endurance — a place designed to protect its occupants by any means necessary. It is a fitting emblem for the genre in which she writes.
Her backlist for the press includes Violet Sins, Iron Debt, Silver Lie, Golden Price, and Gilded Beginning.
Her most recent novel, Violet Sins (2026), is a standalone dark romance in the 'Why Choose'/M/F/M ménage subgenre with a guaranteed happy ending.
The plot revolves around inheritance and obligation: Violet Sinclair stands to inherit shares in a formidable Aberdeen investment firm, but the bequest comes with a condition: she must work alongside the two men who run the firm for six months. Callum Mercer and Dorian Cross are partners with a long-standing aversion to sharing anything, including a woman's attention.
This changes when they witness Violet flinch at another man's touch. From that moment on, their possessiveness hardens into a shared, protective obsession that Violet finds as seductive as it is unsettling.
Thematically, the book explores forced proximity, a significant power imbalance, a daddy/little dynamic and the morally ambiguous billionaire archetype. All of this is set against the backdrop of granite and North Sea weather rather than the tartan cliché of Aberdeen.
Photo credit: thistlestormpress.com
The pseudonym is a deliberate piece of world-building: 'Dunmore' derives from the Gaelic for 'great dark fort', a structure built not for comfort, but for endurance — a place designed to protect its occupants by any means necessary. It is a fitting emblem for the genre in which she writes.
Her backlist for the press includes Violet Sins, Iron Debt, Silver Lie, Golden Price, and Gilded Beginning.
Her most recent novel, Violet Sins (2026), is a standalone dark romance in the 'Why Choose'/M/F/M ménage subgenre with a guaranteed happy ending.
The plot revolves around inheritance and obligation: Violet Sinclair stands to inherit shares in a formidable Aberdeen investment firm, but the bequest comes with a condition: she must work alongside the two men who run the firm for six months. Callum Mercer and Dorian Cross are partners with a long-standing aversion to sharing anything, including a woman's attention.
This changes when they witness Violet flinch at another man's touch. From that moment on, their possessiveness hardens into a shared, protective obsession that Violet finds as seductive as it is unsettling.
Thematically, the book explores forced proximity, a significant power imbalance, a daddy/little dynamic and the morally ambiguous billionaire archetype. All of this is set against the backdrop of granite and North Sea weather rather than the tartan cliché of Aberdeen.
Photo credit: thistlestormpress.com
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