The third book in my Dancers Down Under series, Barre Fight, is now available! Many independent bookstores in Iowa (Dog-Eared Books, Sidekick Coffee & Books, Shelf Love DSM, HEA Book Boutique, and Prairie Lights) have plenty of stock, and if you’re not in Iowa you can order it from your local independent bookstore through Bookshop.org. It is also available at Amazon in paperback and ebook format.

“Chloe Angyal is an auto-buy for me, and Barre Fight continues her streak of hot, thoughtful romances. This book delivers exactly what I needed right now: a messy, lost heroine doing her best, and a hero who punches bigots.” – Helena Greer, USA Today bestselling author

“A sharp-witted, heartfelt, and breathlessly sexy enemies-to-lovers finale to a series that will have readers doing a standing ovation.” – Andie J. Christopher, USA Today bestselling author

“If you’re not reading Chloe Angyal, what are you even doing with your life? Barre Fight is a swoony, sexy, sparkling gem of a romance.” – Denise Williams, USA Today bestselling author

The only spotlight ballet dancer Justin Winters wants is the one that shines on him when he’s on stage at the Sydney Opera House. Then one moment of anger, caught on camera, turns into viral infamy and weeks of negative headlines—and Justin knows just who to blame. He’s loathed journalist Ivy Page since she savaged him in a review years ago, and now Poison Ivy’s coverage of the fight has put his place on Australian National Ballet’s New York tour in jeopardy.

Ivy Page is allergic to failure. So when she’s abruptly laid off, she panics and accepts a job in PR at ANB. Now, it’s her job to put out the fire she started so Justin can go on tour. There’s just one problem: he can’t stand her, and he won’t cooperate. But Ivy is determined to win him over, and when Ivy decides to do something, nothing stands in her way.

Once they’re in New York, the thrill of sold-out crowds at Lincoln Center and Ivy’s infectious enthusiasm for the city has country boy Justin falling—reluctantly, but hard. But can this showmance survive the return to real life, and the crisis that awaits Justin in the rural hometown he thought he’d escaped?

The second book in my ballet romance series, Pointe of Pride, is available paperback and eBook everywhere you buy books.

“Adorable… Angyal’s intimate familiarity with the ballet world shines through and it’s easy to cheer on her flawed, three-dimensional characters. This is a page-turner.” — Publishers Weekly

“Chloe Angyal is an auto-buy author for me.” — Denise Williams, author of Technically Yours

“Pointe of Pride is utterly charming.” — Cat Sebastian, author of We Could Be So Good and The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

“Sexy, sweet, and emotional, Pointe of Pride puts my favorite kind of character, the feisty best friend, at the center of her own narrative, with a hero destined to become the sternest of Stern Brunch Daddies.” — Andie J. Christopher, USA Today bestselling author

Carly Montgomery has only one goal as she arrives in Sydney, Australia: Be the world’s best maid of honor. And then, when she gets back to New York City, she’s going to figure out how to get promoted so she doesn’t spend the rest of her ballet career in the corps de ballet playing Peasant Maiden #4.

But the second she steps off the plane, she runs into trouble—and into Nick Jacobs, the most uptight, judgmental, inconveniently attractive man she’s ever met. And to their mutual horror, Nick is also in Sydney for a wedding. The same wedding. In which he is the best man.

Carly will do anything for her best friend, including running all over Sydney with Nick—Nick who has his life together, Nick who’s made the transition out of ballet into photography so perfectly, Nick who has the most irritatingly sharp cheekbones and stormy blue eyes. And when the director of New York Ballet announces that she’ll be making her decision about promotions ahead of schedule, Carly chooses to stay in Sydney, even if it means shelving her pride to ask Nick for help.

Nick Jacobs is coming back to Sydney with a secret. His life in Paris, where he recently retired from ballet, has fallen apart. With no girlfriend and no new career to speak of, Nick can’t bear to tell his friends at home the humiliating truth. And after fifteen years dancing overseas, what does home even mean anymore?

Nick doesn’t want to team up with Carly Montgomery, a human hurricane who creates chaos every time she walks in the room, but sparring with her makes him feel the most alive he’s felt in months. When she asks him for help securing her promotion, he sees an opportunity to kickstart his own flagging career. Looking at Carly through his lens all day starts to change how Nick sees her, and soon, he can’t stop staring. Carly’s a human hand grenade, but suddenly Nick wouldn’t mind pulling the pin.

When she finds out the truth about him, though, the explosion might destroy them both.

My debut novel, Pas de Don’t, is a romance set in the ballet worlds of New York City and Sydney. It’s a forbidden love romance featuring Sydney’s best beaches, koalas, flat whites, and a no-dating policy… that gets broken. It’s available in paperback, e-book, and as an Audible original audiobook.

“A truly original take on a slow-burn workplace romance.” — Andie J. Christopher, USA Today bestselling author of Thank You, Next

“A heart-stopping romance filled with lush settings, characters, and chemistry that will make you gasp.” — Alexa Martin, author of the Playbook series, Mom Jeans and Other Mistakes, and Better than Fiction

“Absolutely unputdownable. Pas de Don’t is the warm embrace and sexy standing ovation you’ve been looking for, and Chloe Angyal is a new auto-buy author for me.” — Denise Williams, author of How to Fail at Flirting

“So well-written and smart, and I love that it’s grounded in reality.” — Carol Heikkinen, screenwriter of Center Stage

Heather Hays finally has everything she’s worked for—she was promoted principal dancer and is engaged to her forever crush, ballet royalty Jack Andersen. But after Jack is caught cheating, Heather’s near-perfect life comes crashing down. Determined to prove that she rose to the top on her own merits, she accepts a guest position from the only company that will hire her without Jack: the Australian National Ballet.

Marcus Campbell has had the most hellish year imaginable. When he shredded his Achilles tendon onstage, he lost every chance of his dad seeing him perform before he passed away. Marcus has spent the months since in physical therapy, worrying he’ll be too old to dance by the time he’s fully recovered. Now he’s supposed to play tour guide for the company’s new arrival.

As they tour Sydney together, Heather and Marcus discover an immediate mutual attraction—one they absolutely cannot act on. ANB has a strict no-dating policy, and even a hint of romance could cost them both their jobs.

Still, Heather has followed the rules her whole life . . . maybe it’s time to break one.
 

Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet From Itself, is my first book. It is a reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities – and a look inside the fight for its future.

Publisher’s Weekly calls it “a captivating debut,” Kirkus calls it “vigorously reported” and “insightful,” Library Journal calls it “essential reading for anyone who loves ballet,” and The Boston Globe calls it “incisive and unsparing,” and says it’s “an important read for ballet lovers and an essential part of any conversation moving forward.”

Every day, in dance studios all across America, millions of little girls line up at the barre and take ballet class. Their time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, the value of their bodies and minds, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance.

Turning Pointe captures the intense love for ballet that so many dancers feel, while also grappling with its devastating shortcomings: the power imbalance of an art form performed mostly by women, but dominated by male choreographers and ballet masters, the impossible standards of beauty and thinness, and the racism that keeps so many people out of ballet.

A new generation of dancers is confronting these issues head on. If ballet is going to survive the 21st century and forge a path into a more socially just future, this reckoning is essential.

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