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2018–2025Vi Keeland10 titles in the corpus
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Vi Keeland

Steamy
Dual first person, past
10 titles
1 series
4 co-written

Vi Keeland runs 10 titles through the immersion engine, spanning 2018–2025 at an average heat of 3.4/5. The catalog leans hardest on slow-burn, narrated mostly in dual first person, past. A formula score of 89/100 measures how consistently those levers are pulled book to book.

slow-burn
billionaire
forbidden
workplace
boss-employee
forced-proximity
The signature

Averaged engineered signals

Every measure here is the mean across this author's catalog — the characteristic way their books work the immersion engine, on the same axes the catalog scores every title.

Avg heat rating
3.4/5849,299 words across 10 books — 2,979 pages
Anticipation Ratio
69Share of page-time spent on buildup and tension rather than payoff. High values mean the book sells the wait, not the moment.
Explicit Density
1.5avg explicit scenes / 100 pages
POV Immersion
71How strongly the narration collapses the gap between reader and protagonist, peaking with first-person, reader-insert voice.
Parasocial Index
73The "book boyfriend" pull: how hard the text works to form a one-sided attachment to a love interest.
Serialization
52Cliffhanger and serial-loop intensity — the compulsion to start the next chapter or installment.
Escalation Slope
51How steeply intensity ramps across the arc. A steep slope is the tolerance signal: each payoff has to outdo the last.
Across 10 titles, this author scores 89/100 on formula consistency — how little their engineered signals vary from book to book. A high score reads as a repeatable production formula rather than a wide creative range.

Content signature

The content this author's catalog leans into — first-pass lexical matches across 10 books.

Mentions of Backside933Kissing581Mentions of Male Genitalia377Mentions of Breasts226Climax / Orgasm195Mentions of Female Genitalia138
Engine signature
The author's averaged fingerprint across the five 0–100 signals — their characteristic balance of buildup, immersion, and attachment.
Signal breakdown
Each averaged signal scored out of 100, with what it measures.
Anticipation Ratio69/100

Share of page-time spent on buildup and tension rather than payoff. High values mean the book sells the wait, not the moment.

POV Immersion71/100

How strongly the narration collapses the gap between reader and protagonist, peaking with first-person, reader-insert voice.

Parasocial Index73/100

The "book boyfriend" pull: how hard the text works to form a one-sided attachment to a love interest.

Serialization52/100

Cliffhanger and serial-loop intensity — the compulsion to start the next chapter or installment.

Escalation Slope51/100

How steeply intensity ramps across the arc. A steep slope is the tolerance signal: each payoff has to outdo the last.

How this author compares
The author's averaged signals set against the catalog average — a measure of how far above the field their formula runs.
The catalog

Every title by Vi Keeland

All titles credited to this author in the corpus, newest first — including any co-written with another author. Open any title for its full content dashboard.

TitleHeatAnticip.ParasocialSerialScenes
Cover of Denim & Diamonds by Penelope Ward & Vi KeelandDenim & DiamondsPenelope Ward & Vi Keeland3
68
74
35
5
Cover of Indiscretion by Vi KeelandIndiscretionVi Keeland4
68
74
38
4
Cover of Jilted by Vi KeelandJiltedVi Keeland3
72
70
38
3
Cover of The Summer Proposal by Vi KeelandThe Summer ProposalVi Keeland4
64
78
45
5
Cover of The Invitation by Vi KeelandThe InvitationVi Keeland3
68
70
38
4
Cover of The Rivals by Vi KeelandThe RivalsVi Keeland4
62
70
55
7
Cover of Hate Notes by Vi Keeland & Penelope WardHate NotesVi Keeland & Penelope Ward3
72
74
55
3
Cover of The Naked Truth by Vi KeelandThe Naked TruthVi Keeland4
62
74
45
7
Cover of Rebel Heir by Penelope Ward & Vi KeelandRebel HeirPenelope Ward & Vi Keeland · Rush Duet3
82
74
90
2
Cover of Rebel Heart by Penelope Ward & Vi KeelandRebel HeartPenelope Ward & Vi Keeland · Rush Duet3
72
72
78
3

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