About
Robin Merle is the author of the best-selling novel, "A Dangerous Friendship" and the award-winning non-fiction book, "Involuntary Exit: A Woman’s Guide to Thriving After Being Fired." A Dangerous Friendship won the 2026 Next Generation Indie Book Award for General Fiction and the 20th Anniversary National Indie Excellence Award for Contemporary Novel.
She has published short fiction in The Chouteau Review, South Carolina Review, Kalliope, and Real Fiction. She holds a master’s degree from The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where she earned a fellowship. In her other professional life, as a nonprofit executive, she has raised over a half-billion dollars in philanthropic support to improve individuals’ quality of life and access to opportunities. A longtime New Yorker, Robin now lives in Maine with her family.
Featured Work
A Dangerous Friendship
A razor-sharp work of women’s fiction with psychological suspense, set against the glitter, grit, and manic energy of 1980s New York City.
After a divorce leaves her untethered and desperate to feel alive again, twenty-nine-year-old Tina is drawn into the orbit of Spike, a beautiful, seductive, seemingly invulnerable woman who lives like rules are for other people.
Spike offers Tina everything she’s craving: adventure, reinvention, and a front-row seat to a world of power, sex, wealthy men, and unspoken danger. But the closer Tina gets, the more she realizes Spike’s charisma has teeth, and the less harmless her secrets prove to be.
A darkly funny, witty, and propulsive thriller, A Dangerous Friendship is a story of obsession, betrayal, survival, and the terrifying moment you understand that the friendship you thought would save you might be the thing that ruins you.
Other Works
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Involuntary Exit, A Woman's Guide to Thriving After Being Fired
2021
Awards and Recognition
- A Dangerous Friendship: 2026 Next Generation Indie Award for General Fiction
- A Dangerous Friendship: 20th Anniversary National Indie Excellence Award Winner for Contemporary Novel
- A Dangerous Friendship: 20th Anniversary National Indie Excellence Award Finalist in Friendship Category
- A Dangerous Friendship: 20th Anniversary National Indie Excellence Award Sponsorship Award from Books Forward
- A Dangerous Friendship: 2025 Foreward Indies Book of the Year Award Finalist
- Involuntary Exit: Gold Medal, Nonfiction Authors Association
