Zeffie Schatz

Author  ·  Painter

Gentle stories
about everyday
kinds of love.

Zeffie Schatz writes tender, closed-door contemporary romance about ordinary people learning how to stay — slow burns, single parents, found family, and the small brave moments that change everything.

Cover of I Meant You: a couple walking under a coral umbrella down a rain-slick street at sunset

The Debut Novel

I Meant You

“How do you come back from almost?”

Two years after a spring festival brought them into each other’s orbit, a single dad and a single mom have become each other’s safest place. Neither has dared say out loud anything to disrupt what they’ve built — until one moment of coming too close makes staying quiet impossible.

  • Closed Door
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Slow Burn
  • Single Parent
  • Found Family
  • Character-Driven

For readers who love slow-burn emotion, single-parent stories, and found family.

From the Studio

Where the color lives