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Serruya has been replying on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/CrisSerruya/status/1097903134108774403

Seems to place the blame on a ghostwriter hired from Fiverr:

> I'm deeply sorry. I'm taking down works I did with Fiverr ghostwriter that contains plagiarism. B assured I'll fix this w/ damaged authors. I'll not eschew my responsibility + I'll prove my innocence since my entire career is in peril @courtneymilan @romancewriters @TessaDare

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If your career as a writer depends on paying strangers rock bottom amounts to write stuff that you then publish under your own name, it deserves to be in peril.

I hope she expands on her use of Fiverr writers. I wonder what her workflow is with them if it's like she provides an overall theme and plot, or if the whole thing is just written by a ghostwriter. I can't imagine putting something so core to my work into the hands of an underpaid gig-economy worker.

Or that she hired ghost writers is just a desperate attempt to shift responsibility. She probably won't publish much under her real name, but I guess she will continue under aliases.

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