The Ring That Binds

Linda Carroll-Bradd

1886, Aspen mining town--Widow Celina Innes runs her dressmaking shop and lives down her late husband’s bad choices and bad debts for her daughter’s sake. General Store co-owner, Mikel Toussaint, wishes he could ease the burden of this proud woman who works too hard. He slips treats to the child in hopes of pleasing her mama. When illness strikes the child, Celina turns to Mikel for help and they work together all night to get past the crisis, deepening their friendship. Can a woman sworn to put down roots and a man looking for more riches find happiness? 

The Ring That Binds

Worlds Apart

Anne Ashby

New Zealand widow Raven travels to Maryland to meet her new stepfather’s family. Son Greg's animosity and distrust forces Raven into safeguarding her mother's happiness. Pretending to be something she isn’t, she can't extricate herself as she falls for Greg. He will never forgive her deception, her lies.

She was his father's fiancée, wasn’t she? Greg discovers Raven's subterfuge within days. His initial enjoyment of her antics palls as his feelings deepen. He manoeuvres her into a situation where she'll be forced to own up, but his scheme back fires.

But Raven has more secrets.

Worlds Apart

Marrying Mallory

Diane Craver

Is Mallory Harrington jinxed because her name means luckless? Things have gone wrong for Mallory since she was a small child. All she ever wanted was to have a complete family and live happily ever after. It appears she has it all when she marries Toby Harrington and they have a son. Unfortunately, their marriage ends when Toby has an affair. Divorced Mallory doesn’t want to date, so she isn’t happy when her girlfriends try to fix her up with a minister friend.

Mallory decides to get the nose surgery that she's always wanted. What she doesn't expect is her instant attraction to her surgeon.

Marrying Mallory

Devon's Dream

Anne Ashby

Single mum Devon fled Auckland as a pregnant teenager and made a life for herself and her daughter, Trix, in Australia. Her blossoming musical career means their future’s secure. But in Auckland Hospital intensive care after an accident she sends Trix to her unsuspecting father.

Widowed Rick is angry at losing twelve years of his daughter's life. He will not be denied another day away from Trix.

Trix loves her new family, especially her half-brother. She tricks Devon into staying at Rick's house but will her plan work? Can two scheming children bring their parents together?

Devon's Dream

Sex and the Single Therapist

Marcia James

To clear an innocent friend, sex therapist Dr. Ally Skye investigates a patient’s murder. Soon she's trading heated words and hot kisses with a sexy cop. Can this free-spirited amateur sleuth and her posse of Vegas insiders solve the crime before the killer targets her?

Cynical homicide detective Zack Crawford has the murder to solve. The last thing he needs is a red-hot sex therapist who haunts his dreams. Ally is trouble and, given her job and his luck, she'd probably grade his performance in bed.

Crime-solving was never this sexy or this fun!

 
Sex and the Single Therapist

Time to Bury the Past

Anne Ashby

PTSD forces American Naval Officer Zane Erickson to re-evaluate his life. A posting to New Zealand after years in Afghanistan will allow him to bond with his motherless teenage son. Unfortunately Cody doesn’t share his enthusiasm.

Kelsey Hewitt is a single mother wrestling with her son’s drinking problem, struggling to keep the truth about his abusive father from him and determined to exclude men from her life.

Kelsey and Zane are drawn together by the boys’ friendship. But dealing with their sons’ dilemmas, their attraction for each other deepens.

Can Kelsey risk allowing another control freak into her life?

Time to Bury the Past

The Proposal

Diane Craver

Jacqueline Andrews hopes her boyfriend Brad’s surprise is an engagement ring for her twenty-sixth birthday. Her best friend, Tyler Jordan, wants Jacqueline to be happy but not with Brad. Tyler regrets blowing off Jacqueline’s confession of love for him before he left for college. When he returns to their small town as a physician’s assistant, he falls in love with her. He needs to win her love back. Will his hot kisses sway her? Or is she going to marry Brad?
 The Proposal

Desperate Dreams

Kim McMahill

To most, America has become a safe, orderly, predictable place, but to a few, like Nyla and Ethan, it has become a prison. Inseparable since childhood, but now faced with being torn apart, they risk defying a powerful ruling authority to change the course of their future. As Nyla struggles to understand her deepening feelings for Ethan, they embark on a desperate journey for freedom through the inhospitable Big Bend region of Texas. With their two best friends in tow they attempt a daring border crossing to chase a dream few would understand.

Desperate Dreams

Saved by the Sheriff

Carol Preflatish

New York City writer, Jaime Wilson wants the Assistant Editor job at Real Mystery Magazine. In order to get it, she has to write a kick-ass story, and what could be better than a 30-year old unsolved murder in a small town.

When Jaime visits Royal, Indiana to investigate, she soon finds that someone in town doesn't want the mystery solved. After she becomes the next target, handsome Sheriff Ben Hunter comes to her rescue. She didn't count on falling in love with the sheriff and he didn't think he would have to work so hard to keep her safe.
Saved by the Sheriff

Louisiana Hot Sauce

Turnabout is fair play!

Mickie Sherwood

Just like the freakish December Louisiana snowstorm, Jack's visit to hand deliver the divorce papers that would end their marriage of convenience shocks Mesha. He soon discovers, purely by accident, that she cradles a shock of her own.

Will Mesha sign the divorce papers? Or will Jack persuade her to sign-on to love?

Louisiana Hot Sauce

Baby Under the Christmas Tree

Teresa Carpenter

San Diego hockey team's PR director Elle Austin goes beyond the call of duty to keep their rebel captain in check—even playing nanny to his son!

Max Beasley knows nothing about looking after a baby, so he enlists Elle's help after little Troy is left on his doorstep by his irresponsible ex.

Maybe it's the spirit of Christmas, or seeing Max's softer side, but Elle wishes he saw her as more than just an employee, and that they could give Troy the best gift of all—a family!

Baby Under the Christmas Tree

The Toymaker

Kay Springsteen

Lady Ivy, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Wythorpe, is tired of the succession of suitors her parents have shown her. With Christmas approaching, her parents arrange for her to meet the Duke of Greenbriar. But Ivy's already met the man of her dreams... and he's a toymaker. The Duke of Greenbriar has a secret — he’d rather make toys. As Phillip Green, he travels about, making certain no child goes without. He loves Lady Ivy, but she has no idea who he is. Phillip plans his own coming out. How will Ivy react when she learns the truth?
 
The Toymaker

Bride for Sale

Elysa Hendricks

To promote her floral business, love-phobic Erica Brier reluctantly participates in Council Falls first bridal show. When she's conned into modeling the show piece wedding gown for the charity auction, Erica's life takes an interesting turn when she meets another woman's groom.
Bride for Sale

Dare the Wild Wind

Sweeps from Scotland to 18th Century London to a pirate lair in the Caribbean.

Kaye Wilson Klem

Brenna Dalmoral loves Cameron McCavan, taken prisoner by Drake Seton, Earl of Stratford, at Culloden Moor. Cam is sentenced to hang, and Brenna arrives in London too late, to be rescued from a mob by Drake. Learning she is to wed a sadistic neighbor, Drake offers her marriage instead. But Cam has cheated the noose, and when he encounters Brenna in Cornwall, abducts her aboard his privateer. Brenna realizes it is Drake she loves, and learns Cam has ugly secrets, and a taste for treachery that could cost Drake his life.

Dare the Wild Wind

Seasons and Seashells

Offers stories for every season. Fall in love all over again.

Various Authors

Carol Burnside: “Do Over” Sometimes, the past merits repeating...

 

Tami Brothers: “Babbet’s New Beginning” Some people barely have time to pick themselves up before life knocks them down again.

 

Marilyn Baron: “The Fifth Season” (paranormal elements) Is there love after death? It’s waiting in the fifth season.

 

Sandra Elzie w/a Sandra McGregor: “Dreams of Yesterday” Surely life wasn’t over at twenty-nine.

 

Lindy Chaffin Start: “Gillian’s Letter to Paul” (paranormal elements) The happiest day of my life.

 

Linsey Lanier: “A Clever Season” (fantasy elements) And now for something entirely different...

 

Pam Asberry: “Last First Date” Sometimes you have to give up on love before it can find you.

 

Maxine Davis: “Sweet Revenge”Success is sweet revenge at a class reunion.

 

SEASONS AND SEASHELLS

The P-TOWN Queen

Ute Carbone

Nikki Silva's funding for shark research is cut off. She’s written a grant proposal funded by a commission run by her ex-husband Ned, who would rather not give money to his ex-wife.

When Marco Tornetti’s silent partner, Fat Phil Lagosa, has him marked for a hit, he takes the first bus out of the city. Marco figures that Phil would never look for him in Provincetown's gay community. But when he meets Nikki, he finds that pretending to be gay isn’t as easy as it would seem.

The P-TOWN Queen

 

Blood Royal

Rowan Malloy

 

- An unwilling princess caught between feuding clans
- A ruthless queen's deadly web
- Forbidden love in a world built on magic and murder

Blood Royal

Wilderness Liaison

Anne Ashby

The concrete jungle defines financier Shal Gregory. He thrives on the liveliness and sheer vitality of the fast paced business world. So how does he find himself alone in the thick of the New Zealand bush with a feisty guide who undoubtedly despises everything he stands for?

Jodie Mathieson isn’t prepared for an intimate liaison with a man who does not share her love of the great outdoors. But the sparks between them ignite and soon scare Jodie into flight.

Bewildered but determined, Shal tracks Jodie down. But will Jodie ignore past experiences? Dare she believe him?

Wilderness Liaison

Ticket to Love

Lyncee Shillard

The weight of Sara's death, hung like a shawl around Isabella's shoulders. The brakes squealed. They had arrived in St. Louis. Reaching for her small cardboard suitcase, she exited the train. A Union Pacific train waited on the other side of the wooden platform. It would take her to Twin Forks, Colorado, to a man expecting a tall woman with a million freckles and wild curly red hair. One who knew of ranch living. One who would be his wife.

She shook her head. How could she have been so crazy to think this would work?

Ticket to Love

Daddy's Christmas Angel

Mary Montague Sikes

When Kathleen learns she will be an angel in the class Christmas play, the seven-year-old plots a meeting between her attractive teacher and Kathleen's daddy, a lonely widower who blames himself for his wife’s death. Angie McAllister is drawn to the subdued student and her handsome daddy, but has her own emotional scars. Can the magic of the season clear the way for a little girl's Christmas wish to come true?

Daddy's Christmas Angel

A New Dream

Elaine Cantrell

After an accident destroys his NFL career, Matt McCallum struggles to find a new dream for his life. Then he meets Violet Emerson who has big plans of her own. Together, they find a common dream, but a loose end from Matt’s past returns to jeopardize their future. Will love be enough to save their new dream before it turns into a nightmare?

A New Dream

Heating Up the Holidays

Marcia James

Nicky is up to her pointed elf ears—filling in for Santa’s helper, corralling kittens and running her department store. With 14 shopping days till Christmas, the last thing she needs is her high school heart-breaker.

Chris leaves the city to raise his five-year-old daughter, Holly, in his hometown. His plans don’t include a second chance with his first love.

With the help of mistletoe, a hairless dog and a lonely child, Chris and Nicky just might get their Christmas desires.

Heating Up the Holidays

Twenty-Five Years Ago Today

Stacy Juba

Newspaper editorial assistant Kris Langley stumbles across an unsolved murder while compiling “25 Years Ago Today” items from the microfilm. Determined to solve the case, Kris immerses herself in the mystery of what happened to Diana Ferguson, a talented artist who painted scenes from Greek mythology. Not only does Kris face resistance from her family and her editor, she also clashes with Diana’s nephew, Eric Soares – until neither she nor Eric can deny the chemistry between them. Finding out the truth about that night twenty-five years ago may shatter Kris’s present, costing her love, her career, and ultimately, her life.

Twenty-Five Years Ago Today

Wishes Come True

Linda Carroll-Bradd

Tora can’t wait to sell the family bakery run by generations of Hammond women and seek excitement outside of Dorado, Texas. Widower Ryan Dawson, the town’s star quarterback from a decade ago, returns to his hometown with plans to develop a sporting goods store. He also hopes a small town Christmas will cheer up his five-year-old daughter, Jenna, still recovering from the loss of her mother. Will the spark of interest Tora sees in Ryan’s eyes be the excitement she’s looking for?

Wishes Come True in the Christmas Magic anthology

Nothing Serious

Barbara Morgenroth

Disconnecting from the internet and the city, Paige moves to the
Catskills. Opening a shop, Nothing Serious, Paige nearly nails her hand to the wall while hanging her sign, avoids zoning board jail and falls for Jonathan Macklin, the antiques dealer next door. Spotting a rare portrait at an auction, Paige borrows money from Jonathan. The windfall is used to bail a local character out of jail but when Paige can’t pay Jonathan back, he thinks the worst. Considering life, her art and love as nothing serious for so long, can Paige change in time to be with Jonathan?

Nothing Serious

Christmas on Wherever Island

Magic Santa brings Caribbean Christmas Joy

 

Amber Polo

Marti Bell is facing the prospect of a very unmerry Christmas. Reluctantly, leaving her married lover she travels toward ice, snow, and judgmental family until a magic Santa sends her to a surprise destination in the warm waters of the Caribbean.

Wherever Island would be a winter paradise except the only place to stay is the beachside cottage of romantic globetrotting photographer Cliff Holmes. Cliff wants to unwind and treat Marti to a little romantic Caribbean Christmas fun but she’s determined to stay in the warm ocean and out of hot water.

 
Christmas on Wherever Island

Renegade Hearts

Anne Patrick

Single mother Jenny Holloway has her hands full running a 1200-acre ranch, and keeping her daredevil son out of the emergency room. So when her foreman suggests she hire on his son Gil Montgomery, who just got home from the war, Jenny jumps at the opportunity of having another skilled cowboy around. Gil was used to taking orders, even from women. What he wasn’t prepared for was the feelings this little firecracker of a woman triggered in him.

Renegade Hearts

A Christmas Miracle

Danica Winters

Christie has defined herself by her wheelchair and has created a world filled with ‘I can’t’. When she meets her marathon running, salsa dancing neighbor, Marcus, he tries to show her that there is more to life than self-imposed limits and other peoples’ judgments.

Will Christie open her heart and her mind to her sexy neighbor, or will the pain of her past keep her a prisoner in her own life?

A Christmas Miracle

Melinda Heads West

Robyn Corum

Melinda Heads West is the story of a young woman traveling west in 1880 to pick up a family deed. When the stage coach breaks down, Mindy and her six male companions are forced to walk the remaining thirty-five miles to their destination. That would be enough to try anyone's patience, but then the company is set upon by thieves and murderers, and the stakes are raised.

Fortunately, Mindy makes the close acquaintance of two “gentlemen,” who try to help her through these dangers.

When the chance for marriage interrupts her once boring life, Mindy must make a decision: settle for safe or go for love?

 
Melinda Heads West

Love Lifted Me

Jena Galifany
Clive Hanson is destined to be a comfort to those traveling the rocky road of life. He does his best work on Christmas Eve.

Emily Ann Brewster wishes for one wonderful evening spent with a friend. What she gets is stuck in an elevator with a strange gentleman. And it's Christmas Eve.

What he does, and what she needs, is a miracle.

Love Lifted Me

Diplomat's Daughter (The Protectors Book 1)

A covert operative. A life filled with secrets.

Carolyn Wren

Jared Knight works with an elite group of agents trained to track down the worst criminals humanity has to offer. His career leaves no room for relationships.

On a dangerous assignment in Monaco he is captivated by a woman in a crowded ballroom.

He is determined to forget her, until five years later when she becomes the object of an overzealous secret admirer...

An attraction grows between the serious agent and the refined Cecilia Benedict...

But danger lurks in the shadows, threatening to destroy their relationship before it can even begin.

 

Diplomat's Daughter (The Protectors Book 1) 

Under the Mistletoe

Vanessa Alexander Johnson

Grace has harbored a secret from her husband, Tony for twenty-five years. She believes he is not the biological father of her son, Trace. Trace is in need of a kidney. Because of her medical history, that eliminates Grace as a donor. Tony is hell bent on being the donor. Grace knows her secret is about to be revealed, and struggles with how she is going to tell him. She believes an indiscretion with a co-worker at her office Christmas Party was when Trace was conceived.

Due to her intoxicated state, she doesn't remember everything that happened that night.

Is Tony Trace's father? Will he be able to forgive her for her indiscretion all those years ago?
Under the Mistletoe

Josey's Christmas Cookie

Sharon Kleve

In the blink of an eye; Josey lost the most important people in her life, her parents.

Can a hound dog named Cookie, a pair of Mourning Doves and a passionate vet bring the holiday spirit back to Josey's life in time for Christmas?

Josey's Christmas Cookie

No Job For A woman

Sherry Gloag

Julian Fanshaw answers a call for help from his life-long friend Lord Worth to help keep his friend’s widowed sister, Deborah, safe from her increasingly vindictive neighbours. It doesn’t take long to realise him or Freddie long to realise the Grangers aren’t using her as a long-promised act of revenge against them; but are playing a deeper and far more sinister game of their own. 

Deborah Stavely is determined to overcome the increasing harassment from her neighbour without calling on her brother for help. So she is not pleased when Freddie intervenes and involves his friend, Julian Fanshaw.

Circumstances demand Julian and Deborah learn to work together and Julian dares to dream that he might gain the love of the only person he’s ever given his heart to.

But will Deborah live long enough to discover that by releasing everything she values, she will gain everything her heart desires?

No Job For A woman

Callie's Heart

Kathleen Ball

Callie Daniels' mother has one dying wish. She wants neighboring rancher, Garrett O'Neill, to marry her seventeen-year-old daughter. Callie knows it’s not supposed to be a conventional marriage. Garrett O'Neill would keep Callie's ranch safe and Callie would go away to college.

Four years later, Callie comes home with stars in her eyes and happily ever after in her heart. She plans to make their marriage real until finds the new housekeeper, Sylvie in Garrett's arms.

Heartbroken, Callie moves out. She sustains injuries from her horse and Garrett forces Callie to move back in to his house.

Callie finally gets her heart's desire. Alone in a line shack, they make sweet love for the first time. Unfortunately, the love light is gone from Garret's eyes the next morning. 

Callie's Heart

Star Light, Star Bright

Sydell Voeller

When Chyenna Dupres and her daughter move to a small town in Oregon, Chyenna leases a historic inn there. She plans to turn it into an upscale eatery, despite strong resistance from some of the locals. Her most vocal objector is cattle rancher Blair Westerman, who has relocated from L.A. to protect his own daughter from the "evils" of city life.

Chyenna and Blair’s opposing goals and their conflicted feelings for each other keep tensions high--especially when their daughters run away together. Now they must come together for the good of their children and realize how far apart they've let their differences push them.

 

Star Light, Star Bright

Outmaneuvered

J.L. Hammer

To FBI Special Agent Cruz Romero the assignment seems cut and dry: shadow Amanda Price, the estranged daughter of a missing high-powered CEO, and find evidence linking her to his disappearance. As the evidence stacks against Amanda, Romero brings her in for a round of heated questioning and his suspicion of her guilt deepens with every evasive answer. When a sniper makes an attempt on her life, he is forced to protect her. Plunged into a maze of deceit, Romero fears that his blinding attraction for Amanda might be his fatal downfall.

Outmaneuvered

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A Joyful Break

Diane Craver

After her mother’s untimely death, a twenty-year-old Amish woman has a difficult decision to make: Choose to break from the Plain community and her boyfriend to live in the English world permanently...or join the Amish church.

Rachel Hershberger wants to get away from her Amish home in Fields Corner, Ohio. For a year she’s been trying to fill her mother’s shoes by taking care of her father and siblings. Before her mother died, Rachel was positive she wanted to marry Samuel Weaver, but now she can’t think about wedding plans. She blames her father for her mother’s death.

A Joyful Break

Reindeer Wars

Liese Sherwood-Fabre
Tina has a tendency to go a little overboard when decorating for the holidays, but Brian decides her skills are just what he needs to get into the Christmas spirit. Can this budding relationship survive when they find themselves in a knock-down-drag-out competition to win the office’s “most outrageous holiday sweater?"
Reindeer Wars

 

The Abolitionist's Secret

Becky Lower

In 1856 New York, Heather Fitzpatrick, a bashful abolitionist, falls for young Army lieutenant David Whitman, who is tracking a runaway slave—the very slave she and her parents rescued from the hands of the slavemongers a few nights earlier.

Despite their divergent views on slavery, romance ensues. An engagement quickly follows. After his father passes, his mother insists any marriage will have to wait the requisite year, which is proper for mourning.

Heather longs to stay with David to wait out the year, since his mother has other plans.

But she knows the South is no place for an abolitionist.

The Abolitionist's Secret

Tame A Wild Wind

Cynthia Woolf

Former Texas Ranger Sam Colter isn't looking for love. Neither is pretty widow Cassie O'Malley. But when a man stalking Sam for killing his brother kidnaps Cassie, Sam discovers it's more than duty that sends him racing to her rescue. Will Cassie realize the truth about her own feelings before it's too late?

 
Tame A Wild Wind

The Christmas Village

A short Christmas romance
Elysa Hendricks
While waiting to purchase another house for her Christmas Village collection Sara falls and hits her head. Transported to a fantasy world she falls in love with a man in her dream. Is she willing to give up real life to be with him? Or should she trust that he'll be there when she wakes up?

 

The Christmas Village

On with the Show

Linda Carroll-Bradd

Visiting her small Texas hometown at Thanksgiving, fashion designer Franzi Mueller is forced to ask a favor of hardware store owner, Dietz Reinhardt, an ex-beau from high school. Circumstances surrounding putting on a show at the veteran’s hospital, and her matchmaking mother, throw them together at every turn, each glance and touch igniting old sparks. Can Franzi find what her creative spirit needs in Freedom Valley or is time running out on this second chance for Dietz to win over her heart?

 

On with the Show