Azure Apparition (Revised)

Free 2 Read: AA/PG Paranormal Love Story

 

 

It's a cold, dark Halloween night in New Orleans. Will Frank get a trick or a treat?

Mickie Sherwood
Hardnosed construction worker, Frank Hickman, has got to be hallucinating. Is the shimmering beauty in bed beside him a figment of his imagination? Or some warped Halloween prank pulled on him by his boys?

Azure Blackstone has been carjacked. Will Frank's realization come too late to save her? 

 

 

 

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Lovers’ Lies

Shirley Wine

For Victoria Scanlan, it's the chance of a lifetime to secure the commission for the flowers for the upcoming society wedding until she discovers the groom, Keir Donovan, is the man she knew as Seth Donahue, her young son's father.

After a lifetime of betrayal by every female he knows, Keir wants a calm future with heiress Davina Strathmore. Victoria knows she must tell Keir about their son, but decides to wait…a decision she quickly comes to regrets. A lie by omission is still a lie, and after a lifetime of being lied to, Keir has no tolerance for lies…

Lovers’ Lies

The Reluctant Santa

Sylvia McDaniel

Since his mother abandoned him on Christmas Eve never to return, Colin McDermott has hated Christmas and sworn never to have children. But this year two angels are giving him everything he didn't want. A Santa suit, a child and a chance at love again. This is his last chance to learn the true meaning of Christmas.

 

The Reluctant Santa

The Billionaire Playboy

Christina Tetreault

Captain Charlotte “Charlie” O'Brien, a doctor in the US Navy, is back in North Salem, Massachusetts visiting her family when a hurricane strikes, flooding the town and throwing Jake Sherbrooke in her path.  

Jake Sherbrooke has never been one to follow the path laid out by his parents. That is why he started the Falmouth Foundation, a non-profit disaster relief organization. When he learns of the destruction in North Salem, he travels there to offer aid and meets Charlie O'Brien.

 

Soon neither can ignore the incredible chemistry between them. But will his reputation as a billionaire playboy damage their budding romance?

The Billionaire Playboy

Racing with the Wind

Regan Walker

Hugh Redgrave, the Marquess of Ormond, was warned about the ingénue the Prince Regent called “the Swan.” Fortunately, he sought no bride. His work lay on the continent, where he’d become legend by stealing war secrets from Napoleon. Lady Mary Campbell was a bluestocking hellion, an ill-advised match by every account, who was more interested in politics than a husband. Already she had assisted her statesman uncle in Paris, and swore to return to the court of Louis XVIII no matter the danger.

Racing with the Wind

A Prescription for Love

Callie Hutton

Guthrie, Oklahoma, 1903. Betrayed by his fiancée’s infidelity eight years ago, pharmacist Michael Henderson vowed he'd never risk his heart again. But he doesn't anticipate the tug of attraction he shares with his new employee.

Heidi Lester flees her home, determined to prove to her overprotective parents she can conquer her debilitating asthma, to make a life of her own. However, her unscrupulous fiancé has no intention of letting her go. He has his own plans for Heidi and her inheritance.

Will a scheme to ruin Michael's family force Heidi to marry her fiancé, or will assistance arrive from a surprising source to allow her to be with the man she truly loves?

 

A Prescription for Love

Gnome on the Range

Jennifer Zane

Jane West has everything a woman could want. A job in a Montana town’s only adult store, two young boys and one dead husband. Everything except a little excitement-- zing. But that changes one summer morning at a garage sale when her kids buy some garden gnomes.

Someone wants those gnomes and nothing will get in their way. Including Jane. This excitement for Jane spells trouble for a relationship with neighbor--and hot fireman--Ty Strickland. Can Jane and Ty handle a relationship meddling mother-in-law, crazy kids, and stay alive while trying to solve the mystery of the garden gnomes?

 

Gnome on the Range

Ghosts in the Night

Jennifer Mueller
Andrew Townsend survived the trenches only to come home to find most of his family had died in their relative safety. When the last uncle dies and leaves him a plantation in far off Ceylon, he drops his life in London and sets out for a new life. Only he finds out the past doesn’t let him go so easily. With a lay about friend tagging along, and not to mention a case of shell shock that brings to mind the war at every turn, he’s more ghost than man. But the woman across the way, as much a ghost as he, is able to help the visions of war as everything he knows is falling apart. Digging up long dead secrets is the only option and it’s enough to get them killed.

Ghosts in the Night

Programmed for Danger

Karen McCullough

Andrea Kingston is used to dealing with people aggravated by computer problems, and she's no stranger to corporate politics and bickering. But when she's hired to fix Feverill-West's data processing issues, the level of hostility she encounters is new, as is the seriousness of what she finds.

With the reluctant help of Feverill-West’s attractive operations manager, Andi tackles the problems. As she gets closer to solving them, she becomes the target of vicious and dangerous attacks, putting more than just her professional reputation on the line. She’ll have to risk her life to solve the crimes being perpetrated against the company.

 

 

Programmed for Danger

Tame A Wild Bride

Cynthia Woolf

Rosie Stanton climbed on a west-bound train to answer his ad for a wife and mother, everything she wants to be. But Tom Harris lied. He doesn't want a wife, merely a mother for his two abandoned children and a cook and cleaner for his ranch. Betrayed once, he's vowed never to let another woman into his heart. Sexy Rosie upsets all his plans and threatens to invade his scarred heart. How will he maintain his vow to keep his hands off her as she charms his children, his cow hands, his life?

 
Tame A Wild Bride

The Curse of Winford Manor

Loc Glin

Leslie Braddock feels responsible for her husband’s death. She is having trouble reentering the dating scene. She travels back in time and meets Sir James.

Sir Leslie Braddock feels responsible for her husband’s death. She is having trouble reentering the dating scene. She travels back in time and meets Sir James.

James is a three time widower. He believes he is cursed and vows never to love again.

Emily, the ghost of Sir James’s first wife lingers at the manor. She wants to see her husband happy and she wants to bring her murder to justice.

Leslie and Sir James share the experience of losing a loved one. Will Leslie be the woman to break the curse? Or will she be another victim?

The Curse of Winford Manor

Marked in Mexico

Kim McMahill

An idyllic Caribbean vacation turns deadly when hostages are taken at one of Mexico’s most popular Mayan ruins. The kidnappers believe the abduction will be a simple way to negotiate the release of a colleague from a Texas prison, but matters become complicated and the stakes much higher when they realize one of their hostages is the daughter of a powerful U.S. Senator and another is an ex-Army Ranger who has no intention of playing by the rules.

 

Marked in Mexico

Circles Interlocked

Victoria Adams

Having been betrayed by the man she assumed she was destined to be with forever; Julie Anderson slapped Robert Holiday in an angry ending to their brief love affair. Heartbroken that her love affair didn't end with the fairy tale Happily Ever After, Julie leaves town to pursue her dream of being a dancer. As fate has a curious sense of humor, eight years later, they wake up in bed together. Now it is up to love to fix what time cannot mend.

Circles Interlocked

Love to the Rescue

Nancy Lee Badger

Paramedic-firefighter Pete Thayer realizes his partner, Josie Miller, is not just one-of-the-boys. Pete’s sketchy history and tarnished reputation gives ‘Joe’ pause. Accidents, medical emergencies, fires, and threats spark heat of another kind.

Another woman accuses Pete of causing her sister’s death. Once on track to be a doctor, the sister’s lies caused Pete to keep women at a distance unless they agreed to share his bed…and nothing more.

Josie worries she has given her heart to a monster. Pete professes his innocence kisses her senseless, but her brothers intervene. A suicide note, fists, stolen moments, and desire lead to love.

 
Love to the Rescue

The Fixer-Uppers

Cynthianna

Can a single mom find happiness on a blind date--or at least dinner with a male who can cut up his own food? Cassie and Mike believe they're "in like" not "in love." But when down-on-his-luck Mike is evicted, Cassie takes him into her home. Mike starts fixing everything from window screens to little boys' broken hearts. Will Cassie let him fix hers?

 

The Fixer-Uppers

The Sword and the Pen

Elysa Hendricks

It was time. After penning ten popular sword-and-sorcery novels, Brandon Alexander Davis was ready to stop hiding in his fictional world, to start living a real life. Just one problem: as he plotted the noble death of Serilda D'Lar, his fictional creation, complete with mile-long sword, skimpy leather outfit and badass attitude, appeared in his study.

This warrior woman whom he knew so well, so strong yet vulnerable, was both fantasy and reality. She was an invitation to rediscover all he once knew--that life is an incredible, magical journey and, for love, any man can be a hero.

 

THE SWORD AND THE PEN

Through Ancient Eyes

Kimberly Adkins

An ancient civilization with lost magic that could change the world...

A desperate battle between two men and the woman they both want for different reasons.

The moment Danielle Taylor stepped foot on the abandoned estate she’d impulsively purchased she was confronted with disturbing clues about the mysterious disappearance of its previous owner, a local professor at the nearby University.

Even in her wildest dreams she never thought she'd find herself standing inside the secluded and undiscovered ruins of a pre Incan civilization, with a man who has unlocked the secrets of an ancient power and shown her a world of magic she never thought possible.

 

Through Ancient Eyes

Pet's Pleasure



Zenobia Renquist   
Starling envied the easy life of pets…until she became one. Kidnapped from Earth and sold to the highest bidder, she now belongs to an alien king. She wants Bekion to see her as an independent woman with needs and desires of her own.

Only deviants break the laws barring sexual relations between owners and their pets, and King Bekion has no intention of succumbing to simple lust. He knows it isn’t right but he can’t stop thinking of his pet and all the pleasure he could give her, even if it costs him his crown.

Pet's Pleasure