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

Cutie and the Cowboy Trucker - Release Day!

Updated September 14, 2012

 

 

 



 

Available Now!

 

 

 

Veronica and Mike travel the highway of love—where the rules of the road don't apply—in Cutie and the Cowboy Trucker.

 

Cutie and the Cowboy Trucker

 

Price: $3.50 $3.15

This title is offered at a 10% discount. Offer ends midnight CST, September 19th.

Genre: Contemporary/African-American Romance

Publisher: Bookstrand Mainstream Romance

Word Count: 51,182

 

 

 

 

Blurb:

Widow Veronica Torres needs something desperately—invisibility. Escaping the clutches of her conniving brother-in-law and traveling incognito in the RV she traded for online sets her on a collision course with her new destiny, and a barreling fiery red 18-wheeler.

 

Trucker Mike Masterson steams at the close call. First, he nearly sideswipes her. Now, she ends up at the same rest stop with mechanical trouble. She deserves to sweat it out in the June heat since she has the attention span the size of a pea. But, the child in her company deserves better. What else can Mike do besides cart them to his garage for repairs?

 

Will their burgeoning relationship ignite more fireworks than the upcoming Fourth of July celebration? Or will the sparks of six nights and seven days of summertime sizzle—fizzle to an end?

 

Join me at Lindsay's Romantics. Going on now!

 

Cutie and the Cowboy Trucker

Mickie Sherwood's Louisiana Ladies on Parade

Labor Day Surprise

 

Variety is the spice of life.

 

 

 

Meet Louisiana Ladies unafraid of loving outside-of-the-box! They are smart, sassy, spunky and on the other side of thirty! Love doesn't disappear at forty. It flourishes!

Cutie and the Cowboy Trucker - AA/Sensual - Bookstrand Daily Bestseller Coming September 12, 2012 - Pre-Order now at reduced price until September 19, 2012!     Widow Veronica Torres needs something desperately—invisibility. A rash decision puts her on the road and right into the path of trucker Mike Masterson. Will he be just another speed bump in her life? Or will Mike's compassionate ways make all of Veronica's troubles disappear?

BayouBabe99er - IR/Sensual - Released April 2012     How many things can go wrong at one time?   That question plagues feisty divorcée Sharlene Mouton. A lost job. An oil spill ecological disaster threatening her rural Louisiana community. What else can happen? How about repeated run-ins with suave Drake Cormier, the oil company’s liaison officer, and someone barely older than her daughters.

Nicked Hearts - IR/PG13 - RRP Bestseller - Released February 10, 2011       A Hawaiian escape is just what runaway K.C. Montreaux needs to mend her broken heart. Not the lies and deceit of her self-appointed rescuer. But—that’s not all Dr. Nick Hart supplies her.

Louisiana Hot Sauce - IR/PG13 - RRP Bestseller - Released March 18, 2010       Reclusive Mesha Rayburn’s horrible secret keeps her shattered heart under lock and key. Can helicopter mechanic Jack Connolly break in to make the necessary repairs?

 

 

Mickie's sweet, spicy romances!

NOOK Books - Mickie Sherwood

Original Blurbs to enjoy!

Nicked Hearts

Blurb:

Valentine’s Day surgery trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey? OVER HER DEAD BODY!

 

Rambunctious runaway K.C. Montreaux—thirtyish and coddled—crashes the men’s room at Bush Intercontinental and straight into Nick Hart. His clear eyes x-ray through her while she hovers with a facetious grin on a lovely caramel face. A ruckus launches her to an empty stall and forces him into defense mode. Drafted actions cloak Nick’s deceit—from the mainland to Maui—as he helps outwit her pursuer.

 

Will K.C. snuff out their combustible emotions like hushed Haleakala or forgive Nick’s misguided lies?

Dare his nicked heart dream?

Louisiana Hot Sauce

Blurb:

Reclusive Mesha Rayburn's safe haven disintegrated when athletic Jack Connolly raced into her life. He was like an uninvited guest to her pity party. Yet, his brashness stoked her dormant emotions and injected spunk into her veins with every bated word. And—calling the cinnamon-skinned Black woman "biggety" didn't help matters.

Mechanic Jack Connolly thought the trip down South to patch up and retrieve the bullet-ridden helicopter would be a pain. He never imagined the rhetoric becoming reality. But, thanks to Mesha's panicked outcry, it had. The pain radiating in his palm bothered him less than the one in his rear. She was bold and so beautiful. He had to know why she hid out in the boonies. As her transient tenant, he intended to find out at the risk of feeling the sting of her Louisiana Hot Sauce temper.

BayouBabe99er

Blurb:

How many things can go wrong at one time?

That question plagues feisty divorcée Sharlene Mouton. The banking department she heads takes a trip overseas. She pounds the pavement—and the keyboard—with resumes for ninety-nine weeks. Going home to regroup lands her in the middle of an ecological disaster that threatens her rural Louisiana community. What else can happen? How about repeated run-ins with suave Drake Cormier, the oil company’s liaison officer.

 

Jobless, yet, not hopeless. Oil spill fiasco. Mouton-Cormier feud. Suitor not much older than her daughters.

 

Sharlene now wonders—how many wrongs make a right?

NOOK Books - NH and LHS are currently reduced. Subject to change.

Cover Reveal: Cutie and the Cowboy Trucker

Updated August 31, 2012

 

 

AVAILABLE: Wednesday, September 12th

This title is offered at a 10% discount. Offer ends midnight CST, September 19th.

CLICK NOW TO PRE-ORDER!

 

 

I'm so excited to premiere the book cover for my new romantic love story. Beautiful Veronica Torres and cowboy trucker Mike Masterson are mature adults who don't hit it off at first sight in Cutie and the Cowboy Trucker.

Coming September 12, 2012

Genre: African-American/Bookstrand Mainstream/Contemporary romance

Preliminary Blurb:

Mickie Sherwood

Widow Veronica Torres needs something desperately—invisibility. Escaping the clutches of her conniving brother-in-law and traveling incognito in the RV she traded for online sets her on a collision course with her new destiny, and a barreling fiery red 18-wheeler.

 

Trucker Mike Masterson steams at the close call. First, he nearly sideswipes her. Now, she ends up at the same rest stop with mechanical trouble. Maybe, she deserves to sweat it out in the June heat since she has the attention span the size of a pea. But, the child in her company deserves better. What else can Mike do besides cart them to his garage for repairs?

 

Will their burgeoning relationship ignite more fireworks than the upcoming Fourth of July celebration? Or will the sparks of six nights and seven days of summertime sizzle—fizzle to an end?

Current releases available:

Amazon

Louisiana Hot Sauce

Nicked Hearts

BayouBabe99er

His Desire (Montclair Chronicles 2)

Rita Bay

After the war with Napoleon, Lord William Montclair is determined to find a wife who will bear the children he needs and accept what he offers—marriage without love.
 

Georgiana Janson, an impoverished soldier’s widow, fell in love with Will when he was a patient in the field hospital. Will sets her up nicely, but Georgi can’t accept what he offers—love without marriage.

 

When her circumstances change, Georgi must decide what she wants in her life. Too late, Will discovers what he needs most in his. Will his campaign to court and win the love of his life succeed?

His Desire
Bookstrand

Murder and Lies

K. R. Bailey

After Vienna’s shocking death, Maggie Benson never thought her world could get any darker. The sheriff determined it was suicide, but Maggie cannot accept that. When her diner is vandalized and her cook is hurt, her world begins whirling out of control. She is plunged into a world of deceit where she is followed and her home broken into.

When Wilson Beaumont shows up, Maggie is immediately drawn to him, but senses he is hiding something that has to do with Vienna. Wilson is searching to find answers about his daughter and thirteen million dollars missing from the Longstreet Bank. If he doesn’t find the money soon, he knows he will be killed.  

Wilson and Maggie must find a way to trust each other in order to survive. But after all the murder and lies, is it too late to uncover the secrets that threaten their future together?

Murder and Lies

Kindle Editions - Mickie Sherwood

BayouBabe99er (2012) 

How many things can go wrong at one time?

 

That question plagues feisty divorcée Sharlene Mouton. A lost job. An oil spill ecological disaster threatening her rural Louisiana community. What else can happen? How about repeated run-ins with suave Drake Cormier, the oil company’s liaison officer, and someone barely older than her daughters.

Amazon

Nicked Hearts (2011)

A Hawaiian escape is just what runaway K.C. Montreaux needs. Not the lies and deceit of her self-appointed rescuer. But—that’s not all Dr. Nick Hart supplies her. 

Amazon

Louisiana Hot Sauce (2010)  

Reclusive songstress Mesha Rayburn’s horrible secret keeps her shattered heart under lock and key. Can helicopter mechanic Jack Connolly break in to make the necessary repairs?

Amazon

Palace of the Fountains

Lindsay Townsend

Caro Kingswood answers a plea from her half-sister Sancha and travels to Spain to design a new garden. At first she has a blissful time at the Palace of the Fountains. The charismatic Joe Spenser appears there and, as he courts Caro, persuades her to reconsider her tangled feelings about desire.

Gradually Caro becomes aware that her sister Sancha’s marriage is in trouble. Ann Grant, hired by the family to catalogue their collection of Toledo swords and knives, has disappeared and Sancha suspects her husband Felipe.

Soon Caro uncovers a maze of dark family secrets. Worse, Joe tells her that Ann was his beloved sister, and he has persuaded the family to admit him so as to find out what happened to her. So was his interest in Caro herself real?

Matters come to a head during a local fiesta, when the real murderer of Ann Grant targets Caro herself.

Palace of the Fountains

Lemonade Dreams

Mary Lou George

Ten years ago, undersexed, overweight, Ellie Brisby threw herself at Jackson Sedgwick. To this day, she’s haunted by nightmares of his rejection and the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend, Nikki Harper.
 
A savvy slimmer Ellie is spending the summer back home. She wants none of it when the happily-ever-after-phobic Jackson shows an interest, but when Nikki’s murdered body is discovered, Ellie can’t stay detached for long. Together Ellie and Jackson face off against a wily killer, but dark secrets threaten their feelings for one another. He crushed her in the past. Can she afford to trust him with her future?

Lemonade Dreams

A Secret Treasure

Lindsay Townsend

 When pretty, passionate Eve meets the darkly intriguing Julio on the Greel island of Rhodes in the late 1930s, she is torn. As a man, Julio is powerfully attractive. As a policeman, he is bound to be a Fascist. Her brother, David, who is missing, is connected to the Greek Partisans striving to liberate Rhodes from their Italian overlords.

Now, as David re-appears soon after Julio makes Eve's acquaintance, Eve must hide her brother and a mysterious gold statuette. Soon, Eve realizes that she may be forced to choose between the man she loves and the safety of her family.

Secret Treasure

BayouBabe99er

Mickie Sherwood


How many things can go wrong at one time?

That question plagues feisty divorcée Sharlene Mouton. The banking department she heads takes a trip overseas. She pounds the pavement—and the keyboard—with resumes for ninety-nine weeks. Going home to regroup lands her in the middle of an ecological disaster that threatens her rural Louisiana community. What else can happen? How about repeated run-ins with suave Drake Cormier, the oil company’s liaison officer.

Jobless, yet, not hopeless. Oil spill fiasco. Mouton-Cormier feud. Suitor not much older than her daughters.

Sharlene now wonders—how many wrongs make a right?

BayouBabe99er