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“This is reality, Isaac, not role play."She stared hard into his eyes. "And if it were role play, darling, I would be the one giving the orders, not you.” “That right.” “Damned straight.” “Maybe I’m not into reality.” “You better be. I want out of this thing alive. The Chief Financial Officer of the non-profit Cerise Thacker runs has been cooking her financial books. The DA fears the CFO’s deep family roots will come after her, particularly after the CFO states he will “see to her death.” So, Cerise is whisked away in a cab into a short-term police protection ...

Evan MacKay is grateful to have his four brothers working beside him at Sweet Grass Ranch. Maintaining their ranch lifestyle is his priority, but the bank is breathing down his neck, and he worries the ranch can’t support their growing family. Secretly, he waits for the other boot to drop. Turns out the other boots are Jimmy Choo black stilettos worn by the new bank loan manager. Jessica Chase doesn’t claim to be an expert on ranching, but she’s a whiz in finance, particularly in whipping delinquent accounts into shape. As the new kid on the block, she is driven to succeed, and ready ...

Stuck? Stalled? Slow to Start?Authors, this book is for you. If you are a new writer, determined to break into the publishing world, you might think you must do it all—which often slows you down. Or worse, shoots you down the wrong spirally, sticky slope that oddly resembles Alice’s rabbit hole. You keep trying to open the doors to success but can’t find the right key. And just when you think you’ve found the right key, the door cracks open a little wider—enough to glimpse what’s on the other side. Another golden key! It’s sure to bring success. Right? And oh! You want that! ...

Welcome to Carrington, Louisiana, and this deadly romantic comedy series! Three southern-fried comedies with a touch of romance, a side of mystery, a smattering of paranormal, and three crazy sisters…. Freshly Dead, Book 1 All Mitzi Winston wants is enough money to pay this month’s mortgage payment. That is the only reason she even considers the phone sex job. Ever since her husband’s disappearance, she has held things together nicely—until recently. And now, well, she just needs the money. Biting the bullet, she goes for the interview, only to find that the phone sex job isn’t ...

No one ever kissed her like Ethan. No one. And even after all this time, Brandley remembered his kiss—this kiss—like she’d had one every day since the day he left her. Navy SEAL Ethan MacKay returns to Sweet Grass Ranch to recuperate from an injury suffered on a mission, and eventually help manage the South Dakota family ranch with his identical twin brother, Evan. But he’s been gone too long, and he’s not the man who left the ranch over a dozen years ago. Not by a long shot. His body broken, and hopefully not his mind, he prays what they say is true—that cowboy runs deep in ...

She's from the wrong side of the tracks. He's a rich bad boy with a past. Neither think they are good enough for the other. Mira Featherstone knows her place in life and it's not with Jake Remington. Rich guys play on the wrong side of the tracks, but they don’t bring girls like her home to mama. Since Mira has no expectations beyond the moment, she doesn’t mind playing—and she loves toying with the bad boy lawyer, until it gets her into trouble with her boss, Chandler West. Jake Remington is a wealthy Texas cowboy whose family land borders West Hills Ranch, owned by Chandler West. ...

A thrilling time travel novel set in a dystopian future featuring a pirate cult based on Blackbeard lore. Can souls touch through dreams and find their way home again?Jackson Porter seeks to fulfill his mother, Claire Porter’s, dying request, and find answers about the imaginary lover who haunts his nights. His future, he learns, is in a place called Ohio, miles and centuries away from his barrier island home in 1745. The land, his dying mother tells him, is his legacy. She urges him to claim it. In the year 2038, Kari Upton is driven to fight federal sanctions to save her land and her ...

“I don’t make commitments.” He shrugged. “Me either." “Even so, it will never work, you know, you and me.” Tate remembered thinking that a challenge. “Oh? And why not?” “Because we’re too much alike.” “Could work to our advantage.” She cocked her head. “How so?” “If we’re so much alike, then there will be no surprises.” She pulled back and laughed. “Until the sky falls and one of us doesn’t see it coming.” Detective Jordan Cross has one thing on her mind—get the bastard killing kids in her small southern city, the person she thinks is also ...

Leaving Noah is a heartwarming tale of love, loss, second chances, and the power of the written word.When a rodeo accident leaves Rock Creek Ranch shorthanded, Connie MacKay travels from South Dakota to Montana to visit her daughter and help with the neighboring ranch’s cattle roundup. Raised on a ranch and comfortable in the saddle, she is determined to help. After decades of working ranches throughout the northwest, Noah Parker heads home to Rock Creek to stay—maybe. That all depends on the reception he gets from family. When he arrives, the last person he expects to see there is ...

When Emma Lavender is called to corporate headquarters at the end of her first week of employment at WestInn Hotels, she is shocked at the proposition offered by the company CEO. So shocked, in fact, she takes him up on his offer. Emma is your average college graduate—eager to make a go of her first job and pay off those student loans. Fresh out of a relationship going nowhere, she leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, behind and heads for the wild west—Billings, Montana. But in Montana, no one takes her seriously or appreciates her southern belle upbringing, except for one man—CEO of ...

Sometimes all we need is to believe. Ariana Estrella’s blog features all things Christmas, all year long. While traveling upstate New York in search of the perfect Christmas village, she lands in Charmington amidst the town’s annual Christmas Jubilee—and a snowstorm. Delighted and giddy with holiday cheer, the magic of the season seeps deeper into her bones. Matt Matson—owner of the century-old Main Street Hardware in Charmington—despite all the holiday hoopla, dislikes the season. He’s all about regular business—there’s not a holiday ornament or tree trimming bauble to be ...

A time travel novel of suspense, intrique, and romance. Can lost souls reunite across time, when the demons of the past refuse to go away?Be careful for what you wish…. Pitched from a ship during a violent storm in the year 1746, Victoria Porter washes ashore, only to be rescued by a man on a strange mechanical beast who whisks her away into a world beyond anything she could have imagined. In 2014, Colton MacKenzie fears he has written his last bestselling horror novel until he discovers two things—The Cult of Teach and a tantalizing nymph wandering an Ocracoke Island beach. Fascinated ...

When Parker Rankin’s father dies, he expects life on the ranch to change. What he didn't expect was Reba Morris.Parker wonders how much his stepmother, Abby, has influenced his father’s final wishes. Although Abby has been a part of his life for years, her goals for the ranch are different from his: he wants to keep it a working cattle ranch; she wants to convert it to a dude ranch. All Parker wants is to continue his way of life—running the Montana ranch until the day he dies, just like his father. The last thing he expects the day of his father’s funeral is for life to throw him ...

When Cole Stevens travels from Montana to Texas to close a business deal with his old friend, Chandler West, he never expects to close in on a relationship, too. But with one brief flicker of eye contact in the airport with a pretty young woman carrying a guitar, his heart starts to unravel. Sarah MacKay, fresh off the South Dakota ranch she grew up on, is touted as the up-and-coming country music singer of the year. Invited to sing at Chandler West’s annual ranch barbecue, Sarah finds herself in opposition with her manager, and Cole steps up to protect her from the smarmy, poor excuse of...

One more deadly romantic comedy. Meet Mitzi, Molly, and Marla—three sisters, southern-fried born-and-bred, and the ghosts who love them. Marla Newberry has no interest in dating someone local. She much prefers midnight runs to a biker bar in Shreveport. Cooter Haines, drummer for a Grateful Dead tribute band called Skull Bone, owns the biker bar called The Deadhead. He also happens to be the only guy who can curl her toes like a sprung guitar string. And while she enjoys surrendering to his toe-curling on occasion, she’s not interested in bringing the long-haired drummer home to daddy--...

Can a couple on the verge of divorce find romance again during their last Christmas holiday at Holly Hill Inn? Will and Ava Cohen were wildly in love—five years ago. Today, they are ships passing in the night, two professionals driven to reach the pinnacle of their professions. When Will steps in the door of their restored brownstone in Brooklyn each evening, Ava is already on stage at the Gershwin, playing the role of Glinda in Wicked. They are calling their marriage quits—but not until they spend one more Christmas together with their families at Holly Hill Inn. Traditionally, the ...

Thrilling suspense, intrigue, paranormal elements, and romance, all wrapped up in an artifact-seeking, generational time-travel! Can souls touch through time and hold on when all odds are against them?Claire Winslow vacations on an East Coast barrier island, content with her life and her potential future—until the illusion of a man walking the misty shore haunts her. Then one kiss—a beautiful, soulful, stolen kiss in the night—and her life changes forever. Nearly 300 years past, Jack Porter is in hot pursuit of his kidnapped wife. Not an easy feat considering the year is 1718 and the ...

Sniper. Assassin. Hired gun. Bounty hunter. Whatever you want to call me, whatever I need to be, doesn’t matter. It’s all the same. A way to make a living, to survive. Even when the tables are turned. The year is 2095. The Americas Revolution has ended. And Cyan Sebastian is on the run. Cyan—the last blue-eyed woman known to exist in the Western hemisphere—is in danger. But what's new? Sought after since she was an infant—by scientists, the government, breeders, and far worse—the bounty on her head grew as she did. Now a young woman, her safeguards are gone, her sequestered life...

Whose past has come back to haunt them?Rebekah McCauley is back home after ten long years of living and working in New York City. She left the Big Apple under circumstances she’d rather not share with her family—not yet, anyway—and wants is time to heal and recover from the mess she’d made of her life. Luckily, her grandparents’ Kentucky bluegrass farm, Wind Ridge, provides the safe haven she craves and the solitude she needs to heal. Collin Kramer, the foxhunter next door, seems determined to infiltrate her peace and invade her quiet sanctuary—not only with his noisy hounds ...