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When Jasmine Walker returns to Harbor Falls after a fifteen-year absence—she expects to tie up some legalities of a will and head back to her home in Atlanta that same day. She doesn’t expect her troubled teenage past to collide with her well-planned, professional future. When Ms. Leinie Harbor Crockett dies and leaves something for Jasmine Walker in her will, Jasmine returns to Harbor Falls to meet with the attorney of the estate and learns she has inherited the contents of a safety deposit box. A letter explains Ms. Leinie’s wishes and the stipulations around Jasmine’s inheritance...

Can lost souls reunite across time, when the demons of the past refuse to go away?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 by the history that surrounds the Legend of Blackbeard’s Chalice, he seeks to learn ...

A southern-fried comedy with a touch of romance, a side of mystery, a smattering of paranormal, and three crazy sisters…. 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 real and she’s too late—not for the interview, but to save her husband. For there he is, dead on ...

A modern Red Riding Hood retelling in the Bayou….When Garnet Boudreaux’s boss tells her she’s headed to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, she immediately resists. She doesn’t want to go, and she’s not certain what will be waiting for her when she arrives, because going to New Orleans means going home—and home is not a place she wants to be. But standing in the voodoo shop on Bourbon Street, she’s told by Madame Madeleine Dupuis she has no choice. The witchy woman presses two pouches into Garnet’s hands, wraps a red cape around her, and tells her she must go—and go now—to ...

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 Yellow Cab into a short-term police protection program to keep her safe. The cabbie? Isaac Walker, undercover cop. For the duration, Isaac will be her protector, even though Cerise doesn’t want protection. Cerise and Isaac are not strangers. In a different world, far away from their regularly scheduled lives, they shared a role...

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 ...

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! ...

A star-crossed, holiday romance story of young love, old love, holding on, and letting go. During the summer of 1989, Jenny Anders meets Ben Matson on a family beach vacation on the North Carolina Outer Banks. Fresh out of high school and ready to start their new lives—Jenny to Penn State in the fall, and Ben to work at the family hardware store—they didn’t expect to fall in love. But love-at-first-sight happens anyway. The long-distance relationship doesn’t deter them. And after a summer of love letters and clandestine trips in the fall, Ben travels to Philadelphia for Thanksgiving...

How long will she stay in that space in between?The day Julia Salinger admits to her girlfriends she has a drinking problem, she vows to do something about it. Spending time in a recovery center helps. So does attending AA meetings and therapy. But the thing that saves her, day after day, is fixing breakfast for strangers. It’s routine. It gets her out of bed every morning. While she and her husband, Mark, had dreams of operating their Old Louisville B&B together, her drinking put an end to that dream—and their marriage. And while Mark still shares in the business venture, the running ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Gracie Hart is the Diva of Romance in small town Franklinville, KY. The owner of a successful, sophisticated boutique called Romantically Yours, she has no intention of falling in love again. Instead, she lives a quiet life, running her shop, and healing from the tragic accident that robbed her of her ballet career, and her fiancé. When her new neighbors, Carson Price and his six-year-old daughter Izzie, arrive on the scene, and wreak havoc in her life, she realizes she has to face her past, before she can hope for the future.

What are they fighting for? Their love or their lives?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 responsible for her niece's disappearance. Journalist Tate Walker has a similar goal--keep the people of his city informed about the serial killer and write a Pulitzer-worthy story. As their lives careen together around the case, they pick up the battles of their pasts and carry them forward--battles of trust and mistrust, lust and love, truths and misunderstandings--battles that erupted within their ...

She rescued a cat and gave the feline a furever home. Did she find her forever man in the process? The peaceful mountain town of Harbor Falls is the perfect place to start a new veterinary practice—or so new-in-town, Dr. Caleb Wyatt thinks—until the morning he opens the doors of his animal clinic. Mrs. Pierson’s poodle is looking for love in all the wrong places. A colicky calf keeps him awake. A yellow-tinged iguana, a cursing Lorikeet, and a bird-eating cat all seem hell-bent on wreaking havoc with his business. In short, chaos! Until the lovely and quite organized, Samantha ...

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 Charmington Royal Romance! Krissy Kringle’s dream of owning her own business and settling into a community with her daughter, Merry, came alive when she moved to Charmington—the small Christmas village in the Adirondacks. Hard work, sacrifice, and a bucket-load of luck make her dream come true—Kringle’s Diner exists, business is booming, and above all else, she and Merry are happy. She’s also weary beyond words doing the work of three people. So, she hires a man who wanders into the diner. He needs work, or so it seems. He comes with a huge Bernese Mountain dog named Prince, who...