Award Winner: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Romance
In ancient Greece, one of the twelve labours of Heracles was to bring back a golden apple from the Garden of Hesperides. To archaeologist Oriel Anderson, joining a team of Greek divers on the island of Helios seems like the golden apple of her dreams
Yet the dream becomes a nightmare when she meets the devilish owner of the island, Damian Lekkas. In shocked recognition, she is flooded with the memory of a romantic night in a stranger’s arms, six summers ago. A very different man stands before her now, and Oriel senses that the sardonic Greek autocrat is hell-bent on playing a cat and mouse game with her.
As they cross swords and passions mount, Oriel is aware that malevolent eyes watch her from the shadows. Dark rumours are whispered about the Lekkas family. What dangers lie in Helios, a bewitching land where ancient rituals are still enacted to appease the gods, young men risk their lives in the treacherous depths of the Ionian Sea, and the volatile earth can erupt at any moment?
Will Oriel find the hidden treasures she seeks? Or will Damian’s tragic past catch up with them, threatening to engulf them both?
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Romance
This third book in the Henrietta and Inspector Howard series provides a delightful romp through the English countryside and back.
Anxious to be married, Henrietta and Clive push forward with their wedding plans despite their family differences, made worse now by Oldrich Exley’s attempts to control the Von Harmons. When the long-awaited wedding day arrives, there is more unfolding than just Clive and Henrietta’s vows of love. Stanley and Elsie’s relationship is sorely tested by the presence of the dashing Lieutenant Harrison Barnes-Smith and by Henrietta’s friend Rose—a situation that grows increasingly dark and confused as time goes on.
As Clive and Henrietta begin their honeymoon at Castle Linley, the Howards’ ancestral estate in England, they encounter a whole new host of characters, including the eccentric Lord and Lady Linley and Clive’s mysterious cousin, Wallace. When a man is murdered in the village on the night of a house party at the Castle, Wallace comes under suspicion—and Clive and Henrietta are reluctantly drawn into the case, despite Clive’s anxiety at involving his new bride and Henrietta’s distracting news from home.
Delicately attempting to work together for the first time, Clive and Henrietta set out to prove Wallace’s innocence, uncovering as they do so some rather shocking truths that will shake the Linley name and estate forever.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Romance
A new romantic suspense from first-time author KR Brorman with CC Cedras and SA Young. The most depraved purveyor of the modern slave trade reaches around the globe into the most unlikely little life. Kenna Campbell had a perfectly good life plan. Dump the abusive ex. Open her own art gallery. Live independently. Love wasn’t on her list. Everything was going according to plan, until the night her best friends, Candace and Frankie, helped her crash a society ball to sell a painting and she met Ret. Lieutenant Colonel Lucius Chaerea. He was a detail she hadn’t foreseen and she knew he would break her heart. Despite her fears, Kenna gradually lowers her defenses. Lucius had resigned himself to a life in the shadows. Using a vast network, cultivated while serving with SAS Intelligence, God-given instincts and a select team of former soldiers, he fights the rising tide of terror and those who would profit from chaos and evil. The chance meeting with Kenna throws a bright warm light into his heart and life. He would exchange that life to keep her safe. When tragedy strikes, the bonds of friendship send Kenna, Candace, and Frankie around the world and into the web of human trafficking. Will that bond be enough to ensure their survival? Fans of Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown and Christina Dodd will be captivated by the danger and romance in this first novel of the Stilettos, Stoli & Scribbles series.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Romance
High atop a lonely Sierra Nevada Mountain, fifteen-year-old Jessie, lives in mortal isolation, tormented by a dark shadow from her past. Jessie is a musical protege, but she's a social misfit. Her selfish, abusive father has taught her not to trust people and has cut her off from the world leaving her alone and no longer wanting any part of this life.
A violin and Jessie's talent takes her to a school concert where she is discovered by her Aunt Debbie, who has long been searching for her. Pulled into a world of intrigue,confusion, and love, Jessie meets two brothers that become brutal enemies, as they compete to win Jessie's torn, mysterious heart.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Romance
In this sequel to After Midnight, Quenton takes Alix home to France after years of exile in England, but she is torn between the restoration of her fortune and her dream to build Sterling Wood Stable into a successful racing business. She finds an unlikely friend in her uncle's companion, Nicholas Griffon. Caught by her surprising fondness for him, Alix does not realize shadows from the past are stalking her--until she's trapped by their darkness.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Romance
"Readers will enjoy the warm-hearted celebration of this zesty old woman savoring the hell out of her final years." -Judith Viorst, American writer, journalist, and bestselling author of I'm Too Young To Be Seventy.
They meet by chance. Age doesn't matter.
Having spent her life helping underprivileged women, Roxie, 88, is now content in her woodsy retreat her with her garden, yoga, and art.
With his children launched, Fred, 48, has left his wife and uninspiring job to paint fulltime, shackled only with his demons of doubt.
And then one day in a life drawing class, they meet by chance. Theirs is a love story that shatters orthodoxy as they discover themselves anew.
As the human race leads longer and healthier lives than ever before, Roxie and Fred's love story serves as testament to fully embracing the mind, body and spirit, sexual pleasure included, without succumbing to the fears of older age.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Romance
While her boyfriend Forrest searches for a job, quick witted Annet works at the Keizer Manor where the oils from 19th century master painter Alexander Keizer are exhibited.
After a fight, the couple strolls through the dunes. When dark clouds roll in, the beautiful sunny weather turns into a thunderstorm so violent that they get separated.
The next morning, Forrest finds himself alone. So does Annet.
Regaining consciousness in a monastery, Annet is convinced the nuns are playing a prank on her. It can't be the 1800's! She's a pregnant Twenty-first Century woman and doesn't belong there. But how will she get back to her own time?
It’s the late 1800’s and Claira’s world is turned upside down as she is thrust into a marriage that was previously arranged by her late father. Orphaned, at sixteen with only three dresses and a tattered bible as her possessions, she journeys to Mississippi by train to join her betrothed in holy matrimony. Her new husband to be, William, is gruff and short with her when they meet, obviously ashamed of her poor social status. They are quickly married and she is thrown into caring for his dying mother almost immediately. One night not long after they were wed, William violates his new innocent bride in a drunken stupor. When he realized what he had done the next day he was ashamed and remorseful. He had never been a drinker and the only other time he had been drunk he had vowed to never do it again. After his realization of what he had done he seeks forgiveness and tries to win Claira’s heart. Journey with both Claira and William as they are both in a marriage of convenience that shows them how to endure pain, heartache, overcome mistakes, seek forgiveness, and possibly find love. Content for ages 18+
“Baby, come to me.” We are together; his voice intoxicates me, it’s as potent as whiskey. I hold on tightly, but he still departs; leaving me behind. I am Dorothy Kennedy-Denham, heir to Kennedy Electronics. I’ve outlived friends, my children and my love, Nicky. This small house evaporates, and I return to where it began. The lure to remain is powerful, but I have unfinished business. My family calls this an absence of presence. Their concern begins the process, and they descend on me, it’s decided I should move into a nursing home. Packing my life into boxes, it’s not long before my home is bare. Forgotten photos open the door to a past they never imagined. I won’t apologize; not about the burlesque club or the mobsters I’ve known and loved. They might think my life is unimaginable; my connection with Nicky is unbelievable. But, in the end, I hope they find it inspirational.
Michael Brentwood AKA DJ Mikey Mike, Tampa Bay's hottest radio personality, is the wild and sexy playboy disc jockey of the local hip hop station 99.7 The Vibe. He is gritty and lives life flying by the seat of his pants with a fiery temper that he is not afraid to act on. Michael's equally insatiable sex drive pushes him to quench his thirst, with a different woman every night.
But all of that changes once he meets Cassie Williams, the flawless beauty. She is fresh from New York and is eager to get her life on track in Tampa, FL as Holdings Bank's new Vice President of Corporate Training.
Cassie is determined to succeed, even if she has to get to the top alone. She is willing to find love, but plays by her own rules. When she effortlessly catches the attention of Mikey Mike, Cassie uses her good sense to friend-zone him the minute she meets him.
Their love of hip hop music brings Michael and Cassie together as fast friends and their time together training for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure seals their bond for a lifetime.
Throughout their friendship Cassie's heart warms up to Michael, yet she painstakingly fights back her feelings for him mostly due to what she believes is a major difference--Michael is white and Cassie is black. Or is it the fact that Michael still remains a notorious womanizer? Can Michael convince Cassie that he is a changed man and that she can let go of her heart? Only time will tell in this intriguing comedic drama of love, friendship, and hip hop.
ANNA AT LAST, the first novel by Cherisse M Havlicek tells the parallel tale of two young women, their hardships and their search for true love during the Depression in the 1930's Dust Bowl Era. The EL Dorado, Kansas story follows Anna Masters and her family. They have lost their farm and are forced to pick harvests as hired hands. Anna struggles to reconnect with her childhood sweetheart, Henry, now her 'arranged' fiancé, because he is attracted to the night life and her younger sister. The Lawrence, Kansas story follows Rosanne, a young Jane Doe, who was beaten, raped and left for dead, but is taken in by the well-to-do Lewis Family. She feels she must find her old life even if that means reliving the horrible events that almost killed her. Love and mystery surround these heroines as they come of age during one of the most desperate times in modern American history. The series continues in the next two novels THE LEWIS LEGACY and JUSTICE FOR JOSHUA. Both stories follow the Masters and Lewis families in EL Dorado and Lawrence, Kansas, both in the Present and in the Past.
Carole Barnes once believed she would make her own way in Hollywood, but those days are long gone, leaving behind only a dark, slimy secret that Carole has never shared with anyone. Now she hides in the bright sunshine of the Crystal Coast of North Carolina. As far away as she can get from Hollywood. But what to do when Hollywood comes knocking in the form of a sexy movie star? Connor Wallace has everything going for him—looks, talent, a successful career—but what he really wants is to perform magic on stage. His love of magic leads him back to his mentor Walt Bryson. At first, he’s pleased when Walt suggests his assistant Carole produce a documentary of his transformation from movie star to magician. He’s worked with Carole before—but the ambitious girl who had a crush on him is gone now, leaving a beautiful, withdrawn woman. It’s the perfect arrangement. Carole knows she can make a success of the movie and Connor wants to work with her. But as they grow closer, Connor determines to find out her secret. Can love overcome the boundaries of fear? Or will Carole’s past return to plague them both?
Inside Out, the OutSide Don't Count, God Look at the Heart, begins in McGee, Arkansas, where there aren't many industries, restaurants, or opportunities for young people. There's nothing but cotton and soy bean fields. However, one boy named Paul became tired of slopping the hog and feeding the chickens. His older brother lives in L.A., where he is a big shot in the L.A.P.D. Paul decides to go after his dream there and leave the small town behind.
In this novel, you will find love romance drama, suspense, thrills, action and success.
Two things anchor Joni Crawford to the world of the living - a dog and a dream. After the deaths of her husband and son, she languishes between a life of mere existence and living. Until the picture. A federal investigation, a mob boss and a chance at love enter the widow’s life when she innocently googles the name, Adam Carmichael. CIA agent, Tony Jefferies is working undercover. He has penetrated the Gambini crime family ranks and earned the title of hitman/cleaner.
An NSA report results in a new mission for the agent - to investigate why she is searching for him now. It doesn’t take long for the man to realize she has no recollection of him at the scene of the fatal accident that changed her life. Nor does it take him long to fall in love. Memories of her husband frequently invade their tender moments. Her insecurities, fears and a nagging doubt keep Joni from opening her heart to the man, although she delights the time spent with him. Agent Jefferies, aka Adam Carmichael, has fallen deeply in love but has one fear of his own. Will the woman he calls honey forgive him when she learns of the investigation and deception that brought them together.
While visiting his friend Mr. Charles Bingley, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy makes the acquaintance of Miss Elizabeth Bennet, a lively and intelligent young lady sitting in the corner at a local assembly. Darcy discovers that Elizabeth has a secret. Will this secret drive them apart, or will Darcy be able to overcome Elizabeth's secret and find the love he's dreamed of.
After her mother’s death, Dottie Lester moves to her parent’s hometown of Saplingville, Georgia with her alcoholic father. She wants to escape and go to live with her aunt in Macon, but first, she must get her father settled in his new job. When Dottie meets a handsome pilot and falls in love, her goal changes, but it is still no match for his desire to leave their small town behind and fly for a commercial airline. Victor Douglas, United States Army Air Corps pilot, returns to Saplingville to help his ailing father. He has been flying his own JN-4 Jenny bi-plane for years. That and his army experience qualify him to apply for a job as a commercial airline pilot and win a coveted job offer, but how can he leave his father now, or a budding romance with the pretty new girl in town?
An ice storm unleashes one family's darkest secret, buried in the back yard beneath conjoined trees.
Although she vowed never to go back, nurse Siobhan McCormick returns home after two family members have died and her brother's life is threatened. Her new job introduces her to accident victim Jared Pierce, a man whose casual charm tempts her with the same bad decisions she made in her past. Haunted houses don't sell, and Jared Pierce's family sends him from Louisiana to Illinois to make sure there aren't any ghosts lingering in his great-aunt's house. An accident on an icy road extends his visit from a few days to a few months. Though the house is ghost-free when Jared arrives, a violent ice storm breaks apart a tree and releases the spirits of twin boys who were buried in the backyard. Temporarily disabled by his injuries, Jared needs his nurse's help to give the ghosts peace. There's only one problem. Siobhan doesn't believe in ghosts. Will Jared earn her trust and affection or will Siobhan retreat into the safety of her job?
Classic case of wrong place at the wrong time. Sienna's only hope of survival is Agent Colt Masters. Colt and Sienna must work together to solve the case, but first they must learn to trust each other.
If you like music and romance, you'll love Nothing but a Song...the story of Rebecca Kendall who has a life any nineteen-year-old would envy: musical talent, love, romance, and a promising future. When a tragic accident erases her past, present, and future, Rebecca's life turns into turmoil and irreconcilable loss. Becca faces her new life alone, angry, depressed, and DEAF. Becca wants nothing but a song, but will her dream survive such insurmountable odds? Will she ever take another chance at love? Only a mysterious stranger can answer those questions.
The island of San Saypaz’ is everything sexy, street-smart reporter Toni Jackson dreamed paradise would be—palm trees, white sand beaches, crystal blue waters, and breathtaking sunsets. Finding love with Detective Jameyson Tolliver is icing on the cake. But when a young woman is brutally murdered, Toni discovers paradise has a dark side. Jameyson’s boss, the police chief, may have had a hand in the killing. Evidence disappears, and the vicious crime lord charged with the murder walks. There’s a cover-up going on. Nothing is what it seems, people aren’t who they appear to be. Toni’s determination to uncover the truth comes at a steep price—her sources start turning up dead. Fearing for her life, she flees the island. But someone has plans for her, and paradise may well become a purgatory from which there is no escape!
