Romance

Revenge is the dish that’s best served cold. Karen was living the outward appearance of a life most people would envy. Only she knew it was an abusive marriage and she had no intention of allowing it to continue.

When her husband, Nathan, landed a new position as the Operations Manager for Duvall Beverage and Distribution, he bought her a new house, a new car and promised things would be different.

Nathan took the job left vacant by Eric Kirkland. His death had been under mysterious circumstances and his sister, Laurel, refused to believe foul play wasn’t involved and felt the need to make sure Nathan knew what might lie ahead.

When his well planned career started to crumble at his feet, Karen happily watched from the sidelines as all Nathan’s efforts to hurt her were turned towards trying to save himself....

This novel is based on the real life of a Southern lady, Aldeen the Queen. Raised in a wealthy family with a Civil War/Slaveholding history, she was crushed when her teenage lover was banished by her father. The Queen recovered and became independent and the manager of the family businesses. A series of deaths and the quandary of being jilted as a teenager impacted Aldeen but she matured and was married and widowed by four husbands. Inheriting significant wealth from each husband, Aldeen became a successful business woman.

Her banished lover accumulated a trust fund and bequeathed it to the Queen at his death.

Despite her brusk, terse personality, and outspoken bigotry, Aldeen the Queen was a generous humanitarian.

Let Me Think is the third book in the Lonely Roots Poems and Prose series. It is a book about the most important thing in anyone’s, life – love. How special Willie was – his letters, his poems, his art and most important of all – his love. Willie touched me deeply, my heart still feels love for Willie unconditionally.

We met Amy Mary Theresa O’Brien Garret in SUGAR TIME. Her husband, Wally, left to join the Seabees, a branch of the Navy. He expected Amy to manage their small farm along with their daughters, Sissy and Beth Ann and her foster daughter, Shirley Temple.

Amy survives the attack by Mrs. Warwick, a German spy. When Amy learns Wally, her husband, is AWOL from the Navy she is determined to find him. She plans to buy his share of the farm. Amy is in love with Captain Rob Weeks and she needs Wally’s signature on an application to the catholic bishop to get her marriage annulled.

BEYOND SUGAR TIME continues the life of Amy Mary Theresa O’Brien Garret and her family. “I should have known,” Rob murmured as he kissed me. I heard the train come hissing into the station. I tore myself away from Rob and ran to the train. My journey begins.”

Touching Someone is the second book in the Lonely Roots Poems and Prose series. It is a book about the most important thing in anyone’s, life – love. How special Willie was – his letters, his poems, his art and most important of all – his love. “Willie, you touched me deep, my heart still feels love unconditional, your powerful rays left me gleaming.”

To be given a second chance to fall back in love with the one that got away. He was and still is every bit of the word gentleman. Jordin couldn’t put the blame on her boyfriend Quentin; it was entirely her fault for their breakup while they were in college.

No longer under her parent’s rules, Jordin was free to do as she pleased. Her life began to spiral out of control once she started hanging out with her roommate Robyn. Although she was aware there was no pressure on her to do anything; Robyn knew how to manipulate her. Being around her brought out entirely another side of Jordin that she wanted to keep a secret. A double life she lived. Straight laced around her boyfriend Quentin and his friends, but when it comes to Robyn and her friends, she got totally turned up. It didn’t end just in college.

There it lay on the kitchen table in the same place where Jordin left it a week ago. She noticed it many times, never thinking to throw it away. One of these days she planned on putting it to use; it was given to her by a friendly face. Someone who she didn’t even know, saying take this, it will solve all your problems.

Even though they tried their best not to navigate into each other’s lanes uninvited when it came to their personal affairs; once Jordin’s friends Kiani, Chris, and Jasmine found out her secret they had her back from day one. This day and age, it’s hard to find good friends. They are few and far between.

Ashley, a colleague at Foster and Emerson, is a thorn in her side. She had been nipping at her heels before and after she got promoted. To top things off, she was always in someone’s business.

It’s four years since Tracy Mahon and her daughters, Emily and Annie, were attacked by Matt Gallagher. They survived and went on with their lives. Tracy’s business, CREATIVE HOME CONSULTING, is a success. She and her partner, Charity, are developing plans to decorate a hotel in Amsterdam. Emily is planning to graduate from Eastern University and Annie is studying law at the University of Washington. All is right with their worlds. Suddenly with no warning Tracy finds herself being harassed. She and Mike, who are deeply in love, part. Emily arrives home with devastating news and Annie manages to shock her mother. Once again dark shadows hover.

Tracy believes since the death of Ruth and Knuckles’ adopted baby their lives will return to normal. Not so. We follow the women, as each of them realize their strengths come from faith in one another and ultimately in themselves. Tracy and Mike realize their love is a gift from the vision of an artist. Did it arrive too soon or too late?

Sabrina has only worked at the Miami, Florida airport for a few months when an anonymous customer complaint alters the course of her life forever. Suddenly she must learn to adapt to a completely foreign and dangerous lifestyle – one where there’s no running from her fear or returning to her California-based sister. It’s a world where assassins operate in the dark of night, using unorthodox weapons that she must learn to supply. The man training her is a mischievous green-eyed hunk, but he’s hardly sympathetic to her unfortunate circumstances. Can she shed her mouse-like view on life and embrace her new family, or will she die in the midst of chaos?

Miranda uses her waist-length banana curls and golden-brown eyes to belie how dangerous she can be. As a petite assassin for a secret society, she’s trained to kill monsters – murderers, pedophiles, and rapists – that escape justice. Her love-life is a rollercoaster-like disaster when Sabrina makes her debut into the society. Now she needs to put the men in her life aside long enough to teach Sabrina how to survive in her world. Will betrayal and romance ultimately lead to destruction, or will friendship and loyalty win in the end?

Elizabeth Harris should be the happiest woman in the world. Her career was soaring and she was engaged to a man she adored. Those were the only good things because the rest of her family was falling apart including four dysfunctional sisters and one under-employed brother. She was the one trying to hold things together, deal with their mother’s illness and plan her wedding. She needed faith-filled encouragement that could only be found Halfway to Heaven.

Wilderness Passion is the story of a man that went through a horrible experience in war. He was so emotionally devastated that when he returned home he was unable to return to civilian life. He decided to walk deep into the wilderness of Minnesota, built a cabin on a lake, and had no contact with the outside world for years. Finally after years he meets two men that change his life forever. Because of the two men he eventually meets a woman from the city that he falls madly in love with. Johnny and Pamela are torn between love and their lifestyles. Johnny was a wilderness man who loved nature and Pamela was a city woman. Neither could imagine living where the other did. Could they reach a compromise because of their love for each other or were they doomed for failure?