"Delightfully amusing . . . One part mystery, one part soap opera, one part identity crises . . . one fun read" from the author of Secret Lives of Second Wives ( Publishers Weekly).Art consultant Ellen Santiago Laws thinks the spark has gone out of her life. Five years a widow, she has a grown daughter, a senile mother and very few prospects for adventure. But after she serves on a jury that convicts a man for murdering the flashy head of an exclu...

Catherine Todd grew up in Southern California and studied at Occidental College and Stanford University. She lived for several years in Costa Rica and Italy, and for extended periods in France and Mexico. She and her husband currently live in San Diego, California, where, in addition to fiction, her business is writing highly specialized permanent residency petitions for exceptionally talented immigrants to the United States.In addition to her works of women's fiction ( Secret L...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single Quote.Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread faster when they carry your message in a single line or paragraph: a Quote.To feel the impact a Quote can have, here ...

From the author of Secret Lives of Second Wives: "a can't-put-it-down novel . . . for every woman who's had to mend a broken heart and get even" ( Redbook).Newly separated from her lawyer husband, Caroline James heads to the spa for a makeover and a massage, looking for a tonic to her battered pride. Instead she encounters Eleanor Hampton, the ex-wife of her spouse's law partner, a woman so bitter she makes Medea look like Anne of Green Gables. Wa...

"A slick, sassy book" from the author of Secret Lives of Second Wives. "Todd's characters are dead on" ( The Oklahoman).This wasn't the way it was supposed to be. Once upon a time, Becky Weston had the life of her dreams—then the Volvo, the beach house, and the luxurious lunches disappeared when her husband went looking for a much younger trophy wife. To top that, her ex is now deceased, and the purse strings of the children's trust fund rest in t...

Two mismatched lovers learn that Christmas is the time for giving . . . and receiving.Christmas is Hollie Winslow's favorite holiday. But as a realtor, she has to work when the clients need her, even during the holidays.Bah Humbug should have been Noel Hawksley's name, but Noel doesn't look anything like a grinch. Devastatingly gorgeous in a menacing sort of way, he demands his own way and expects to get it.If Hollie can't find him a house immediate...

A handsome talk show host goes searching for the secrets of women's deepest desires.When Nicole Hart is bumped without notice from a guest spot on Anthony Gawain's provocative talk show, she is plenty steamed. She decides to get even on camera by pretending to be a sex therapist to address the question posed on his next show: What Do Women Want?As sparks fly between Nicole and the handsome host, it soon becomes clear neither one of them can even re...

"LOVE, ME is humorous and fast-paced; a book that will disappoint the reader only because it's over too quickly." —Rendezvous MagazineDakota Law has a way with words. Country music's brightest star, the lyrics he writes make every woman melt.Chelsea Stone is rock music's legendary bad girl with a mane of dark curls, red lips and flashy long legs, but that's not enough to stop a career on the skids and the big zero in the romance score.Dakota isn't having any of it. And...

"If you like your romance current, sexy and smart . . . read Wendy Chen! You can thank me later" (Donna Kauffman, USA Today–bestselling author).Kate is enjoying being engaged—even if it's actually a hoax. To succeed in her finance job at her ultra-conservative company, she needs to reform her flighty party-girl reputation, and a good old-fashioned marriage of convenience should help her get closer to the promotion of her dreams.But when Adam, Kate'...

An outcast teacher and her former student pursue life and love on the unforgiving frontier in the acclaimed author's tender Western lesbian romance.Pennsylvania, 1870s. Schoolteacher Imogen Grelznik is unashamed of who she is, even if she's had to escape her neighbor's hateful judgments more than once. When she meets beautiful young Sarah, Imogen encourages her to celebrate her own individual spirit—a spirit that Sarah's husband does everything in his powe...

A beautiful lawyer with a checkered past is putting everything on the line for love in this sexy, edgy urban romance from media superstar Wendy Williams.Kimberly Kind is trying to escape her roots. As the new assistant district attorney of New York County, she's finally finding direction in her life and getting off the streets. But a terrible accident threatens to throw her carefully laid plans off course. Now Kim's hiding a huge secret . . . one that could threaten...

For fans of Allison Brennan and Karen Rose comes Carey Baldwin, a daring new name in suspense, with the story of a serial killer out for blood—and the only woman who can stop his reign of terror.They say the Santa Fe Saint comes to save your soul—by taking your life.Newly minted psychiatrist Faith Clancy gets the shock of her life when her first patient confesses to the grisly Saint murders. By law Faith's compelled to notify the authorities, but is her patient really the S...