The Lure Of Annabelle Key Lighthouse (for age 14-16) is a story about a teen, James Campbell who runs away from home with the help of cute and sassy Nicole Trump. She happens to be the daughter of a wealthy businessman. (James runs away because his mother abused him for years.) Nicole "borrows" her father's boat to take James to Annabelle Key Lighthouse.Nicole suffers her own tragedies. Her mother is killed in an accident while James finds out his mother is bipolar.These tw...

The Heart of Christmas, a sweet inspirational romanceWhen Eleanor Clark arrives home for the holidays, the last thing she expects is to run into her high school crush Tad Varner--in her mother's living room. The first Christmas without her brother will be heartbreaking enough--now she has to face the one man she's never been able to put behind her?Christmas is supposed to be a time for family, gifts, and faith. The Clarks have been Tad's only real family, b...

Ranger Will McManis patrols an empty Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone, V-J day and his mother's death on his mind. His grandson, five-year-old Chuck, will leave soon, too, off to faraway Denver, a brand-new life, leaving a huge hole. Will thinks he knows all kinds of change. But out among the geysers with Chuck, something happens to dwarf it all, and nothing will ever be the same again.

Short, sweet story of love and second chancesA family wedding offers a woman hope for a better future.Melissa is determined to put aside her own loneliness to help her sister celebrate her big day. When hot best man Nick shows up at her sister’s wedding rehearsal, Melissa begins to hope she might have her own chance at happiness.This 1,431 word short story is included in the anthology, "A Cat's Tale & Other Love Stories."Cover by Harris Chan...

After falling for a handsome young Australian named Daniel Thornton, Rebecca Williams gives up her life in high society Boston and follows him to his father's cattle station deep in the bush country of late 1800s Queensland.As she acclimates herself to her new surroundings and her new family, Rebecca is unpleasantly surprised to find that Daniel's father, Bertram, not only runs the prosperous cattle station, but also runs his son's life. And his influence doesn't stop there. It seem...

Kate Evans is an adventurous and independent young woman with a pioneering spirit. She pilots a mail-delivery plane in the forbidding Alaskan wilderness, the lone woman in a male profession. But even that seems easy compared to finding true love. She likes a fellow pilot and would even consider marrying him--if it weren't for Paul, a mysterious man on her mail route with a gentle spirit and a past to hide. Can Kate break through the walls Paul has put up around his heart? And will her ques...

Stuck in sleepy New Smyrna Beach one last summer, Raine socks away her camp pay checks, worries about her druggy brother, and ignores trouble: Cal Koomer. She's a plane ticket away from teaching orphans in Africa, and not even Cal's surfer six-pack and the chinks she spies in his rebel armor will derail her.The artist in Cal begs to paint Raine's ivory skin, high cheek bones, and internal sparklers behind her eyes, but falling for her would caterwaul him into his parents' life. No ...

Rhiannon, a Welsh farmer's daughter, is smuggled into a walled English garrison town. Despite her mother's awareness that Rhiannon is at risk of being discovered and accused of treason, she believes her daughter can pass for an Englishwoman and marry an Englishman.Rhiannon is harboured by a merchant and his son but her happiness is shattered when her presence in their home is discovered. Taken to the castle, Rhiannon's fate lies in the hands of Lord Edward. Will Lord Edward believe...

The first of a sweeping trilogy, the award-winning author's frontier love story is "extraordinary . . . [Her] characters spring to life" ( Publishers Weekly).Raised in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee in the 1820s, sixteen-year-old Emma Simms dreams of the day she'll escape her life of poverty to start over in the big city of Knoxville. But when her mother dies, she's left with no one but her drunk, abusive stepfather, Luke Simms, and her dream abr...

Thirty-four year old Madison Winston wants desperately to hold on to her job and take care of her teenage daughter, Selena. Madison loathes her boss, D.R. Fallington, the man making her life miserable. He has equal disdain for her, since he has no interest in a woman older than twenty-three. What started as an ordinary morning in Asheville, NC, at Fallington Enterprises was swiftly reversed by the company matriarch, Edna Fallington. Her sweeping decision sent Madison and D.R. hurtling deep...

A Regency romance "that sweeps the heroine from the ballrooms of London to the grand palaces of Russia" by the bestselling author of Autumn Rain ( Historical Romance Review with Regan Walker).Never thought to be particularly pretty, Englishwoman Katherine Winstead is flattered and overwhelmed by the attentions of the Russian Count Alexei Volsky and his sister Galena. When the count proposes marriage, Kate thinks her dreams have come true, and read...

A "marvelously fast-paced, often funny, and yet tender romance" that pits a man of the law against a wily woman whose passion knows no bounds ( Romantic Times).As the daughter of a con man, Fiona McFee knows how to take care of herself—no matter what. So, when she comes across stoic Deputy Jacob Grey in his birthday suit, bound and tied in a field of foxtails, she's quite pleased to let him lie—even as he swears to never forget her.Three years late...