A BATTLE OF HEARTSBastard son of a king, Aleksandr has scrimped and saved to attend the races at King Asad's City by the Sea. Nothing will stop Aleksi from returning home with a string of fine horses, a sizable purse of gold, and an easy tempered wife who will bear his children. What he finds is a spitting tigress with unparalleled beauty, a will of iron, and a mare she assures him will beat his stallion. She's also the king's pampered, spoiled daughter and is off limits. But that ...

STAR CROSSEDA northern princess captured by pirates is sold into slavery and gifted as dowry to the cruel father of a prince betrothed to a woman he despises. So is the lot of Oona, the Swan, an exceptional singer and dancer, stolen from her father's ship along with her sister, the Dove. Of all the horrors that awaits them, including training to be pleasure women for the brutal king, Oona never would have believed his son, Asad, the lion, Prince Black Mane of the Southern Great Val...

WE ARE OUR FUTUREAlyssa asked Jerrik to marry her when she was eight-years-old. When he finally makes good on his promise to return when she's old enough to wed, nothing could prepare her for what becoming his queen truly means.Jerrik is haunted by a tortured past, and has done everything he can to avoid any ties to his parents' mistakes. Life has other plans, and against his wishes, he agrees to assume the cursed throne that has taken the lives of his loved ones. Now a kin...

DREAMS AND OMENSWith a temper fiery enough to warn off any soldier not to take what isn't offered, Lara's reputation as a wildcat is deadly. To add to her troubled life, which keeps most villagers at bay, she was born with the ability to foretell the death of her friends, enemies, and lovers.When Lara's arrested for assaulting a guard, she's cast into servitude under Talon, the king's captain. She's foreseen meeting Talon for most of her life, and is now living her own priv...

FOREVER HER MANThey'd been together since they were babes. Wil and Issy, joined at the hip. Closer than best friends, they knew each other's minds. They were family.As teenagers, Wil knew Issy would be his forever. But the fiercely independent Isabeau couldn't see the future Wil imagined.He left to become the King's Guard, and returned home after seven long years to fulfill a mission for his king. Still harboring a bruised heart, he could barely stand to be around I...

A LIFE FORESEENBorn with the family gift of foretelling dreams, Hugh LeCuir met his angel at the age of seven. Every year since, on the Summer Solstice, she comes to him in his dreams, growing from a darling babe to a beautiful woman.This Summer Solstice, he is bound by orders from his king.As captain of the King's Guard, he and his men are charged to protect and escort Lady Astrid, her party, and her dowry to Bordeaux, where she is to marry Count Robert in an all t...

CLOSING THE CIRCLEAs with all the women in her line, Alina leads with her heart, but she never forgets the lessons of her heritage. Believing she's finally found a man worthy of her love, she's shattered when he betrays her.But the tides change quickly and fate begins to shift to her side.The second son of a laird, Roark is forced to live with a more powerful laird to help his family's fortune. He grows up believing the stories he's told, and accepts his role in a d...

HONORABLE MENTION, 2024 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award in Edited Collection!A collection of accessible, interdisciplinary essays that explore archival practices to unsettle traditional archival theories and methodologies.What would it mean to unsettle the archives? How can we better see the wounded and wounding places and histories that produce absence and silence in the name of progress and knowl...

Book 1 of The Redemption Detective Agency.When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Or maybe a gin and tonic.Emily Hildebrandt has run into a bit of a rough patch. She’s lost her job, her fiance and her apartment. Still, she never expected to be desperate enough to accept an invitation to live with her eccentric Aunt Tilde in Redemption, Wisconsin.But, beggars can’t be choosers. Even if part of the deal is she has to pretend to work at her aunt’s l...

Book 2 of the Redemption Detective AgencyEmily Hildebrandt is not having a good week.First off, she’s tasked with looking for, of all things, a missing dog. And not just any missing dog, but one owned by the aunt of Nick Stewart’s girlfriend, Trisha.Like she wants anything to do with Nick. Ever. She’s dating someone new and ready to take her life back.Except…that missing dog case takes a strange turn when the owner tells her she never had a ...

Meet Charlie Kingsley. Also known as “Aunt Charlie” from the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series. She's back, making teas and solving cases in this funny, twisty, cozy mystery series set in the 1990s in Redemption, Wisconsin.Enjoy the first three full-length books of The Charlie Kingsley Mysteries:The Murder Before Christmas: A dead husband. A pregnant wife. A poisoned Christmas gift. Can Charlie discover the grinch who stol...

Twenty-four years ago, five-year-old Tori walked into her newborn brother's room in the middle of the night to see a shadowy figure abducting him.The next morning, her baby brother’s lifeless body was found in the crib.No one believes what she saw that night. Not her father. Not her mentally unstable mother. Not the police. In fact, there’s even some suspicion that Tori is somehow involved.Years later, Tori is stuck in a job she hates, hiding from her past, afraid t...