For one year I wrote each member of my family a short story for their birthdays. For each one I picked up their personality traits, quirks and little idiosyncrasies. I wrote some around hobbies, some around obsessions and some just out of badness.Each one was written with love. So much so that I felt I could get away with literary murder.Enjoy.

Max's life is thrown into turmoil when he is made redundant from his job with a large London insurance company, and with no money coming in, he is forced to take a bar job as a stop-gap.During his search for work he spends more and more time with his house mate, Kate, and gradually realises he has found the job he wants, and doesn't want to return to the world of insurance. The announcement of this fact to his family, however, is easier put off.Within days of starting his n...

From award-winning author Tera Lynn Childs comes a fun, flirty story about friendship, fashion, and how far one girl will go to avoid another conversation about her ex.“Eye Candy is a romance that's just as sweet and addicting as candy, without the high sugar content” — The YA Lit ChickEvery girl deserves something sweet...Lydia Vanderwalk has worked hard to have the perfect job, the perfect wardrobe, and the perfect everything else. She on...

Seldom have two women had so little and everything in common. One exudes the pedigree of high society while the other would rather party like a rock star, thank you very much. The two meet at college in Montreal shortly after Astrid has been uprooted from her home in Australia, just as Dandy is setting her eyes on the horizon and wondering what life will have in store. Both are drawn to professional musicians.The men who love them have their own story to tell as they establish thei...

There’s a lot more to Freddie than a bad haircutHelping someone with a makeover is the last thing Samantha has in mind, but when she sees old school friend Freddie in her favourite coffee shop, she can’t resist. Freddie isn’t the only one who needs help. Samantha has been living a lie, and Freddie makes her see the truth with startling clarity. Will their growing attraction get in the way of finding out who they really are?

Months after he stole her affections—then her executive chef position—Shyann and Luke meet again under sizzling circumstances, competing head-to-head on a televised cooking show called Kitchen Twist. Each arrives with a motive: Luke intends to win back Shyann’s heart, even as she wants closure on the not-so-tasty heartbreak he once served up.Luke knows culinary masterpieces require a delicate touch, but that knowledge is tossed out with the leftovers as he works to show Shyann he’s...

The Spyglass Project is the first book of the Secret Six series set in the Prohibition era of 1920s Chicago, featuring Major Michael Malone as an alcoholic ex-military intelligence officer who infiltrates the city’s underground to expose a crime lord funding the rise of Adolf Hitler. The book opens with a Prologue set eight years earlier in a prisoner-of-war camp in Wittenberg, Germany, during World War 1.In the Enemy’s Shadow begins where the Prologue in The Spyglass Project ends ...

A short story and the prequel to Second Chances.Two workaholics slow down long enough to find love when they least expect it.Renaldo da Silva is on the verge of entering the U.S. market with the purchase of a hotel in downtown Chicago. After working hard for several days straight, he heads to a local bar and sees a woman who instantly makes him reconsider how to spend his evening.When another one of her male counterparts unfairly becomes the lead on a proje...

USA Today bestselling author Juliet Spenser brings you another contemporary romance set in the small town of Bliss Harbor, where love and laughter are just around the corner…High school English teacher Rachel Chapman spends her free time writing naughty love stories just for fun—and for her eyes only. But when a notebook of her writing accidentally falls into the hands of the sexy, fun-loving Tyler Kalinger, Rachel will do anything to get it back before he reads it. Becaus...

36 Hours SerialAs a devastating summer storm hits Grand Springs, Colorado, the next thirty–six hours will change the town and its residents forever….Lightning Strikes Part 1At Vanderbilt Memorial's E.R., the power goes out, casualties flood in and hospital staff must fight for lives in the dark.Doctors Noah Howell and Amanda Jennings, once lovers, are thrown together to save the lives of two teen car crash victims. Amanda th...

36 Hours SerialAs a devastating summer storm hits Grand Springs, Colorado, the next thirty-six hours will change the town and its residents forever….Cinderella Story Part 1The night the lights go out at the lodge, waitress Nina Lindstrom flees the arms of millionaire Alex Bennett after a romantic dance. But he's determined not to lose sight of the beautiful stranger. Finding her days later, he has a business proposition for...

Can you ever go home again?Growing up, Gen spent her summers on an island off the coast of Maine. There she made friends, was kissed for the very first time, and fell in love.Her friends—Cissy, Mac, Elliott, Dewey, and Meredith—were her lifeline back then. They grew up together, discovered the wonders and traumas of being a teenager guided by the wonderful Mrs. B., and promised to be forever friends.But life had a funny way of taking all Ge...