"Twilight" is a Hero-and-the-Monster plot with a Happy Love ending. "The Hunger Games" is Utopia/Dystopia, and "Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man's Chest" is a Nautical Adventure. Millions of viewers tune in to the popular "CSI" television series, and all three variations use the Cat-and-Mouse plot. "The Lord of the Rings" is Fantasy Adventure, and "Romeo and Juliet" is the quintessential Doomed Love plot.How would you like to write bestsellers like "Pride and Prejudice" (Happy L...

A sexy magician entices an innocent young girl to his magical, dangerous theatre.Trapped beneath her mother's control, Olivia longs to be an actress and live a magical life. In her little world, she's a star upon the stage. Yet her dreams stay locked in her head - until a mysterious stranger gifts to her an enchanted ticket. What wonders it will unleash!Olivia goes to the theatre, where glowing gaslights, strange voices, and golden mirrors are controlled by...

A Sexy Magician Entices an Innocent Young Girl to his Magical, Dangerous TheatreTrapped beneath her mother's control, Olivia longs to be an actress and live a magical life. In her little world, she's a star upon the stage. Yet her dreams stay locked in her head - until a mysterious stranger gifts to her an enchanted ticket. What wonders it will unleash!Olivia goes to the theatre, where glowing gaslights, strange voices, and golden mirrors are controlled by a masterful magic...

Harriet Tate may be a sea captain's daughter, but she doesn't believe in buried treasure. She's logical, practical, and runs her family's shipping company.So, when Jonah Herrick's mysterious letter arrives from a remote place called Fogbound Manor, Harriet dismisses it entirely. She's not going to Herrick Island and look for pirate gold. That's nonsense.But her father drowned, the company is going bankrupt, and Harriet has to make a choice: lose everything she ever worked f...

"Twilight" is a Hero-and-the-Monster plot with a Happy Love ending. "The Hunger Games" is Utopia/Dystopia, and "Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man's Chest" is a Nautical Adventure. Millions of viewers tune in to the popular "CSI" television series, and all three variations use the Cat-and-Mouse plot. "The Lord of the Rings" is Fantasy Adventure, and "Romeo and Juliet" is the quintessential Doomed Love plot.How would you like to write bestsellers like "Pride and Prejudice" (Happy L...

Gripping Civil War Novel about losing Paradise and gaining Hell.It's June 1862, the second summer of the Civil War. The battle of Shiloh has already claimed 4,000 casualties and 33 regiments have already left Boston for the war-front. President Lincoln has given Massachusetts a quota to fill - 300,000 more are needed at once!Despite the war raging around him, Daniel Stuart couldn't care less.He's a rich kid just trying to get throug...

A poor Maine farm girl meets her surprising destiny -With her father dead from a Civil War battle and her mother succumbing to tuberculosis, Esther Perry struggles to keep her meager existence going. When an unexpected visitor lands on her doorstep with an incredible offer, Esther is forced to let her farm go and face an uncertain future in a distant city. She finds friendship from an unexpected source, a handsome bachelor catches her eye, and she copes with the lo...

Harriet Tate may be a sea captain's daughter, but she doesn't believe in buried treasure. She's logical, practical, and runs her family's shipping company.So, when Jonah Herrick's mysterious letter arrives from a remote place called Fogbound Manor, Harriet dismisses it entirely. She's not going to Herrick Island and look for pirate gold. That's nonsense.But her father drowned, the company is going bankrupt, and Harriet has to make a choice: lose everything she ever worked f...

"Sebastian proves she is a new force to be reckoned with in historical romances.”--BooklistSome of Ben Sedgwick’s favorite things:Helping his poor parishionersBaby animalsShamelessly flirting with the handsome Captain Phillip DacreAfter an unconventional upbringing, Ben is perfectly content with the quiet, predictable life of a country vicar, free of strife or turmoil. When he’s as...

A whirlwind, opposites-attract romance between an adventurous spinster and a cinnamon roll hero, from a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author:Lifelong romantic Thaddeus Middleton is on the hunt for a wife. He hopes to find a woman more attracted to him than to money. Instead, he finds himself drawn to a spitfire who isn’t interested in him at all! At least, that’s what she says when she’s not kissing him beneath the stars...Miss Priscilla Weatherb...

Sparks fly when a daring diva clashes with an ice-coldwar hero in the newest thrilling romance in USA Today bestselling authorJulie Anne Long’s Palace of Rogues series.She arrives in the dead of night,a mob out for blood at her heels: Mariana Wylde, the “Harlot of Haywood Street,”an opera diva brought low by a duel fought for her favors. But the ladies of theGrand Palace on the Thames think they can make a silk purse from...

A surprising offer…Spinster Sylvia Hillcrest will never marry, but that does not mean she has to ignore the occasional flirtation aimed her way, or the chance to indulge her secret vice in societies best card rooms. When she’s suddenly given a fortune to wager, but asked to lose it to one particular family, it’s an intriguing challenge too irresistible to pass up. So too is the devilish marquess carelessly flirting with her every chance he gets.…a secret deligh...