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Grace Wisdom has already made one wrong decision this day in the name of sex. She’d be damned if she’d make two. So, she walks out of the job interview of her dreams, leaving her potential employer behind, staring after her like she’s crazy. Has she just made the biggest mistake of her life? Maybe. But Mitch Carson, her potential new boss, doesn’t let her walk away so easily. In fact, he follows her.

Rodeo took him from her once. Will it take him again?It’s been a decade since Garth Nash left the Triple R Ranch to become a bull riding star. Now he’s back home to pay his final respects to the man he’d loved like a father, and to console the pesky tomboy he’d loved like a little sister. But there’s nothing pesky or boyish about Amarilla Ray now. She’s a gorgeous, barrel-racing cowgirl who knows exactly what she wants—to compete at the Cowgirl Classic. Just once. And then she can get on with the rest of her life. Rilla loved Garth like a big brother all those years ago, but ...

She's the maid of honor. He's the best man. Both are keeping secrets.While Kim Martin and Thad Winchester find their happily-ever-after in Roses & Rawhide, their best friends, Jillie Abernathy and Mack Montgomery, end their sleeping bag sharing relationship during the rugged, two-week pack trip into the Colorado San Juan mountains. But when Kim and Thad host their wedding at Thad’s Colorado ranch a few months later, Mack and Jillie must come face-to-face with reality—and with each other. She’s the Maid of Honor. He’s the Best Man. Both are harboring secrets—secrets that could ...

Evan MacKay is grateful to have his four brothers working beside him at Sweet Grass Ranch. Maintaining their ranch lifestyle is his priority, but the bank is breathing down his neck, and he worries the ranch can’t support their growing family. Secretly, he waits for the other boot to drop. Turns out the other boots are Jimmy Choo black stilettos worn by the new bank loan manager. Jessica Chase doesn’t claim to be an expert on ranching, but she’s a whiz in finance, particularly in whipping delinquent accounts into shape. As the new kid on the block, she is driven to succeed, and ready ...

Stuck? Stalled? Slow to Start?Authors, this book is for you. If you are a new writer, determined to break into the publishing world, you might think you must do it all—which often slows you down. Or worse, shoots you down the wrong spirally, sticky slope that oddly resembles Alice’s rabbit hole. You keep trying to open the doors to success but can’t find the right key. And just when you think you’ve found the right key, the door cracks open a little wider—enough to glimpse what’s on the other side. Another golden key! It’s sure to bring success. Right? And oh! You want that! ...

Welcome to Carrington, Louisiana, and this deadly romantic comedy series! Three southern-fried comedies with a touch of romance, a side of mystery, a smattering of paranormal, and three crazy sisters…. Freshly Dead, Book 1 All Mitzi Winston wants is enough money to pay this month’s mortgage payment. That is the only reason she even considers the phone sex job. Ever since her husband’s disappearance, she has held things together nicely—until recently. And now, well, she just needs the money. Biting the bullet, she goes for the interview, only to find that the phone sex job isn’t ...

No one ever kissed her like Ethan. No one. And even after all this time, Brandley remembered his kiss—this kiss—like she’d had one every day since the day he left her. Navy SEAL Ethan MacKay returns to Sweet Grass Ranch to recuperate from an injury suffered on a mission, and eventually help manage the South Dakota family ranch with his identical twin brother, Evan. But he’s been gone too long, and he’s not the man who left the ranch over a dozen years ago. Not by a long shot. His body broken, and hopefully not his mind, he prays what they say is true—that cowboy runs deep in ...

She's from the wrong side of the tracks. He's a rich bad boy with a past. Neither think they are good enough for the other. Mira Featherstone knows her place in life and it's not with Jake Remington. Rich guys play on the wrong side of the tracks, but they don’t bring girls like her home to mama. Since Mira has no expectations beyond the moment, she doesn’t mind playing—and she loves toying with the bad boy lawyer, until it gets her into trouble with her boss, Chandler West. Jake Remington is a wealthy Texas cowboy whose family land borders West Hills Ranch, owned by Chandler West. ...

A thrilling time travel novel set in a dystopian future featuring a pirate cult based on Blackbeard lore. Can souls touch through dreams and find their way home again?Jackson Porter seeks to fulfill his mother, Claire Porter’s, dying request, and find answers about the imaginary lover who haunts his nights. His future, he learns, is in a place called Ohio, miles and centuries away from his barrier island home in 1745. The land, his dying mother tells him, is his legacy. She urges him to claim it. In the year 2038, Kari Upton is driven to fight federal sanctions to save her land and her ...

“I don’t make commitments.” He shrugged. “Me either." “Even so, it will never work, you know, you and me.” Tate remembered thinking that a challenge. “Oh? And why not?” “Because we’re too much alike.” “Could work to our advantage.” She cocked her head. “How so?” “If we’re so much alike, then there will be no surprises.” She pulled back and laughed. “Until the sky falls and one of us doesn’t see it coming.” Detective Jordan Cross has one thing on her mind—get the bastard killing kids in her small southern city, the person she thinks is also ...

Small town. Check. Love triangle. Check. Murder. Maybe. Deception. Definitely.Two years after Kate Cooper's law enforcement husband is murdered on the job, she finds herself falling for another man. When that man turns out to be not whom she thought, and when her husband turns out to not be dead after all, she realizes she's been double-crossed. ATF Agent Michael Lassiter knows Kate's husband is alive and well. When he goes undercover in Kate's elementary classroom posed as a school drug cop, his mission is to find out what Kate knows about her husband's supposed death, his involvement in a...

Leaving Noah is a heartwarming tale of love, loss, second chances, and the power of the written word.When a rodeo accident leaves Rock Creek Ranch shorthanded, Connie MacKay travels from South Dakota to Montana to visit her daughter and help with the neighboring ranch’s cattle roundup. Raised on a ranch and comfortable in the saddle, she is determined to help. After decades of working ranches throughout the northwest, Noah Parker heads home to Rock Creek to stay—maybe. That all depends on the reception he gets from family. When he arrives, the last person he expects to see there is ...

When Emma Lavender is called to corporate headquarters at the end of her first week of employment at WestInn Hotels, she is shocked at the proposition offered by the company CEO. So shocked, in fact, she takes him up on his offer. Emma is your average college graduate—eager to make a go of her first job and pay off those student loans. Fresh out of a relationship going nowhere, she leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, behind and heads for the wild west—Billings, Montana. But in Montana, no one takes her seriously or appreciates her southern belle upbringing, except for one man—CEO of ...

Another deadly romantic comedy—three sisters, a smattering of ghost, a touch of romance, a boatload of mystery, and a stitch of southern humor. Molly Campbell had everything—a gorgeous Louisiana mansion, a rich husband, and a lucrative career. Had—not has—because her redneck husband dies in a seven-car pileup on the way to a monster truck pull, setting off a chain of events that leaves her penniless and moving into her deceased Gran’s home in Carrington, Louisiana. To say lifestyle change is a bitch is an understatement. She misses Don (and admittedly, his money) but doesn’t ...

A time travel novel of suspense, intrique, and romance. Can lost souls reunite across time, when the demons of the past refuse to go away?Be careful for what you wish…. Pitched from a ship during a violent storm in the year 1746, Victoria Porter washes ashore, only to be rescued by a man on a strange mechanical beast who whisks her away into a world beyond anything she could have imagined. In 2014, Colton MacKenzie fears he has written his last bestselling horror novel until he discovers two things—The Cult of Teach and a tantalizing nymph wandering an Ocracoke Island beach. Fascinated ...

A southern-fried comedy with a touch of romance, a side of mystery, a smattering of paranormal, and three crazy sisters…. All Mitzi Winston wants is enough money to pay this month’s mortgage payment. That is the only reason she even considers the phone sex job. Ever since her husband’s disappearance, she has held things together nicely—until recently. And now, well, she just needs the money. Biting the bullet, she goes for the interview, only to find that the phone sex job isn’t real and she’s too late—not for the interview, but to save her husband. For there he is, dead on ...

When Parker Rankin’s father dies, he expects life on the ranch to change. What he didn't expect was Reba Morris.Parker wonders how much his stepmother, Abby, has influenced his father’s final wishes. Although Abby has been a part of his life for years, her goals for the ranch are different from his: he wants to keep it a working cattle ranch; she wants to convert it to a dude ranch. All Parker wants is to continue his way of life—running the Montana ranch until the day he dies, just like his father. The last thing he expects the day of his father’s funeral is for life to throw him ...

A modern Red Riding Hood retelling in the Bayou….When Garnet Boudreaux’s boss tells her she’s headed to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, she immediately resists. She doesn’t want to go, and she’s not certain what will be waiting for her when she arrives, because going to New Orleans means going home—and home is not a place she wants to be. But standing in the voodoo shop on Bourbon Street, she’s told by Madame Madeleine Dupuis she has no choice. The witchy woman presses two pouches into Garnet’s hands, wraps a red cape around her, and tells her she must go—and go now—to ...

“This is reality, Isaac, not role play."She stared hard into his eyes. "And if it were role play, darling, I would be the one giving the orders, not you.” “That right.” “Damned straight.” “Maybe I’m not into reality.” “You better be. I want out of this thing alive. The Chief Financial Officer of the non-profit Cerise Thacker runs has been cooking her financial books. The DA fears the CFO’s deep family roots will come after her, particularly after the CFO states he will “see to her death.” So, Cerise is whisked away in a cab into a short-term police protection ...

One more deadly romantic comedy. Meet Mitzi, Molly, and Marla—three sisters, southern-fried born-and-bred, and the ghosts who love them. Marla Newberry has no interest in dating someone local. She much prefers midnight runs to a biker bar in Shreveport. Cooter Haines, drummer for a Grateful Dead tribute band called Skull Bone, owns the biker bar called The Deadhead. He also happens to be the only guy who can curl her toes like a sprung guitar string. And while she enjoys surrendering to his toe-curling on occasion, she’s not interested in bringing the long-haired drummer home to daddy--...