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Scottsdale Heat: a funny, romantic, thrilling mystery... (Laura Black Mysteries Book 1)

Scottsdale Squeeze: a funny, romantic, thrilling mystery... (Laura Black Mysteries Book 2) 

 

Book 1:  Take one devastatingly handsome Scottsdale police detective. Add one outrageously sexy female investigator who only wants to save the world. Introduce her to the gorgeous bad-boy of the local crime family. Mix in a dose of murder, a pocketful of diamonds, and a handful of Russian mobsters...And you’ve got yourself some SCOTTSDALE HEAT .

Book 2:  In this thrilling romantic mystery, Laura Black is an investigator for the highly successful but slightly shady Scottsdale lawyer, Lenny Shapiro. This time, she’s tracking down a wealthy Scottsdale cougar named Jacky Wade, who’s been missing for a week and her clueless boyfriend, Terry Lennox, is getting desperate. But even after Laura manages to find Jacky, it seems that the trouble is only beginning. First is the death threat. Next there’s the murder. Finally there’s the kidnapping. Laura’s best friend Sophie and fellow investigator Gina Rondinelli help with the hunt while Laura enlists a group of man-hungry cougars to search the nightclubs of Scottsdale. Unfortunately, this all leads Laura into the arms of Carlos the Butcher, a guy with some serious anger issues.

If this wasn’t enough to keep her busy, Laura’s next door neighbor, Grandma Peckham, is on the prowl for a new boyfriend and she’s in serious need of Laura’s dating advice. All of this might even be manageable if it wasn’t for the fact that Laura is also trying to start a real relationship with plainclothes cop Jack Reno. The only problem there is that she is also having romantic thoughts about the gorgeous and dangerous crime lieutenant, Maximilian.

With equal parts humor, action, and mystery, Scottsdale Squeeze is the perfect light, fast, and fun summer novel.

Lost and Found: Book One of the Emi Lost & Found series

 

Emi Lost & Found series - Winner of the Best Happily Ever After of 2013 - HEA Bookshelf

“There was true depth to the story and the characters that moved me and emotionally gutted me. I was so taken by Nate and Emi’s love for each other. It’s the kind of love that few have and many desire but never get to experience.” - Megan, Reading Books Like a Boss

Independent and sensitive, idealistic and hopeful, Emi Hennigan lives her life with optimism and an open mind. Between sharing a tiny Manhattan apartment with her fun-loving roommate and spending most of her free time with her heart-breaker friend, Emi’s seen enough failed relationships to know what to avoid in her quest to find her true love. Not only that, but a single moment from her past lingers in her mind, setting high expectations for every man she dates.

Emi’s best friend, artist and hopeless romantic Nate Wilson, has been her closest companion all of their adult lives. After swearing off love with Emi in a silly high school pact, Nate has been seeing other women in hopes of finding one that evokes stronger feelings than the ones he’s been harboring for Emi since he was a teen. Over the span of a year, boundaries are crossed, feelings are confessed, and their unique friendship begins to blossom into something more.

Through Nate’s eyes, an atypical romance unfolds, disrupting the comfortable safe haven their friendship has provided. With a promising future ahead of them both, fate intervenes to bring two soul mates together. 

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Nameless

 A young woman awakes in a field with no memory of how she got there or who she is. Struggling to put the pieces together from a past just out of memory’s reach, Eve finds a new name and a new beginning in Brighton Valley. But no matter how safe she feels or how much she grows to love the people in her new life, Eve knows her past holds a secret that may destroy her chance at happiness.

Driving along highway 83, Nick happens upon a girl on the side of the road. Soaked to the bone with rain and battling back fear of a past she can’t recall, Nick is drawn to the strength of soul and frail beauty the young woman possesses. Naming her Eve to help her fill the void, Nick finds he cannot resist the draw to know her, protect her. But the closer he gets to the sweet, mysterious, Eve, the harder it becomes to let go. And he knows he must. For Eve cannot truly be his until she confronts the demons of her past.

Heart Marks The Spot:  Three Short Stories

A tiny trio of shorts, combined with the eccentric and the romantic, plus bold humor and happy endings--or are they? Find out more, simply by clicking on the book!

A Civil War (Secrets Of The South) Book 1

 

An old attic keeps its secrets for more than a century but when two women find a journal written by a slave, those secrets begin to unravel one by one. Follow Evangeline and Lily through the turbulent years before and during the Civil War as they fight wars of their own insearch of meaning and values in a time of change and destruction. Eve must watch helplessly as Lily rejects her first love to chase her mother’s dreams of education. Lily marries an older man who appears to be the epitome of Southern gentility. This man, however, has a dark side few can see and the relationship spirals into abuse and pernicious control. Evangeline and Earl try to protect Lily and her children as their lives intertwine in an ever-tightening circle until Lily’s father is shot by an angry mob while protecting Earl. Finally two children of love bring the family full circle, but the shackles of society and small men hold them still. The signing of a document at Appomattox in 1865 emancipated no one.

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New Man In Town

USA Today bestselliing author Patricia Kay delivers a sexy romance that is lighthearted but still contains the emotional punch her readers have come to expect.

Playwright Alex Summerfield can't wait to get away from New York City. From his devastating divorce to a difficult bout of writer's block, his problems have made his life miserable. A working vacation in the quiet town of Juliette, New York is just the thing to get him back on track. The last thing he needs is to get stopped for speeding. And it certainly doesn't help that the cop who stops him is a sexy, blue-eyed vixen who just happens to be the sheriff of Juliette.

Sheriff Veronica Valentine has heard of Alex Summerfield -- of course, she has. She's even seen a few of his shows, but she had no idea he was a tall, dark-haired, gorgeous hunk. When his gray eyes pin hers as he argues about the speeding ticket she's writing, she knows he's trouble. And when she discovers he's the person who's rented the carriage house at the back of the property where she lives, she is very much afraid trouble has just landed at her back door.

As the summer days begin to heat up, so does the attraction between Ronnie and Alex. And even as Ronnie encourages his progress on the new play, she tries to ignore the desire that swells whenever he's near. All too soon, she knows, the season will end, and Alex will return to the city, leaving her with a broken heart and only the memory of a scorching summer passion.

In Her Way

Julep Maddox wants one thing: to launch her dental practice.

In her way: a hot-mess of a secretary, a delicious distraction named Andrew, oh, and also… the mob.

Now instead of focusing on her business, she’s doing j-turns in the middle of the night, using dental floss as a weapon, and hiding in a strange bathroom to solve a kidnapping.

What else could possibly go wrong?

Across The Formidable Sea

 

The death of her beloved father changes Laura Elliott’s life irrevocably. The spirited young American has barely begun to recover from her loss when her mother remarries – to a British earl. The two of them are whisked across the Atlantic to the green expanses of Coventry, where Laura finds herself adrift in high society, unable to fit in and lonelier than she’s ever been. Then, two new people enter her life and turn her world on its ear. Her stepfather’s new accountant, the handsome and accomplished Graham, shows her the kindness she has been missing since arriving in England. But Sarah Byrne, a modern young woman from the toughest part of Birmingham and youngest sister of its notorious crime family, has intentions of pulling Laura in an entirely different direction. As Laura manages her new friendships, she finds herself faced with the questions that plague twenty-year-olds in every era: who she is, what home means to her, and what the consequences of her choices will be.

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The Alaskan (Sweet Love Series)  

She has to find him!

Abigail Stuart is a freelance photographer who’s trying to hunt down the elusive tycoon, Kurt Halden, who suddenly disappeared without a trace. She has information about his dead fiancée that will bring him vindication from the past. When she meets him in his reclusive cabin in Alaska, she expects to encounter an aggressive, arrogant business genius. Instead, she finds a ruggedly sexy, sincere man that might steal her heart, if her career wasn’t standing in the way.

Kurt Halden despises reporters for the way they treated him when his fiancée died and he was accused of embezzling one billion dollars. To escape the harassment he moved to a beautiful yet desolate hideaway in Alaska. In four years he’s encountered only two people until he has to pull Abigail Stuart from her crashed plane. He doesn’t trust her, yet he’s forced to live with her until a rescue plane arrives to retrieve her. He tries to keep his guard up and hold tight to his secrets, but he’s finding it impossible not to fall in love with his uninvited guest. When she goes, she’ll take his heart with her. But will she hate him for the mistakes he’s made?

Righteous Lies: Book 1: Dancing Moon Ranch Series

 

BOOK 1: DANCING MOON RANCH SERIES

Widowed, Grace Templeton, thought the child she'd been carrying for seven months was the child of her dead husband, and Jack Hansen thought the sperm he'd donated had gone to the wife of his sterile twin—until they learn two vials at the fertility clinic had been accidentally switched. The shock sends Grace into early labor and the only place she can have complete bed rest is at the working guest ranch owned by the stranger who's now the father of her unborn child, and that stranger's about to turn her life upside down.

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Chicago Law: A Trial Lawyer's Journey

Nonfiction

Rarely do we live the life we originally intended. We make up our minds and charge down the path we’ve chosen, only to find ourselves arriving at an unexpected destination. We don’t know how it happens, but after enough time has passed, we’re able to look back and assemble the puzzle pieces to make sense of it all.

This is the business of Joseph A. Garofalo’s autobiography, except his life’s puzzle pieces are not made up only of choices and events. They also predominately take the form of people. His story introduces the many relationships that make up who he is today—those who influenced him, the woman he married, the friends he made, his coworkers and bosses, his clients, and eventually, the partners he selected for his law firm.

His story that begins in a working-class Chicago neighborhood and ends with cofounding his own firm, as well as owning a California vineyard, is an inspirational journey of self-discovery that will draw out readers’ introspection and appreciation. Because it is more than a story. It is a series of life lessons that can only be expressed in this way by one who’s learned them himself.



Miss Mai

Nonfiction - Memoir

 "Miss Mai" is a romantic memoir set in the final years of the Vietnam War. The author's progress as a naive draftee through the rigors of military training as an intelligence analyst inexorably lead him to the exotic streets of wartime Saigon. He meets Tuoi Mai under accidental circumstances and his life is altered forever after.

James Yancey: A gripping Western romance mystery series (Taking the High Road series Book 3)

 

 The War Between the States had dragged on far too long, leaving behind a welter of broken bodies and broken men.

One of these is James Yancey, Lt. Colonel, CSA. Captured by the Union Army after the Battle of the Wilderness, he was sent to the officers’ prison camp at Johnson’s Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio. Having been forced to abandon his men is a tribulation that eats at him; that does, in fact, color his whole existence with self-blame. Even after he is released, at war’s end, James is haunted by memories of what he considers his own disgrace.

With the South going through Reconstruction, his best option seems to be a move west, to join his two brothers already situated in California. During a brief stop in Charleston, his former home, he locates a girl from childhood plantation days, Emma Palmer, and seeks her hand in marriage . . .

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Junkie Love

 A story of recovery and redemption.

"A voice filled with sincerity, salvation, and splendor. A voice as stark, unforgiving, and mesmerizing as blood backing into the needle." ~ J.A. Kazimer, The Ampersand Review

From the cow fields of Connecticut to the streets of San Francisco, Joe Clifford’s Junkie Love traverses the lost highways of America, down the rocky roads of mental illness to the dead ends of addiction. Based on Clifford’s own harrowing experience with drugs as a rock ’n’ roll wannabe in the 1990s, the book draws on the best of Kerouac & the Beats, injecting a heavy dose of pulp fiction as it threads a rollicking narrative through a doomed love triangle, lit up by the many strange characters he meets along the way. Part road story, part resurrection tale, Junkie Love finds a way to laugh in one’s darkest hour, while never abandoning its heart in search of a home.

Junkie Love by Joe Clifford is an original ride through the down-and-dirty underside of the drug and music scene, inspired and propelled by Jack Kerouac’s youthful dreams of an American nirvana, translated to a later, darker generation. Clifford is its passionate spokesman.

The Crusader's Bride: A Medieval Romance (The Champions of Saint Euphemia Book 1)

 Gaston battled for duty and honor—until his new wife tempted him to fight for her love.

Gaston has had his fill of war and the Latin Kingdoms when he learns that he has inherited his father’s estate in France. He accepts one last quest for the Templars, the order he has served for fifteen years, and agrees to deliver a package to Paris on his way home. A practical man, Gaston knows he now has need of a wife and an heir, so when a lovely widowed noblewoman on pilgrimage catches his eye, he believes he can see matters solved to their mutual convenience.

But Ysmaine is more than a pilgrim enduring bad luck. She has buried two husbands in rapid succession, both of whom died on her nuptial night, and believes herself cursed. Accepting the offer of this gruff knight seems doomed to result in his demise, but Gaston is dismissive of her warnings and Ysmaine finds herself quickly wed again—this time to a man who is not only vital, but determined to remain alive.

Neither of them realize that Gaston’s errand is one of peril, for the package contains the treasure of the Templars—and some soul, either in their party or pursuing it, is intent upon claiming the prize for his or her own, regardless of the cost. In a company of strangers with secrets, do they dare to trust each other and the love that dawns between them?

 The Missing One

 A mystery thriller novel you will not forget.

A gripping novel full of action, suspense, mystery, plot twists.

Do you love stories that are packed full of mystery, suspense, twists and turns? Then you will love this mystery thriller novel.

Enjoy this gripping story with enough twists to keep you turning the pages.

If you enjoy gripping crime thrillers full of twists, be sure to check out other books by best-selling author James Kipling.

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Play It For Me (The Italian Series)  Book 5

 

He curled their values in his fist and tossed them away. They didn't know what it was like to be him, to be forever sealed into a living tomb of his own making, to have here for a few days the most beautiful woman who would give him the solace he craved. They didn't know what it'd be like to be held, to caress and embrace, and finally feel the freedom of it.

They were wrong. Their God, their beliefs, didn't take any of that into account.

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Niccolo Cavatelli, famous cellist, lives in a world filled with music. Yet the notes he hears day and night bring him no closer to the security he craves. Instead, they isolate and seclude him.

Then Kati Dennis enters his life. Swept along by their mutual attraction, he writes his greatest song ever. One which, in one tragic moment, might just silence the music for both of them. Forever.

Only Twenty-Five (Madison Musicians Book 1)

 

A sweet story told with gentle humor and bravery.

Music teacher Meg Caldwell knew it would be difficult starting over in a new town. She's perfectly happy with her books and her cats, but she knows she has to meet people if she ever wants to find love. The problem? Meg is losing her hair and it isn't growing back. How can a girl have any kind of social life when she has to worry about hiding her growing bald spot?


Josh Harrter is the acknowledged cool kid of the faculty lounge - he has a classroom stuffed with bean bag chairs and includes video clips from The Simpsons in his lesson plans. He is drawn to the pretty new music teacher singing and skipping her way through the halls, but he can sense she's hiding something beneath her sunny smiles. How can a guy falling for a girl convince her to trust him with her deepest secret?

The Storm Bottle

 

 

‘Foam unzipped the waves. I saw a crescent fin, a glass-boulder forehead. The dolphin had come back.’

Swimming with dolphins is said to be the number one thing to do before you die. For 12-year-old Michael, it very nearly is. A secret boat trip has gone tragically wrong, and now he lies unconscious in hospital.

But when Michael finally wakes up, he seems different. His step sister Bibi is soon convinced that he is not who he appears to be. Meanwhile, in the ocean beyond Bermuda’s reefs, a group of bottlenose dolphins are astonished to discover a stranger in their midst – a boy lost and desperate to return home.

Bermuda is a place of mysteries. Some believe its seas are enchanted, and the sun-drenched islands conceal a darker past, haunted with tales of lost ships. Now Bibi and Michael are finding themselves in the most extraordinary tale of all.

Praise for ‘The Storm Bottle’:

‘I loved it… A real winner.’ L A Weatherly, author of the Angel Trilogy

‘The Storm Bottle is that rare thing; a story that is a story, rather than something trying to fit in with the trend that publishers happen to believe in this month.’ The Bookwitch

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Compulsion (Includes Two Bonus Short Stories)

On a rainy October evening, Pastor Vance Howard is hoping for a quiet evening at home.

But that all changes with one phone call.

Now he finds himself sitting high up on the town's water tower, drawn into a conversation with a suicidal man named Jake.

A man who bring to light the horrors of Vance's own past.

Horrors that cause Vance to question his faith, his sanity, and everything he thought he was capable of.

Compulsion is the story that causes one to ask:

Is there a limit to forgiveness...?

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Strange in the Woods & Evil Human Clown

Worthy McGuire

Retired businessman Worthy McGuire knows he cannot put it off any longer. Time is not on the side of the gruff World War II veteran racing to fulfill a promise he made amid the horrors of the D-Day invasion in Normandy. As he plans a pilgrimage from Michigan to the site of both his best and worst day, Worthy now must rely on those he trusts the least—his family.

With no one else to help him meet the physical demands of the trip, Worthy grudgingly includes his grandchildren, David and Shannon, who are each battling their own insecurities. His controlling son, Ted, and his manipulative daughter-in-law, Angela, follow Worthy and his grandkids to France, and they have one goal: to drag the aging war vet back to Michigan where they hope to take command of his finances and place him in a nursing home. As Worthy searches for a family from his past, only time will tell if he can patch the crumbling relationships with his family before it is too late.

In this historical tale, a World War II veteran takes a journey of honor and courage as he sets off to complete the most important mission of his long life.

Men Among Sirens

 

Be careful how hard you shake the family tree.

Ruby Bohan's upcoming marriage to her childhood sweetheart has all the makings of a fairytale, but a fated discovery just days before the wedding threatens to leave no one in her family unscathed--including her doting adoptive uncle. Ruby's mother, Ainsley, has only hours to tell Ruby the real story of their lives, beginning 24 years earlier with her own troubled marriage and a chance encounter destined to follow her for the rest of her life. Once Ainsley’s painful revelation is complete, Ruby must decide if she can go through with her wedding, forgive her mother, and preserve her disabled father’s life-altering belief that their family tree really is as it seems. The power and burden of knowledge has passed from mother to daughter, and now her family's future rests in Ruby's youthful hands. Will she use what she’s learned to hold her family together, or tear it apart?

A touching and compelling story of three generations of independent, charismatic women navigating through love, tragedy and reconciliation, MEN AMONG SIRENS takes place over four days, yet carries the reader on a 20-year journey from the Navy hub of Virginia's southern coast to the formidable, rustically beautiful wilderness of Michigan's upper peninsula, whose people and lifestyle remain a step removed from the high-tech, breakneck-paced lives most of us lead.

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A happily-ever-after sweet romance where love and trust are able to grow in the heart of a woman who has lost everything!

Eva Hanover - a brilliant career, a gorgeous brownstone in Brooklyn, and a sexy husband. Or, at least, she thinks so. In a wink of an eye, Eva's husband leaves her. She loses the brownstone and her career. With only the clothes on her back, she flees cold New York for the sunnier climate of Key Largo.

As Eva puts it, her marriage went south and so does she. Stuck in Key Largo, it is sink or swim for the devastated Eva. Starting over is hard for anyone, but Eva wonders if she can. Determined to make a new life, Eva buys a rundown mid-century motel and renovates it. She hires Mike Bishop for her general contractor, but from the very beginning they cross swords of how to remodel the Last Chance Motel. It irritates Eva that many of Mike's ideas are betters than hers. It couldn't be that Mike bothers her because he is handsome, sexy, and rugged, could it? Eva needs is a handsome and sexy man around her like she needs another hole in her head. Yet, she finds herself drawn to Mike and is grateful for his help.

In the midst of the motel's renovation and her growing feelings for Mike, her ex-husband shows up and begs for her forgiveness, saying the divorce was a mistake. He wants her back.

What is Eva to do? Does she throw in the towel on the motel and go back to her ex, or does she stick with the renovation and Mike? One thing Eva does know, as the Last Chance Motel comes back to life, so does she. Step by step, Eva is determined to find purpose and happiness in life again. The question is how and with which man? 

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After losing his wife in an accident two years before, not long after he'd been forced from the circuit by an injury, thirty-two-year-old Cade Tyler, ex-rodeo champion, thinks life has thrown him more than lemons. But life isn’t done...it sends him Lacy Dalton.

She’s a reporter.

He hates reporters.

She’s pushy.

He hates pushy.

She’s sexy.

He...well, he just won’t let himself think of her that way.

The more Lacy learns about Cade’s past, the more she finds herself wanting to prove to him that not all reporters are bloodthirsty vultures. But her growing attraction to him puts not only her heart in jeopardy, but her life as well, because someone is out to ruin Cade and will do anything to make that happen.

 

 

 

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A Medical Romance--With Babies!

Single OBGYN doctor Morgan adores her work, her pregnant foster daughter, her messy house filled with pets.She'd loud, exuberant, and loving. Life is good--until she gets tangled up with fellow baby doctor Luke.

He's impeccably groomed, a quiet, austere widower with a teenage daughter, perfect in all the ways Morgan is not. But Luke has a secret that only Morgan can help him with.

If you love medical fiction, strong, vulnerable women and hospital romance that makes you laugh and cry, you'll adore The Baby Doctor.

Author Interview with Bobby:

What made you write medical novels?

I'm a huge fan of medical sitcoms, ER, Grey's Anatomy, Children's Hospital. There's just something riveting about doctors. And I had wonderful doctor friends who kept me on the straight and narrow treating my patients.

Who's your favorite character in The Baby Doctor?

That would be Morgan's mother, India. Complex and difficult, she, too, has secrets. Don't you love people with secrets?

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When the renowned seer Nostredame prophesies a new emperor will rise to conquer Europe, the rulers of every nation grow nervous. King Henry VIII of England dispatches his two most trusted secret servants to recover the prophecy from French hands, hoping to unlock its secrets.

As Iron William Kidd and his partner, Tom Flint, hunt for the prophecy, they discover the French are keeping it locked in a formidable vault, complete with deadly and cunning traps designed by Renaissance genius, Leonardo da Vinci.

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