Another chance at life. A second chance at love.

Recently widowed Camilla is moving to a new apartment, leaving her home of seventeen years to begin life as a single woman once more. She shares a moment of connection with handsome young moving man Ryan, which leads to an unexpected passionate encounter. In one erotically charged evening, everything changes and Camilla awakens to new possibilities in her life.

Note: This is a short story formerly released as “Moving On” in an anthology titled Prime Passions.… Read more »

Gina Torrio is trying to break her addiction to bad boys with wounded spirits and dysfunctional pasts. Micah Wyatt is a flirt and a player, a little naughty but with no real harm in him. Gina thinks they might have a simple, no-strings fling without endangering her heart. But as animal attraction and flirtatious friendship blossom into sincere affection, neither Gina nor Micah knows how to deal with the depth of feeling growing between them.

Micah prides himself on keeping women at a distance. For the first time, he wants to draw one close and never let her go. In an intimate moment, he tells Gina a secret from his past. He has let someone in at last, but will she be willing to stay after learning about his shady business dealings?

When Micah’s criminal connections bring danger that threatens their fragile love, will he find himself abandoned by the woman he trusts?

First love, forbidden love.

Summer 1956. Rachael and Joe are from different worlds though they live on neighboring farms. She is Amish and her people live a plain life apart from the community. When she is harassed in town one day, Joe steps in to help her. A conversation makes them realize they share the same desire to experience more of the world.

Joe offers to secretly squire Rachael to the drive-in movie and soon their friendship deepens to something more. But how can a summer romance last when the lovers must bridge an impossible gulf? One fateful night their hidden love is revealed and their relationship reaches a crucial crossroads. Can the lovers escape destined patterns and forge a future together?

Note: This is a novella formerly released as “Amish Paradise” in an anthology titled Seasons of Love.

Unforgettable moments shape a romance that could last a lifetime.

Jen Adam’s first kiss didn’t happen the way she’d expected. On a steamy summer’s day, a shared moment with a boy from the wrong side of town leaves an indelible impression on a thirteen year old girl. But that’s only the first time Jen and Drake Malinson’s paths cross unexpectedly.

The night of junior prom Jen bumps into an older, sexier and wilder Drake, who distracts and mesmerizes her, turning a disastrous evening into one she’ll always remember.

When they meet again as adults under unusual circumstances, Jen tries to ignore old memories. Were her insights into Drake real or had she been seduced by his kisses. Can straight-arrow Jen and aimless Drake change and grow enough to find common ground?

A novella in four vignettes illustrates a relationship that spans years.

A struggling single mother.
Rianna Cutter strips to survive. It’s the best paying gig for a young woman with little education and puts a roof over her child’s head and food on the table. Working toward a better life for her son, she has no time or energy for love.

A tough criminal businessman.
Jonah Wyatt is ready to make a big change, moving away from his successful pot growing business into a legitimate enterprise. He’s all business all the time and has no interest in finding love he doubts even exists.

Could love be more unexpected?
Their first interaction has all the romance of a business transaction, but from that rough beginning, Rianna and Jonah tentatively reach out to one another. As their barriers dissolve, the awakening of new love is threatened by family drama.

The Wyatt brothers and their special ladies are back to celebrate a wedding in a final novella.

If you enjoyed Leah and J.D.’s story in Blind Passion but wanted to see how they worked out some of their issues, Committed Passion is for you.

If you’re a fan of Gina and Micah, who bicker and banter but fall in love by the end of Dangerous Passion, here’s a chance to learn more about how they settle into each others lives.

Or if Jonah and Rianna’s pussyfooting around love in Guarded Passion intrigued you, they’re back and contemplating lifetime commitment.

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It’s the summer after high school graduation. Rich kids plan for college. Poor kids like Eric, struggle to survive and wonder how to improve their lives. While his best friend, Josh, is off at a Young Leaders convention, Eric’s long-held passion for Josh’s girlfriend, Brianne, ignites.

 Their summer sizzles for an incandescent moment — until Josh returns. The three must figure out if they can resolve their conflict and save their friendship before going their separate ways. And Eric must find the will to make a change in his future.

 Warnings: cheating, explicit sex, and a ménage scene.

 Story previously included in an anthology, Hot Summer Nights, and recently re-edited for style but not content.

It’s the last summer before high school, and Rachel Walsh is tired of being the “good girl.” During a late-night bike ride back from a forbidden party, she sees a shadowy man dumping a tarp-wrapped bundle in a roadside ditch. When she returns to investigate the next day, the bundle is gone. The news soon reports a pattern of missing girls and Rachel is haunted by the fear she witnessed the bitter end of one of them.

After confiding in her coworker Carl, a scifi nerd who may have a crush on her, Rachel discovers a clue that shines a dark spotlight on her safe little world. She grows suspicious of several trusted adults and investigates them. But playing junior detective could be a deadly game if a murderer learns Rachel saw him dump a body.

During this sultry summer of Star Wars in a small Ohio town, Rachael loses her longtime best friend to a cooler crowd, starts her first real job, makes new friends, and learns the adults in her life aren’t infallible and danger lurks even in her safe cocoon.

For the first time paired in a boxed set, both New Life and New Year.

NEW LIFE

Since the car accident that caused traumatic brain injury, Jason has fought to regain his memories and the ability to organize thoughts and control emotions. His promising future shattered, he works as a night janitor in an office building and clings to routine to make it through his days.

New lawyer Anna breaks down one evening after fumbling her first court case. Self-doubt brings her to tears in a deserted stairwell where Jason finds her and offers comforting words. From this unexpected meeting an unlikely romance begins.

A casual coffee date soon leads to a deeper connection and eventually a steamy affair. But are Jason and Anna’s growing feelings for each other strong enough to overcome the social chasm that divides them and the very real issues of Jason’s disability?

NEW YEAR

Tension and family holidays go together like eggnog and candy canes.

When lawyer Anna brings her boyfriend Jason home for the holidays, it’s a recipe for family drama. Her parents have high expectations for her fast-track future. And those don’t include her hooking up with a kennel worker suffering the results of traumatic brain injury.

With a lousy memory and a shaky past, Jason knows he’s no prize. But what he and Anna have together is priceless. An impulsive proposal on the way to her family’s house seems the best way to prove his feelings for her are forever. Anna’s hesitation to accept stops his heart. And when she seems willing to use him to get back at her manipulative mom, Jason wonders if he’s made the mistake of his life.

Exposed to the light of critical eyes, Jason and Anna’s fairy-tale romance threatens to crumble. The hurdles of their pasts may prove too much for this princess and her pauper. And this new year may ring in bright beginnings – or the end of all their hopes and dreams.

Through personal darkness, two strangers find their way to each other.

Leah Schaeffer has come a long way since an accident took her sight. She’s finally ready for independence, but convincing her wealthy parents she’ll be safe on her own isn’t easy. The first night in her own place at last, she encounters her neighbor with the midnight velvet voice and her world shifts again.

Since finishing a military tour, J.D. Wyatt has struggled both financially and emotionally. When Leah’s parents hire him to act as her bodyguard, he seizes the opportunity. The catch—she can’t know she’s being followed. As he grows closer to the intriguing woman and begins to have feelings for her, the burden of this secret grows heavier.

Although Leah and J.D. have suffered different types of trauma, their mutual understanding of each other’s pain bonds them. But their relationship, dependent on absolute trust, is rooted in lies which will detonate like an IED when exposed.