The Tycoon's Sweet Temptation (AKA Sweet Temptations and Too Sweet to Eat)
2012 Linda Howard Award of Excellence Triple Finalist & Winner
2010 Emerald City Opener First Place
2009 Maggie Finalist
2008 Touch of Magic 3rd Place
Teaser:
Sassy baker Sarah Sinclair’s personal to-do list doesn’t include vows. She’s building cakes and expanding her confections company. But after a disastrous encounter with a Bridezilla is aired on YouTube, she loses clients.
Producer Alexander Brandon steps in and casts Sarah as his sexy star. Alex believes Sarah’s talents will reach an audience that appreciates a bakery babe whipping up batter. He puts all his energy into making her show shine.
Alex’s belief in Sarah’s potential melts her resolve to maintain a professional distance. The attraction between them threatens to melt every sugar paste flower on the set. And they discover there’s more than one way to use frosting.
But when her past resurrects, Alex has to prove he's willing to release her from her contract or lose the one woman he's ever loved.
But when her past resurrects, Alex has to prove he's willing to release her from her contract or lose the one woman he's ever loved.
Her Prisoner of Love
2012 Linda Howard Award of Excellence Finalist
2011 Fab Five 2nd Place
Teaser:
Bad Boy of Rock and Roll Drake Sheridan is in a court ordered time out, but his house arrest becomes exciting when he meets the key to his release Kayla Barrett. Community Center Director Kayla Barrett agrees to supervise Drake’s court ordered service time to secure funding for her youth program. She’s determined to maintain a professional distance despite her attraction to the musical magnate, but Drake’s empathy for her young charges draws them closer. And Kayla’s no-nonsense, tough girl attitude masks a compassionate soul. One which holds family and friends close. Soon she captures Drake’s heart. But her past has the power to drive them apart and send their hearts into a permanent prison. Now Drake must find the courage and the trust to set them both free.
The Maverick's Red Hot Reunion
Complete Novel/Not on Contest Circuit
Teaser:
Maverick Zach Tanner returns home to rebuild his dying friend’s resort, but he doesn't count on the woman he once loved and lost to handle the construction contract. Now he's determined to satisfy his craving for Kennedy Gibson without losing his heart.
Blurb:
Corporate Maverick Zach Tanner returns to North Carolina to rebuild his dying friend's resort. He's got the money, the power and the will to transform Sweetbriar Springs into a premier spa for the glamorous, but he doesn't count on the woman he once loved and lost to handle the construction contract. Zach thought he'd buried his desire for Kennedy five years ago, but he's still drawn to her. He's determined to satisfy his craving to get her out of his system, but he won't lose his heart again.
Marriage in Name Only
Complete Novel/Not in Contest Circuit
Teaser:
A reserved mathematician’s precise world is jeopardized when her family’s company defaults on its debts to a wealthy foreign industrialist which forces her to propose an unholy union.
A powerful industrialist’s plan for revenge takes an intriguing turn when he accepts a geeky computer scientist’s proposal, but his marriage of convenience’s physical side benefits breakdown the barriers to his heart.
Her secret destroyed their lives four years ago. Now she’s ready to redeem them both, but when the truth is revealed only the power of love will save them.
Blurb:
A reserved computer geek Cassandra Nelson wants to design a winning regatta racer for her family’s yacht building company. When she learns Nelson Industries is being taken over by her father’s sworn enemy, Marco Delgado, she decides to protect her family’s business. She offers the wealthy Argentinian industrialist a temporary marriage of convenience to restore his reputation in her blue blooded regatta society. But Marco demands a lifetime commitment with no possibility for love, only sexy side benefits, to seal the deal. Cassandra agrees to his terms because it’s only way to save her family from financial ruin, and liberate Marco from the far reaching consequences of a racing accident she unwittingly set in motion. Though she never calculated falling in love in the equation, Marco’s sensual seductiveness mesmerizes her, awakening her physically and emotionally. Now she’s falling in love with her husband and she’s desperate to hide her secret. If Marco discovers the truth about her responsibility for the yacht crash that caused the regatta racing society to shun him, she’ll lose everything including her heart.
Wealthy industrialist and former regatta racing champion Marco Delgado wants to exact revenge on the high society regatta world that shunned him for a crime he didn’t commit. When his sworn enemy’s daughter proposes marriage as a ticket back into her world, he decides to demand a permanent union to guarantee his reentry into the racing circuit. But when he takes his virgin bride on a weeklong seafaring honeymoon, he must teach her the pleasures of the bedroom without losing his closely guarded heart. Cassandra’s innocence and her willingness to accept him unconditionally unleashes a protectiveness for her. Soon he realizes that he’s falling in love with the blue blooded brainaic. But when her secret is revealed, during a regatta gala event held in their honor, Marco must learn the power of forgiveness and love before he can have a future with the only woman he's loved: Cassandra.
First Draft Complete
Teaser
A sassy sculptress is carving her own future, but when a powerful King discovers her son is his heir she’s forced into heartless marriage or she’ll lose her child forever.
BLURB
Free spirited sculptor Roxanna Baron wants to build her artistic career in Europe and escape her poverty ridden past. When she meets Stefano Demarkus at a casino in Monte Carlo she’s instantly attracted to the enigmatic stranger and she yields to his seduction in a no strings allowed sensual weekend. But Roxanna’s weekend tryst results in a pregnancy. Three years later she’s raising her son alone in Italy and her career is flourishing, but when Stefano’s royal convoy is attacked, he’s rushed to the very hospital where she’s celebrating her most recent commission’s unveiling with her son by her side. And Stefano discovers her shocking secret: his child. Believing his son is in danger, Stefano instantly forces Roxy to go into custody with him until his would-be assassins are captured. Even worse, he locks her into his life with an unholy matrimony. Now she must protect her son from becoming exactly like his father—an arrogant man with a heart as hard as the stone she carves. And she must guard her heart though she’s still consumed with an addictive desire for Stefano.
When these star-crossed lovers reunite, their passion pierces the walls guarding their hearts. But they'll only have the future they deserve if they can forge a new bond based on trust. One which is threatened by the secrets and betrayals of their past. Now they must learn the power of forgiveness before they'll have the future they deserve.
Taming the Bad Boy Prince
Discovery Phase
Healing Her Warrior's Heart
Discovery Phase/2nd Book in the Sweetbriar Springs Series
Jessie's Valentine Surprise
Discovery Phase Novella/Prequel in the Sweetbriar Springs Series
Single Title Romance
Forbidden Fantasy (AKA The Girl's Guide to Gadgets & Guys)
2012 Linda Howard Award of Excellence Finalist
2010 Emerald City Opener 2nd Place
Teaser:
A radio star swears off men for a year, but when her station hires a sexy bodyguard to protect her from a stalker she’s tempted to break her vow because he embodies her ultimate fantasy man.
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