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A Lake Erie island harbors mystery and rekindles desire. When Katie Conroy returns to the island where she had a disastrous teenage romance, she is there to attend her grandfather’s funeral.

Katie is facing disaster again. She’s lost her job and has no prospects for another. When she inherits the “Castle,” her grandfather’s crumbling mansion, she...

She wasn’t a spy! Eve Gardiner’s grant to seek out medicinal plants in the Yucatan jungle came at a price. She was to keep an eye on Simon Mercier, her host at Elgato del Sol ranch. The ex-agent turned international businessman made the feds uneasy. Simon was dark, lean and as powerful as a jungle cat. Eve knew the chemistry between them was too...

In "Stolen Goddess," Kate ends her engagement to Nick Hale, a daring explorer, when he postpones their wedding to go on an adventure in New Guinea. Determined to rebuild her life without him, she takes a job as a curator of ancient art at a prestigious museum in San Francisco.

But when Nick becomes the director of the same museum, Kate's plans...

In "Save Me," Liz Colter rescues a handsome, recently widowed scientist named Michael from a house fire, and the two are thrown into a dangerous conspiracy. Michael's research threatens the plans of a secret society determined to bring about world revolution, and they will stop at nothing to keep their scheme hidden.

As Liz and Michael work...

"Heat of the Sun" by Maude Wood is a thrilling novel that follows the story of Freddie Davenport, a free-spirited woman who finds herself in captivity after her sailplane crashes in the Tennessee wilderness. Nat Steele, a mysterious and powerful stranger, holds her captive and forces her to do his bidding. Freddie realizes that Nat is involved...

In "Soul Mates," Faye Johnson finds herself in a dangerous situation at the zoo where she works. A male gorilla has become over-affectionate and is holding her captive. Fortunately, David O'Neill, an animal behaviorist, comes to her rescue and captures her heart in the process.

Faye is drawn to David's good looks and his desire for her, but she...

In “Casanova’s Master,” Megan is determined to keep a promise to her aunt to breed her Persian cat, Cleopatra. She finds the perfect stud in the swaggering and street-smart Casanova. But there’s a catch: Casanova’s master, Dr. Ty Browning, is Megan’s problem.

Megan senses Ty’s raw virility and expertise in matters of love, but she is also aware...

In "Love Blitz", Sally is a skilled physical therapist with a strict professional code. But when star football player and male model, Matt Ranger, comes to her for treatment after a serious sports injury, she finds herself drawn to his charm and irresistible persistence.

Despite her attempts to keep things professional, the spark between them...

Can Janey reconcile her past with her future? After an ugly divorce, Janey returns to her alma mater to take up a new life teaching choral music. She meets Stephen, a ghost from her past. He was the kid who had a crush on her. She didn't take him seriously back then. But time has changed him in exciting ways.

He's taken a sabbatical from his...

He: recovering from war. She: recovering from a divorce. Can they heal each other?

Two people coping with a difficult past and facing an uncertain future. Jim is dealing with the trauma of war, loss, and captivity. Dory is fighting to help a troubled teenage daughter while striving to survive the crushing divorce that battered her fragile...

In "Voyage of the Heart," Anne is a determined widow who wants to fulfill her late husband's dream of entering the transatlantic sailboat race. Duncan is the man her sponsor has hired to make her boat seaworthy, and he falls in love with Anne despite his misgivings about the race's dangers.

As their passion ignites, so does their conflict. The...

Slow Melt is a scorching romance novel that will leave you breathless. When Kate Colman meets Sam Ryder, she is immediately captivated by his tall, handsome, appearance. Sam is just as smitten with Kate and pursues her relentlessly. Their relationship is perfect until Kate discovers a secret that threatens to tear them apart.

As they struggle to...

BEAUTIFUL, TALENTED, BUT DYSLEXIC—can Francy cope with a rich man’s desire? Francesca Rasera had big dreams of starting her own furnishing business in Baltimore’s Little Italy. Handsome, upper-class, lawyer, Adam Pearce, was willing to offer his legal expertise.

He soon wants to offer more, much more! Besotted with her, he subjects her to a...

HEIRESS TO DANGER. When elderly communications magnate, Owen Byrnside, learns that twenty-six years earlier his deceased son fathered a daughter, he yearns to locate his heir.

It won’t be easy. The night the girl’s mother abandoned the baby at a foundling home, two other infants suffered the same fate. It doesn’t take long for Byrnside’s lawyer...

Dark Waters is the second book in the thrilling trilogy, The Byrnside Inheritance. Maggie, a beautiful orphan who may be the long-lost granddaughter of communications magnate Owen Byrnside, is preoccupied with restoring an ancient tower bequeathed to her by a patient in Barbados.

Her reclusive neighbor, Fitch Marlowe, captures her attention, but...

AN HEIRESS WITH SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET. Elderly communications magnate Owen Byrnside had assigned lawyer Jake Caine to track down three abandoned orphans, one of whom might be Owen’s long-lost granddaughter.
With the help of his beautiful and efficient assistant, Susan Bonner, Jake had located the first two young women. But Lynne Rice, the last...

Finding a cheap apartment in this city can be murder. Dyslexic decorator, Toni Credella, accidentally shot her abusive cop husband. Broke and wracked with guilt, she needs new digs. When she finds a place in a great neighborhood that’s a steal, she grabs it. Just one catch. A young woman had been murdered there only three months earlier.

Before...

WHAT FATAL SECRETS ARE BURIED IN BALTIMORE? When Toni Credella teams up with a tough private investigator in hopes of getting her own PI license, she finds herself investigating one crime too many.
What’s the connection between the murder of a homeless woman and a young girl who met a mysterious death decades earlier? Why has that forgotten girl...

Mystery/Suspense: Toni wants a decent home of her own. Instead, she gets “Metal Men,” a drive-by shooting, a puzzling death by fire, a mysterious faucet, two hunky men vying for her favor and more flack from her family. Is Toni up to the challenge? You needed to ask?

TONI CREDELLA TAKES ON MURDER. Since the tragic day when she shot her abusive cop husband in self-defense, dyslexic Toni Credella has been barely scratching out a living. To make ends meet Toni plays bodyguard to a beautiful opera singer with underworld connections and a violent boyfriend.
When that boyfriend threatens Toni, she knows she’s in...

It’s 1882 and once again Oliver Redcastle is about to dive into mayhem. He’s no stranger to bloodshed. Memories of the men he has killed, first as a Pinkerton Detective, then as a Union Army sharpshooter haunt his days -- and his nights. He dreams of putting his past behind him and, upon learning that he has unexpectedly inherited a house in...

In 1884 Baltimore, medical mischief is running rampant and a young boy has been kidnapped. Enter Oliver Redcastle, ex-Pinkerton detective and Union sharpshooter, who is hired to find the missing child.
As he searches for clues, Oliver finds himself navigating the dangerous harbor and the mean streets of Baltimore where homeless children run wild...

PASSIONATE LOVERS AND DEADLY ENEMIES. It’s a scorching July in the summer of 1884. William Pinkerton has sent Oliver Redcastle to the Midwestern island paradise of Put-in-Bay. The assignment seems simple: capture a tight-rope-walking train robber. But two beautiful women, a dangerous cult, and reminders of Oliver’s Civil War past complicate the...

1885 FLORIDA: WILD PIGS AND WILDER PEOPLE! Winner of the Silver Palm for the Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Award, Trouble in Tampa is a thrilling look at the Wild South of Florida in 1885. An easy assignment for sharpshooter and ex-Pinkerton investigator, Oliver Redcastle, turns deadly.
A wealthy Baltimore art collector sends an...

THEY WERE DEADLY BEAUTIFUL. 1886 New Mexico and troubles swarm. Sharpshooter and ex-Pinkerton detective, Oliver Redcastle, opts for the quiet life. Hoping to leave his violent past behind and provide his asthmatic young daughter a healthy environment, he settles on a sheep ranch with a mountain view.

As capricious as she is gorgeous, Marietta...

Dearth on the High Seas! It’s 1888 and Oliver Redcastle’s teenaage daughter, Chloe, goes missing.

Kidnapped by an unscrupulous orchid-hunter, she disappears into Florida’s vast watery wilderness, the Everglades.

To find her the ex-Pinkerton detective crosses an ocean, battles an assassin, defies murderous train robbers, and confronts...

Oliver Redcastle Takes on London Intrigue. His on-again, off-again lover, Marietta, faces a murder charge and, possibly, the hangman. To save his daughter’s fickle mother, Oliver, reluctantly, crosses the Atlantic. Little does he know that to rescue her he’ll have to deal with a ruthless spymaster, professional assassins, and a murky welter of...

Oliver comes home to murder. An arch enemy hunts him, his friends, and those he loves. Multiple Murders, a scheme to steal an enormous chunk of western land, and problems at home beset Oliver Redcastle. To protect his family and survive his foes he must untangle a web of malice and deceit. Discover Oliver Redcastle Mysteries.

A murdered warrior, a threatened inheritance, and more than one beautiful woman in trouble--once again Oliver Redcastle plunges into chaos.
When an enormous painted canvas depicting a crucial Civil War battle gets stolen and repainted to misrepresent the event, Hannah Kinchman, a female colleague of Oliver’s, investigates. She calls on him to...

Step into a world brimming with grandeur, mystery, and danger as intrepid detective, Oliver Redcastle, takes center stage in a captivating Gilded Age tale. Rebel Hoard weaves an intricate web of post-Civil War intrigue, unleashing a whirlwind of suspense and adventure that will leave readers spellbound from the very first page.

In a...

Oliver Redcastle’s enemies are out for blood. Appease them, foil them, or do a disappearing act?

Before he can find a way to elude his lethal adversaries, he must save his daughter from a merciless scam artist, and see her through a crisis.

There’s more! Can he outshoot a persistent Civil War opponent, ferret out the cause of a brutal accident,...

A driven scientist, a pitiless Voodoo priest, and a woman confounding time, lock in a deadly duel of deceit and betrayal. Beautiful antiques dealer, Ariane Bragonier, is a woman with a secret. She lives for two things: love...and revenge. And Ariane has lived a long time—three hundred years and counting.

In search of justice for her brutally...

A FLEDGLING GODDESS MUST STEAL BACK HER POWER FROM A RUTHLESS KING. During her first testing at the sacred pool of her ancestors, Reawen learns she must steal back the green stone that confirms her mystical power. The stone was stolen from her mother by Brone, the country’s king.

Cheated of her birthright as Domis of the Peninsula’s Waters,...

In this captivating fantasy book for middle-grade children, Clare and Johnny are unhappy in their new neighborhood. They embark on a year-long fairy-tale adventure.
On nights of the full moon, they shrink in size and sail down the creek in the backyard of their new home in a toy sailboat. Their mission is to recover the links of a magical chain.
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