Beauty and the Beast-- modern version. Set in Reno and Portland. Katy, a widow with two small daughters, knew Dill was trouble the moment she saw him. On that they did agree. What neither could fight was their instant attraction. Dill wasn't so much trouble as in trouble. His life had never been easy but for the previous two years, it had been a hell as he had been forced into undercover work. Katy was the last woman he wanted to meet right then. Beauty and her beast had a lot of work ahead but a reason to do it. Romantic suspense-- Trailer at-- https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTqVPI-HBc
Beauty and the Beast-- modern version. Set in Reno and Portland. Katy, a widow with two small daughters, knew Dill was trouble the moment she saw him....
Sometimes to save something, one must lose it, to fix it, one must break it. Susan Connors has faced an unpleasant fact. For her own health, she must end her marriage and free herself. Her demand for a divorce blindsides Dane who, as an inner city high school principal, has become the target of increasingly dangerous attacks because of his stance as high principal. As she builds a new life, Susan feels freed except she still loves her husband. She searches for why their marriage fell apart and learns the answer lies in a secret which Dane is keeping to himself. As bad as this has all seemed,...
Sometimes to save something, one must lose it, to fix it, one must break it. Susan Connors has faced an unpleasant fact. For her own health, she must ...
Raven didn't want her ex-husband back. She didn't want to want him at all Although her life wasn't all it could be, David Bannister, who recklessly did things his way, could only add complications. As part of a murder investigation, Bannister's plans included getting his ex back but hadn't included modeling nude for her art class. Life has a way of throwing ringers into our plans. For David that included a sly murderer who was not just willing but maybe even eager to play 'the game' again. Previously titled-"Golden Chains" at 94,000 words now expanded to 100,400 words. Mild couple's games...
Raven didn't want her ex-husband back. She didn't want to want him at all Although her life wasn't all it could be, David Bannister, who recklessly d...
What do we really know about ourselves, our families, the reality of the world in which we live? Maggie is about to find all of that a challenge which can mean the difference between life and death. Maggie Gard has come to Idaho to live on her grandfather's mountain, to work in his service station, and find healing for her soul. What she doesn't expect is a dangerous man to stumble into her station leading her to shoot him. She has always been troubled by her feeling of messages from beyond. Now it is leading her to help the man she shot. How crazy is that Reuben Delgado is a product of two...
What do we really know about ourselves, our families, the reality of the world in which we live? Maggie is about to find all of that a challenge which...
Divorced Barrett Schaeffer is raising a daughter, arguing with her ex-husband over how to do that, while busy with a successful counseling practice. The last thing she needs is a younger man who attracts her way too much. She's too old and way too smart to let that happen until she meets with the brother of the woman she's been seeing as a patient. To add to the many ways Judd Shipman is the wrong man for her, he seems to take on everybody else's problems. As a youth, Judd Shipman had made a horrendous mistake becoming entangled in a militia group that nearly led to murder and where he barely...
Divorced Barrett Schaeffer is raising a daughter, arguing with her ex-husband over how to do that, while busy with a successful counseling practice. T...
They had absolutely no reason to be together-- nothing in common-- except, oh maybe a few past lives where the passion was sizzling-with a minor complication-he always ended up dead. Pure coincidence. Couldn't happen again. Her fear that it could led her to try to convince him not to go with her on a potentially dangerous archaeological investigation to Central Arizona, where one of those lives had been haunting her dreams. He knew, given his experiences, there were many ways he could end up dead, and he wasn't about to worry about dreams with no real bullets. He did know, however, that she...
They had absolutely no reason to be together-- nothing in common-- except, oh maybe a few past lives where the passion was sizzling-with a minor compl...
It's 1865 and the Civil War has just come to an agonizing end-- even impacting far off Oregon with its destructive divisiveness. With a loving family, successful businesses, and active theater life, Raine Stevens has all she could want except a love of her own. She prefers life without the sacrifices that kind of love requires. Only one man has ever tempted her to believe otherwise, and he went off to fight the war. He left and never wrote. And then, Jed Hardman is back, but it's too late for them. She won't leave Portland for a wilderness ranch on the John Day River. She's worked too hard...
It's 1865 and the Civil War has just come to an agonizing end-- even impacting far off Oregon with its destructive divisiveness. With a loving family,...
Moving to Tucson and living in Rose's Cottage provides a wellspring of inspiration for Lily Jacobs' art. It also helped her avoid a man in Chicago, who was threatening with his unwelcome attentions. After years of doing her father's bidding, Lily is now a woman of means, free to choose her own path. When famous painter, Patrick Jamison arrives in Tucson, Lily is eager to take lessons and improve her work. She isn't looking for love. Slow from birth, Jesse Taggert lives on the desert as he trains horses and works for a large ranch. Jesse knows animals and finds the further he is from people,...
Moving to Tucson and living in Rose's Cottage provides a wellspring of inspiration for Lily Jacobs' art. It also helped her avoid a man in Chicago, wh...
As a Pinkerton agent, Belle Stevens Morgan has led an adventurous life, far from her beloved family. On assignment in Oregon to investigate counterfeiting, she is posing as a governess in the employ of a wealthy and ruthless man. Lies are her stock in trade. To her regret, she has never forgotten the young cavalry officer, who rejected her love when she was seventeen. Meeting him again, in the midst of an Indian attack, she fears she still loves him and to no more avail than ten years earlier. Captain Rand Phillips is asked to take on one of his most dangerous assignments regarding an attempt...
As a Pinkerton agent, Belle Stevens Morgan has led an adventurous life, far from her beloved family. On assignment in Oregon to investigate counterfei...
Needing new inspiration, answers to a mystery, and healing from the death of her father, English professor, Wilhelmina Butler heads for a log cabin in the high country of Arizona. In the Mazatzals, Willy hopes to write the great American novel, something she can be proud of, unlike the very successful dime novels she has been publishing under a pseudonym. The lake cabin will give her all she could ever dream and a lot more. Asked by his worried sister-in-law, Holly, to check on her college friend, Cole Taggert assumes her friend is a naive idiot to head into the wilderness with little idea...
Needing new inspiration, answers to a mystery, and healing from the death of her father, English professor, Wilhelmina Butler heads for a log cabin in...