In the tradition of apocalyptic novels such as Stephen King’s THE STAND, a group of strangers on a Manhattan subway are brought together in the name of survival. Nineteen-year-old Ari Brenner doesn’t recognize his own leadership qualities and believes the group follows him simply because he’s wearing an army uniform while home on leave. Lila Teske, a college student studying philosophy and comparative religions, finds her non-violent Buddhist beliefs tested in the crucible of a zombie attack. There are other members of the diverse group, but the focus of the story is on Ari and Lila, two young people who learn about sacrifice and inner strength through the ordeal.

When an arsonist torches her childhood home in rural Virginia our protagonist returns to care for her badly burned, comatose father. In order to pay the exorbitant medical bills she is forced to sell the magical estate to an irresistible, if cold-hearted treasure hunter. By persuading him to let her oversee restoration of the house, she keeps her heart and hands in the property, which feeds her unique and growing power to animate statues and speak to faces carved in stone. Her cousin, the succubus, however, will stop at nothing—from arson to marriage to murder–to possess both the man and the land.

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Nicholas Marshal refuses to let the sex scandal that rocked Hollywood ruin his law career. Clients are off limits. However, the first day in his new office, a beautiful woman, claiming to be a ghost from 1912, begs for help solving her murder. Resistant to believe, Nick is intrigued and finds himself tracking down history, and falling in love.

Abigail Carlisle is tired of her ghostly existence. Now that she’s found the man her gypsy grandmother spoke of, her murder can be solved, and she can cross over. However, the more she’s with Nick, the more entangled her heart becomes. But how can happily ever after happen when she’s already dead?

A strange turn of events whisks Nick back to 1912–before she’s killed. Can he solve a crime yet to be committed and save the woman he loves? Or will history repeat itself the second time around?

The Sweetest Temptation – Regency
93,000 words

The moment Lord Trey Worthington holds the beautiful woman in his arms, her luscious lips tempt him. When he discovers the young woman is his mother’s new ward, Judith Faraday, he vows not to use his roguish charms on her again, but having sampled her passion, he wants more. His promise to help Judith find her missing fiancé does not numb his desire for her.

Judith Faraday wants only one thing – marry her Naval Officer and enjoy a life of love. She’s doubtful her dream will come true living as ward to the dowager duchess. The longer Judith is with Trey, the more attraction blossoms. Now locating her intended does not seem so important. Can she reform a notorious rake into a suitable husband? Perhaps, but first she must win his heart.

Will the officer win Judith? Or, will the rake reform and become all she’s ever dreamed of?

Marked for death, an orphan longs for a safe haven. What she gets is the last thing she wants—a ruthless warlord with a score to settle.

Lady Aurora de Marquise needs an escape plan. Ingenuity gains her freedom from her uncle. Providence sets her on a collision course with Brigham de Mornay. Wary of his charm, she refuses his advances. When he pursues, she brings him to his knees, unaware he is lord of the sanctuary she is desperate to claim. Forced to confront her mistake, Aurora must learn to trust a man most consider a monster.

Lord Brigham de Mornay is a man with a reputation. Ruthless, he pursues all his desires, including Aurora de Marquise. When the vixen leaves him injured and stranded in the woods without his horse, he vows revenge. He never imagines she will engage his warrior soul and capture his well-defended heart.

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Amber Jollett is caught in a life-and-death chess match of intrigue, murder, and seduction as the FBI chases a money launderer and a drug cartel kingpin. In a world where nothing is what it seems, she’s deceived and manipulated as an unwitting pawn in both her boss’s criminal activities and the FBI’s investigation. She struggles against the chaos, including a vicious sexual assault by the drug lord. As time is running out, the Pawn must choose who to trust, who to help, and who to love.

FBI Special Agent Ben Alfren pursues bad guys with a passion. Desperate to decipher the clues to her boss’s money laundering operation, he aims that passion at Amber, only to have it take on an entirely different meaning. When he confronts her with the truth about the mayhem enveloping her, will Ben have to sacrifice the pawn to win the game?

There she was, dancing across the floor. The daughter stolen from Ivy nearly twenty years ago. The disguised mercenary did not know what to do, how to react. Instantly, her head filled with the months prior to the birth, when Ursus taunted her with his plans. To keep the baby, to force her to bear more…to continue the never ending nightmare of his presence.

She’d had no choice but to run. To abandon the baby, to flee.

In the Changed World, children were rare, women who were fertile, valuable. Ivy saw Helen, and pictured her rapist. Saw her child and knew only fear. The child of Ursus, the warlord guilty of genocide, of killing Ivy’s entire race. Her mind stilled, to stay and use this girl to kill Ursus? Or to leave, before he knew she was in his reach once more. Danger lurked in both decisions.

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Lady Edwina von Seeburg, smart, independent and sassy daughter of an Austrian count, turns Victorian London on its ear with her unruly antics. Men adore her. However, she has a dark secret and avoids them at every turn. A gifted artist, she throws her wild passions into her work.

Lord Worthington has two loves in his life: the city of Venice, and his prized horses. He also avoids two things: assuming his father’s duties, and marriage. When he returns to London after years in Venice, he kidnaps the sister of an old arch-enemy. Trouble is, he has never met her and mistakenly captures her friend—feisty Lady Edwina. He discovers a woman who not only sets his soul afire, but who shares his love of horses and Italy. She, however, is flabbergasted by their volatile chemistry. When Worthington begins a relentless, mischievous pursuit of Edwina, she runs the other way.

Kathleen Bittner Roth