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When a fast-paced, time-limited daycare aide with three needy, quirky aunts meets a soulful carpenter with time on his hands, New Orleans gets steamier. Will his patience and persistence win her trust and her heart? Or will her aunts stop his clock with a voodoo hex? 

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Feeling like a pet owner boarding out beloved Fido, Jon parked his Jag in the lot near the ferryboat landing.  He wished he had the portable dust cover he’d been meaning to buy for just such car emergencies.

           After he locked the door, he patted its gray, simonized fender lovingly and walked away, laptop in hand.  He refused to look back when a rusty, red Jeep spun into the parking lot kicking up enough dust to choke a herd of elephants, let alone one mere Jaguar.  His muscles flinched beneath the shoulder strap of his leather overnight bag.

          Tension had built on Interstate 95 with the steady stream of weekend traffic.  It looked like more stress ahead as he strode toward the boat’s rickety boarding ramp.  A few cars, apparently headed for other island ports that allowed autos, rattled onboard the double-decked, paint-chipped ferry.

           He took a seat on the warped wooden bench of the superior deck, well away from the couple with the paper sack intent on feeding the squawking seagulls.

           None too soon, the ferryboat pilot blew a whistle, the gulls screamed, and the last boat for Rose Island steered away from the landing with all the speed of a last place racehorse.  Jon let out a long breath, suspicious of the boat staying afloat any longer than he could.

          Once underway, two things lifted his spirits.  An ocean breeze cut through the midday sun and heat.  And a blonde, portside.

         Standing at the rail, wisps of hair escaping a lone braid trickling down her statuesque neck, stood the woman of his dreams.  His dreams for a livelier voyage, anyway.

         A ferryboat romance.  Now that gave him some salty ideas.  He wondered if there was a mile-out club, sort of a spin off from the mile-high club.

 
 

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WRONG SIDE OF LOVE is in print as part of the WILD WAYBACK NIGHTS Anthology

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DEVIL IN COWBOY BOOTS 

 

DEVIL IN COWBOY BOOTS which was previously published for a short time with a house that closed is finally being re-released!  I’m so excited.  The story has been revised for The Wild Rose Press with more love, more heat, and more of everything.

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Mercy is a sexually frustrated medical transcriber vacationing in San Antonio in search of a man to fulfill her fantasies. When she meets a dark, devilishly handsome loner out to avenge his past will she get more than she bargained for?


When The Devil In Cowboy Boots stalks the man who framed him and stole two years of his life, his consuming vengeance becomes tempered by Mercy, a woman whose suggestive advances and fearless inexperience are as tantalizing as his most erotic fantasies.

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Wrong Side of  Love

 

Lili Marlene is hell-bent to get out of Wayback. To anyplace where sports, music, and culture don’t center around cows or rodeos. Two things stand in her way, the down payment on a new business and Luc Fremont, the mayor of Wayback.


Luc has two birthday wishes. To stay aboard the meanest bull at the Wayback Rodeo for eight seconds and to make it with Lili. One of many generations of Wayback mayors, Luc loves the town, his homestead, and, to his exasperation, Lili. She won’t commit to stay and a mayor doesn’t live elsewhere.

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Banned in Texas is now in print!

Banned in Texas:

When the local bad boy meets a bad girl, gone respectable, who will come out on top?

 Cole wants to add Angie to the notches on his bedpost, while she wants respectability. He’s the serial dating bad boy of the RFD singles while she’s new in town and seeking a fresh start. Will she tame the bad boy or will he shame her?

Or will the secret he’s deadset on hiding with his playboy image be revealed?

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East Meets West

J.T. Cutter had a Colorado ranch to run -- and he rued the day he ever decided to take in paying guests.  Especially a stuck-up Easterner like Amanda Martin.  Hell, the woman was impossible, even if she was gorgeous.  She obviously didn't like him...or his horse.  And was she ever sassy.  As far as J.T. was concerned, she could just pack up her neon-pink truck and hightail it back home.

But J.T. underestimated Amanda.  She stayed put.  This handsome cowboy might be too bullheaded to figure out that she did like him, but Amanda was going to make him see the light.  In fact, she had a plan to make him fall in love with her...

And that's how the West was won.

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Luring Jesse

In the Black Hills of South Dakota,
Lynda Mason stakes claim to a piece of Jesse Talbot's ranch and his heart.

Lynda Mason inherits a section of a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota from her aunt. Wealthy rancher Jesse James Talbot claims to own the whole mountain and he intends to keep it that way. Unable to get by the reclusive rancher's barbed wire fences and locked gates, Lynda develops a ruse. To lure Jesse down from his Black Hills, Lynda moves into a plush penthouse at the exclusive Talbot Arms and poses as his wife.

The ruse works. When Jesse swaggers into her party at the penthouse, Lynda plans to get him alone, inform him of her claim, and give him every opportunity to buy her out.

What she doesn't plan on is being quite so alone with the hunk in boots. A forest fire results in a wild helicopter ride out to his ranch. Soon sparks fly that have nothing to do with the fire raging on the mountain.

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Nobody's Angel

Dirk Reynard is in search of a wife.  His Pentium PC works fine for running his businesses--digital farming and ranching, with a bit of rodeo stock thrown in.  So finding an absolute angel to marry on the Internet should be no problem.

        Kristabelle Lewis is a small town librarian, and still on a no-tech, Dewey decimal, card catalogue system. Thanks to her shopaholic ways she has a dress for any occasion--well, almost.  Software, hardware, shareware?  What does a woman wear on an accidental, computerized date?

        A computer-arranged blind date, a case of mistaken identity, a brother out to prove cyber mating is flawed, and a neighbor with a criminal past all add to the romp.  Dirk and Krista go from a Reno restaurant, to an isolated mountain cow camp, and ultimately, to Las Vegas to attend a chapel wedding complete with an Elvis impersonator.

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