The year is 1911, and young Dinah dreams of marrying a gentleman and living the grand life in nearby Fort Myers, Florida. Once a rowdy cow town rivaling those of the old west, Fort Myers now boasts indoor plumbing and electricity, conveniences sorely lacking in her small river town. Zach also has a dream. [...]
Tags: early 20th century, Florida
Posted in Romance, Women's Fiction |
‘Last night I dreamt that I was walking along the edge of the River Irwell with my friend Miranda. It was a summer evening and we were laughing and singing our favourite Billy Connolly songs. Miranda had bought a bag of sherbet lemons and we sucked them hard until the sherbet came shooting out [...]
Tags: bittersweet, coming of age, friends, friendship, growing up, manchester, school
Posted in General Fiction, Women's Fiction |
The Boat-Builder’s Bed – Kris Pearson A windy day…a flyaway signboard…a hideous crunch. Sophie Calhoun can’t imagine how she’ll pay for the damage to the luxurious car. Already cash-strapped, she’s struggling to launch her new interior design studio and make a home for her daughter. She’s only days away from disaster. Out of the [...]
Posted in Romance, Women's Fiction |
When a hot, leather-clad hunk on a Harley roars into her life, a wary single mom must decide if she will take a chance on love. Allison Bradley has enough hassles repaying her ex’s crushing debts, juggling a demanding executive job, and raising her little boy on her own. The last thing she needs [...]
Tags: baby, contemporary romance, hot hero, Kandy Shepherd, romance, single mom, Something About Joe
Posted in General Fiction, Romance, Women's Fiction |
After many failures and disappointments in her past, Casey Richardson has found her calling working with children in her dance academy. Unfortunately she is about to lose it. The only one who steps up to the plate to help her save the school is Drew Byrne, a wealthy trucking mogul and divorced dad whose [...]
Tags: contemporary romance, dancer, divorced dad, family, love story, romantic comedy, Women's Fiction
Posted in Friday Freebies, Romantic Comedy, Women's Fiction |
Polarized politics, high-strung Southern families and the worst disaster management goat screw in US history backdrop a deadly game of cat and mouse that unfolds during the record-smashing hurricane season of 2005. When Shay Hoovestahl, a puff piece reporter for the local news, stumbles on the story of a con artist using chaos as [...]
Tags: crime fiction, family, fetish, george bush, gulf coast, houston, hurricane, identity theft, katrina, love, meteorology, murder, mystery, New Orleans, politics, relationships, romance, romantic, science, sex, sisters, suspense, Texas, thriller, weather
Posted in Crime Fiction, Mystery, Romantic Suspense, Science Thriller, Thriller, Women's Fiction |
To read Libby Fischer Hellmann is to love Libby Fischer Hellmann. Her writing is tight, fast, and highly entertaining. But I had no idea Libby was so versatile. My first inkling of this came a few years ago, when I asked her to contribute a story to an anthology I was editing. Frankly, I [...]
Tags: anthology, Blues, Chicago, hard-boiled, historical, mystery, noir, short story, thriller
Posted in Crime Fiction, Mystery, Noir, Short Stories (Anthology), Thriller, Women's Fiction |
In “Nice Girls Do It,” it’s a stormy day when Chloe gets caught in the rain until a mysterious stranger who calls himself “the Hunter” offers her shelter in his old Victorian mansion. Will she lose her virginity before morning comes? Who is the Hunter? He’s a character I’ve had in my mind for [...]
Tags: alpha male, geisha, hunter, kimono, nice girls, one night stand, romance, sensual, sexy, short story, spicy, virgin
Posted in Romance, Short Stories (Anthology), Women's Fiction |
King David’s rise to power beckons Tamar’s mother to leave her temple, her priestess tradition and her first marriage to join the growing royal harem. Traveling with her, young Tamar gains the ancient gift of hearing the whispers of sacred Serpents, the will of the Goddess. The conflict between her Goddess and David’s single [...]
Tags: Biblical, King David
Posted in Historical, Women's Fiction |
Destiny rarely gives a woman a second chance at love, especially not with a man who died twenty years ago. Laurel is pulled to an alternate reality where her beloved still lives. She desperately wants to remain, but every shift between realities damages her body further, and her soon-to-be-ex will stop at nothing [...]
Tags: alternate realities, magical realism, paranormal, port als, psychic abilities, romance, Supernatural, Women's Fiction
Posted in Paranormal, Romance, Women's Fiction |
Abducted. Seduced. Purring. Laurel de Courcey is captured by terrorists, chained up in a disgusting bunker, and videoed for a ransom demand which is shown world-wide. Ooops – wrong hostage. Who’d expect a shy Kiwi nanny to be worth anything? Laurel’s soon tied up in Sheikh Rafiq’s bed instead, because he rescues her and [...]
Tags: abducted and seduced, red-hot Sheikh with a wicked tongue, sexy love story, Sheikh, sizzling desert romance
Posted in Romance, Romantic Comedy, Women's Fiction |
Jamie Duggan, a paramedic of sixteen years experience, now drives a pie delivery van for his brother-in-law’s company in Massachusetts while trying to recover from the sudden death of his wife two years before. Then one day, driving to work, the car in front of him veers off the road and flips, rolling down [...]
Tags: humor, romantic comedy
Posted in General Fiction, Romantic Comedy, Women's Fiction |
‘Some men don’t fall in love, they get lost. I was lost from the moment I saw Anastasia Romanov in the taxi club that first night …’ When Michael Sheridan jumped into the Whangpoa River to save a woman he had met in one of Shanghai’s taxi clubs, his life changed irrevocably. A Russian [...]
Tags: Anastasia, Berlin, Czar, London, Romanovs, Russia, Russian revolution, Shangai
Posted in General Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction |
When Nicholas Peacock is cheated from his inheritance of Peacock Hall in Kent, he sails to South Carolina. He buys land, clears it, and plants cotton. Eventually he builds a magnificent house known as Paradise Plantation. He falls in love with the daughter of Bernard Jackson on the neighboring plantation, but when Civil War [...]
Posted in Historical, Romance, Women's Fiction |
A courageous voyage through destitution, intrigue and murder. Manasa is abandoned by the man she should marry. He swears to her that his wealthy father will give him anything he wants. Then he says nothing when their fathers agree to arrange a wedding for him with Manasa’s younger sister. Meanwhile Manasa finds herself pregnant [...]
Tags: Courage, india, love, murder, survival
Posted in General Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction |
Nineteen-year-old Emily is new to pairs skating, but she and her partner Chris have a big dream–to be the first American team to win Olympic gold. Their young coach Sergei, who left Russia after a mysterious end to his skating career, believes they can break through and make history. Emily and Chris are on [...]
Tags: figure skating, Ice Skating, Olympics, romance
Posted in Romance, Women's Fiction, YA Romance |
Annie Graceland’s a baker with a pinch of psychic ability. She’s a midwestern girl who’s surviving a divorce while navigating the mean clean streets of L.A. When stressed, Annie’s psychic gift/curse kicks into high gear. She’s empathic; feels other people’s lusts, urges and desires in her own body. Usually it’s simple — someone’s craving [...]
Tags: chick lit, comedic mystery, cozy mystery, female sleuth, ghosts, mystery, Novella, paranormal, romance, Women's Fiction
Posted in Cozy, Mystery, Novella, Paranormal, Romance, Women's Fiction |
Set in Washington, D.C. and El Salvador, SWEETWATER AMERICAN is the story of an orphan and would-be filmmaker who is sent to live in a cursed town in El Salvador with her godmother, a woman whom she has never met and who may hold the secret to breaking the town’s curse: no babies have [...]
Tags: contemporary fiction, family, ghosts, Literary, maryland, paranormal, washington d.c., Women's Fiction
Posted in Literary Fiction, Paranormal, Women's Fiction |