This city boy has it all figured out... Until he goes toe-to-toe with a fierce cowgirl who's snagged the home field advantage.Holiday, Texas is known far and wide as the most celebratory town in the South—and no shindig is complete without one of its founding members. It's a real shame the last remaining Holiday is a city slicker, but what's that old saying about putting lipstick on a pig...?Beck has no intention of being charmed by some crazy Texas town, but the minute he lays eyes on his grandfather's old honky tonk—and Charlie Walker, the beautiful cowgirl who runs it—he finds himself wishing things could be different. Life's gentler in Holiday. Slower. More real than anything he's ever known. And when he looks into Charlie's eyes, Beck may finally discover what it's like to truly belong.Holiday, Texas Series: All-American Cowboy (Book 1)Cowboy Christmas Jubilee (Book 2) Views: 30
This bite sized Werewolf Keep novelette is a prequel to the trilogy and follows the adventures of Charlie Hughson, a feisty blue-stocking, as she attempts to help a man with no name, on trial for murder, and about to be condemned to an insane asylum.After being found unconscious beside the body of a man whose throat has been torn out, ex-priest and Opera singer, Juan Alvarez, has just spent the last three weeks in a foul prison cell, awaiting trial. Filthy, bloody and near-starving, with eyes that tell of a journey to hell and back, he is hardly a Victorian lady’s dream of the perfect gentleman.But Charlie will go to outrageous and inappropriate lengths to safeguard and stay beside the man who has stolen her heart.Even if that man turns out to be a werewolf. Views: 30
Mattie Ross is probably the last person who should be doling out good counsel to anyone on anything. Still smarting after being left at the altar two years earlier, she is strapped with debt, has sworn off men, routinely buries herself in her work and despite her well-proportioned figure, remains haunted by childhood taunts of "Fatty Mattie." But to her publisher at the Chicago Gazette, and readers, she is their latest advice columnist, The Plate Spinner, a self-assured working parent to adorable fake children and multi-tasking savant. Enter Nick Derosa, the twin brother of Mattie's cold-footed fiancé who is trying to get back on his feet after his brother steals his identity and implicates him in an illegal investment scheme. But thanks to Nick's legendary running career, the publisher of the Chicago Gazette proposes a wager: If Nick can train an out-of-shape working parent in time to compete in the Chicago Marathon, he will contribute enough to help Nick launch... Views: 30
When Julia Probyn came to sun-lit Portugal to cover a royal wedding for her paper, the last thing she expected was to find herself involved in the escape of an important Hungarian priest, ruthless Communists who pursued him, and the affairs of a young Hungarian countess just released from behind the Iron Curtain.
The lvely countess, Hetta Paloczy, a convent school girl for two-thirds of her life and a cook to a rustic priest in Hungary for the rest, is suddenly plunged into an international society where social tact is just as important as the right clothes. Hetta had lived with poverty, hardship and danger for her daily bread and here, she vivdly relates her horrifying experiences in Soviet-dominated Hungary. Her adjustment to her new life in Portugal is complicated by the two men who are irresistibly drawn to her. One is a well brought-up American in the high Bostonian sense of the phrase; the other is outwardly much the conventional Englishman, but one who secretly adores recklessness. Views: 29
