short, fun "modern romances," that span and sometimes defy genre.
Summer Read delights, vexes, surprises, educates, enlightens, inspires, makes you laugh, and keeps you guessing, but you can always count on a happy ending.
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We decided to put a warning label on these two titles.
Pitch & Roll and "Yeah Baby She's Got It" live up to their blurbs and their hype, they are racy. In the old movie rating system a few scenes would be rated R.
While all the other books in the first Summer Read catalogue (we are planning twenty), are excellent for young adult readers, these two (in just a couple of scenes), are a bit too risqué. The science is superb, the plots riveting, the characters unforgettable, the settings masterfully drawn, and the relationships drive the stories and please readers, but we recommend them for adults or ask parents to read them to see if they are okay for their teens.
PITCH & ROLL
It's Hollywood Wives meets The Right Stuff when the modern space race heats up in Titusville, Florida.
AVAILABLE on Kindle
NOT available in print right now - it is a simple, temporary mistake. We will fix it.
Thank you Kindle readers! Pitch & Roll ended it's free five day December 2022 promotion on the amazon best seller list for "free on Kindle science fiction space opera."
"YEAH BABY SHE'S GOT IT"
The sequel to Pitch & Roll, space vamp Valkaria Grant is at it again, this time blasting off from earth with forty-two men to become the goddess of the planet Venus. Her milquetoast psychotherapist and über perfect "Captain Terrific" are rivals along for the ride to establish a colony and save the solar system from a billionaire's billiards-with-asteroids terraforming scheme that could plunge the inner planets into the sun. Things go well for Valkaria until a mutiny threatens interplanetary calamity.
NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle and Paperback HERE
Thank you Kindle readers! "Yeah Baby She's Got It" ended it's five day December 2022 promotion on the amazon best seller list for "free on Kindle science fiction space opera." It was in the sixth position in the category (Pitch & Roll was number three).
COSMIC CONTAGION
U. S. virus trackers amid a global pandemic chase leads for "Patient Zero" to the Pacific northwest. They find him and also a visitor from a parallel universe. It is love at first sight for Darnella Bogg but she is carrying a different kind of contagion, which threatens two worlds. Trackers Anita Crayford and Sonny Vale have their own close encounter in our corner of the multiverse.
NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle and Paperback HERE
BARRICADE GIRL
Barricade Girl became an amazon Kindle Free download best seller in December, 2022.
When innocent Emma Whitney goes to college and makes new friends, they fall under the spell of professor Mars, their Social Justice teacher and find themselves dedicated combatants on the barricades. Emma's boyfriend Jacob Burke is secretly not buying the neurotic pathologies. Can he save Emma before it is too late?
NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle and Paperback HERE
WESTERN SIEVE
In the chaos of a collapsing civilization a young immigrant woman finds love, happiness, and the American dream.
Not yet available.
LOVE ON THE LOXAHATCHEE
Jessica Hearthbring runs a nature photography tour company in South Florida's Palm Beach County. On a perfect tour her assistant and their clients find love but when a handsome, hapless young man joins the group uninvited his presence seems a recipe for disaster. Of course he has a secret, and it turns out to be as big as Palm Beach.
NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle and Paperback HERE
ALL BARQUE AND NO BIGHT
It's a modern lost at sea romantic comedy when two mismatched tourists find themselves alone on a sailing barque hundreds of miles from land, the captain and crew taken in the night by pirates. She is a quirky free spirit traveler and he is a straight-laced square thinking businessman. Neither has ever been on a boat before.
"It's literary."
Available in Paperback HERE and on Kindle HERE
ANTY ROMANCE PLUS PHOBOS AND DEIMOS
Anty Romance became an amazon Kindle Free best seller when launched in December, 2022.
Ivy Kawtane and her professor father study ants. Sting Titch-Talos is a nosy reporter. When Ivy goes missing and her father is hospitalized after an attack, what seems small turns out to be very big and includes a national cyber coup and perhaps the fate of humanity. When all is lost, help comes from the most unlikely of sources.
Phobos And Deimos
In deep space and in the first Mars colony there is no escaping the little annoyances that ultimately spell doom, like bad management, professional rivalry, and unexpected creatures. It's a murder mystery, sci-fi, classic "monster in the house," fun romance.
Available in Paperback HERE and on Kindle HERE
Nine Eerie Romance Stories
Some are novella length, some only a few pages.
Available in Paperback HERE and on Kindle HERE
Thank you readers! Nine Eerie Romance Stories ended its December, 2022 five day promotion as a "Kindle free romance gothic" best seller (number three).
EX-DAUGHTER OF ISHTAR
A man, a woman, and a city you will never see the same way again. When a Manhattan dance cult entrances Alon's wife Zoe, he battles kingdoms and principalities to rescue her in this drama of seduction, intrigue, and brainwashing.
NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle and Paperback HERE
HUNTER JUMPER ROMANCE
A beautiful young equestrian competition rider confronts an exasperating groom at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida. It's a galloping tale of riding and romping with a surprise ending.
In progress.
VIRGINIA REAL
Sarah Chestnut falls in love with bluegrass performer Fitz Williamson just as their young lives and his career take off. Fitz faces a world of distraction and temptation but Sarah has a Commonwealth on her side.
"Like it's title, it's a nice read for a summer day. The young love story with chapters titled like parts of a song was a nice touch." - Carole Woodward.
NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle and Paperback HERE
WAIKIKI LUAU
A Pacific Island Magical Realism Romance Mystery
Varina Blair is a contestant in Honolulu on a televised international cooking competition, pining away for her farmer boyfriend in North Carolina. One contestant disappears, then another. As mysteries deepen and suspense mounts, readers get a look behind the scenes at kitchen contests. Varina recruits a detective, they have misadventures, and in the end, the farmer comes through for a shocking good ending.
NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle and Paperback HERE
KOMODO CROC vs GIANT LIGER
She is a tough-as-nails psycho recluse bioengineer with a big cat obsession. He is a ruthless one-eyed combat veteran in charge of a secret government lab that birthed a mean dragon the size of a big box store. When their monstrous creations meet in a death match it's sayonara Miami and the start of a romance you absolutely, positively, never expected.
Never expected, - were it not for this truly total spoiler book summary: She is catapulted to the lead in her first movie, a TV feature he knows will make his career if only she weren't the co-star.
It's one of those stories, and with plenty of conflict. Summer lets the fur fly, Hell bent for leather.
NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle and Paperback HERE
HARLEM CHRISTMAS
Yes, we did love the original title we promoted here for so long but upon publication we discovered another (recently published) book by that title so we had to change.
(Cover: We are proud to include on our cover, from public domain, a classic cover from The Crisis Magazine)
She is a home healthcare nurse new to the neighborhood and looking forward to Christmas. He is a postal delivery worker obsessed with the Harlem Renaissance. Can their romance survive the conflict between what he teaches and what her elderly patients tell her? How does a proper observance of the nativity lead to a fuller understanding of Harlem, and what does that observance mean for this young couple?
NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle and Paperback HERE
BOWL THE MAIDEN OVER
A Cricket Romance
It's love in a rural Indian village where the new boy has cricket star potential. To test his parent potential, the girl with her eye on him and her best friend arrange for him to rescue a stray dog. It's not quite cricket any longer when his love for the dog eclipses all his other interests. There are at least two excellent good twists before the happy ending.
(It's a short story - per reader requests)
NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle and Paperback HERE
HEAVY METAL BLUNDER
Two prospectors and a woman set out to find the secret of an amazing alloy. The Old West is the timeless backdrop for this romance, drama, thriller, that twists eventually into a nature-run-amok horror story. From this unlikely recipe there comes a contemporary twist and happy ending.
(My father requested Westerns. I wrote three (Heavy Metal Blunder, Glowan, and Yeehaw). In print, we will combine Heavy Metal Blunder and Glowan in one volume. Glowan will also publish as a stand alone ebook.
NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle and Paperback HERE
GLOWAN
Katie Dane's horse, Glowan, falls into government hands, headed for slaughter. She rescues him but he gets loose and they round him up in a wild herd. Katie and her gorgeous blind date, Steve, are absolutely perfect for each other until she learns he is the helicopter pilot who captures wild horses. Can she convince him to champion the horses' freedom instead? Can she rescue Glowan? The key to change might be the surprising fact that wild horses fight fires. A raging, toxic, solar-farm wildfire forces Steve to make a fateful decision and Katie, in her own date with destiny desperately confronts armed federal agents alone.
NOW AVAILABLE on Kindle
YEEHAW
(written and awaiting publication)
In the original old West, cattlemen drove herds over the vast palmetto prairie, all the way to Punta Rassa. When a teenage boy joins cracker cow-punchers and the neighbor woman he hopes to marry goes to work in an infamous crossroads establishment, the cruel facts of frontier life confront them. Through swamp, miasma, bandits, storms, heat, fever, and tragic death, the boy prevails, but can he reach his girl before it's too late?
CHARLESTON CHARLOTTE RICHMOND RALEIGH
Rebecca Koselig's border collie and Australian shepherd mix, Charlotte, has a nose for mystery. Rebecca's new neighbor, Walter St. John, has two dogs, an Australian cattle dog and shepherd mix named Richmond, and a red-healer hound mix named Raleigh. They all live in Charleston, South Carolina.
In the series' first book, Lost Library, the legendary lost library of a nineteenth-century literary genius may not be a myth after all and the dogs are on the case. This Low Country, young adult, sweet romance, mystery, has everything you want in a book set in South Carolina.
In the second book in the series, A Brush With History, the team reunites to solve the mystery of forged paintings showing up in local galleries. The dogs trace the forger to a cache of canvases, genuine mid-century-modern masterpieces. They were created by a long-dead local recluse who painted the details of his remarkable early life. Richmond leads Charlotte and Raleigh into danger (Charlotte saves the day), and they uncover the key that reveals all the pieces of the puzzle.
TEL ALL
(Cover In the works, novella in progress)
A Biblical Archeology Romance
Can an Ohio DJ and a rock star find love on a dig site? Will the past bring them together or will what they uncover make them mortal enemies? Discover with them what tales of romance lie hidden beneath the sands and stones in the remnants of an ancient civilization.
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