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Trident Security is an explosive book series with elements of the BDSM lifestyle, sensual romance, nail-biting suspense, and happily-ever-afters. Start with six retired Navy SEALs, who open a private security business, as well as a lifestyle kink club, then add in the kick-ass women and men who bring those bad boys to their knees. What you end up with is a roller coaster ride filled with laughter, tears, heart-warming moments, and steamy scenes that will have more than just your heart pounding. With thirteen page-turning reads, Trident Security has also spawned five spinoff series to continue the action and passion. Once you start, you won’t want to stop until you’ve read every single story. Don’t wait any longer! Find out what fans of the “Sexy Six-Pack” are talking about and get Leather & Lace: Book 1 today!

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Author pic USA Today Bestselling Author Samantha A. Cole is a retired police officer and paramedic, who now writes romance/suspense. Her popular Trident Security series has spawned four spinoff series—TS Omega, Doms of The Covenant, Deimos, and Blackhawk Security. The Malone Brothers and Hazard Falls series aren’t related to the others, but you never know which characters will cross over and make an appearance. Samantha also has a few standalone novels and is involved in several multi-author projects.

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Series Tour ~ Certified Playboy Series ~ by ~ Scarlett Avery

 

Series: Certified Playboy Series

Titles: Roderick ~ Lochlan ~ Holt ~ Jace 
Author: Scarlett Avery
Genre: Enemies to lover/single dad romance
 
NOTE: Certified Playboy Series was formerly known as Torrid Series.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roderick Wolfe…

 

He’s a former rock star who’s still viewed as a music god.
The quintessential playboy who’s hotter-than-sin and impossible to resist is also my best friend.
Rod has me locked in the friend zone. I’m just a sidekick to him, but God, I crave so much more.
I want to be the one he looks at with lust in his eyes. The thought consumes me, but I suppress it.
My conflicting feelings for my best friend could jeopardize a decade-long friendship. I can’t risk that.
Maybe unrequited love isn’t so bad after all…
Loki Berkshire… 

 

There are some unwritten BFF codes… abiding rules, you might call them.
No one has to speak them.
You just know.
Like coveting my best friend’s older brother. Bad idea.
Wanting to kiss him more than I want to take my next breath. Really bad idea.
Making him the star of my naughty dreams. Plain stupid.
Fibbing about him being my boyfriend to ward off an annoying suitor. Admittedly, not the brightness plan.
I never expected the sexy playboy to find out in this humiliating way…

 

The first time I met him, his arresting blue eyes were enough to make me lose my head. But of course, I kept it together.

 

I’m a professional and fooling around with a client is a recipe for disaster.
Holt Christensen is off limits.
The second time I meet the gorgeous single dad playboy, he boldly offers to tie me down.
How did we go from hello to Fifty Shades of Grey in a New York minute?

Jace Halsey…
It seems I’m the only sane woman in LA who’s immune to that self-important man.
Even my big sister swoons all over him.
It makes me sick.
Truth be told, I want nothing more than to annihilate him because he’s always in the way. Never mind he has no clue of my existence, he’s still the thorn in my side.
Just when I’m certain I’ll have no other choice but to live in his shadow for the end of time, I get my big break.
Of course, I should’ve known he’d find a way of ruining it for me.
Not only do I have to share the freaking stage with the single dad playboy, we’re going to be rivals? On national TV?
I declare war!

 

 
Her confused gaze meets mine and I smile wide. I tuck my phone inside my inner pocket and approach her.

 

“I think the producers booked me on the wrong date,” I say.
“Wrong date? What do you mean?” she asks.

 

 

 

Someone’s on edge.

 

I give her a deliberate onceover. “I didn’t realize today’s show was about Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover models,” I smile.
“Hmph,” she pulls up her lips in an unimpressed curve. Most women would blush. Some would giggle. At least, laugh. Not her. “Cute, but don’t you think it’s a little overused?” the blonde asks.
I distinctly pick up on a bit of sarcasm.
Okay, perhaps not my best line, but what’s up with the hostility?
“It was meant as a compliment,” I say.
“Thanks, but not very original.” Ouch. “Just like, ‘Heaven must be missing an angel’.”

 

Okay. This one is going to be a tough nut to crack.

 

“Let me start over,” I say. “My name is Jace Halsey,” I extend my hand. “And you must be the lovely Eliana Pomeroy––the other guest.”
She looks surprised.
“You know my name?” she asks, shaking my hand.
“Of course. My publicist sent me a dossier––”
“That sounds top secret, don’t you think? It’s just little ol’ me… it’s not like I’m an undercover agent of a covert operation.”

 

Down, woman.

 

This conversation started on the wrong foot.
“I’m sorry. It feels like we have history together. Have we met before? I apologize in advance if I don’t remember.”
“Wow, you must meet a lot of women.”
I ignore the insinuation.
“I do. Just like I meet a lot of men. It’s part of the profession.”
“I bet,” she sneers. “We’ve never met. Not that you’d know who I was without that dossier.
“On the contrary. I know exactly who you are,” I say.
She crosses her arms over her chest and adopts a defiant stance. In doing so, the lapel of her jacket opens slightly, revealing her best assets.

 

Very. Nice.

 

“My eyes are up here, buddy!” she snaps.
My gaze bounces to her narrow hazel green eyes.
She’s shooting daggers at me.
This woman went from stranger to enemy in a New York minute.

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Series Blitz ~ Her Billionaires ~ by ~ Julia Kent

 

The New
York Times
bestselling Her Billionaires series combines the stories of
Laura, Mike, Dylan (a committed threesome with a growing family by book 3) and
Josie and Alex (a committed twosome) with strong cameos from Darla, Trevor, and
Joe from the Random series (another permanent threesome) and Lydia, Jeremy and
Mike from the Obedient series (yet another permanent threesome) for a madcap
spectacle that yields one universal truth: love is a journey and not a
destination, but people will drive you crazy along the way. Half a million
words of hot, hilarious, heartwarming romantic comedy, all in Kindle Unlimited
for you to read now!
The Her
Billionaires Series includes:
Her
Billionaires
(Book
1)
It’s
Complicated
(Book
2)
Completely
Complicated
(Book
3)
It’s
Always Complicated

(Book 4)
 
Title: Her Billionaires
Series: Her Billionaires #1
Author: Julia Kent
Genre: Contemporary Rock Star Romance/

Romantic Comedy

Blurb
FROM NEW YORK TIMES
AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JULIA KENT
COULD SHE REALLY FIND THE RIGHT GUY ON THE INTERNET?

“Hot, luscious woman who can suck a golf ball through forty feet of garden
hose seeks rippling-ab’d firefighter who has a tongue that thrums like a
hummingbird and enjoys painting my toenails and eating Ben & Jerry’s out of
the carton while watching Orange is the New Black.”

Curvy business analyst Laura Michaels stared at the online dating site’s registration
screen and frowned. That’s what she really wanted to write. By the time her
best friend, Josie, edited and clicked “Send,” her personals ad was
more fantasy than reality.

OR WOULD SHE GET MORE THAN SHE BARGAINED FOR?

When two different guys — Dylan Stanwyck and Mike Pine — replied within two
days, she seemed doubly blessed. After a first date with
model-turned-firefighter Dylan that ended in bed — and with a huge
misunderstanding — Laura came home from her Walk of Shame to an invitation for
a hike with ski instructor Mike. The Great Outdoors became the setting for so
much more…

Caught between two men — literally — who turned out to be roommates and
secret billionaires, Laura makes a startling discovery about her own capacity
for passion.

And, maybe, long-term love in an unconventional romance with two men that
pushes every boundary.

Including her own.

 

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Excerpt
“Luscious, curvy financial analyst seeks friendship
and more. Financially independent and self-assured, I’m a fit woman who wants a
man (or, more than one! YOLO!) for stimulating conversation…er, yeah.
Conversation. Message me (or massage me!).”
Something fierce and hot inside him came to life. From that description
it sounded like she…seriously? No way.
“Mike! Hey, Mike! Get in here!” If there were a chance— any chance at
all, here, then he had to act fast. Someone this amazing was about to get
inundated by messages from needy weirdos.
And he needed to be the first.
His roommate wandered in. Where Dylan was all muscle and brawn, Mike Pine
was tall and sleek, a marathoner’s body of long, lean tissue. Dylan’s dark,
thick, Italian, looks made him popular with women, but Mike was the golden boy,
with blonde hair and blue eyes—the long-distance runner with a soft heart, the
guy women turned to and poured their hearts out, Mr. Sensitive to Dylan’s Mr.
Conquest.
Dylan tapped the screen. “Take a look at her.”
He smiled smugly as Mike’s eyes raced across the screen. They’d been
waiting for a long time. Too long. His roommate’s expression told him
everything he needed to know. Score! It might finally be time.
Title: It’s Complicated
Series: Her Billionaires #2
Author: Julia Kent
Genre: Contemporary Rock Star Romance/
Romantic Comedy
Blurb
From USA Today Bestselling
Author Julia Kent:
Hot make-out session? Check. With the dreamy obstetrician? Check. While her
best friend is in labor? Um…

It’s Complicated.

Josie Mendham never meant to have her own (radically different) set of gasps
and moans a few doors down from where her best friend, Laura, was giving birth.
And stealing away with the obstetrician who was consulting on Laura’s case
certainly wasn’t part of any birth plan.

When Dr. Alex Derjian watched the foursome enter the labor ward he did a doubletake:
two dads? That defied biology as he knew it. Even more intriguing was the woman
with the birthing mother and the fathers: Josie, the nurse he’d been watching
from afar for months. One elevator kiss led to an on-call room soiree and soon
he was breaking every romantic rule in his playbook.

Finding his way into her pants wouldn’t be hard.

But into her heart? That would be a challenge.

It’s Complicated is the much-awaited novel that combines the stories of Laura,
Mike, Dylan, Josie, and Madge from the Her Two Billionaires series with Darla,
Trevor and Joe from the USA Today Bestseller Random Acts of Crazy, with Alex
and Josie at the center of it all.

Romantic Comedy meets New Adult romance in this 130,000 word/450 page novel
that asks whether people can get out of their own way and learn that love isn’t
easy…but it’s always worth it.

 

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Either a fireball entered the elevator and exploded in her body or she
had just met her equivalent of Laura’s two soulmates in a single man. With one
touch, Alex—just another resident, just another doctor in a hospital working a
twenty-four-hour or forty-eight-hour shift, the kind of guy she’d met hundreds
of over the years—had transformed everything. Transformed the air in the
elevator, transformed the entire experience of bringing Laura in to L & D
into…transformed something about Josie herself.
His touch had seismically split her in two, tectonic plates altering her
emotional landscape. How could one person do that? she wondered as their eyes
locked and he shook her hand slowly, the tactile sensation of his palm pressed
against hers like some sort of a battery recharging every cell in her body,
warming her, making parts of her throb with a frequency that she hoped he could
feel with his tongue someday.
Or now. Now would work.
Very, very naughty thoughts flashed through her mind as they locked eyes.
And then a second series of thoughts berated her, guilted her over thinking
about anything but her poor best friend, who was about to have her vagina split
open by a speeding eight-pound flesh ball, all the nibbly parts on display for
a crew of eight or nine people, not including the dads and Josie.
This was a teaching hospital, after all, and the only way the interns,
residents and the nursing students going through clinicals could learn was to
watch people like Laura, to make notes, to get the queasiness over with and to
learn by doing.
Right now she’d like to learn some really nice hands-on sexual lessons,
lessons involving his hands on her naked ass, his mouth on other parts, her
body entwined with Mr. Alex Derjian here—Dr. Alex Derjian, she corrected herself.
Ever since a very messy failed affair her first year of nursing—an entangled,
sweeping disaster that involved two doctors at work—she’d had a pretty firm
rule: no dating doctors. But rules were made to be broken, right?
Title: Completely Complicated
Series: Her Billionaires #3
Author: Julia Kent
Genre: Contemporary Rock Star Romance/
Romantic Comedy
Blurb
The adventures of Laura, Mike, Dylan, Josie and Alex from
the Her Billionaires series continue as Laura, Mike and Dylan adjust to new
life with a baby. Meanwhile, Josie and Alex learn that love may not really mean
never having to say you’re sorry, but it sure does involve a great deal of
commitment and honesty.
With strong cameos from Darla, Trevor and Joe from the Random series, and
plenty of scenes at the enighborhood diner, Jeddy’s, The Complete Series Boxed
Set is 500+ pages that takes the gang further than they ever expected on their
journey to love.

**This set was originally published as “The Complete Series Boxed
Set” and has been renamed to “Completely Complicated”.**

It contains the previously published novellas:

Complete Abandon

Complete Harmony

Complete Bliss

Complete We

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Excerpt
“Are you a Sybian expert now?” Mike asked as he returned from the
kitchen, chomping on an energy bar.
Dylan shifted himself in a way that made Mike laugh. “Oh, you laugh, but
you know exactly how I feel right now.”
“Yup.”
“That Sybian…”
“Yup.”
“I’m thinking about ordering one.”
A cocked eyebrow was Mike’s calm response. “You are?”
“You in?”
“I say order one of everything from those books and see what happens.”
The devilish gleam in Mike’s eyes was so different from his droll manner that
even after ten years together, Dylan was amazed the man could surprise him.
“You realize you’re talking to a guy with nearly unlimited money and zero
impulse control?”
“You realize you are talking to a guy who has had sex twice and exactly
one blow job in six months?” Mike’s face was serious, eyes gone dark and smoky.
Mischief was gone. This was a man determined.
Dylan’s jaw dropped. Thank God they were in agreement. Whatever it took
to unlock the passionate woman they’d met fifteen months ago and to regain the
intimacy they all seemed to crave—but couldn’t quite find their way to—was what
they needed to do now. Something had to give.
“What are we wasting time talking for, then? Let’s start clicking.”
Crreak. The telltale sign of their bedroom door opening made them both
freeze.
“Shit!” Dylan hissed. Mike put a finger to his lips and stopped chewing
on the energy bar. Both stood there, ears cocked. The sound of footsteps, and
then the baby began to babble.
Mike looked at the eReader. “It’s been nearly two hours!”
“No way!”
Mike tapped and slid his fingers wildly, getting the machine back to the
Home screen. “You order whatever we need later on from your phone. You have
carte blanche. Get whatever you want.”
An evil laugh bubbled up inside Dylan as he rubbed his hands together.
This was going to be fun.
Title: It’s Always Complicated
Series: Her Billionaires #4
Author: Julia Kent
Genre: Contemporary Rock Star Romance/
Romantic Comedy
Blurb
Take two men, one
woman, three children. Stir in one best friend and her fiancé doctor. Whisk one
best friend’s niece, her two rock star boyfriends, and add a grizzled old
octogenarian diner owner with a naughty mouth and her eighty-something
boyfriend who loves every minute of her.



Put them all in a campground in northern Maine where the owners’ daughter has
two special men of her own. Bake for 400 pages.



It’s Always Complicated is the sprawling saga of how Laura, Mike and Dylan (Her
Billionaires) and Josie and Alex (It’s Complicated) have the wedding of a
lifetime at Escape Shores Campground (the Obedient series) while Darla, Trevor
and Joe (the Random series) make an appearance with a cast of characters that
includes cameos from the Warlock Waitress and maybe…just maybe…Mavis the
Chicken.



This book combines three of Julia Kent’s series in a madcap spectacle that
yields one universal truth: love is a journey and not a destination, but people
will drive you crazy along the way.

 

Enjoy the ride.
Read the series in order:
Her Billionaires (New York Times bestseller)
It’s Complicated
Completely Complicated
It’s Always Complicated

 

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Excerpt
Laura
“My dress doesn’t fit!” Laura wailed to no one in particular. Then again,
no one was actually listening to her, so even if she had chosen a target for
her cries of anguish, it wouldn’t have mattered.
Managing twin one-year-olds who had recently learned to walk and stumble
after their three-year-old sister meant that lately, conversations were nothing
but fleeting cries of caution followed by mutters as Laura cleaned messes made
by humans who didn’t know any better.
And sometimes that included Dylan and Mike.
“You look like a Disney Princess, Mama!” Jillian said, stopping in her
tracks. Her wide, blue eyes met Laura’s and her red cheeks turned to apples.
“Can I be Elsa for the wedding?”
Laura looked down at the white dress she wore. Half her abundant boobage
poured out like a tasty cupcake. The bodice dug into her ribs and the skirts
made the skin on her thighs itch.
And then little Aaron came bounding around Jillian, chocolate smeared all
over his hands and face.
“How did he get chocolate?” Laura asked, the words filled with an
edge she didn’t want to have.
“I made him a cake in my little oven!” Jillian cried out with pride. The
oven used a lightbulb for heat to cook the little cakes, and Jillian had been
long warned only to use it with adults, but apparently Laura couldn’t take
ninety seconds to change into her own wedding dress two days before the big day
without having Jillian get into mischief.
She grimaced. Of all the days for their nanny, Cyndi, to have food
poisoning.
Aaron took one, two, three steps in slow motion toward Laura. Eyes alight
with conquest at learning to walk, he pitched forward and began to fall.
Instinct overrode wedding dress and she bent down to catch him before his
head met the corner of the coffee table and—
Now her skirts looked like a very fluffy group of Dalmatians cuddled up
against her legs. Chocolate smears everywhere, even in the tulle.
Author Bio
New
York Times
and USA Today
bestselling author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge. Since 2013,
she has sold more than 2 million books, with 4 New York Times bestsellers and
more than 19 appearances on the USA Today bestseller list. Her books have been
translated into French and German, with more titles releasing in 2019.
From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy
joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for
a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a men’s
room toilet (and he isn’t a billionaire she met in a romantic comedy).

She lives in New England with her husband and three children where she is the
only person in the household with the gene required to change empty toilet
paper rolls.

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Series & Sale Alert ~ The Reverend Cici Gurule Mysteries ~ by ~ J.J. Cagney

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Few people ever experienced a connection like Reverend Cici Gurule had with her sister. The women weren’t just twins; they were identical.

Yes, were.

Cici knew the exact moment her sister had died because Cici had passed out in her apartment. She’d swear until the day she died her sister said her name in a soft, broken voice as her own mind had switched off.

Now, Cici must learn to live without her sister… and deal with a cold trail and unsolved murder.

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Cici discovers a body in the forest, and the victim’s wounds are identical to the ones that killed her sister a year ago…

Someone murdered her sister. And shot her dog. The killer won’t stop until she’s dead, too. Now, the killer has Cici on the run.

With her identical twin sister hauntings her dreams, as Cici and her dogs must dodge arrows, bullets, and even a demon truck. Worse, she must grapple with the knowledge her twin’s death was much more sinister than a random act of violence. The chase is on. As Cici closes in on the takedown, the criminals plan to wipe the sleuth off their radar. Permanently.

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An unconventional woman. A brutal murder. To solve the case, one reverend will look for help from beyond the grave…

Cici Gurule wants to pretend her dream is nothing more than a meaningless nightmare. But she cannot ignore that the bruised and bloodied woman looked alarmingly like her.

When a baby turns up on her porch—a baby who was reported missing days before—evidence points to a connection with the woman in Cici’s dream, and she can no longer ignore the nighttime vision. Cici and Detective Sam Chastain struggle to follow the garbled evidence, but the killer scores his victim first.

Worse, a message pinned to the victim’s blouse states, “You’re next.”

Now, it’s a race against the clock to keep the baby safe and find the murderer before his trail goes cold. Cici’s only chance to solve this mystery, before she becomes the next victim, means choosing between her faith and believing a message left by her ghostly twin.

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A 2019 Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize finalist.

A botched execution. A reverend on the run. Can she solve the mystery before she’s caught in the crosshairs?

Reverend Cici Gurule went to the sacred Chaco Canyon in search of a sign. She’s been offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in a megachurch, but taking the position would mean abandoning her Southwestern home and the man she’s grown to love as much more than a friend. She’s so caught up in her thoughts that she doesn’t realize when she stumbles upon a group of heavily armed operatives on the verge of an execution.

Soon, Cici’s dodging bullets and scaling mesas with the mysterious man she saved from certain death. With a little help from her twin sister’s ghost and restless ancestral spirits, they venture deeper into the maze-like rocky terrain. But her new companion’s deadly aim makes her wonder if she can afford to trust his side of the story.

To make it out of the canyon alive, Cici must unearth the true story behind the man and a sacred Navajo artifact before the next blood shed on sacred ground is hers.

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The first victim rolls out of a rain barrel.

Soon, Cici Gurule dreams of other women’s attacks, thanks to visions from her dead twin. The victims’ watery graves torment Cici, feeding her growing fear of water.

The killer targets Cici’s congregants and friends, taunting her and her lover, Detective Sam Chastain. Sam partners with the SFPD to investigate the widening web of assault, death, and pain… all while Cici struggles with the choices she made in Chaco Canyon.

When the killer lures a teen girl from her family, Cici and Sam’s desperation to identify him becomes critical. But the clues, from the disappearance of Sam’s ex-lover, to a cat with a chilling message for Cici, are leading them further from the truth, rather than toward saving the kidnapped girl.

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Cagney holds a bachelor’s in international marketing and spent part of her twenties as the marketing director for an elite sports management firm. And, yes, she did her requisite stint with a dotcom back in the early 2000s, first as a marketing coordinator and then as a content manager. She’s penned work for a variety of websites and magazines, and she worked as a literary agent for Irene Webb Literary.

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Series Cover Reveal ~ The Dating Series ~ by ~ Heidi McLaughlin & L.P. Dover

Series: The Dating Series
Authors: Heidi McLaughlin & L.P. Dover 
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: MadHat Studios
RELEASING APRIL 28, 2020
It’s New Year’s Eve and Natalie has a rare night off from her shifts at the hospital. Determined to have fun with friends, she stops at a local store for provisions.
 
There, amongst the craft beer and pork rinds, she comes face to face with her high school boyfriend, Brennan McLean. He’s a rockstar. She’s a nurse. To say life led them in different directions would be putting it mildly. Still, time hasn’t lessened the electric chemistry between them. By the end of the night more was dropping than just the ball.
 
Convincing herself she could have fun without getting attached, Natalie treats herself to a weekend tangled in the sheets with him. But that lie she told herself pops faster than champagne bubbles.
 
With media rumors swirling around Brennan, can the pair find a way to make their unlikely relationship work? Or will Natalie’s resolution not to get her heart broken meet a painful end?
RELEASING MAY 19, 2020

February is the month of love, but not for Sophie. One week before Valentine’s Day, she learns her boyfriend of two years has been cheating on her with one of his dental hygienists.

As much as she wants to erase any trace of him from her life, she has no choice but to face him and his new squeeze at a huge Valentine’s Day bash that has fast become the social event of the season. No way is she going alone. What she needs is a beautiful hunk of arm candy… STAT.

Sophie’s best friend, Ellie, proposes the perfect solution to her dilemma. Her brother Tanner, the smokin’ hot surfer, just got back into town and is more than happy to help Sophie prove she’s over her scumbag ex.
 
What starts as an act between Sophie and Tanner quickly swells into more. It doesn’t take long before Sophie finds herself wanting to ride more than just waves with the toned and tanned hottie. But when passion crashes over the pair, Sophie fears she’s putting her friendship with Ellie at risk.
 
Can Tanner convince her to give their love a chance? Or will the bonds of friendship repel Cupid’s arrow?
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

RELEASING JUNE 9, 2020

Kiss the Blarney Stone, Hope Dunn is going to need some good ole fashion Irish luck! In the chaos of tax season the Arizona accountant is pulled away to stand in her cousin’s wedding. All it takes is one step back in the Big Apple, and she regrets making the trip. True to character, her mother uses their time together to hound Hope about getting married and settling down.

Still, Hope fulfills her bridesmaid obligations by joining the bridal party for a shamrock wearing, pint chugging St. Paddy’s day blow out. There she runs into best man—and smokin’ hot ginger—Kellan Townsend. Far too much green beer later, she finds out exactly what that fine Irish lad keeps under his kilt.

Afterwards, Hope wants nothing more than to walk of shame her way into a dark room and nurse her hangover. Unfortunately, wedding demands won’t allow it. As if facing Kellan isn’t awkward enough, her mother picks that moment to launch into a fresh guilt-trip over her lack of grandbabies. Like a lucky little Leprechaun, Kellan cuts in with a magical offer.

 
A pretend romance, to get her mother off her back, seems like a wish granted. But Kellan has an agenda all his own. Can he use this opportunity to jig his way straight into Hope’s heart? Or will he need a four-leaf clover to get past this workaholics defenses?
 
 
 
RELEASING JUNE 30, 2020

Allison Wood is single and not looking to mingle. Unfortunately, her sister, Erin, doesn’t take no for an answer. As the producer of a new reality TV show, that turns a traditional Easter egg hunt into a dating show, Erin believes her sister would be a perfect contestant and secures her a spot.

Instead of cozying up at home and biting the ears off a chocolate bunny, Allison finds herself in Aruba hiding an egg while America watches. She could have been paired up with a slew of other guys. But who does fate match her with? Sexy fireman Hudson Bryant, who happens to be the same guy that made Allison’s high school years miserable.

Go on a dating show, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.

When viewers learn of their history, the pair instantly become a fan favorite. Everyone is eager to see how their story will unfold. For the good of the show, Allison agrees to play nice with the former jock… for now.

 
Can Hudson make amends for the past and crack through Allison’s hard candy shell to her cream-filled center? Or will her time with him leave a bitter, black jelly bean taste in Allison’s mouth?
 
RELEASING JULY 21, 2020

For Brielle Armstrong the pomp and circumstance of the days leading up to the Kentucky Derby are truly the most thrilling time of the year. Press junkets, designer gowns, everyone schmoozing her in hopes of getting in her daddy’s good graces. What’s not to love?

But this year, her heart is racing with anticipation to see Colby Hensley. As a former trainer of her family’s champion horses, his rugged sex appeal has always filled Brielle’s mind with naughty thoughts of a little barebacked fun.

Even though Colby walked away from their farm, her father, Butch, would never approve of him. But what daddy doesn’t know can’t hurt him. If their secret comes out, it could cost Brielle everything. Still, what fun is life if you don’t ride it at a gallop?

Grab your riding crop, and place your bets. It’s Derby Day!

 

RELEASING AUGUST 11, 2020

Tee up for the long drive, it’s golf season!

After winning the U.S. Open, Greyson Jennings couldn’t help but take playful jabs at Bryan Nelson, his prime competition’s, expense. His snarky claims during the press junction may have burned off like fog on the green, if a week later they hadn’t found themselves at the same golf resort.

Hungry for a little payback, Bryan challenges Greyson to a grudge match: Grey and his best friend versus Bryan and his sister, Leah. Turns out, Leah is a ringer with a swing—and curves—that turn Greyson’s thoughts to a hole in one of another kind.

Unfortunately, Leah’s opinion of him has been formed by the many stories Bryan has shared. That may hurt this golfer’s handicap, but he’s nowhere near ready to give up. It’s game on as Leah agrees to meet Greyson on the green and go head to head with the hole as the goal.

Can Greyson prove there’s more to him than an impressive club and a carefully crafted bad boy persona? Or will the sting of Leah’s rejection leave him in need of some alone time and a good ball washer?

Heidi McLaughlin is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of The Beaumont Series, The Boys of Summer, and The Archers.
 
Originally, from the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in picturesque Vermont, with her husband, two daughters, and their three dogs.
 
In 2012, Heidi turned her passion for reading into a full-fledged literary career, writing over twenty novels, including the acclaimed Forever My Girl.
 
When writing isn’t occupying her time, you can find her sitting courtside at either of her daughters’ basketball games.
 
Heidi’s first novel, Forever My Girl, has been adapted into a motion picture with LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions, starring Alex Roe and Jessica Rothe, and opened in theaters on January 19, 2018.

 


New York Times and USA Today bestselling author L. P. Dover is a southern belle living in North Carolina with her husband and two beautiful girls. Everything’s sweeter in the South has always been her mantra and she lives by it, whether it’s with her writing or in her everyday life. Maybe that’s why she’s seriously addicted to chocolate.
 
Dover has written countless novels in several different genres, including a children’s book with her daughter. Her favorite to write is romantic suspense, but she’s also found a passion in romantic comedy. She loves to make people laugh which is why you’ll never see her without a smile on her face.
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Series Blitz ~ The Random Series ~ by ~ Julia Kent

 

The Random Series
Author: Julia Kent
Genre: Romantic Comedy/Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: Angela Jenks

 

Series Blurb
It all
started with a naked hitchhiker wearing a guitar — and only a guitar.
And turned into a New York Times bestseller.

A random meeting between a rural Ohio chick and a rich Boston musician
kickstarted all sorts of random acts of love and lust — and got even more
complicated when his bandmate entered the picture.

And never left.

From unconventional love to second-chance romance to your wildest desires, The
Random Series will have you giggling, swooning, and fanning yourself to the
heart-pounding beat of the sexiest, most daring and irresistible musicians to
come out of Boston.

Five band members form the up-and-coming group Random Acts of Crazy–each with
a story of his own in this long-running series.

Let these rock stars take you on a CRAZY wild ride, and with a little TRUST,
they can fulfill your every FANTASY.

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Random
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Random
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Random
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Random
Acts of Love
(Book
6)
Random
Acts of L.A.
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Random
Acts of Christmas

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Random
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(Book
9)
Random
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Excerpt

(From Random Acts of Crazy)

DARLA
Whoa. If I had to pick a dream to
come true, I’d have chosen the winning MegaMillions lottery ticket dream, but
this would do as a distant second, Trevor’s mouth warm and inviting, tasting
like orange tangy yumminess. He kissed with his whole body, hands roaming
through my hair, his tongue parting my lips and going on a search for something
so deep in me I thought he’d never reach it and I would have to live in the
ecstasy of being loved by his mouth forever.
I was OK
with that.
The fact
that he was naked brushed through my mind and then my hand brushed against his
thick, gleaming manhood, making his stomach tighten under my hands, splayed
against the fine, taut skin of his abs. Washboard. I’d heard that word applied
to a man’s body before but had never understood it til then. His flesh so
different from my own full curves, as if I were exploring an alien body in a
state of arousal so high I would reach nirvana soon.
“Oh—” he
groaned breathlessly, then stopped. “What’s your real name?” he whispered.
“Darla.” It
came out in a rushed gasp as his fingers found my right nipple and pinched just
enough to make it—and my pink nub—pebble instantly, as if they were one long,
connected nerve ending. His other hand explored my back, sliding up under my
shirt, the heat of his flesh pouring into me. The fact that he was fully naked
and I was not was a kind of tragedy.
We needed
to fix that.

 

Author Bio

New York
Times and USA Today
Bestselling Author Julia Kent writes romantic
comedy with an edge. From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia
finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike
Shannon from Shopping for a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband
after dropping her phone in a men’s room toilet (and he isn’t a billionaire).
She lives in New England with her husband and three children in a household
where the toilet seat is never, ever, down.

 

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Series Promo ~ The Foundlings Series ~ by ~ Fiona Keane

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The Foundlings Series by Fiona Keane is available now!

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Nowhere Girl, Book One:

Sophia…

They thought sending me to this supposed tropical paradise would keep me safe. But there’s no place safe for me now. Not when the memories won’t leave me alone.

I didn’t know what the universe had in store for me, but I definitely didn’t expect Jameson Burke. People think he has more secrets than I do, but he showed me his true self—his smile, his thoughtfulness, his love.

I can’t afford to fall so far, so deep. Not after what happened. I should run, but somehow my heart keeps coming back to him…

Jameson…

I had my own reasons to run. Little did I know the most important piece of my story started and ended with the quiet girl sitting next to me in seventh period.

Sophia Reid’s shy smile brought my soul out of hiding. Through her, I learned what starting over really means.

But if I give in to this love, I’ll put us both in danger.

For a short time, I was whole again, but what they say is right. The old me is dead, and the new one will never know love again.

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Everywhere Unraveled, Book Two:

They told me I had to leave her.

They were right.

It doesn’t matter that she’s the first thing I think about every morning, and my last thought before I sleep.

It doesn’t matter that the moment my heart started beating was when I laid it at her feet.

As long as she’s around me, she’s in danger. I have to keep her away, keep her safe, before this storm overtakes us.

The truth is something she cannot know, should never know. Even if that means I’ll never see her again.

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Somewhere Bound, Book Three:

Sophia…

I’ve only ever been Sophia Reid, the quiet girl from—and going—nowhere. If I ever want to escape the torment of my memories, and the murderer in our shadow, I need to die.

Jameson told me his story started and ended with me. Now I need to figure out who I am, who we are, and lay to rest the mysteries of our past, so our story can begin.

Jameson…

I belong by Sophia’s side. If we ever get out of this nightmare, I’ll make her my wife, and I’ll give her everything she needs to make her happy.

But right now, nowhere is safe. We left Florida, driving through deserts, across mountains, heading to Sophia’s old home in Oregon. Hopefully there, she’ll find peace…and answers.

I’ve spent my life trying to outrun death. But now, death may be the only thing that can save us.

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AF cover coming soonAnywhere Forever, Book Four:

Sophia…
We thought running would save us, but we never expected the safest place to be where it all began.
We’ll never be who we were when we left there, but there’s nowhere I’d rather be than together.

Jameson…
We tried to outrun death, to escape the past, but they haunted us at every turn.
I promised Sophia forever, and I’ll do anything to give it to her, no matter where we are, or who we become.

COMING SOON!!!

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MEET FIONA KEANE:
Fueled by coffee and rainy days, shelves of books consuming her home in the Pacific Northwest, and a vivid imagination, Fiona writes about love because she believes the world needs more of it. She could spend eternity lost in a story, taken into someone’s thoughts while she is left lingering there long after the pages have turned. Fiona works to meld themes in the current world and spin them into stories of longing, determination, and hope. Her characters are relatable and relevant, as they battle their own fictional version of existence.
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Series Cover Reveals ~ The Donovans Series ~ by ~ Nana Malone

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The Donovans by Nana Malone have never looked HOTTER!
Check out this series of Standalones now!
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Get ready for Lovestruck – coming soon on FEBRUARY 7th!

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A Sexy STANDALONE romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Nana Malone!!

There was one rule he couldn’t break…

Zephyr Donovan knew the sacred rule. Never date a student.

With the demons in his past, all he wanted was a fresh start. He wasn’t looking for trouble. But trouble tasted so damn good.

There are reasons for the rules…

Malia Adams had a complicated life. Well, actually it was pretty simple. Survive. Stay off the streets by any means necessary. And that was a nightly struggle. She didn’t have time to get involved with anyone.

Especially not the one person she can’t have.

Even if he is sex on a stick.

All he needs to do is stay away. All she needs to do is forget him. Looks like they’re both rule-breakers.

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About the Author:

USA Today Bestselling Author, NANA MALONE’s love of all things romance and adventure started with a tattered romantic suspense she borrowed from her cousin on a sultry summer afternoon in Ghana at a precocious thirteen. She’s been in love with kick butt heroines ever since.

With her overactive imagination, and channeling her inner Buffy, it was only a matter a time before she started creating her own characters. Waiting for her chance at a job as a ninja assassin, Nana, meantime works out her drama, passion and sass with fictional characters every bit as sassy and kick butt as she thinks she is.

The books in her series have been on multiple Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble best seller lists as well as the iTunes Breakout Books list and most notably the USA Today Bestseller list.

Until that ninja job comes through, you’ll find Nana working hard on additional books for her series as well as other fun, sassy romances for characters that won’t leave her alone. And if she’s not working or hiding in the closet reading, she’s acting out scenes for her husband, daughter and puppy in sunny San Diego.

Want to hit me up? Just email me: nana@nanamaloneromance.com

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Release Blitz ~ Djinn Everlasting Series ~ by ~ Lisa Manifold

Title: Three Wishes and Forgotten Wishes 
Series: Djinn Everlasting Series
Author: Lisa Manifold
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Available Now Kindle Unlimited

To find out what might have been, she has to give up control over what will be.

After a long night of eating too much ice cream and lamenting her less than wise choices, Tibby Holloway wakes up to find a freelancing djinn sitting on her bed. He makes her the offer of a lifetime: three wishes – three chances to go back and change her life.

She can choose a different career, find the man she loved and lost – in short, she can go back and do everything right this time.

But there’s a catch.

Once she’s gone back three times, once she’s created three new—and hopefully better—realities, the djinn will decide where she ends up.

Maybe it would be better not to even know … but that’s a chance Tibby will have to take if she wants to have her three wishes.





A djinn can only do so much…

Dhameer is a freelancing djinn who seeks to grant wishes of the heart for people he encounters. When he comes across Xavier Reede, better known as bad boy rapper XTC, he is touched by the longing he hears in Xavier’s wish.

Dhameer pays Xavier a visit, pleased to help another person find their happiness. However, Xavier, living up to his reputation – all but throws Dhameer’s offer back in the djinn’s face. Despite Xavier’s terrible behavior, Dhameer decides to keep his word and grant the rapper his wish.

But there’s a catch.

Xavier won’t remember the wish, nor Dhameer’s offer to help.

Which wouldn’t be a catastrophe, except Dhameer has made it so Xavier can find exactly what he needs to quiet the longing in his heart. Trouble is, our bad boy rapper only sees what he wants to see. The success of this wish hinges on Xavier’s ability to get out of his own way.

Can Xavier do things differently this time so he can get his heart’s desire? Because money, fame, and success will only take him so far…









Three Wishes

After too much ice cream and probably too much Lifetime, I gave up and went to bed. I felt fat and weepy. Not a successful dispelling of whatever this was. Lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, my mind went back to my torturous game of what if. Tonight, for some unknown reason, I wandered into the dreaded I could have moments.

I fell asleep thinking about a couple of those, and about what would have happened had I taken the chance. I did my best to dispel my whiny thoughts from earlier, because I noticed when I went to bed in a bad mood, I had crappy dreams.

When I woke up, the sun was shining through the top of my window. I peered at the clock and saw that it was 6:37. Why hadn’t my alarm gone off? It was usually set for 6:30. I must not have set it last night. Oh well. I could afford to sleep in this morning. I began to snuggle back into sleep when something caught my eye. I looked again. There was a man, sitting on the edge of my bed, legs crossed, examining his fingernails. He looked…glittery, a mix of what looked like gold and silver.

“Who the fuck are you?” I screamed, clutching the blanket to my throat with one hand while reaching out for my phone on the night table with the other. It wasn’t there. Where the hell had I left it? I tried to look around the room without looking like I was looking around the room. Fuck.

“You can call me your fairy godmother, Toots,” he said cheerfully. Great. A serial killer who was chipper, cheerful, and possessed of a sense of humor. I had to find a way to get to my phone. I cursed myself for not keeping one by the bed.

“Why?”

“Because I heard you last night, and I’m here to help you.”

“What? What are you talking about?”

“I heard your dreams. Everyone in the state could. I didn’t realize just how loud dreams could sound until I ran across you. So I am here to put to rest your eternal pondering.”

“How are you going to do that?” This was creepy, and interesting, and creepy all at once. I figured I could get to the phone in a minute. He was obviously crazy. I was kind of afraid to move.

“I am a djinn.” He looked at me as though that explained it all.

I clutched my blanket higher around my neck and cast my eyes around for my phone.

He saw me do it, and sighed heavily. “You may know me as a genie.”

“Like Aladdin?” I couldn’t help asking, lowering the blanket a little.

He rolled his eyes like the bitchiest girl in high school. “Djinn. In the understood tradition of djinn, I am going to give you three wishes. You must know,” he held up an index finger, and I was caught watching it sparkle in the sun. “My wish granting is a little different though. There is no wishing for more wishes. Your wishes are going to have to be specific, and they are going to be what you would call a ‘do-over’.”

“I’m not trying to be dense here, but what do you mean?” My curiosity was getting the better of my fear. Everything in the room seemed more in focus, sharper. I knew I ought to be more afraid, but it didn’t seem to be happening that way.

He sighed, and rolled his eyes dramatically. Again. Whatever the hell he was, he did not lack in the dramatic flair department. “Humans. I liked you better when you were more savage in your wants as you were in your dreams. Far more willing to believe without question; able to just wish and get it over with. Okay. I’ll break it down for you, Tootsie Pop. You have been dreaming of turning points in your life. Those maddening little what ifs. What if you had made choice A instead of choice B? That sort of thing. I am going to grant you three do-overs. You get to choose three times in your life where you wish you had made a different decision, and go back and make the decision you didn’t make the first time around. I’ll let you see what happens. You and I will talk after you have done all three, and see what’s next. What do you say? Are you interested?” 

“I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but how do I know that you are not just crazy for glitter paint and breaking into houses?” I had decided that if he was crazy, it was better to humor him until I could find my damn phone. 

He rolled his eyes again, muttering what sounded like “humans” under his breath. He rose from the bed. When I say rose, he actually lifted off the bed. He didn’t seem to have feet. It looked a little misty from the knee area down. He raised a hand, and I saw it shimmer in the sun. He made a gesture that looked like he was throwing something, and suddenly there was a giraffe at the foot of my bed. 


Forgotten Wishes:

 


Something fell on my head, and I reached up to brush it off automatically. What the hell now?

I looked at my hand, and it had glitter all over it. Looking up, I saw…I don’t know what the fuck I saw. A cloud of glitter. It looked like a crazy craft fairy had exploded above me.

What the hell was all this doing in my apartment? If I called maintenance, maybe they’d still be around. Even though I owned the building, I kept a maintenance crew. I wasn’t up for dealing with all the things that went wrong in older buildings in New York. Was there a leak or something? This was the day for dealing with the bullshit, apparently. I reached for the phone when the glittering cloud landed in front of me.

“Are you quite over moping around and feeling sorry for yourself?”

I rubbed my eyes. Since when did glitter talk? I glanced at the glass of tea I’d been drinking. I hadn’t added anything to it.

“This is not a hallucination, and no, you are not drugged.”

All right. What. The. Fuck? 

The glitter cloud shifted around, and I found that a guy sat on the couch with me. And what a guy! He had no shirt on, which…oh hell. Did someone get ideas from our clubbing the other night? 

“Hey, pal, whatever it is, I’m not into it. Just leave now, and I won’t call the cops.”

The guy sighed. “You don’t need to call anyone. I’m here to help you.”

“Right, pal. That’s what all the nut jobs say.” I edged away, wondering where the fuck I kept something that could be used as a weapon. I hadn’t had a stalker since…since that weird chick – what was her name? Tommie? She thought she had a career in music, and I was just the guy to help her get there. I’d had to take out a restraining order on her. But she hadn’t been a problem in a couple of years. It’s why I lived in a building with security. No need for weapons. 

I wished I had one now.

The guy leaned back, and I hoped like hell his paint job wouldn’t rub off on my couch.

“I am here to help you, although you’re rather an ingrate,” He said.

“How the hell am I supposed to be grateful for the glitter fairy breaking into my place and messing it up?” I shot back. 

“I am not a fairy. I’m a djinn, and I’m here to give you something you want if you could get out of your own way, boy,” he said.

Right. A djinn. What the hell is that? “You’re a what? What’s your name, glitter boy?”

He rose from my couch, and when I say rose, I mean floating. Full on ghost liftoff. I didn’t often find myself speechless, but I couldn’t say a thing. My mouth tried, but the words wouldn’t come out.

For the first time, I felt fear. What the hell was going on? This went way beyond normal stalking crap. 

“Close your mouth, and open your ears and more importantly, your mind, Xavier,” the man said. “My name is Dhameer, and I am here, as I’ve said, to offer you help in attaining something you want. Not give, you’ll note. But help.” He crossed his arms and glared at me. 

I gauged the difference from where I sat to where he…floated…above my couch. Took a deep breath, and pushed off. Maybe I could…

I fell onto the couch with such force that I bounced off and landed at the other end. I looked up and saw Dhameer had risen higher up, and still glared at me.

“I know you’re not stupid,” he said. “But you’re intent on trying to show me otherwise.”

I rubbed my head. That fucking hurt. 

“You’re not going to be able to hurt me, Xavier. But we can play this game until you wear yourself out and are ready to listen to reason. Or I could just leave.”

I opened my mouth to tell him to get the fuck out when something Tibby said yesterday came back to me. 

We’d been standing together waiting for the limo. 

 

“If anything weird happens, while I’m gone…just go with it, okay?”

 


 

“What the hell does that mean?” I asked.

 


The Tibby I knew came back instantly. “It means that if something out of the ordinary happens, just go with it. Stop being an ass and take some well-meant advice for once in your life!”

I’m not a big believer in a lot of hocus pocus shit. It has no place in the real world, for me. But there was glitter boy hovering around my place, basically laughing at me while offering…something. I didn’t know what. And after Tib suggested going with anything weird that happened.

How could she have known?


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Lisa Manifold is a USA Today Bestselling Author of fantasy, paranormal, and romance stories. She moved to Colorado as an adult and has no plans of living anywhere else. She is a consummate reader, often running late because “Just one more page!” Lisa writes the things she does because she really, really wants to live in a world where these kinds of stories happen.

She is a fan of all things Con, and has an entire room devoted to the costumes created for Cons. She served, until recently, on the board of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers as the Independent Published Author Liaison, and in 2016, was named the RMFW Independent Writer of the Year. 

Lisa is the author of the fae paranormal romance series The Realm, the Grimm fairy tale retelling Sisters of the Curse series, the Djinn Everlasting series which follows a free-lance djinn, the Aumahnee Prophecy urban fantasy series, and the forthcoming urban fantasy series The Dragon Thief.

She lives as close to the mountains as possible with her husband, sons, and three attentive dogs.