Megan Thomas is running for her life. From Chicago, from the mob, from her controlling husband. She runs to the only place she ever felt at peace, a North Carolina barrier island she remembers from her childhood. Now she only wants to get lost--lost in someone else's life. A new identity, soothing ocean winds, and a quiet existence are all she needs. Smyth Parker is running from life. From the business he inherited, from society, from an ex-wife scorned. His only escape is the solitude of uninhabited Portsmouth Island. He doesn't want anything else. And he sure as hell doesn't need a complication named Megan Thomas. When Megan fears she's been found, she runs again--and straight into Smyth's arms. His isolated island home might finally be her perfect escape. Or is it?

PART ONE - ENTRANCED SERIALIZATION THE SOUL MATES SERIES There exists many a story, lore, and legend of the infamous pirate Blackbeard. I’ve borrowed from them for the book you are about to read. The Soul Mates Series and all that it entails, however, are products of my own slightly twisted imagination…. ~ Maddie Can souls touch through time and hold on when all odds are against them? In Part One of Entranced, titled Once Upon a Blue Moon, Claire Winslow vacations on an East Coast barrier island, content with her life and her potential future—until the illusion of a man walking the misty shore haunts her. Then one kiss—a beautiful, soulful, stolen kiss in the night—and her life changes forever. Nearly 300 years past, Jack Porter is in hot pursuit of his kidnapped wife. Not an easy feat considering the year is 1718 and the kidnapper is the notorious pirate Blackbeard aka Edward Teach. Determined to rescue his wife and take the pirate’s head in the process, Jack steals aboard the pirate’s ship to save her. Jack and Claire set out on a wild search through time, not only for the resolution to a powerful attraction between them, but also for a historical artifact that holds the key to their future happiness—the coveted silver-plated chalice made from Blackbeard’s skull. This is the first installment of Part One of a serialized novel. The entire novel, titled Entranced, is available for purchase in its entirety.

Jade McIntire is flunking out of WWU-Witches & Warlocks University. While retaking Potions & Lotions 201 for the third time, on the eve of Halloween no less, she meets up with a High Warlock of McScreamy proportions who delivers an urgent quest. Part 1: The Witchdom Series (a very short novella) A quest, which for this witcherly-challenged, WWU near-dropout, seems impossible to achieve. Just when she thinks the task has been accomplished, she learns she's been summoned-a High Warlock somewhere has chosen her for his future, High Witch mate. But if she can't pass Potions & Lotions, how in the netherworld can she pass High Witch training? What's a lowly witchling to do, when the High Warlock of her McNightmares comes knocking with marriage on his mind?

All Blaire Kincaid wants is to make her father proud. So far her track record isn't so great. That's why she takes the case from one of the most influential women this side of Montpelier. The advance she gave her would go a long way in getting her new private investigator business up and going. So using her newly polished P.I. skill-set, Blaire heads out to find the long missing heir of multi-billionaire Maximillian MacGlenary. But Darian MacGlenary doesn't want to be found. And when he sees her traipsing up his Appalachian hollow, he wonders what a girl like her is doing in his neck of the woods. The burly and bearded mountain man has tucked himself far into the backwoods on purpose.