Eight Years Ago "Mom.." I say with a small smile on my face. My sister had passed her first music lesson and we're all so proud of her. "What is it Layla!? can't you see I'm busy?!" She snaps. "Oh.." I say, my smile faltering slightly, as I watch mom cuddle Heidi and give her lots of sweets as reward. "C-can I have a sweetie too?" I ask. Mom laughs coldly. "Why should you? You've never achieved anything, have you?! Lazy little brat." Heidi giggles and I look at her to see a smirk on her face, making my face fall. I watch mom whisper things to Heidi, making her giggle even more. The door swings open, and my dad walks in. I smile again, running to him and hug his knees but he just brushes me off with an annoyed expression, walking towards my mom hugging her and ruffling Heidi's hair. What's going on? "Dad..ruffle my hair too?" I ask hesitantly. All three of them burst out laughing and I sink down in embarassment. "Layla, we always knew you weren't the brightest kid here." He laughs "I just knew you'd be a screw up, right Luise?" He says and she nods. "And I was right. You're a failure" He grabs my maths sheet, crumples it up and throws it at me. "You spend way too much time with your 'friends' never on your education, you ungrateful little brat. We should've got rid of you as soon as we found out you were on the way." He spits out spitefully as my mum nods, still smirking. "Dad I'll do better, I promise!" I sob, tears streaming down my face, but he shakes his head, smirking. I look at my sister and walk towards her giving her a watery smile. "H-Heidi... we're still friends right?" I ask, desperately. Her smirk slowly vanishes. she leans forward and I thought she'd hug me, but instead she pulls my hair and pushes me onto the floor making me scream. She laughs, my parents joining her. "Stupid" she hisses, kicking me, before going to my parents, all of them walking out, leaving me on the floor, crying my eyes out. What have I done to deserve this?

Cole Weston had lost everything he'd ever loved and for ten long years he's wandered. First as a tracker then as a bounty hunter until a small town calls to him and he decides it's time to stop running from his past. Grace Jennings and her daughter are hiding from a killer who will stop at nothing to find her. Will Cole be able to listen to his heart and take a chance on love again? Will Grace ever be able to trust another man with the truth?

**Mail order wife, Rebecca Smallwood leads a boring life on her wealthy husband's Wyoming ranch. She deals with his daily remarks and annoyance toward her inability to provide him with a child--the one reason he paid a high price for her and the one requirement of her new life. **Brantley Mitchell has never known a day without danger. Born into outlaw life, fighting for survival is all he knows--that's why being hold up with a busted arm has made him more than a little riled. Then the gang rides in with the latest money making scheme.. a hostage that's all his to watch over. **Rebecca is terrified of her captor. Not for any of the logical reasons such as his ability to cause her a great deal of pain or kill her. No, she's terrified because of the desire that flares to life within her every time she looks into those dark gray eyes. **How will Rebecca survive her captivity and how will she ever return to her husband and look him in the eye after she's had a taste of captive romance?

"So you think you can be my guard?" Aiden circled me. I broadly smiled, raising brow in his direction. "You should see me in action." He smirked, stopped and scratching his chin. "I have...on the news. You nearly dissapear on the cameras. I love that, you move fast yet people know you're there. It sends fear in their hearts and blood pumping faster. Just at the mention of blood pumping, it made my quicken a little. "Like I said." I bowed. "You should see me in action." *~*~*~*~*~* Valerie Materson can't deny it anymore. She's cursed; an abomination because of her foul mixed blood. Being half vampire and half werewolf has its perks but the urges she recieves totally suck. One night it's blood and the next is getting in on a good fight which never ends good. Living in the big apple, Valerie materson has a big price on her wolf head. Percisely 20, 000 dollars and raising after every kill she makes. She can't help but hear every vein pulse as she passes an innocent person, its just in her cursed blood. Dealing with her troublesome urges for four years now, she finally gets an answer. Aiden Damson. A Royal Vampire from over seas is in need of a body gaurd after his last had passed over. And he's searching for a unique one this time, when his eyes fall upon this little vamp puppy. A story of anger management, humerous brothers from other mothers, sad family stories, weird love, hot sex, pissed off shoulder bites, lingerie party nights. But most of all, a strong bond between master and body guard is neatly expressed.

This is the second book but it can be read independently. Disowned by his family and trapped into a loveless marriage Levi Matthews thought his life is over. The one bright spot is his beautiful daughter. Then his wife dies suddenly freeing him, or so he thought. Now he's a single father fighting to keep his daughter and the only way is to remarry. Deciding that he wants a marriage in name only he places an ad for a mail order bride. Hope Saunders is from a well to do family in Savannah Georgia that has fallen on hard times due to her father's gambling. She learns that she is to be married off to pay for her father's debts. Her fiance is a cold heartless man that has already buried two healthy wives and she has no intentions of being the third. Hope decides to take control of her own fate and answers an ad for a mail order bride. But is she making the right decision? She knows nothing of the man placing the ad except that he is a widower with a little girl and he lives out west. At least she was making her own decisions and being a romantic at heart she could only hope that she would find love with this stranger.

This is book 3 in the Red Valley Series but like the other ones, it can be read by itself. Faith Matthews is a headstrong, independent woman determined to make it on her on in a mans world. She left Charleston to escape the constraints of society, vowing to never to be an obedient wife who is only seen and not heard. Against her brother's wishes, she bought a nearby ranch; but when she finds herself in the middle of a war over water rights, her big brother sends someone to protect her. Cade Jacobs is a hard and calloused hired gun, who's only allegiance is to the highest bidder. Can they work together to save her ranch or when the sparks start flying, will they go up in flames?

Loving Ellie Ellie Sinclair Matthews has loved Blake Weston as far back as she can remember. He had always been her best friend and protector, like a big brother. But somehow, she wasn't sure exactly when, her feelings of adoration turned into love. Not the kind of love between a brother and sister, but the kind of love a woman feels for a man. Ellie knew deep down Blake was the only man she would ever love. All she had to do was to get him to see her as a woman not as a little sister. All of that changed when she and her cousin were abducted from their train by a ruthless band of outlaws as the two of them were on their way back to Red Valley. Blake Weston was a US Marshall and most days he loved every minute of it. He and his partner John were working undercover in Angel Cooper's gang. The last person he expected to see on the train the Cooper gang was robbing was his childhood best friend, Ellie Matthews. The day continued to go south when Angel himself decided to take Ellie and another girl with them for "entertainment." How was he going to get them out safely? His work wasn't finished but he couldn't risk Ellie's life. And if he could save her from the gang, would be able to save her from him, or did he really want to?

In the small town of Lakewood in the nineteenth century, the future of Adam Lancaster and Sophia Willis has been set through an arrange marriage, but Sophia is in love with the son of the richest man in town and Adam has never considered marriage as part of his life. Will they give each other a chance or are they destined to live unhappily ever after? 7/24/2016: #5 in Historical Fiction (I am walking on air! Thank you guys so much!)

This is the first story in my 'Breaking' Series. Elizabeth has always been more at home breaking steers and branding cattle than in the house cooking and cleaning but her father is pushing her to settle down and get married to the man of his choosing. But what happens when she falls in love with a man who is completely off limits? Brody Atkinson isn't looking for love and he certainly isn't looking for any more life and death struggles but that's exactly what he finds when he meets Elizabeth McCready and the two of them uncover a plot to steal her ranch