An unlikely romance sprouts from a chance encounter between Cliff and Hannah after she spurns his good deed. ---------- Cliff tries doing a good deed for financially distressed Hannah by paying for her expensive car repairs. He expects nothing in return. What he gets is her hostile rejection of his selfless offer. Frustrated and confounded, Cliff can't stop thinking about her stinging rebuke and haunting beauty. When serendipity brings them face-to-face again, sparks fly, this time igniting a slow-burn romance. Standing in the way of the couple's happiness are their own stubborn egos, scheming parents, and a dangerous ex-lover. Cover Photo Credit: Shutterstock/Geobor

Something is afoot at Denbury Hall. Samuel Denyer, second son of the duke, can't believe his stepmother's new born son, is his father's child. When Samuel goes missing everyone thinks he is dead. To be woken, chained to the hull of a ship, bound for the slave market in Algiers, is to wake in hell. Samuel's only saviour is a green-eyed girl. A stray found in the woodland of Lytton House. She comes to him each night in his dreams, her whispered words, the only light in his tortured soul. Shay doesn't want to be a lady of the ton. Shay doesn't want to marry. She's a stray and would rather work with Jack, looking after Mrs. Picks' piglets. When Shay returns home from Saint Germaine's Finishing School in Paris, she begs her guardian to allow her to work in the Blue Maids Orphanage for Girls. He has a condition; she must attend the season and be open to marriage. Knocked over by a Bedouin man, with the face of an angel and irises belonging to the devil, Shay can barely breathe, as he stares into her vivid green eyes. Green eyes that have plagued him for three years. A damaged man, an orphan girl. Stolen souls that belong together.

A comedy of errors with unexpected twists, convoluted mysteries, and a touch of romance. This is the fourth book in the "Sharing Afflictions" Trilogy, and also another addition to the "Joe's Bar and Grill" series. If you enjoyed the characters from either series, here is a chance to join them again and meet a few new ones. If you haven't read either series, this is an opportunity to meet them for the first time. In either case let's all meet at Joe's for one more adventure.

4 Novelettes: Virtual Reality - A young man devotes his life to an interactive game. Prester John - A boy searches deep space for his father. Talent - In an era of cloning, an agent who can operate multiple bodies simultaneously is challenged by a rogue former agent with similar skills. Tanu - An origin story for the 12th Planet mythology of Zecharia Sitchin.

Nadine is a classic introvert and an over-thinker. Living in the shadow of beautiful, easy-going Jamie her whole life has been nothing short of painful, especially when it comes to Sam - her childhood crush. Now Sam is back for the summer, and Nadine isn't going to let Jamie take this one, most important thing from her. Winner: Best Male Lead in the Watt-a-Best Mini Awards 2021 Shortlisted for The Fall Awards 2021 by @Contemporarylit Shortlisted for The Contemporary Romance Awards 2022 by @Contemporarylit Featured by @YA (October 2021) Featured by @Teenfiction (June 2022) Featured by @Wattstorycenter (July 2022) What previous readers have said at the end of The Girl Who Wanted Everything: "This book was so wholesome and wonderful and beautiful. So happy I found this!" "I absolutely loved this story. Genuinely feel all warm and gooey now.'' "I have started with this today, and for the past couple of hours, I've been completely hooked to this. I love this story and your way of writing.'' "I completely and utterly loved this. All the characters were so well developed and the descriptions were beautiful. It was believable and relatable. Love, love, love xx'' ''Wow, this story was actually amazing. (I'd buy this book!) The characters were so well-fleshed out and believable, the writing was beautiful, and the story was intriguing! I'm seriously in love with your writing, and I love the character development in the end.'' "I want to keep reading! I am so into the story and the characters now.''

[Wattys 2021 Shortlisted] In the ancient French perfume capital of Grasse, lives bohemian recluse Cassandra Ducasse, the last remaining member of a legendary family of perfumers. Trapped by her past, Cassandra is unwilling to take up the reins of her family business. When she is forced into an unlikely working partnership with hotshot marketing executive Vince, the two could make the perfect team to create a hit fragrance for global superstar, Imogen. But can they put their differences aside for long enough to see that each holds the key to unlock the other's happiness. Featured by @Beauty, October 2021; @adultfiction, October 2021 Winner: Contemporary Romantics Award by @Contemporarylit 2022 Highest rankings (at different times) #1 in perfume # 1 in France # 1 in Provence # 1 in Riviera # 9 in womensfiction # 3 in familyhistory And for one brief, glorious, but likely flawed moment... #10 in romance.

Near home, at a turn off on the Black Woods Road dwells the spirit of a maiden killed by the logging truck she tried to flag down after a sorry incident with a boyfriend. Many have seen that ghost with some giving her a ride to her former domicile down the hill, they said. A professor at the local branch of the state's university even included the tale in a book about notable mysteries of the region. Later, when a French exchange student arrived at the campus a young friend of mine took a shine to the girl and offered to show her around with me to assist in translation and stand as the respectable chaperone. Of course our first destination after McDonald's was on the Black Woods Road and she was suitably impressed by the beauty of the site until I launched into discourse over the rumored presence of its otherworldly inhabitant. I may have been a bit theatrical in my presentation, I thought a touch of frisson could not hurt the budding relationship on the front seats, but she turned back with a near-scowl on her pretty face. "You are shitting me (my translation,) she said, they have the very same story in the village my family comes from." Here's an attempt at explanation.

Sequel to The Sum of All Imaginings

This book is nearly complete. I've named it The Sum of All Imaginings, and have posted a Prelude and the 10 story chapters. It is another sequel in the saga of the Culver family of shaman women, what comes after Eye of the Beholder. I thought I had told it all with that last book and tried to let it rest. But something wouldn't let me do that. See if you agree that this one gives us closure.

This story is done. It is a sequel to "...And We Will Have Snow," a continuation of the Culver family history, a story of shamans dealing with modern reality. Don't you agree we should have someplace to go if the climate catastrophe gets too intense? Flying their drones to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, Sedna and Newt join other explorers following the call of the unknown. As always, the first explorers are often loners, bent on escaping the frustrations of civilized existence. But as ever they are soon followed by settlers, who also yearn for wide open spaces but do not care for the risks of going it alone. How does this work out in a world where going it alone at first means flying off in a drone body? Life is essentially divided into three shift, one for sleeping, one for eating and other essentials, and one for flying a drone powered by a dark matter engine and connected by a link using QAR: quantum augmented reality. Only later will humans trust their own mortal bodies to the new worlds built for them by drones.