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Shipwreck Sadie
A marriage of convenience - runaway bride historical romance.
Starring a bluestocking with ideas, a Highlander hero, page-turning action, and plenty of laughs
Saucy cotton mill lass
1885. Too many men, too few women in sunny Western Australia. Sadie Briarshaw escapes her Lancashire cotton mill by agreeing to a marriage of convenience—she takes the bride ship to the British-ruled colony on the other side of the earth.
Rugged Scots-Aussie hero
Entrepreneur Connach MacLeod thinks all women are the same, offering domestic and bedroom comforts. A bride ship woman will suit him fine. Born in Islay, Scotland, he has built an import-export empire thanks to whisky smuggling, illegal shipwreck hunting, and wool.
Banter and mayhem
Sadie hesitates on the church steps on the day of their arranged marriage, then flees, causing scandal and uproar. Yet Connach has fallen hard for golden, unique Shipwreck Sadie. He vows to woo her and win her, while Sadie discovers how to employ her courage and talent for the good of her new colony—with the help of her rejected fiancé.
Pitching the Petticoat
A Victorian Scottish bluestocking meets a sword-fighting hero with secrets.
Bagpipe-playing bluestocking Ruari MacDonald wants to protect the standing stone circles and ancient Picti-carved pillars around Callanish Castle—but the MacDonald laird plans to lease his croft lands and force her to marry a sinister English earl.
After years abroad in the East India Company, Lochaber Gordon returns to Scotland to wreak long-awaited vengeance on his father, the Duke of Aberdeen. First stop, the Outer Hebrides, to create a world-class whisky distillery on leased MacDonald lands.
Sparks fly and desire sizzles when Ruari and Lochaber clash. They flee the Hebrides and race across the Scottish Highlands to escape the earl, evade the warlike MacDonalds, save the Picti artifacts, fall in love, and claim their destinies.
Crushing the Corset
Can she save her hotel from her wicked uncle and her heart from a highwayman?
Asphodel Quick fights her wicked great-uncle for possession of her grandmother's legacy—the Black Hart Hotel on the remote North York moors. Her uncle demands she marry him or be tossed into the dread Harrowlick Lunatic Asylum. Then a dashing highwayman aids her, firing more than her business desires.
Returned from the lawless Australian goldfields to defy the family curse, Farlan Blackitter is the fourth Baron Blackitter—if only he can find the papers to prove it. Acting as a highwayman, he steals the engagement ring of a feisty flame-haired, pub-owning wench—and yields his own blackened heart in exchange. Together Farlan and Asphodel battle all the forces arrayed against them, in an exhilarating race across the wild moors.
Bouncing the Bustle
Love or freedom—how can an independent-minded, plant-collecting Edwardian damsel choose?
Lilwen Jones bounces her bustle down the stairs—she is finally free! But her father has gambled away her plant nursery, her sole livelihood. She has one chance to save her fortunes and her dreams: to seek the legendary white waratah in Australia's wild southern island of Tasmania.
Sawyer Thane is a wildlife hunter, explorer, and a man with secrets. He organizes a luxurious ship journey to remember. He plans their expedition to the last detail. He doesn't lose his temper—not totally—when lovely Lilwen insists on her own way. And he absolutely won't fall for a contrary, plant-loving witch in trousers, as he is not the marrying kind.
As Lilwen and Sawyer scour the wilderness for the elusive plant, rules are optional, danger mounts, and their scorching attraction threatens to set the entire forest ablaze.
Wylder Opal
Gunslinger turned playwright Opal Calahan shoots for her perfect leading man.
Gunslinger turned playwright Opal Calahan is handy with a pistol and even handier with a pen. She arrives in town dreaming of creating the new Wylder Playhouse. Rugged prospector Heath Rawdon tantalizes as her perfect leading man—but why does he hate theaters? And why does he have a price on his head?
Heath is running from his past and wrestling mental demons. Thanks to his visit to the playhouse in the lawless Ballarat goldfields, he lost his mate and his goldmine—and got slammed with the charge of murder. The last thing he needs is a beautiful, charming playwright disturbing his harsh existence. But feisty Opal has secrets and needs his help.
Together they banter, dance, face theatrical disaster, and combat danger in a race to rewrite their future and achieve their dreams.
How (not) to make a grandchild
Landscaper Lilac Loveday's secret project lands her in a tangle - and a second chance Valentine
Lilac Loveday is fifty and fabulous. Since her husband died, she has brought up her two children alone and created a thriving landscape design business. But something is missing—Lilac wants a grandchild to cherish! The tricks and traps she sets up for daughter Lily to meet a suitable man backfire and throw Lilac instead—literally—into the arms of construction giant Harris MacAulay.
Lilac soon finds that her daughter is more precious than an imaginary grandchild, and that love and life choose their own ways of surprising us.
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Goodreads review
“..refreshing to see a female character in a romance as strong in spirit as Asphodel, yet have a gentle feminine side as well. The author was able to create a book where both the main female and male characters compliment each other, and are able to create a 50/50 relationship, meaning both rescue each other equally throughout the novel… enamoured with the story and characters.”
— Tex