Here are the stats for this go’round!
58 – pitches
30 – Accepted
12 – Weren’t first thirty viable – Sorry!
6 – Missing titles!
5 – Too long
3 – Missing contact info
1 – No Genre
1 – Not romance or women’s fiction
It’s really a bummer to have to delete some of these great pitches! The simplest info should be a given for these pitches.
Imagine sending in your pitch to an agent or editor. Let’s say the pitch you revamped and changed and bled over piques the interest of your intended receiver…
Now imagine them wanting to contact you. And they can’t because they don’t have the info!
Agent Shop is more than just a chance to pitch your work. It’s a chance to make sure you know how to pitch. Utilize Agent Shop as the tool it can be and the opportunity it represents.
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Welcome Ms. Winston! The pitches are below, and as always, please just e-mail me the # and request info on the pitches you’d like to see. Happy shopping, and thanks for attending again!
Best~
Candi
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#1 – Orion Rising
Women’s fiction
100,000 words
When Mary Byrne runs into someone from her childhood, it plunges her into the past, and forces her to confront a mistake she believed condemned her to live a life without redemption, and possibly without love. Can Jack Ellis prove her wrong?
To the Byrne children, constellations were more than stick figures in the night sky. At their father’s telling, their myths became tales of adventure and romance for Percy, Allie, Mary and Aurie, whose names seem to imbue celestial royalty upon them. When the Orion River floods in 1965, the Byrne children are drawn to it like sailors to a siren’s call. After Aurie disappears in the river, their names seem more like a curse. Though self-imposed, the curse follows them through three decades before each learns the key to breaking it – love, and forgiveness. But sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.
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#2 – Jump, Fall
Romance – Contemporary women
60,000 words
Katie Scarborough isn’t like all the other Southern Belles that surround her. She’s brunette, she’s freckled. She’s also short and a little more round than the pageant queens that seem to fill her world. To top things off, she’s painfully shy as well. The one thing that ties her to her Southern sisters is the dream that the fairy tales they all heard as young ladies will somehow come true.
Throughout her coming of age years, she suffers a series of miscues and embarrassments where gentlemen are concerned. She begins to wonder if the fairy tales are just lies and if a girl who doesn’t quite fit the norm is capable of being loved. Although, once she goes off to college and catches the eye of her dream man, she starts to think maybe she was better off single.
Set in the fictional town of Dunham, Mississippi, Katie’s story is the first in a series of novels featuring the quirky, yet lovable characters of the Mississippi Delta. The second novel in the series is completed, a third is in the beginning stages.
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#3 – The found girl
Contemporary paranormal romance
100,000 words
Jonas Kavanagh’s life has been predetermined. One day he will be king to a magical elf kingdom and he will also be the first in the royal line to take a human as queen. Only two complications stand in his way. First, the human woman fated to be this queen doesn’t believe in love, magic or even the prediction. Second, and far more difficult to overcome, the person assigned the task of finding this human wants nothing more than see Jonas joined with someone else and he possesses enough power to accomplish this.
Alvina McKellen’s life has been filled with disappointment. Orphaned and unwanted by relatives forced to care for her, then framed by a man who said he loved her, she seeks a new life far from where she began. She sure never expected that new life to involve a frightening man with strange abilities or an unexpected marriage to a supposed king.
Together, a reluctant elf king and a lost girl find passion, love and their destiny together, something not even the most powerful magic of one who would tear them apart can destroy.
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#4 – In the Heart
Mainstream with Romantic Elements
Word Count: 120,000
After a tragic shooting claims the life of her fiancé, Celia Bailey returns to her small hometown vowing one day to find love again. A year later, she’s finding it difficult to keep that vow when the man occupying her thoughts and haunting her dreams is a man she knows shouldn’t get involved with.
Toby Colton is about to find his new life turned upside down. He has a steady job as a prison guard and is forming ties in the close-knit community he recently moved to. However, one chance meeting on the side of a road brings a string of complications he never counted on.
For the ex-rodeo rider, Celia is one sad cliché after another: the boss’s daughter…his best friend’s sister…and love at first sight. While the two fight a losing battle to resist their attraction, a scheming and dangerous inmate by the name of Vince Monroe sets his sights on escape—and Celia.
When Toby must risk his own life to save a kidnapped Celia, they learn love doesn’t always play by the rules.
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#5 – Butterfly
Women’s fiction
Word Count: 80,660
Every day, hundreds of women end up in emergency rooms, convincing doctors they fell down the stairs, or ran into a door. Maybe they married a drunk, or perhaps a control-freak, and for reasons only known to someone in a similar situation, they’ve stayed with the monster.
Every day, my husband abuses me. But I haven’t got one physical mark as evidence.
He hides my car keys and steals my gas money. He alienates my friends and family and gets me fired from my job.
He wasn’t always like this. And that is why I stay.
My sister tells me I deserve better, but I love him. He gave me four wonderful children; I live for them, now. I can take his degradation, his selfish attitude, as long as my children are happy and safe.
Until one day they are not.
He has done the unthinkable, and I must find a way to keep my children from harm, away from his foul, lying tongue and his nefarious existence.
I will stop at nothing.
And he will pay for what he has done.
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#6 – INHALE
Fantasy Romance
98,000 words
Marine biologist ZOE MORGAN is a die-hard believer in the power of reason. So when fanciful scenes of a mystery lover and deadly fire creatures begin playing in her dreams, she writes them off as byproducts of an overactive imagination. Until people from her fantasies appear in reality, and she’s faced with two disturbing conclusions: either she’s lost her mind, or her irrational suspicions are true – she’s been targeted by Fire Elements in a scheme to overthrow the Sentinels, including her lover, who protect Elemental balance and shield humans from harm.
Waylaid by a career-crippling case of writer’s block, bad boy musician GAVIN CASSIDY finds his muse when he’s summoned back to duty by the Dreaming – a parallel world where dreams mirror reality – to rescue a woman who holds the key to a weapon he and his fellow Sentinels need to stop the Fires. Torn between a growing attraction to the muse and his responsibility to the humans he’s sworn to defend, he must choose between losing the only woman he’s ever loved or serving up innocents to the hungry jaws of insatiable Fire Elements who feed off emotions, leaving insanity in their wake.
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#7 – Damaged Cargo
Sci-fi romance
Word Count: 61000Life in the 22nd century is heinous and finding a comfortable life in the Levinese Galaxy grows increasingly difficult.
Emma Gardine, one of a handful of female pirate captains, begs, borrows, steals and cheats her way through the planetary system on the hunt of a profit. Never showing remorse, she uses people until she gets what she wants then throws them away, always searching for that elusive something which will bring peace to her soul.
Until she meets Tarik Vartouth. Forced to be a farmer by trade and sick of the mandatory breeding programs for genetic supremacy on his planet, he befriends her and makes a play for her ship in order to carry out his own plot for revenge against his father—the Premier and ruler of Nazulara. That plan goes awry when basic human need consumes the pair and physical bonding cloud their destinies.
Now these two independent and strong-willed people must learn how to set aside their own issues in order to work together for survival—unless they kill each other first.
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#8 – Sleep Fall
Paranormal Romantic Suspense
71,000 Words
Isabelle Debouis is afraid to fall asleep, because when she wakes, she finds what she’d wished in her dreams has now become reality.
Callum Galloway is a telepath with R.E.M. (the Regiment of Enlightened Militia). R.E.M. sends Callum into Isabelle’s dreams to determine if her abilities are real. When Cal is told by R.E.M. to make Isabelle “wish” in her dream, he sees the outside world change, with only the two of them remembering how things had been before that moment.
Darker truths surface about R.E.M., the agency Callum has always believed to be part of the government, forcing him to question their true purpose and fear for Isabelle’s safety. Cal must convince Isabelle to escape with him. The more they learn about R.E.M., the more they fear that neither they nor the rest of the world can be safe unless R.E.M. can be destroyed.
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#9 – After Thoughts and Before
Paranormal
Word Count: 94,000
All Mallory Donovan ever wanted was a settled life and a little antique shop to call her own. Instead, she’s thrust into the world of the unknown when she travels to Ireland to settle her grandmother’s estate and learns she’s inherited Grayson Castle. And the apparent ghosts, good and evil, that come with it. Unaware of the deadly blood spell placed on her family centuries ago, she encounters bizarre occurrences and messages warning her to leave or die.
Trevor Riley, International Realtor, seals deals–big deals. His motto: wine them, dine them, gain their trust, but never become emotionally involved. When a client offers him the contract to buy Grayson Castle, he knows he’s just the man to schmooze the new owner into selling. Until he falls for her. His choice? Protect her from the evil surrounding the place or making the deal of the century.
Meeting the realtor seems like a godsend as Mallory falls for his charms until the lines between right and wrong become crossed, and she uncovers his motivation for lavishing so much attention on her. She must decide to fight for the love she wants or leave, dooming herself to the blood spell forever.
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#10 – Do You Hear What I Hear?
YA mystery/paranormal
Word count: 56,000
When Emily Parker’s hearing aid falls out during a kickboxing tournament, she discovers her ability to hear people’s thoughts. She’s afraid of her power and worries her parents will think she’s insane, so she hides her newfound ability from everyone except her best friend Anya. But when a rash of unusual burglaries rocks her small town and her perfect older sister is framed for the crime, Emily knows she has to use her power to discover the criminals, clear her sister and keep her secret – all while figuring out how to use her power and falling in love with her kickboxing nemesis. Emily and Anya’s plan fails miserably, and now Emily is the prime suspect. When other “listeners” come forward to help, Emily is able to catch the criminals, clear her name, and get the boy.
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#11 – Redeeming Characters
Contemporary romance
79,000 words
Animals may bite but people always suck. It’s the motto thirty-two year old DRUE has lived by all his life. He longs for the snow to melt so he can disappear into the wild with nary a nitwit to be seen—to escape the confines of a narrow-minded and cloying society. Yet, when he discovers an old friend has published the book he helped create, a new plan surfaces. Revenge.
Bestselling author DAKOTA WHITMORE is in a slump. Sure, her husband is dead and she’s adopted his long-time mistress’s child, but she’s endured more difficult things. Maybe what she needs is a little help, a beta reader who will tell her that her work hasn’t turned into a steaming cow pie. How about uber sexy Drue, the man who helped her pen her first—and only, bestseller? Nothing could possibly go wrong. Right?
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#12 – A GHOST OF A CHANCE
Paranormal Romantic Comedy (Ghosts, Angels, Demons)
70,000 Words
A Ghost of a Chance is a 70,000 word paranormal romantic comedy set in
contemporary Portland, Oregon. An action packed irreverent comedy of
disasters, A Ghost of a Chance would thrill readers of books by Candace
Havens, Marta Acosta, or Dakota Cassidy. This book is the first in a planned
series of three.
Keenan Swanson is your typical, everyday graphic designer. Well, except for
living with hundreds of pesky, prank-loving poltergeists who make his life
interesting (in a Chinese curse sort of way). He finds his situation
precarious yet manageable-until witty, smoking-hot coworker Isabella enters
the scene and Keenan decides he wants her all for himself. With a horny
succubus who has other ideas, a burly city cop determined to lock Keenan
away for good, and an evil entity who’s hell-bent on using Keenan’s seed to
create a living demon, the reluctant psychic realizes he just might not come
out of this alive-or with heart intact.
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#13 – “Stark”
Young Adult Fantasy
60,000 words
Spending the summer in the Arctic before returning to Seattle, sixteen year old Charlotte Currier hopes to 1). find a boyfriend and 2). finally need an unpadded bra. When brooding seventeen year old Victor Rochester declares his love for Charlotte, she’s enchanted. But Victor can’t trust his dark secrets to anyone; how do you tell the girl you love you’re half demon? Meanwhile, Charlotte’s sorcery attracts her long absent mother’s attention. Although thrilled at finding her mother, Charlotte is now expected to enter the demon destruction family business. Charlotte can’t help wondering, what’s a girl got to do to date her immortal enemy?
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#14 – Remember Me
Romance-Paranormal
Word count: 76,000
After the death of her grandmother, Vanessa escapes to her grandmother’s hometown in Scotland, eager for new experiences and to connect with the extended family she never met. In all of her daydreams, she never expected adventure to take the form of a sexually magnetic ghost named Gowan, who mistakes her for his long lost love.
Aiden is a man with a secret. He has been haunted for the last ten years by a woman who thinks he is his multiple times over great-uncle. Vanessa is the spitting image of the ghost haunting him, and he is convinced that she is the key to his freedom.
In their quest to reunite the ghostly lovers Aiden and Vanessa find themselves consumed in a passion neither expected. In his arms Vanessa discovers the courage to live out her wildest fantasies. Is what she is feeling true love or is she siphoning off the memories of the past?
And helping the ghosts will not be as simple as they think. It comes with a price that may be more than they’re willing to pay. Will their sacrifice be worth it? Will they take the chance or be doomed to repeat history’s mistakes?
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#15 – THE MINOAN CHRONICLES, book one NIGHT REINS
Urban fantasy
100,000
Enslaved to protect humanity, torn between a Lord and General, will Tazrein take the reins and save us all?
Lordel ruler of an immortal dynasty that protect humans from the Nox, lures Tazrein into his lavish life style. There, she meets, an elusive general, Mr. Elson. But someone wants her dead. Lordel offers her refuge then seduces her to save his life, which makes her his wife. Sucked into a society she doesn’t understand, she staggers along a path of secrets and death. She tastes Mr. Elson during a replenishing ceremony. Desire wakes. The Nox—evil creatures, imprison her and Mr. Elson. The kindle between them ignites into flames. When free, the lovers must leave their passion behind and return to their duties. Lordel shows his wife compassion with the expectation of loyalty. Though, fire rages between them, a void consumes her. She flees from her role. Mr. Elson kills the Nox leader to save her. Lordel and Mr. Elson duel. She links her life to those of the two men she cannot live without. If one kills the other so shall she die. When they grasp her sacrifice, they understand, they must share her.
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#16 The Seduction of Phaeton Black
Romance/Paranormal
Word Count: 89,000
It is 1889, and Phaeton Black, dedicated libertine, absinthe drinker and occult detective, has taken up residence in one of London’s most notorious brothels. When the Secret Branch division of Scotland Yard offers him a chance to solve a terrible spate of heinous crimes he reluctantly agrees even though the new case will require time away from a bevy of amusing and talented young ladies.
America Jones, part English, part Cajun beauty, is after the pirates that stole her father’s merchant shipping business. If Mr. Black has no interest in a monogamy, Miss Jones certainly has no time for romance. In fact, she quite emphatically does not believe in love. As Phaeton pursues a murdering bloody necromancer through the streets of London, America is being chased by the very pirates she seeks to imprison. The last thing these two need is to run into each other in a dark alley.
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#17 – HEARTS OF DARKNESS
Apocalyptic paranormal romance
100,000 words (completed)
There is no death, only a Change of Worlds…and the Gate that separates those worlds is about to come crashing down.
Human nurse Kayla Friday doesn’t believe in the supernatural when she returns to Seattle to identify her sister’s body, but she stumbles into the middle of a bloody war where Thunderbirds and Dragon-shifters fight to control the cracked Gate to Hell. Her sister died in possession of the Gate’s key, and now both sides are after Kayla to find where it was hidden. Hart, a fiercely sexy werewolf mercenary, is the only man she can trust–or so she believes.
Hart could care less for the fate of mankind as long as he earns his freedom, and Kayla has something he desperately needs. When he is forced to deliver Kayla to her sister’s killer, Hart must make an impossible choice: to seize his hard fought freedom, or to risk his life for this woman who sparks his cold, long-buried heart. Now in a race to stop the Gate from falling, Hart and Kayla must risk everything–even their love–to save the world from total destruction.
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#18 – CALLING FIRE
Paranormal Romance
80,000 words
Anaea Salis’s battle with cancer is over and the only thing left in her control is how she dies: wasting away or quickly. Alienated from friends and family by a husband who cheated on her when she fell ill, there is no one who will miss her. But her suicide is thwarted by Hunter–a centuries-old dragon spirit–who is viciously attacked and forced to transfer into her body.
Hunter should have known helping the woman was going to be trouble since humans were responsible for destroying his dragon-body, but he couldn’t stand by and let her throw away a perfectly good life. With his body too injured, he’d had no choice but to transfer into her and now all he wants is to get out. But whoever is trying to kill him is now after her, and being the Dragon Prince’s Assassin, the list of who want him dead is long–including his Prince.
Reluctantly, Anaea agrees to help–if only to get rid of him. With his domineering and far too sexy personality threatening to overwhelm her, she plunges into the dangerous world of dragons and soon finds more than just her life on the line.
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#19 – “A Love To Remember”
Romantic Suspense
Word Count: 55,000
When Nurse Daphne Maxwell and amnesiac intelligence agent Trace Campbell go on the lam to evade the men who tried to kill Trace they find “A Love to Remember”.
Daphne had stopped on her way to work to help Trace who had been in a car accident and stabbed. As Daphne helps nurse Trace back to health, they find themselves falling in love and on the run. Daphne fights her feelings for Trace but, despite the fact that she believes he is married, they become lovers. In the isolated mountain cabin where they are hiding out, Daphne learns she is pregnant. She fears that her child’s life will be endangered if she remains with Trace. Daphne knows she must leave Trace, without telling him she is pregnant. When their pursuers catch up with them Daphne has the opportunity to leave. Separated, Daphne tries to begin her new life and Trace is miserable. He obsessively searches for her and the men who tried to kill them. A sting operation to catch their attacker brings them back together. Their assailant apprehended, Daphne and Trace marry and enter the witness protection program. Their story closes with the birth of their daughter.
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#20 – Succubus Unleashed
Humorous Paranormal Romance
Word count: 100K
Beautician Lucia Gregory has serious problems. Who knew opening an antique chest would unleash Hell’s minions? Then again, when the chest is labeled Arca Infernorum, she should’ve known better. Strange things happen the moment it’s opened. Overnight, she turns into a sexpot. Men, including her gay coworkers, fawn over her. Only one is immune—Rafael Deleon, a broodingly sexy man who says he’s a demon. He’s everything she’s avoided—stony and reserved—but that only adds to his mysterious appeal.
Rafael has his own personal demon. Any woman he’s cared for has met a tragic demise. As a demon protector of Limbo, he’s sent to retrieve the chest before it’s opened. He’s too late. Hell is unleashed in the strangest place, a suburban salon. Even worse–Lucy, a beautiful half-succubus, has no idea about her powers. Being a demon, he should be able to resist. That resistance is slipping when he needs it most.
When an evil demon arrives to stake claim, Rafe is determined to protect Lucy, who’d rather fight than flee. Sparks fly as attraction grows. Will Lucy break through the stone fortress Rafe’s built around his heart, or will they suffer their own demonic demise?
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#21 – The Wilderness Within
Modern paranormal fantasy with a nod to horror
62,000 words
A sentient forest infiltrates the minds of two writers, horror specialist, Frank Harlan Marshall, and magic realist, Bryan Gauge, one of whom (Frank) has a hidden history of murder. The infiltration manipulates thoughts into reality, as real people (comedian Izzy Horenstein and musicians Aleister Blut and Alethea) and fictional people (serial killer, Average Joe) gain foothold in the reality of the madness that unfolds. The madness includes the hyper-textural transformation of Bryan into a tree during a scene of passion with Alethea, and the creation of the uber-monster, an axe-armed version of Average Joe, as well as many peripheral characters sculpted from the warped minds and memories of the two writers. A wrap around story involving the real life Alethea (as opposed to the fantasy Alethea with whom Bryan falls in love) brings the novel to a profound conclusion. The 62,000 word novel is modern paranormal fantasy with a nod to horror.
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#22 – RUBY STILETTO BLUES
Contemporary Romance with magical elements
Approx. 93K
Somewhere over the rainbow, all hell is breaking loose.
Dorrie Caselotti, a feisty thirty-year-old waitress, needs to find her rare copy of The Wizard of Oz to save Emerald City, kitsch capital of Kansas. Her ex-lover, Grayson Parnell, needs it to save his academic career. Chaos ensues when an interfering Fate, who fancies herself a modern-day Glinda, attempts to weave matchmaking magic.
The two former lovers are drawn together by a shared quest, faced with obstacles they never expected: flying monkeys, glittering tornadoes, hidden treasure and a skeleton buried under a trailer. Enter Fate – in the form of an interfering fairy godmother – and an impulsive wish for a romantic do-over becomes a horse of a totally different color.
When their enemies join forces, driven by greed and a longing for revenge, Dorrie and Gray have to call on all their resources – their courage, their brains and, most of all, their hearts. All roads lead to the Emerald City on a fantastical journey that forces pragmatic Gray to accept the unbelievable and makes Dorrie, who longed for the fairy tale, wish for an ordinary life.
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#23 – Dark Obsession
Mainstream mystery with strong romantic and supernatural elements
75,500 word
Ramon (Ray) Chavez is awakened by the spirit of this great-grandmother with a message that something is coming. But Ray, a 33 year old farmer from the Rio Grande Valley has spent his whole life refusing to believe in visions or omens or the mysticism of his Mexican/Indian heritage. However Ray may reconsider his position when he finds Lexie Solis stranded on the edge of town, in search of a new life. Ray feels an instant attraction, as well as a connection, to the skittish young woman, and he pursues a relationship with her. But what Lexie doesn’t tell Ray or his family, is that she is on the run from an abusive ex-boyfriend and he may be more powerful than even she wants to believe. When Lexie is assaulted by an unseen force, they soon learn that Victor Kemp is a master of the dark arts and his obsession with Lexie goes beyond his need to control her; he wants to possess her soul as well. Lexie’s only hope for salvation lies with Ray. But can he embrace his destiny to save the woman he loves as well as his own soul?
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#24 – STONE KISSED
Paranormal romance
90,000 words
A modern witch seduces a treasure hunter and battles a succubus for control of her ancestral estate.
When an arsonist torches her childhood home in rural Virginia our protagonist returns to care for her badly burned, comatose father. In order to pay the exorbitant medical bills she is forced to sell the magical estate to an irresistible, if cold-hearted treasure hunter. By persuading him to let her oversee restoration of the house, she keeps her heart and hands in the property, which feeds her unique and growing power to animate statues and speak to faces carved in stone. Her cousin, the succubus, however, will stop at nothing—from arson to marriage to murder–to possess both the man and the land.
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#25 – The Witch House
Suspense
Approx. 50K
Rule number one: don’t hurt little children.
There is no rule number two.
Ellie Jefferson’s family ties are as tight as a noose. Her husband Rich has become a stranger, and his mother Dinah is the MIL from hell. When Dinah hurts five-year-old Hannah and eight-month-old Jamie, it’s up to Ellie to save them.
Knowing her children are no longer safe, Ellie plans their escape. With the wealth and power of the Jefferson name behind them, Rich and Dinah distort the truth and put Ellie in the hands of the law. Only one person believes her – the FBI agent sent to arrest her for child abuse.
Some people read tea leaves or see auras – Jackson Tucker has the unique ability to scent abusers. His ‘instincts’ are never wrong. He knows Ellie is innocent, but proving it is another story. He’s determined to bring her children back safely and to see that justice is done.
As a major storm rolls in, Ellie is drawn into nightmare visions transmitted through Hannah’s eyes. She sees an odd cottage, deep in the woods, but has no clue to its location. Bad things are happening there, and the danger is closing in on Ellie’s children.
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#26 – Obsessive Book One of Paranormal Justice Series
Paranormal Romance
90,000 Words
Paranormal Justice, is a chilling view into an underworld that exists only in darkness. It is about a committee of people with paranormal abilities working to solve the most unsolvable crimes, those perpetrated by supernatural means. The first book in the Paranormal Justice series is titled Obsessive and stands complete at 90,000 words.
Kendra Freeman reports the news by day, and moonlights as a member of the Committee of Paranormal Justice (CPJ) by night. With the ability to read people and objects through her hands, she is able determine a persons guilt with a mere touch. When an innocent young woman is murdered, Kendra investigates the scene and finds she is sympathetic to the dead woman. Wounds inflicted upon the dead one mimic on Kendra’s body.
Demetri Tarus is able to heal Kendra’s wounds, but with every touch, his secrets are slowly revealed. When the murderers stalk Kendra, Demetri is the only one who can keep her safe. His dark past clouds their attraction and threatens both their love and their lives.
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#27 – The Hooded Man
Historical Romance
80,000 words
In the heart of England there lived a hero armed with bow and arrow, ready to strike down injustice and tyranny—a swashbuckling legend so powerful it has lasted for centuries, captivating the hearts and minds of people the world over. But what if the legend was nothing but a lie?
When her father is brutally murdered in front of her eyes, Marian of Locksley is thrust into a world of treason and greed, where the ultimate prize is the throne of England. Left with little choice, she disguises herself as Robin of the Hood, an outlaw despised by royalty and loved by the people…and the wickedly handsome, steadfast Will Scarlet.
Forced into hiding deep within Sherwood Forest, Will joins Robin Hood’s band of merry men, never realizing the fearless outlaw he follows is really the woman he desires for his own. He dares to risk everything in the fight for justice and love, longing for the day he can claim the courageous beauty. But first, England must be saved and legend must be born.
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#28 – SHADOWS OF SILENCE
Women’s fiction
90,000 words
As I lay scratched and bleeding, I realised I would give my life for you – that I would do anything to prevent your pain.
Inspired by true events, Shadows of Silence is the story of Ellen Tyler’s fight to bring her five-year-old son, Alex out into a world that terrifies him.
Alex has a condition called Selective Mutism, which stops him from speaking outside his home. When Alex’s silence is misconstrued as a symptom of child abuse, Ellen has to battle the courts and the education system to get him back.
Her fight to save Alex costs Ellen a marriage and a career. Even once the war is won, Ellen’s inner turmoil is not yet over. She can’t carve out a new life for herself until she has faced the demons of her past.
To emerge from her own Shadows of Silence, Ellen must come to terms with the childhood loss of a brother who died because she couldn’t speak to save him.
Ellen’s tumultuous journey leads her to new relationships and beginnings. She is finally able to throw off the mantel of guilt that has shadowed her, and take back control of her life.
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#29 – Target of Betrayal
Romantic Suspense
95,000 words
Losing a loved one is never easy, especially when young children are left without a father.
When Kathleen Landon learns her husband’s death was an attempt to cover up a horrendous crime spree being operated by a traitor inside the FBI, she scrambles to locate the incriminating evidence to expose the cold-blooded killer and save her family before becoming his next target. Her only hope of survival lies in the hands of the handsome U.S. Marshal sworn to protect her – the one responsible for it all.
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#30 – ‘Promises from the Sea’
Fantasy Romance
100,000 words
Caspia de Mer works hard at creating a life for herself that has no surprises—and she likes it that way. She leads a quiet, uneventful life working as an editor and journalist, and is engaged to an average Joe. She is deeply suspicious of anything that could jeopardize her orderly life and convinces herself that she is content.
When Aqualus of Ionia boldly strides toward her from out of the glittering sea one day, her world turns into everything she always dreaded. Aqualus is sexy, virile and completely focussed on claiming her—as his lifemate! He is a merman, a seducer of legend and has no qualms at employing his formidable skills as a lover to woo and make Caspia his.
Aqualus opens a whole hidden world of magic, of sorcerers and spells, of arcane races long forgotten by human history.
Caspia had always suppressed the voices in her head whispering to her of the world of the merfolk, but worst of all, she must face the fact that she is a mermaid herself who has been living a life of denial.
Will Aqualus’ love be enough to break through the solid wall around Caspia’s heart?
