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March 23, 2021

Springing forward, reading romance!

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The weather seems to have taken a turn here in New England. For me, that means trips to the dog park, seedlings started in my windowsills, and the chickens are giving us more eggs. Then again, I've lived in the northeast my whole life. I know Mud Season and False Spring are very real.

Hopefully by now you've grabbed your copy of LOVE IN A SMALL TOWN, and met Marnie and Micah from Ambitious Heart. Maybe you've even gotten the link to download Unbound Heart. Sam and Will are very dear to me. It's so much fun to set them free.

I'm wrapping up Troubadour Heart, which will complete the series. The three books will release fairly close together, so if you're waiting for the launch to grab them, you only have to wait until June to collect all three. I hope you'll take a sec to add the series to your TBR list.

To celebrate the spring, I've got a new release from author Brenda Margriet to share with you. Check out the details below:

promotional image of Brenda Margriet's book RICHLY DESERVED
Richly Deserved: A TIMELESS Seasoned Romance, a Timeless Seasoned Romance

More than twenty years ago, Claudia Aronson escaped an abusive marriage. She built a secure, stable life, and is now only weeks away from realizing a long-held dream—opening her own art gallery. But her well-ordered world is threatened by the compelling, abrasive man essential to bringing her new venture into the spotlight.

Artist Titus Wilcox is reclusive, nomadic, and passionate. His solitary, drifting habits have fed his creative soul, but played hell with his love life. Soon after he meets the statuesque, seemingly-serene Claudia, however, he feels a compulsion to paint a new reality—with her.

When an antique painting reveals mysterious documents concealed behind its frame, Titus and Claudia unite in a hunt for lost riches—a pursuit that takes them into the remote hills surrounding the fabled gold rush town of Barkerville.

To these two skeptics, true love is as phony as fool’s gold. But this improbable search for buried treasure could lead to their hearts’ hidden desires.

RICHLY DESERVED goes up to $4.99 ON 4/1/2021!

CLICK TO PREORDER NOW FOR ONLY $2.99
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February 8, 2021

Love small town romances? I have an announcement for you!

Y’all.

I’ve been sitting on this news since forever, or at least since November, when I was frantically writing a brand new mini-series.

It’s here!

Seven romance authors–including yours truly–have come together to share a limited edition collection filled with nothing but small town love stories.

Here’s the deal: You download the Love in a Small Town ebook and get seven exclusive romances from…

CA MiconiJade C. JamisonKatrina MarieMonique McDonellNan O’BerryZoe Hartand me !

As a special ...

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Published on February 08, 2021 03:54

December 23, 2020

Hearts All Aglow: Miranda

Miranda woke on Christmas morning to her niece and nephew crawling into Ariel’s guest bed with her.


“Wake up, Auntie Mira. Uncle Adi says he’s going to drink all the grown-up drinks by himself if you don’t come down soon.” Her nephew Finlay was seven, and an alarming conversational sponge.


“Mom said she’d make him shovel the whole backyard all by hisself if he did that,” Finlay’s little sister Elodie was almost six and took everyone at face value.


“Merry Christmas, sweet beans.” Miranda hugged t...

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Published on December 23, 2020 03:00

December 22, 2020

Hearts All Aglow: Justin

Justin waited at the end of Bobwhite Lane to flag Miranda down. She couldn’t be more than a few minutes behind them, and he wanted to be the one to stop her. Things looked far worse than they were.


At number thirteen, her son was sitting in the open cab of Engine 3, wrapped in a blanket, holding Marvin. The cat, despite his role in the unfolding events, was peacefully settled in his boy’s lap, cleaning his paws.


Miranda’s Camry appeared around the corner of Coturnix and Justin took a deep breath...

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Published on December 22, 2020 15:59

December 21, 2020

Hearts All Aglow: Miranda

Miranda and Elliot both had school right up to the twenty-third, and between work, school, holiday baking, gift wrapping, and fielding text threads from Adrian in which he harassed her about bringing the cute neighbor, Miranda didn’t have a free moment to seek out said cute neighbor.


Every evening, when she got home from picking Elliot up at his robotics club meeting, the lights greeted her, but Justin’s house was dark. She’d never thought to ask what he did for work. 


Christmas Eve was spent ru...

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Published on December 21, 2020 08:59

December 20, 2020

Hearts All Aglow: Justin

Sunday morning, Justin woke to a fifty-two degree bedroom, a dead thermostat, and no double-A batteries, which was how he found himself at the big-box home improvement store before breakfast.


If he hadn’t had a hankering for an omelet while navigating the aisles of the store, he might not have swung into the strip mall next door to grab a stool at Midge’s, and if he hadn’t done that, he wouldn’t have seen the giant ornament in the window of the thrift shop.


He hoped he hadn’t been projecting whe...

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Published on December 20, 2020 03:13

December 19, 2020

Hearts All Aglow: Miranda

Miranda rang Michael’s doorbell with the same sick feeling she had evening Sunday night since he’d left his apartment near the university where he’d taught to live out here in the ‘burbs with Sharli. The only difference on this particular Sunday evening was that instead of returning to the cozy second and third floor condo they’d once shared, a block from both her ex-husband’s new digs and the campus, she would drive home to Quail Ridge.


Sharli answered the door. “Hi, Miranda. How’s Ariel?”


They...

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Published on December 19, 2020 03:08

December 18, 2020

Hearts All Aglow: Miranda

Sister Sundays always began with breakfast cocktails. They didn’t always begin with unexpected knocks on Miranda’s sister’s front door.


“Surprise!” Miranda’s brother Adrian called out from Ariel’s foyer. 


Miranda set down her mimosa and rushed out to the hallway to hug him. She held his shoulders and looked him over. Even in his late-thirties, he had a boyish energy that animated his fair features. Miranda envied his fresh-faced good looks; lately her reflection seemed desperately in need of a s...

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Published on December 18, 2020 03:09

December 17, 2020

Hearts All Aglow: Justin

Sure, it was only four or five inches of snow, and he bet Miranda was up to shoveling it, but he wanted to make something easier for her. She hadn’t said much about her personal life over wine and virtual space missions, but he’d listened to what she hadn’t said as much as what she had.


Definitely divorced. Confirmed by the way she rubbed at the empty groove on her left ring finger when she was thinking. The ex sounded like any number of successful corporate douchebags he knew; the guy kind of h...

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Published on December 17, 2020 03:24

December 16, 2020

Hearts All Aglow: Miranda

Miranda woke Saturday morning to the preternatural stillness of snowfall. Marvin was next to her, doing a reasonable impression of a bear-skin rug and purring as though his last life depended on it.


She scratched his ears and ran her hand along his fur. “Good morning, Marvin.”


He flicked his tail by way of response.


“‘Mom, can I please get a cat?’ he said. ‘I’ll do all the work, I swear,’ he said.’” She spoke aloud to cat as much as to the empty house. “Maybe I should drop your litter box off at...

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Published on December 16, 2020 03:32