The Laird's Marker
Ally Reynolds wakes up in a strange new place. The face she has seen every day for the last 30 years is not the one she is seeing in the mirror. Is it a dream, a coma, or is it Fate intervening when she is transported back in time to the early 1700s and mistaken for Emily, the 17-year old ward of the King? After hiding from her abusive ex-boyfriend for the last six years, Ally fears she has merely traded one prison for another as she discovers she has even less control over her life than she did in her modern life. Ally must adapt her modern independent attitudes to the expected female behaviors and opportunities of the time to be able to find a way to survive in a world where men control everything. She knows she trust issues and soon discovers she is well prepared for dealing with the intrigue that she is thrust into. Ally’s resolve to adapt to this new life, real or not, is put to the test when she is sold into wedlock to Laird John Innes, a former Scottish Privateer, who cashes in a marker from the King to obtain her hand. He had not planned on a wife, but discovers a warm, caring woman under the fearful survivor. He just needs to step up to the challenge of helping her heal. He then must protect his wife, who is rapidly becoming the most important thing in his life, from a predator out for Emily’s money and connections.
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Sudden Magic
Logic and reason have always grounded her. Fact, not myth, ruled the world as far as Dr. Liz Biddle was concerned. Love led to heart ache, not happiness so it was a thing to be avoided. Her sole focus for years had been savings lives. A chance encounter with supernatural forces unlocks a heritage that she had no idea belonged to her, instantly turning her ordered world upside down. With this chaos comes Chase Arche, an immortal Hunter who has kept the world safe for centuries. Chase gives up fighting his attraction to the beautiful doctor once he realizes that she is his fated mate, just as his archenemy decides that nothing will stop him from seizing the doctor’s incredibly powerful magic and lifeforce for his own. If he can torture Chase in the bargain, so much the better. Chase has waited centuries to find his mate. Can he save her and convince her that she can trust him in time to save the world from the destruction if Liz’s powers ended up in the wrong hands?
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Keys to Love
It had taken CHLOE AARONS, the coffee-addicted director of the Division of Encryption Special Projects Response Team, or DESPRT in the acronym-laden world that is the government, years to build the team into the computer equivalent of the military’s Special Forces. This was their kind of problem.
A terrorist has taken control of every marquee in New York’s Times Square and has been flashing messages promising unspeakable retribution to Chloe in a code only she will understand. The count-down clock that normally signals the new year is counting down ominously to something. Once the DESPRT Team is activated, her team flys into action to find the madman before he wrecks whatever havoc his count-down clock is heading towards. With Chloe’s life in jeopardy, she is provided a security detail in the form of FBI agent DECLAN MACFARLAND. The handsome agent forgets the fundamental rule of personal protection once he sees thenlittle spitfire: don’t fall in love with your charge.
THE COSSACK makes it clear he wants to trade the American Stock and Currency Exchanges for Chloe. Chloe must get free of the clutches of vengeful man who is as brilliant as she is while the rest of her team figures out how to stop the collapse the entire financial structure in the US, taking the rest of the world with it. Will they save the world and more importantly, will she survive long enough to return Declan’s love?
No Escape From Fate
The first thing Becca Mulroney realizes is that four unknown men surround her. Becca can only remember leaving the university where she is a tenured professor to pick up her daughter. There is an ocean below the plane. That can only mean that she is heading away from her family. Becca begins to work on how to escape.
The obvious man in charge, Eric MacIver, tells her that they are heading to his Scottish home. Eric then informs her that she is his fated mate. Becca has never bought into the concept that Fate controls all things. Eric adds more to the chaos. Not only is he the King of paranormals, but is also a vampire. Becca’s logical mind cannot wrap itself around the concept that an urban legend wants her to be his queen.
Eric has become too weak from the Fade to protect his people. The only cure is claiming his fated mate. Amos Carson, his faithless second-in-command, will do anything to keep Eric and Becca apart. If Eric dies, Amos can finally be king.
Eric pledges to make her foremost in every part of his life. However, as a married woman, Becca fights the force of the mating pull, Eric’s irresistible charm, and the promise of an international life she could only have dreamed of. To stay means she will have to break her vows to her husband; a dishonorable act she refuses to do. Becca finally sees her chance to return home–and takes it. No matter how he makes her feel, her sense of honor is more important.
However, her perfect life falls apart. Her husband's crazy schedule as a surgeon has enabled him to hide his infidelities for years. The betrayal cuts deeply.
Becca struggles to decide what to do about her marriage while Amos captures Eric, imprisons him, and fills Eric with silver. Amos will be king. Becca decides to return to Eric. She kicks herself for walking away from the promise of her heart’s desire to go back to a man who clearly does not deserve her devotion. She returns to Scotland.
Becca is horrified to find Eric has been captured and tortured. She brings every resource to rescue Eric. She mates with him to restore him to full health. The event is life-altering for both of them.
Amos kidnaps Becca to force a life-or-death battle for the crown. When Eric discovers the duplicity, he is enraged. Using his millennia of experience and resources, Eric rescues his mate. Amos pays painfully for his many crimes.
As devoted mates, Eric and Becca plan to plan their future which includes merging their human and vampire families, rebuilding their home, and settling into a contented life together.
Eric’s grandson discovers his mate. Finding his fated mate is celebrated by the entire family, except the overprotective queen. Becca hates that her innocent daughter is the fated mate of a centuries-old vampire. Can Eric prevent her from intervening in Fate’s plan for the couple?
Unlocking the Veil
OLIVIA RYAN is a useless witch despite the promise of her birth. Every spell that she has ever tried has either outright failed or caused unexpected, if not dangerous, outcomes due to her mixed heritage. They have not had A Calling in decades. Even if they needed one, why include her?
DECLAN SUTHERLAND wants her instantly and has no concern about her problems with magic. He only cares that he has found his fated mate at last. He gets more than he bargined for when he discovers that she is the long-hidden daughter of the High Priestess, and the most powerful witch to ever be born. Her powers had only been bound until she came of age.
The prophecy says that Olivia must stop an ancient witch from causing a deadly war between dimensions. Before she can act, she is ripped from the arms of her powerful mate and thrust into the dangerous dimension of the Fae, stripped of all her witch magic. She must rely on the handsome Fae warrior to protect her while she learns how to use her latent Fae magic from the father she has never known.
It is a becomes a race for time as Olivia struggles to prevent the most ambitious power grab ever attempted.
Nullify
Book posted unfinished for a contest. I am finishing it now.
Gabby Howe is the seventh daughter of the seventh daughter of the seventh daughter in a close-knit family of witches who can trace their lineage back to the original witch. She has power that no witch born in hundreds of years had ever dreamed of having at their fingertips, most of which she keeps hidden from everyone. The Rede, the governing Council of Witches, discovered some of her abilities when her sister sold her out for a seat among them. They took the knowledge and forced Gabby to work for them as a Contract Cleaner, or a witch who eliminates threats to their world. Having no choice but to do what they ordered, she had felt like an indentured servant for over a decade. If she refused, she would become the hunted. She would then have to defend herself and in doing so, reveal the true extent of her power. The Rede would never leave her alone if they knew. They would garner their collective power and kill her, or worse. They could strip her of everything she is, leaving her merely human or a drooling vegetable, depending on how cruel they were feeling that day.
The Rede gives her a new assignment: Eliminate Nicolas Drake, the Vampire Lord of the Northeast who is making overtures to destroy the Rede. She takes the assignment because they give her no other choice.
Nicolas Drake has been searching for his mate for nearly two millennium without success. Then he stumbles on to her incredible scent on his way to a normal business meeting in mid-town Manhattan. His only worry is how is he going to find his mate in a city this size?
Fate can be capricious in the best of times and seems to be working overtime on making Gabby’s life problematic. When her cover is blown, the Rede sends other assassin teams after him. While he is dodging those who hunt him, he finds Gabby again and does everything he can to convince her of the truth. Gabby finally admits who he is to her as she realizes she cannot let the assassins take him away. She begins to fight for him as they both try to find the source of the true threat to the Rede. A vampire can make a lot of enemies in a couple thousand years.
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Attitude Adjustment
A small group is charged with preventing the complete human extinction in one generation. Danielle McQuarrie and her 17-year-old daughter find themselves among them. Her strong-will and independence set her on a collision course with Spartak, the Fleet High Commander, who is utterly charmed by her take-no-prisoners brand of honesty.
Danielle is horrified to discover that women are second class citizens who are expected to bend to the will of the males around them, keep house, and have babies. She has no idea how to protect her daughter from a life as a domestic slave. Worse, she discovers that the healthcare of the Fleet’s most precious resource, the women who will save humanity, has been left in the hands of folk medicine and cunny women by a misogynistic physician who has less experience in patient care than most EMTs on her world. Seeing no choice, she makes changes that end the men’s comfy lifestyle. They fight her every step of the way as she fights her growing feelings for Spartak.
When several men threaten her daughter to stop the changes, Danielle plays dirty. She pulls together an eclectic group of talented like-minded women who join forces and seamless take over the Fleet, forcing the males to have fewer rights than the women had. It becomes a battle of wills. Who will win?
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