Valerie Mann
is the superwoman every woman tries to be…mother of five attractive, successful
children, vixen in and out of the bedroom, runway model fashionista, extreme
gardener, and just recently crashed on bestseller lists as a romance author.
In real life,
Valerie is the mother of five lovely, but ordinary children. Sure, she’s a
vixen in and out of the bedroom, which explains the herd of kids. The closest
she gets to a runway is an airport, and while she thinks gardens of all sorts
are wonderful, she figures that hobby can wait until retirement, if her knees
last that long. And that crashing you heard was Valerie collapsing on the couch
at the end of a very long day. As for romance, she writes and likes to think
she can tell an amazing tale of love or two. Her husband of nearly thirty years
won’t read her stories because they make him blush but is content in the
knowledge he’s the inspiration for every one of them.
Valerie
currently works as a managing editor for an electronic publisher and is the
co-owner of a company that provides editing services for writers.
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Who agrees to an arranged marriage in the 21st century? Beth Malone can’t believe a date request with the 1Night Stand service morphed into an arranged marriage offer. But after a heartbreaking divorce and no knight in shining armor coming to sweep her off her feet, her desire to find that knight and have a family is looking more like a dream than a reality.
After
filling out a 1Night Stand questionnaire worthy of the CIA, Christian Ramos is
stunned when Madame Eve offers to arrange more than a date for one night: she
suggests a wife! What the hell? After his best friend Jackson Castillo stops
laughing, he advises him to consider the offer. Between the fortieth birthday
looming on the horizon and his Latino upbringing, Chris is forced to take a
hard look at his life. Reality check—time is running out for what he wants—a
family and a woman to share his life.
First
comes love, then comes marriage isn’t
part of their matrimonial situation, but neither Beth nor Christian anticipated
the immediate attraction and contentment that comes with saying, “I do.”
When Leah loses
her fiancé, Mark, in Afghanistan, it takes nearly a year to get to the point
where she’s ready to live again. Although she doesn’t want an emotional
commitment, a night of consensual sex, even with a stranger, might help bring
her some closure after Mark’s death. Enlisting the services of Madame
Evangeline’s high-end, online dating service, One Night Stand, promises exactly
what Leah is looking for—sex with a man she doesn’t have to see again, but one
who will satisfy her physical needs now that she's ready to move on with her
life.
Jackson Castillo has no
desire to go on a date with one of Evangeline’s clients. One Night Stand uses
his hotel for its client’s rendezvous, but otherwise, he never gets involved.
When Eve threatens to take her business elsewhere unless he helps her with a
particular case, he’s no fool. He’ll go on the date. But he won’t sleep with
the woman.
When one thing leads to another, his good intentions to stay out of the bedroom with Leah are shattered. The sex is phenomenal, but there’s more to Leah he wants to explore. After she leaves the next morning without a goodbye, he’s both disappointed and royally pissed. Will he let her go or find a way to convince her she’s ready…to feel again? BUY LINK
When one thing leads to another, his good intentions to stay out of the bedroom with Leah are shattered. The sex is phenomenal, but there’s more to Leah he wants to explore. After she leaves the next morning without a goodbye, he’s both disappointed and royally pissed. Will he let her go or find a way to convince her she’s ready…to feel again? BUY LINK
Cara
spent her entire life doing just that—dutiful daughter, stellar student,
responsible adult…in a word…nerd. Not that she had much choice. The Society, a
secret moral social order she’d been born into, had one motivating tool in its
arsenal to ensure members didn’t succumb to temptation and break any of its
laws—
The Watcher…
A demon whose sole mission consisted of waiting for his watch to break the
rules—and bring them to—
The Dark...
Marek sucked at his job. Not only did he hate being a Watcher, but he’d fallen
in love with his watch, Cara, placing his eternal soul in peril. Only able to
protect her in her dreams, when she reaches a crossroad in her life that puts
her mortality in jeopardy, they have to decide who will give the greater gift.
Will Cara sacrifice her mortality for Marek’s love…or will he
sacrifice his soul to save her life ? BUY
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Run Devil Run, an L.A. based Rock band well
known locally for their dynamic live performances, diverse musical talent, and
humorous video antics has lent their faces, titles and lyrics as inspiration
for a five-book series. The stories in this anthology are penned by popular and
award-nominated authors Rachel Carrington, Mari
Freeman, Susan DiPlacido, Valerie
Mann and Becca Dale.
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Drew Driscoll never knew what hit him when he met Emma for the first
time. Mr. Type-A personality doesn't allow relationships to interfere with his
business success. But something about Emma strikes a deep chord hard and fast.
So, in typical Drew fashion, he rationalizes the situation and hires her as his
administrative assistant to keep her close but without any emotional
entanglements. Or so he thought.
Emma never dreams how
difficult working for Drew will be when she'd accepted his offer. Sure, she
does her job well, he pays her even better and she enjoys the jet-set lifestyle
as his assistant while he deals his way through every major boardroom in the
country. What she doesn't have is Drew. The immediate attraction sizzles between
them but he always keeps his eyes forward and hands off, which makes doing her
job easier but her nights lonely. When she accompanies him to a formal business
event and he gets immersed in an unexpected and lengthy call from Asia, a
frustrated Emma accepts an offer for a ride home from his former business
partner. The next day, on a cross-country corporate flight, Drew fires her.
Once she gets past the
initial shock of unemployment, Emma realizes nothing is standing in the way of
pursuing the affair she knows they both want. And where better to pursue her
ex-boss than at a private, thirty-thousand feet? BUY LINK
Drew Driscoll never knew what hit him when he met Emma for the first
time. Mr. Type-A personality doesn't allow relationships to interfere with his
business success. But something about Emma strikes a deep chord hard and fast.
So, in typical Drew fashion, he rationalizes the situation and hires her as his
administrative assistant to keep her close but without any emotional
entanglements. Or so he thought.
When ER nurse Kelly
Donovan meets sexy firefighter Nick Barrantes at her sister’s annual summer
party, the sparks fly. Famous for its games, this year’s party includes Hide
& Seek and Kelly is determined to find a cozy place to hide with Nick.
Trapped in a closet together during the game, neither Kelly nor Nick
anticipates the sizzling passion that flares between them. However, Kelly can't
help but wonder if this is one game she'll lose to her heart...
After two decades, Lauren
never expects to see her first love again, and in a foreign city, no less.
Seth’s reappearance in her life stuns her even though a day hasn’t gone by
without thinking about him. Though thrilled to find him again, she’s unprepared
for how fast old flames of love can reignite.
Seth can’t believe his eyes when he finds Lauren standing in front of him, more gorgeous than ever. Determined not to lose her, he decides a visit down memory lane is in order, and making new memories along the way.
Seth can’t believe his eyes when he finds Lauren standing in front of him, more gorgeous than ever. Determined not to lose her, he decides a visit down memory lane is in order, and making new memories along the way.
