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A little sweet tea and a whole lot of spells won’t always put out the fire…

Welcome to Jewell, NC, a small strip of land on the Crystal Coast with no stop signs or traffic lights, but it’s got a whole lot of magic. Ruby Mae Jewell helps run the family business of selling antiques and refurbished goods. But with old objects, you never know when one of them possesses more than just dust and cobwebs.

When Rue hits up a flea market, she gets more than she bargained for. Finding a potentially dangerous magical object, she has to get it off the market and out of mortal hands. But when more research reveals its threatening nature to the magical community as well, she’s put to the test of what to do… especially when they find someone murdered on their land who was looking for it.

Ruby Mae struggles to balance doing the right thing and saving her family at all costs. But when things turn from bad to worse, it may get harder for her to know which choices to make.

Will her fiery personality and powers be able to solve the mystery before anyone else gets hurt or will Ruby Mae’s efforts to solve the murder go up in smoke?

“The greatest love emerges when we confront our deepest fears and with your presence I was taught that fear is only as deep as the mind allows.”

William Willenshire, Duke of Dunleigh, bears the weight of his family’s legacy, each decision a tribute to the past. Duty has ruled his life, forcing him to suppress all his desires apart from one : the search of the captivating, mysterious woman whose locket he has cherished ever since that fateful masquerade ball.

Independent and compassionate, Lavinia’s resilient spirit stirs something in William, awakening emotions he thought long buried.

But when a painful truth is revealed, their fragile connection shatters, leaving them to decide if love is worth the risk of heartbreak.

While investigating a government cover-up, former FBI agent Mitch Monroe is framed for murder. A wanted man, Mitch has no choice but to stay off the grid, and he needs Special Agent Caroline Foster — the FBI’s top sniper and a woman who wants nothing to do with him — to clear his name.

After sharing a single night of simmering passion with Mitch a year ago, Caroline hasn’t been able to get him out of her head. Or her heart. He’s already jeopardized her job once… helping him now could end her career. But a friend has been murdered, and no matter how Caroline feels about Mitch, he’s not the killer. She needs answers, and she needs Mitch Monroe out of her life once and for all.

On the run and with no one to turn to, Mitch and Caroline can’t fight the reigniting passion between them. She’ll lose her career if she proves Mitch is innocent… he’ll lose his life if she doesn’t.

Shattered by an accident, Emelie looks for an imaginary baby while Liam takes their son to protect him. Can love restore this family?

Emelie and Liam have a happy life with their five-year-old son Ben, until a car accident changes everything, sending Emelie into a spiral of declining mental health. Struggling with a deep desire for another baby, pretending she is fine, Emelie desperately tries to hold things together until her search for a baby makes her do the unthinkable.

Liam, determined to keep things “normal,” barely notices his own struggle, until he makes a decision that shatters Emelie’s newly reordered world and separates their family.

Out of sync, each must grapple with the meaning of family and their deepest desires. Can Emelie and Liam find their way back together?

Angels in the Architecture is a heartwarming story of family life, mental health, adoption and the power of love.

October 7th, 2023, Israel: the day the world changed.

When the sirens started at 6:29 am, Tehila was packing a picnic for her family in their southern Kibbutz home and Dana was celebrating love with her boyfriend at an outdoor rave.

Shai, a former counter-terrorist soldier jumps to action to protect his country for his young son; while politician and the army’s former chief of staff Alon wants to lend his expertise.

In Gaza, Aisha is taken by surprise, but she hopes for better days and will do anything for the return of her twins who were wrongfully arrested by the Israeli army.

Across the globe, Ethan, a Harvard freshman, wakes up and is unsure what to think of the situation until he feels personally targeted on campus.

Inspired by true events, We Will Dance Again tells the story of how an entire nation was changed in an instant. It is the story of loss, resilience, and the unbreakable spirit of hope.

Ted Dawson has spent years trying to outrun his father’s shadow. But after Wall Street legend Ed Dawson is found brutally murdered in his Manhattan townhouse, the past comes calling to collect.

Someone knows every dirty secret Ed Dawson ever kept. Someone is willing to kill to keep them buried. And they have decided Ted is the perfect person to pay the tab.

As the threats turn physical and the body count climbs, Ted is forced to make an impossible choice: protect the financial empire he is about to inherit, or burn it down to save his own skin.

Darkly propulsive and emotionally ruthless, Sins of the Father is a twist-packed financial thriller about greed, betrayal, and the fatal consequences of unchecked ambition. This high-stakes suspense novel will keep you on the edge of your seat until its shocking final reveal.

It will make you question everything about loyalty, family, and power — and whether you can ever truly trust those closest to you. You probably shouldn’t.

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia…
Just when Sadie Sexton is starting to settle into her new routine in Hoochville, she learns of a decades-old secret that her grandmother’s friends have been keeping from her. Now it’s up to her and Clementine Parker to help Marcia Murphy, a woman in need, escape town. Marcia has one request on her way out of town; she begs Sadie and Clem to check on her prized Chinese Crested show dog.

Everything goes to hell in a handbasket when Sadie and Clem arrive at Marcia’s residence and find Daniel Murphy’s dead body in the yard. Now Marcia is the number one suspect in his murder, and Sadie and Clem might just be on the hook for aiding and abetting a murderer if they can’t get Marcia to come back to town.

With a power-hungry DA on the case, Sadie and her friends find themselves navigating the world of competitive show dogs while trying to discover what happened to Daniel. And they quickly find out that confronting blue-ribbon-hungry dog owners is almost as hairy as trying to stay out of prison.

He’s the Prime Minister’s son. He’s lost the boy he loves. And the whole world is watching.

Sixteen-year-old Myles Maxwell-Fox lives in the shadow of a public legacy he never asked for. When he comes out to the world, he sets off a chain reaction that shatters his carefully managed life, and throws him into the heart of Soho’s vibrant, chaotic gay community.

Haunted by the memory of his first love, Lewis, Myles is torn between the thrill of freedom and the pain he can’t leave behind. As the media hounds his every move and his father tightens his homophobic grip, Myles runs toward the only people who offer him unexpected refuge: Dan and Marcus, two older men who take him in when no one else will.

But love doesn’t fade quietly. And as the past closes in, Myles must face the truth about who he is, who he was, and who he wants to become, before he loses himself completely.

When I Go I Go is a raw, lyrical LGBTQ+ coming-of-age novel about love that refuses to die, the fight for freedom, and the journey to find peace when the world demands you keep running.

Perfect for fans of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Call Me By Your Name, and A Little Life.

Everything falls into place for high school junior Cat Morgan: perfect grades, three best friends, and of course, track dreams about to happen. But on November 7th, 2007, Cat’s life collapses with a brain aneurysm and a coma lasting seven days. When she wakes up, Cat discovers more adjustments than she bargained for, physically and mentally.

Not only is Cat’s world changing, everyone around her changes too.
Mary, the uptight, strict mother, turns into the protector.
Rose, the naïve, childish sister, becomes the role of the mature sibling.
And Ellie, the distant, shunned friend, must choose to let Cat back into her life or not.

Once she returns to school, Cat feels invisible and the center of attention at the same time. Despite this, Cat tries to reconnect with her friends, her studies, and of course, her sprinting dreams.

Cat wants, needs, for her life to go back to normal.

But can it?

Lucy was born and bred in Chicago. She lives and breathes it. So when her husband, Joel, convinces her to move back to his home in Michigan, she doesn’t realize what she’s agreeing to. As her daughter starts kindergarten, Lucy’s world should be opening up. Instead she finds herself floundering. Small-town life with fewer opportunities and exclusive friendships is hard to navigate. And a mother-in-law who seems to judge her every move doesn’t help. Self-doubt creeps in and Lucy begins to question her own abilities as well as her marriage.
But just as her confidence seems to be deserting her, some unlikely acquaintances come her way.
When We Talk is a story of friendship. It’s about what happens when you take the time to see beyond initial appearances and take a chance at something more.

When her father tells her she must marry a man she doesn’t love, Joanna Fairbanks knows it’s time to put her escape plan into action. With her sister in town, she sets out for Burlington, Nevada, where her grandfather left some money for her. In the midst of their stagecoach attack by bandits, though, this city girl will discover the rough face of the West firsthand!

Joanna must protect her sister at all costs…

Fin Tyson has been working as a gun for hire for far too long. Determined to atone for his past sins, he starts by deciding to protect Joanne and her sister. He’s gonna use his excellent gun skills to rescue them, but this feisty lady has no need for a hero…

What if the roles of protector and victim are about to reverse?

Joanna and Fin manage to escape the savage bandits once, only to be pursued by them again and again. Will they escape safe, alive and in love? Or will their time together be cut short at the hands of the merciless thieves who won’t stop until someone is dead?

This is the 2nd book in the series, the first one was Budget School Holiday Meals. Written to help poverty line/bread line families, students on budgets, anyone who needs help eating well but living cheaply. Having been there myself I know how hard it is to make ends meet, to know what to cook to keep you and especially your children fed and full. Knowing that up to 3 MILLION children go hungry in school holidays in the UK alone prompted me to write my first book and then follow it up with this one. They are small books, cheap and cheerful but hopefully in some small way I can help families and individuals. There will be other books in the series, but as a housewife and mum on a budget it takes me time to get them together.