My House, My Rules

Breaking Free is a romantic suspense about a military hero who moves to small-town Steele Ridge for a new start. When his best friend’s sister–and expert hacker–shows up, this hero will do whatever it takes to protect her.

As the black sheep of the Steele brood, Micki Steele craves one thing: the love of her family. Working as a hacker for a ruthless fixer, Micki has done things she’ll never be proud of. When she flees Vegas and returns to her hometown, she brings along her boss’s secrets and plenty of danger. At least until he arrives in Steele Ridge, intent on hauling her back to Vegas — or burying her in North Carolina.

Former Green Beret and family friend Gage Barber has been Mr. Fix-It his entire life, but now a war wound leaves him struggling with simple tasks. And when the mysterious and sexy Micki shows up and pulls him into the middle of her family drama, his loyalty to the Steele family is tested. Although he’s sworn off his need to play hero, his undeniable attraction to Micki leaves him with only one option — convincing her to break free of her ruthless boss.

Torn over protecting the man she’s falling in love with and her yearning for a normal life, Micki must choose between staying trapped in Vegas or a life of freedom in Steele Ridge. Even if breaking free leads straight to heartbreak… and prison.
Although all books are stand alones, if you would like to read the entire Steele Ridge series chronologically, the following is the correct order:

They thought the borders were safe. Incendin proved them wrong.

When the Aeta caravans arrive, Tan doesn’t expect more than a few strange stories and stolen glances at the beautiful Amia. But something’s wrong. The Aeta are fleeing — not trading — and Amia is being hunted by forces no one dares name.

Then his village is destroyed.

Forced to flee across the kingdom with Amia and an injured warrior, Tan uncovers a legacy of power his family tried to keep hidden — and a bond with Amia that neither of them understands. Together, they must escape fire-shaping enemies, decode a dying empire’s secrets, and protect a relic that could change everything.

He was never meant to be a hero. But sometimes the fire chooses you.

The first book in the Poppy McGuire Mystery Series!

Poppy McGuire has always been a curious soul, but it’s her life that’s usually the topic of conversation in the small town of Sunset Ridge. Somehow being a single woman with a coffee addiction and no boyfriend prospects is intensely interesting to her nosy neighbors. But now one of the town’s most important citizens has been found murdered, and everyone’s life is suspect.

What begins as a friendly wager with her old friend Officer Derek Hampton soon becomes far more for Poppy, and she turns to Alex Montero for help, but the enigmatic former Baltimore cop’s quiet way hides as many secrets as each suspect they encounter.

Everyone in Sunset Ridge has something to hide, but Poppy and Alex are determined to uncover the identity of the murderer. They just have to watch that they don’t become the next victims.

The Captain’s Men is the eleventh book in Martin Archer’s action-packed story of a serf who rises to become the captain of a company of crusading English archers and what happens after he leads the company’s survivors back to crude and brutal medieval England. Arrows fly, the Church is greedy, the barons move against Cornwall, and the archers fight when King John offers his barons the powers they seek in exchange for the priceless gold and silver religious relics the archers took from Constantinople when it was falling to the crusaders.

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

In this timeless and thought-provoking allegory, George Orwell explores the dangers of totalitarianism, the corrupting influence of power, and the fragility of democracy.

When the animals of Manor Farm rise up against their drunken and tyrannical owner, they envision a utopian society where all animals are equal and free. But as the pigs, led by the charismatic and power-hungry Napoleon, consolidate their control, the animals begin to realize that their revolution has gone horribly wrong.

A powerful warning about the dangers of government control, propaganda, and manipulation, “Animal Farm” is a classic tale that remains eerily relevant today.

Join the animals of Manor Farm as they discover the dark side of revolution and the true meaning of freedom.