I Love The Blue Eye Shadow

From Amazon best-selling author Avery Maxwell comes a small-town billionaire, single dad romance with friends-to-lovers warmth, a hotline mix-up, community meddling, and a love note that changes everything.

The job was simple. Always answer the phone — no exceptions — then solve the caller’s catastrophe as efficiently as possible.

The rules were simpler. They contact you, not the other way around. Never give them your real name, number, or any personal information not required to help a newly single dad keep his head above water.

And never, ever get involved with a caller.

Simple, right?

Becker Hayes was not who I was expecting to call during my shift with the Single Dad Hotline. He’s my boss’s boss. In the boardroom he’s rich, powerful, detached. In my calendar he’s the enigmatic one-time kiss I was never supposed to see again. But on the other end of the phone, he’s vulnerable and reeling from becoming guardian to his young nieces.

I’m not thinking straight when I offer him a little help off the books. Not when my mother’s illness is winning the battle and I’d give anything for a distraction from the loneliness.

So when the Single Dad Hotline blows up my life, what’s a girl to do but say yes to everything he’s offering?

Wounded while retaking the Armory, Talon’s recovery is slow and painful. Unaware that his family in Texas are having to deal with similar situations from within their own community. With still no action or assistance from the Federal or State governments, each community must deal with daily shortages of their basic needs. Civilization and civility has been replaced with every person for themselves. Lawlessness and chaos is the new normal. Large population centers have for the most part become unsustainable. Talon pushes himself relentlessly to regain enough strength to resume his journey. Every decision takes on more importance as the world falls deeper into anarchy.

Book One in the Spineward Sectors Series: Admiral Who?

When the man handed him the keys and took off, no one expected Prince-Cadet Jason Montagne to act like a real admiral, least of all himself. Terrified of what might happen if he failed, he was determined to do anything (even impersonate a Confederate admiral) to succeed.

Bugs, battleships and blaster-fire will turn out to be the least of his worries. Ship-wide mechanical failures, assassination attempts, and every young man’s greatest fear are just a few of the landmines the paranoid young college student must navigate if he hopes to avoid disaster.

But with the galaxy’s oldest junior lieutenant in charge of Engineering, a conniving young Intelligence Officer as his second-in-command, and barely half the crew needed to man the ship (the untrained, undisciplined half), the biggest threats may prove to be those closest to him.

Then again, just how much trouble could he get into in a week?

Before long, the question everyone will be asking is: Admiral Who?

After a lifetime of cooking for her boisterous famiglia, sneaking cannoli into her husband’s lunch, and meddling (with love!) in her adult children’s lives, Rita is ready for something new. When she lands a job writing human interest stories for the local paper, she quickly becomes a local celebrity — especially after profiling a shy science teacher who secretly grows poisonous plants in her backyard.

But things take a deadly turn when the town’s beloved football coach is found murdered. As rumors swirl about a love triangle gone wrong — and a possible link to Rita’s own son — Rita’s instincts as a mother and a reporter go head-to-head. Can she uncover the truth before the killer strikes again?

Set against the picturesque backdrop of New York’s Hudson Valley, The Secret Poison Garden is a warm and witty mystery full of Italian flavor, neighborly drama, and eight delicious, garden-to-table Italian-American recipes.

Emily Watts knows better than to fall for a celebrity. Her last relationship with a world-famous singer destroyed her privacy and nearly wrecked her career. Then she meets Raine Kingston, her new yoga classmate and Hollywood’s most charming leading man. When he asks her out, she balks.

But Raine is kind, funny, and irresistibly flirty. Emily can’t help but say yes. And the more time they spend together away from the cameras and paparazzi, the harder it is for her to pretend she doesn’t feel something real.

When the tabloids come calling again, Emily is forced to choose. She can stay with Raine, who makes her the happiest she’s ever been, and watch her life return to the headlines. Or she can walk away to keep the privacy and quiet life she craves, but lose the best relationship she’s ever known.

Even holy men have their secrets.

In Victorian Edinburgh, Reverend Frederick Black is held in high esteem. But is he as virtuous as he seems or is he hiding a guilty secret?

It is 1860 and 25 year old Frederick Black has overcome poverty and prejudice to achieve his ambition of becoming a Church of Scotland minister. However, a secret love affair between the young cleric and a local woman threatens to destroy everything he has worked for.

Help comes from an unexpected source but it means Reverend Black must turn his back on the person he loves. The consequences of his actions will only be resolved many years after his death, when a letter sent to him from Canada in 1919 is discovered in a mahogany sewing box by his great-great-great grand-daughter, Isabel.