The Road to Bayou Bridge

Darby Dufrene, newly discharged from the Navy and ready to start a new life, has no intention of returning to Bayou Bridge, but with his mother chewing his ear, a newly-discovered sister refusing to be part of the family, and a shocking discovery made among his old papers, he has no choice. He must go home to Bayou Bridge, Louisiana in order to untangle his past so he can start afresh…and that means getting a divorce from his wife of ten years. But first he has to tell her they’re married.

Renny Latioles has spent the past ten year rebuilding a life she nearly lost the fateful night she and her high school boyfriend were to have started a new life together. Now a respected biologist with Wildlife and Fisheries, she’s tasked with reintroducing the whooping crane into its former breeding grounds. When one of the cranes ends up on Beau Soleil property, she runs into her old flame and a myriad of memories.

The past comes back and old wrongs must be made right, but can Renny and Darby find what they left behind…especially when another stranger appears… and this blue-eyed blonde represents a new life for the bayou boy no one ever thought would be tamed. (more…)

Under the Autumn Sky

Abram Dufrene has one goal – advance through the ranks of college coaching to a head coaching job. To fulfill this mission, the new tight ends coach for the Louisiana University Fighting Panthers, has to bring in high profile recruit Waylon Boyd and get him to sign with the class of 2012. Should be easy. But when he makes a side trip and runs into a breathtaking blonde at a backwoods juke joint, things get rocky.

Louise “Lou” Boyd, a heavy equipment operator for a local construction company, wants nothing to do with her friends’ night on the town. And she wants nothing to do with any man. Her goal is to get her brother and sister, for whom she serves as guardian, into college so she can start the life she put on hold when her parents died ten years before. All she has to do is survive recruiting season. She’s not looking for love…but does love ever really care?

When Abram and Lou find passion, it’s the forbidden kind. The kind that can end careers and kill dreams. So can they keep their hands off one another and do the right thing by the football program and Waylon?

Wouldn’t be fun if they did. (more…)

Waters Run Deep

Annie Perez should be allergic to kids – that’s how good she is with them – but when the former FBI agent finds her first assignment with a high profile investigations firm is as an undercover nanny, she has to make lemonade from the lemons tossed at her. It’s bad enough she has to arrange play dates and watch out for peanut allergies, but when she finds herself in Louisiana with an imminent threat against her charge, her days become complicated with suspects and her dreams haunted by a tall dark Cajun detective.

Nate Dufrene is the best investigator the St. Martin’s parish detective’s bureau has and he refuses to be distracted by his prime suspect…even if her calm detachment and pretty gray eyes have his blood pumping faster. He’s determined no kid will ever disappear again on his watch just like his sister Della did years before. Throw in the off-beat Picou Dufrene, a stranger asking questions and a horror movie filmed at the historical Beau Soleil and things are going to get hot down on the bayou. (more…)

A Touch of Scarlet

When actress Scarlet Rose speeds into Oak Stand, Texas to stop her sister from marrying the smarmy town gigolo, she runs right into straight-laced lawman Adam Hinton’s speed trap and into an unforeseen vortex of attraction. Dumped by a distinguished character actor, Scarlet is set on holding on to her heartbreak, but something about the rigid Adam has her hankering to get her hands on him, smudge him up a bit. She gets her chance when she finds herself in the back of his cruiser after a censorship protest. Jail isn’t cool, but the energy between her and Adam have has her fanning her libido. A community service stint sidelines her career, but with Adam in the picture, maybe sitting on the sidelines has its upside.

The last thing Adam Hinton needs is a drama queen strutting around his town in her high heels and fancy duds distracting him from his job. He knows she’s trouble with a capital “T” and he knows why…she’s just the type of girl he likes. The wrong type. But Adam can’t help himself. He’s drawn like a moth to the flash of a paparazzi’s camera. He can’t have her, but, oh, does he want her. Toss in the town of Oak Stand, another trip to Phoenix and Tucker House, and Bubba and it’s time to paint the town Scarlet. (more…)

A Taste of Texas

Brent Hamilton hates his life, and no one in the small East Texas town of Oak Stand would ever expect it of him. Not when the former All-American has a plum job in his family company and plenty of willing women to occupy his spare time. But Brent Hamilton hides a secret – inside his beautiful body is a wildly successful middle grade author struggling to get out. Enter his former best friend – Rayne Rose. Recently widowed and at odds with what to do with her head-strong son and his crippling anxiety, she’s come home to her aunt’s bed and breakfast. She needs peace. She needs time to work out the next move in her career. She needs to get the B&B renovated. What she doesn’t need is a sexy man dredging up old pinings. When you put a passionate red-headed chef in close quarters with a too-hot to touch contractor, sparks are gonna fly…and something is bound to get burned. Get ready to take A Taste of Texas. (more…)

A Little Texas

Nellie’s best friend, the wise-cracking Kate Newman, gets her own chance at romance when she attempts to blackmail her oil baron birth father. She’s got good reason… she needs to save her Vegas salon. But she’s got to get back to Texas to do it. And the only man standing in her way is Rick Mendez, and he’s a most yummy obstacle. Get ready for an emotional roller coaster as Kate goes home to face the past she’d rather not remember and finds love with a man she can’t forget. (more…)

The Way to Texas

Jack’s sister Dawn Taggart needs a pair of rose-colored glasses. . . or a martini. Divorce, business failure and a disastrous affair with a married man have pushed her down a flight of concrete stairs and landed her in the middle of Oak Stand, Texas. She’s got a new beginning. . . it’s just not the new beginning she wants. Find out what happens when she comes face to face with Tyson Hart, a man who won’t stop love when it’s bearing down on him…no matter if it’s a good idea or not. Toss in reluctant children, an adult retirement center and a serious dose of temptation and buckle your seatbelt. It’s going to be a rocky ride to love. (more…)

Vegas Two-Step

Naughty…or…Nice?

Nellie Hughes decides she’s a little bit like Hannah Montana – she wants the best of both worlds. So she sets out to shed her dowdy small town image for the sexy alter ego Elle Hughes and a trip to Vegas. After all, who’s really gonna know what she does in Sin City?

But even with her inhibitions cut loose, Nellie finds it hard to leave her good girl behind, especially with her late Grandmother Tucker’s sensible sayings popping into her subconscious. But when she runs into the gorgeous nightclub owner Jack Darby, she’s ready to quash her inner librarian. He’s everything she could ever dream of in a guy, so she embarks on a five day spree of martinis, limousines, and make-out sessions. No big deal. Except her heart isn’t buying it.

Jack’s life is off-kilter. He’s selling his nightclubs for an impulsive venture into ranching with his father. Nothing feels right to him anymore and he finds little pleasure in things he once loved. But when Nellie enters his nightclub, he knows he’s got to try her on. Something about her pulls him like no other woman before.

From the bright lights of Vegas to the front porches of Oak Stand, Texas, Jack and Nellie must travel the distance, deciding if love based on a lie is worth pursuing. (more…)

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