Can a meddling mom find a husband for her daughter? Carolyn Davis is a beautiful, young woman, and an accomplished artist. She doesn’t think she needs help finding a man. Linda Davis, her mother, has an urgent secret. She needs to know that her daughter is well taken care of. Using her meager resources, Linda drags her daughter to charity event after event, hoping she’ll meet a rich man. Carolyn tires of the fancy clothes, high heels, and the endless rooms full of strangers. Though she dates some of the men she meets at these soirées, she doubts her mother will get her wish. Must every prince turn out to be a frog? No doubt Carolyn can find a man, but will he be the right man?

Cara, starring in her first movie, discovers she’s pregnant. When calling Grant, her lover, to tell him, she’s blown away by his quickie marriage to Evelyn. Separated by three thousand miles, Cara must struggle on alone. Incapacitated by illness, she’s forced to give up her child to Grant and his wife. Cara pursues a successful screen career as a leading lady while Grant and Evelyn raise little Sarah. Despondent over the absence of her daughter, Cara pays an investigator to take pictures so she can watch her grow up from afar. Unbeknownst to her, the pictures inspire a predator who lurks in the background. Five years later, Fate strikes, reuniting Grant and Cara by chance. Marriage vows and a jealous wife stand between Grant and Cara. A wily pedophile threatens Sarah’s life. Will the former lovers overcome huge obstacles and discover that true love never dies or lose it all?

Men envied Breaker Winslow and women wanted to sleep with him. As a top cover model with a budding acting career, he embodied every man’s dream. Living in a townhouse in Manhattan, Rick Breaker Winslow had everything he ever wanted. When fire ripped through his home, trapping his beautiful golden retriever, Breaker pushed firemen aside to rescue his beloved dog. While heading for the stairs with the canine in his arms, a falling beam crushed them, killing the animal and scarring Breaker’s face. Life, as the famous Breaker Winslow, disappeared. With his career finished, Rick appealed to his friends –who turned their backs on him. Broken, despondent, and alone, he takes refuge in a decrepit farm house in rural Pine Grove. Can the man who had success and love around every corner rebuild his life or is escape the only answer? WINNER! 2018 3rd Place - Wrtie Touch Contest - Wisconsin Romance Writers of America. WINNER! 2018 5th Place - Interiontional Digital Awards Contest - Oklahoma Romoance Writers of America

How does a rookie quarterback react when faced with the truth about his leading lady? Is his play for her a touchdown or only a false start? A chance meeting with gorgeous actress, Penny Thatcher, has Mark Davis smitten. Luck breaks his way weeks later when he meets her on a blind date. After an all-out blitz to win her affections, the public revelation of an ugly secret intercepts his forward pass. Will Mark get tackled by the humiliation? Is he in the game to win or will he walk away from her, chalking it up to a fumble on the goal line?

When SSGT Trent Stevens receives a letter and hot picture from Jory Walker, he thinks his dreams have come true. Deployed in Afghanistan, the lonely soldier writes back right away and waits impatiently for a reply. Uh oh. Amber signed her sister’s name on a pen pal letter to a Marine, and Jory is stuck fixing her sister’s little white lie. When letters pour in from SSGT Trent Stevens, Jory has no choice but to respond. Even though, he’d drool over Amber’s bikini photo, thinking it was Jory, what harm could it do if she sends him a few letters? After all, they’ll never meet, right? When love sneaks up on Jory, will her charade boomerang? Is unpredictable love destined to break two hearts?

Is Leah the woman of his dreams or a heartbreaker in disguise? Colin Andrews is blown away by her beauty, creativity and sophistication. However Leah has other plans that don’t include shepherding a younger man through an intense love affair. Taken by his charm but committed to her new career overseas, Leah is caught between desire and destiny. The wedding of Carrie Tucker and Grey Andrews is on track, scheduled for late June. Grey, Colin’s big brother, is confident nothing can take his beloved fiancée from him. But family secrets and lies threaten their union. Is Grey the consummate lover Carrie fell for or the ultimate deceiver, as her mother claims? Will the Andrews men win their hearts’ desires or will their happy endings end up just out of reach?

Harry “Deke” Edwards is a Hartford Husky defenseman known to be tricky, fast, and unbreakable. An amazing defensive lunge in a playoff game ends in a life-threatening injury. But Harry’d bounce back. He always did, didn’t he? Kitty, his wife, runs a successful art gallery in Washington, D.C. Over the last three years, the couple agreed to live in different cities and be together whenever they can. Harry swears they make it work. Unwilling to face the truth about the damage he suffered, Harry hides his secret. Hoping for a Christmas miracle, but confronted with the inevitable, he makes a decision that breaks his heart. Is this the end of the road for him with the Huskies and Kitty, too? Previously published in the Hockey Holiday Anthology