September 19, 2023

Sometimes healing from the past is possible when we find someone we want a future with.

Maggie Monroe never imagined she would be breaking into her dead twin brother’s apartment the first time she saw Paris. Desperate to feel safe after their tumultuous childhood, Maggie has built a quiet, staid life as a librarian, completely avoiding adventure or romantic entanglements. Keeping their family’s dark past a secret wasn’t hard when you didn’t let anyone in. Sebastian had been all she had left. Finding the truth of his murder was the only thing that mattered to her. 

Tanner Stone is his family’s dark secret. Though his diabolical biological father, Bruce Tanner, never claimed him, most of Stone’s Canadian half-siblings have welcomed the family bastard with open arms. After more than a decade with Australia’s Security Intelligence Service, Stone isn’t quite sure jumping into the Tanner clan’s orbit is such a good idea. He spent the first half of his life ignoring the fact the man he called dad wasn’t his biological one, and the second half unraveling just how dangerous and deep Bruce Tanner’s global crimes went. 

As Maggie and Stone’s paths intertwine, they dance around their budding attraction as each must decide who they can trust. When a dangerous force threatens the global power scale and their loved ones, Maggie and Stone cautiously team up. Will they be able to put their distrust aside long enough to avert disaster, or will old family feuds destroy all hope, and their chance at love?
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November 22, 2022

What if the person most loyal to you was a stranger you never saw coming?

Princess Grace is more humanitarian than proper royal heir. Her conservative family sees her social and environmental sensibilities as a threat to tradition, even revolutionary. When her life is threatened and a shocking family secret is exposed, Grace disappears to Canada over the Holiday season. The quaint eco-inn nestled in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies seems the perfect place to hide while she figures out how to thwart those who would see her dead or muzzled in a forced marriage. 

Newly minted homicide detective Tuck Tanner knows he’s a liability to his team. He took three bullets meant for brilliant young criminal while his father was trying to execute his family. When his staff sergeant postpones him returning to work, Tuck doesn’t object. It will give him the chance to unofficially hunt down his father. When his little sister pleads with him to fill in for her eco-inn’s head chef who checked into rehab, he doesn’t have the heart to say no. Besides, he can handle his sister’s snobby European clientele and hunt down their treacherous father. 

Neither Grace, nor Tuck expected the immediate attraction, or the mounting danger as new and old threats target them. The two run headlong into untangling conspiracies that threaten both of their families. As their family secrets start to unravel, Grace and Tuck must work together and stay ahead of a dangerous plot to their lives. Will they be able to keep each other and their families safe, and will their loyalty to each other turn into love?
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June 21, 2022

What if the one person you are trying to forget was your heart’s deepest desire?

Becca Tanner is determined to make her dude ranch inn nestled in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains open on time and be a success. Nowhere in her business plan did she pencil in time for arms dealers and drug runners, manipulating fathers, or sparring matches with her one-sided, decade-long crush, Officer Jason Chasseur. She invested everything she had and more that she didn’t into her dream and she’ll go down swinging before giving up on herself or those counting on her. 

RCMP Officer Jason Chasseur doesn’t believe for a second Becca Tanner didn’t know her father pushed him out of the chance to buy back his family’s ancestral land. That sparks fly whenever she’s near is irrelevant. When the land in question turns out to be an active criminal basecamp and Becca is forcefully recruited, he knows she is in way over her head. 

As the time ticks down to opening weekend, Becca is running out of time. As danger mounts, she digs in deeper, determined to keep her livelihood and wits about her. Small consolation if she’s dead, a fact Jason is quick to remind her as he hustles with everything he has to keep her safe. Families secrets keep pace with them as they run headlong into each new threat. Can they trust each other long enough to help a broken criminal family heal and finally accept the love that has always been between them?
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January 25, 2022

What if everything you ever wanted was nothing you could have ever expected?

Lillian Morgan is a disgraced British war correspondent. Scotland Yard has cleared her of all treason charges, but her career didn’t survive being duped by a double-agent. The rediscovery of a family heirloom, a New World fur trade journal from the eighteenth century, gives Lillian a story to chase while she tries to pick up the pieces of her life. 

Colt Tanner is a world champion bull rider, old enough to know his time on the circuit is coming to a close, but too skittish to settle down anywhere. He likes life one adrenaline high after another, never stopping long enough to feel anything. But a career-ending injury has left him with time to notice the unanswered questions about his family are starting to pile up. 

A week in the wilderness to write an eco-inn’s marketing material is not Lillian’s idea of professional glory, but her job prospects are limited. She needs a guide and Colt’s schedule is now wide open. Sparks and bullets fly when these two stumble into deadly family secrets and international spies holding grudges. Will they find what they’re looking for, or die trying?
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September 21, 2021

Can you ever truly reconcile your past without losing yourself or your future?

Savannah McIntyre is estranged from her family, haunted by the destruction that her father's development business has visited upon the landscape that she loves. When a family wedding calls her home, the hope of reconnecting with her dad surfaces, putting her directly in the path of Gabe Tanner, an archeologist on her father's payroll. Gabe is estranged from his own father, and in him Savannah senses a man of immense compassion with a deep connection to the land, and differing ideologies. As a threat from the past resurfaces, their remote and dangerous archaeological survey turns deadly, threatening more than fragile truces. Will Savannah and Gabe survive, or will a dark shadow finally extinguish them?

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Kiss Me in the Rain (Hearthstone, #1)

October 2018

An intense, type-A cop and an optimistic, free-spirited author have teamed up to bring you an unconventional police memoir.

A conservative, veteran homicide detective has teamed up with a liberal author to write a universal life-lessons book from the detective’s perspective? Skeletons in My Closet is an unorthodox police memoir taking readers on a ride-along like no other, revealing poignant truths about life and death, and how we can all work and live together. Danger and grit pair with humour and compassion in this gripping, fresh read. An intense, type-A homicide detective and an optimistic, free-spirited author facilitator have teamed up to bring you an unconventional police memoir. Skeletons in My Closet, Life Lessons from a Homicide Detective takes readers on a ride-along like no other, revealing poignant truths about life and death, and how we can all work and live together. As gripping as it is inspiring, Skeletons in My Closet is a frank look at how one homicide detective faces the unimaginable every day, and the lessons he’s learned along the way. As gripping as it is inspiring, Skeletons in My Closet is a frank look at how one homicide detective faces the unimaginable every day, and the lessons he’s learned along the way.
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August 2018

The back stage pass taking you on the pre ride-along of Skeletons in My Closet.

An intense, type-A cop and an optimistic, free-spirited author have teamed up to bring you an unconventional police memoir. As gripping as it is inspiring, Skeletons in My Closet is a frank look at how one homicide detective faces the unimaginable every day, and the lessons he’s learned along the way. Now they’re taking you Behind the Scenes, from what it’s like working with a homicide detective to sneak peeks of Skeletons in My Closet, this back stage pass takes you on the pre ride-along.
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Novella—paranormal

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Isobelle Cody, or Elle as her friends call her, loves her job as an archaeologist in Canada. Working in remote landscapes suits her completely, but her irrational fear of airplanes has her beyond grounded. She decides backup is in order and asks for Divine help. As an afterthought, she throws in a request to meet her Mr. Perfect. It couldn’t hurt. The Goddess, Gaia, assigns Bodin. He is a thousand year old warrior, now angel-in-training, who just happens to not believe in love. Grumpy and usually a divine pain, Bodin has met his match with the beautiful archaeologist and finds himself under the healing power of love for the first time. The two explore their budding attraction working in the wild northern forests. When Bodin’s past threatens their future, will love come too late or just in time for forever?

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Short Story—paranormal

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A Short Story: Some napkin dispensers hold napkins, others have gorgeous heroes locked inside. Shay just wanted to grab a bite to eat and pretend her life was safe. She never expected to be responsible for rescuing a handsome hero, or that her new-found joy would be so quickly threatened by an old danger. Eric has had enough of being in the wrong place at the wrong time; he’s locked in a napkin dispenser for goodness sakes. It might be worth it, though, he’s falling fast and hard for his feisty rescuer. But a sinister force threatens them both; will true love save them in time?

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