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Across the Winds of Time
While on a genealogical research journey through the Midwest, Molly Hamilton impulsively buys a 100-year-old Victorian house in the middle of a cornfield, and falls in love with the house’s owner...the original owner, that is. Can he be a ghost? The handsome, intriguing attorney certainly feels solid—and somehow her soul knows she has always loved him. Darius Ferguson has no idea how he has come to present-day Iowa. The last thing he knew, the year was 1880, and he had just buried his fiancée, who happens to look exactly like Molly. He cannot separate the two women in his heart—to him, they are one. In spite of being drawn to him, Molly thinks Darius is unhinged. Darius wonders if he has joined his fiancée in purgatory. If time travel is possible, will love be enough to build a future together?
Reviewer: Diana Coyle
Review: Sep 20, 2011
Genre(s): Time-Travel, Romance
Molly and her sister, Sara, are on a quest to find out more about their ancestors. The best way for them to do this is to take a little vacation scouring cemeteries in Iowa to see if they can find any of their deceased relatives. As they stop in one cemetery, they already know that none of their ancestors are on record there, but something draws Molly to walk it anyway. As she's reading the headstones, she fe
A Penny For Your Thoughts
Michigan mental health therapist Penny Brown runs to the sugary sands of the Alabama Gulf Coast in search of solace following the devastating suicide of one of her clients. But the healing and peace she seeks elude her as a stalker begins to make threatening phone calls from Michigan. She turns to the local authorities only to discover that the Chief of Police is none other than Matt Williams, the man she loved and left fifteen years before...a man she never stopped loving.
Of all the joints she had to walk into...
Matt is ready to fall in love all over again if Penny is finally ready to settle down. But neither of them realize that a killer is much closer than they think. Rekindling their love could cost Penny her life.
(260 pages) Sensual
Reviewer: Diana Coyle
Review: Feb 10, 2010
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense
Penny Brown, a mental health therapist living in Michigan, just can’t believe that one of her patients went and took his own life. He seemed to be on the right track with his treatment and he hadn’t even mentioned any thoughts of suicide in some time. When he took his own life, Penny was on the other end of the phone when she heard the shot blare through the receiver. His death hit her very hard a
On A Warm Sea of Love
Hailey Saunders accompanies her beloved matchmaking sister, Megan, on a cruise to the beautiful and exotic Caribbean...something she’s avoided for a long time...ever since her young husband, Zach, was lost off a fishing trawler in the Bering Sea during a storm. At first, Hailey cried daily for months, then weekly for a year, but now she doesn’t cry at all. Why? Because Zach returned...or at least his ghost did. His voice remains her constant companion, allowing her to avoid the pain of real life...of falling in love with someone else. A flirtatious but ineligible Scots ship's officer, Alan Campbell, has his eye on Hailey as does the handsome and mysterious European, Karl de Groot. Megan is ready to make a match for her sister, but Zach finds it hard to let his wife go...or is it Hailey who refuses to say goodbye? Three men want her...only one can have her!
Reviewer: Diana Coyle
Review: Sep 28, 2009
Hailey Saunders is excited to be spending some one-on-one time with her sister, Megan, on vacation, but is extremely reluctant that it’s on a cruise to the Caribbean. She’s avoided this for the longest time, but with plenty of reassurance from Megan, she finally gives in and they take the cruise. You see, fifteen years ago, Hailey’s young husband, Zach, was lost off a fishing trawler in the
Caribbean Dreams of Love
Daisy and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Lilly, are embarking on a Caribbean cruise. She isn’t looking for anything special on the cruise other than a pleasant break from her humdrum existence as long-time divorced single mother to a busy teenage girl. She certainly isn’t prepared for an enigmatic man named Peter whose idiosyncrasies in dress and speech mark him as an eccentric person to avoid. But Daisy can’t avoid him. In fact, she begins to obsess about him from the first moment she catches him staring at her in the cruise ship terminal. Peter remains elusive and mysterious throughout the cruise. She catches sight of him occasionally, never often enough to please her, and they connect one wonderful night as he sweeps her into his arms for a waltz. A waltz? On a Caribbean cruise ship? While Daisy’s dinner companions share nightly tales of the legends of cursed pirates, Daisy dreams of the mysterious man who has captured her heart.
Reviewer: Diana Coyle
Review: Dec 13, 2008
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Spending time together is something that Daisy and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Lily, love to do. One of their favorite pastimes is to take different cruises together. They both decide they want to go on a Caribbean cruise and can’t wait to relax, eat until they’re content and bask in the Caribbean sun. They loved taking this cruise together in the past, so they can’t wait t
A Trail of Love
Kerrie is on the run from a painful past, and she hides in plain sight as a summer employee in the majestic setting of Glacier National Park. Lonely and isolated from the family and friends she left behind, she dreams of the day when a kind and gentle man will say to her: “I fell in love with you the first time I saw you across the room.”
Dace Mitchell could be that man! When the handsome bear ranger rescues Kerrie from her own foolish behavior...more than once, she finds herself drawn to him against her will...until she discovers he’s already involved with someone else.
When Kerrie begins to get mysterious silent phone calls, it seems likely that the past has caught up to her. Can Dace save her from a violent man who will stop at nothing to have her?
Reviewer: Diana Coyle
Review: Jul 2, 2008
Kerrie Gowen decided to take a position with the Parks Department in the early summer. She worked at Glacier National Park located in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Montana. She had a little apartment not far from work and she started to settle in to her new surroundings.
While working at the park, Kerrie met quite a few rangers that were kind and friendly to her. One specific person took very w
A Train through Time
College teacher Ellie Standish thinks she’s on a sleek modern train heading to a conference on women’s studies in Seattle, but she awakens from a night’s doze to find herself on a bizarre historical train full of late Victorian era reenactors who refuse to come out of character. When the leader of the group—one handsome, green-eyed Robert Chamberlain—finally convinces her the date is indeed 1901, a skeptical Ellie decries any eccentric theories of time travel and presumes she is smack dab in the middle of a very interesting historical dream. She turns the directorial reins of her dream over to one smitten and willing Robert, only to realize that dreams cannot last forever. Someday, she must wake up to reality, though Ellie no longer has any idea what reality is. She only knows that Robert must play an important part in her future. But how can he...if he’s only a figment of her imagination or worse yet...a man who belongs to an era long past?
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Reviewer: Diana Coyle
Review: Jun 23, 2008
Ellie Standish boarded a train from Chicago and was on her way to Seattle for yet another boring seminar. She was a Women's Studies instructor at the Chicago Community College. While trying to read her rather dry book choice that she had chosen for her class to read, "Women's Studies, Turn of the Century," she just couldn't get into it. She began conversing with her seatmate, Edward, who appeared to be in
A Sigh of Love
Abbie is on her way to Anchorage, Alaska to meet George whom she has been corresponding by telephone for the past three months. George has repeatedly asked her to come up to Alaska for a visit so they can meet in person. Call her crazy, but Abbie makes airline reservations to fly from her home in Seattle up to Anchorage to meet George. She's lonely. Why shouldn't she make a mad romantic dash up to the last frontier to meet a man? She'll just ignore the practicality and logistics of a long-distance relationship. When she calls George to let him know her arrival time, he chooses that awful moment to let Abbie know that he thinks they don't have much in common after all and she should cancel her plane reservations. Abbie is stunned, humiliated and ashamed of the lonely desperation that drove her to make nonrefundable airline reservations to Alaska. What to do? Abbie decides to go to Alaska anyway. A grouchy and depressed Abbie meets Tom on the plane, a tall, handsome anthropology professor who happens to be half Native Alaskan and half Caucasian. As the plane flies north, Tom and Abbie discover a mutual attraction. By flight's end, Abbie is completely enamored of the stranger, and she doubts her judgment, perhaps even her sanity, as she finds herself falling again for yet another Alaskan male...until George shows up, that is.
Reviewer: Diana Coyle
Review: Mar 3, 2008
Abbie finally got the courage up to buy a roundtrip ticket to go to Anchorage, Alaska to meet George, a man who she has been corresponding with by phone for the past three months. While there she figured she would visit the old places she used to know from when she lived there many years ago. Cassie, who is Abbie's best friend, thought it would be great if she set her cousin, George, and Abbie up. George c
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