Genre: Contemporary erotic romance

Heat rating: 3 Novas

# of pages or word count: 39 pages

Aspiring writer Tabitha Lawford and her emerald-eyed muse have a falling out, right when she thinks their relationship couldn't be better or more passionate. All attempts to woo him back fail and, as a last resort, Tabi signs them both up for a weekend of couple's therapy -- at a writer's retreat held at a remote mountain lodge.

Determined they'll either end their relationship completely or she'll get him to loosen his tight lips and stop the silent treatment, Tabi adds a bit of playful experimentation to spice up their stalled love life: writing on an antique Underwood typewriter instead of her laptop. Tabi has given up the ghost -- but can she win him back?

For Phillip McKinley, life in the rural town of Verdance seems textbook perfect on the surface: he’s captain of the high school football team, dating the girl most of his buddies wish was theirs, and forced to endure the usual problems of popular, attractive eighteen-year-old guys. But Phillip, like the mysterious new arrivals to Verdance who take up residence at the local haunted house late one rainy night, is a young man with secrets. Phillip’s deepest desires manifest in the form of Julian, the shaggy-haired youth now living up at Hindenwood House. Julian’s crafty guardian refuses to let Phillip anywhere near his charge – though the attraction the two come to feel for one another could be the key to victory in a devastating secret war whose opening shots are creeping ever closer, and stopping an invasion that could soon engulf the world .