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Author: Heather Hiestand | Website
Heather Hiestand's first short story, "Nancy's Magic Penny", was written when she was seven. Though the story was popular in grade school publishing circles, it took her years to find additional fiction publication. She has been reading and reviewing romances for a decade and is now thrilled to share her own stories with readers. She has been previously published in mystery and romance short fiction.
Heather resides in Washington State with her husband, and wishes to remark, "Yes, dear, of course you're the model for all of my heroes."
Published Works & Book Reviews
Captain Fenna's Dirigible Valentine
Smuggler Terrwyn Fenna just escaped from Newgate Prison and most of Queen Victoria's British Air Force is after her. Instead of spending a quiet Valentine's Day with her infant daughter, it's time for them to jump an airship and flee Wales. Terrwyn thinks she's out of harm's way--until the airship comes under siege. Ian Cavill recognizes Terrwyn during the battle. An enslaved crewman serving aboard the government airship Defender, he wants to escape the clutches of the government as much as she does. Will joining forces help them rebuild their lives or lead them into more danger from all their enemies? Both have much to lose. They can die trying...or find a way to survive. Captain Fenna's Dirigible Valentine is a 27,000-word steampunk adventure novella. It is the second release in the Steampunk Smugglers series.
Captain Andrew's Flying Christmas
Housemaid Linet Fenna would rather be an air pirate than a servant. When she finds the ladder to an airship dangling outside her garret window on Christmas Eve, 1892, she ascends to the skies above London on her late father’s flagship dirigible, the Christmas. The new captain is someone she never expected to see again, a dangerous, sexy foe. Is the Fenna family nemesis offering Linet her heart’s desire or a dastardly trap?
Captain Andrew’s motivations are as foggy as the coal-soaked sky. Prime Minister Gladstone’s Blockaders, a horde of automen and a teenage girl named Hatchet want Linet to fail in her quest to discover what happened to her missing family, but she is determined to have a happy Christmas.
Captain Andrew’s Flying Christmas is a 16,000-word steampunk romance novella.
The Bachelor
When Cupid is involved, all plans go out the window and romance flies in.
Abbie Harper would never pay for a date. So why is she sitting in a karaoke bar bidding on the sexiest man at a charity bachelor auction?
Jake Cordalys is moving to Seattle in two weeks. Dating complicated is not going to happen, even if a single mother did just pay fifteen hundred bucks to make a Valentine's date with him.
Victoriana Adventure
Marooned in backward Victoriana by a magical Christmas cracker, Ollie Brown wants to get home to modern Tacoma. The enticing girl who shelters him tempts him to stay in this alternate reality, but what does a nineteenth century princess need with a twenty-first century skateboarding chemist in a world where science is banned?
Princess Lenchen thrills at the chance to assist the handsome stranger who speaks of oddities like candy bars and “grinding.” Ollie offers a breath of freedom, but Lenchen knows he feels trapped and out of place. She reluctantly tries to help him find a way back to his world, though she longs to know more about him—and to escape her cloistered life in the widowed Queen Victoria’s court.
Every girl wants her own Cinderella story, even if she's already a princess—but if Ollie stays with her, will he be allowed to be himself?
Looking Forward, Looking Back
Looking Forward, Looking Back and Other Stories is a linked collection of three science fiction/coming of age tales. Not so far in the future, asthma is a fatal illness. Thankfully space travel is now commonplace, and the ill children of polluted Earth are boarded on mining ships with sterile air. Do they have a future? If they can find their way through the legends built around their past, twenty-year-old Eve Hawthorne and her friends are going to find out.
Cards Never Lie
LIFE ASSESSMENT
Seattleite Melanie Vanderpool needs to change her conservative ways and find a new wild life. So why does a fortuneteller have to give her such bad news about her soul mate? The good news—passion is in her future. The bad news—her dream lover is going to be forceful and perverse. Hmmm…what can a girl do but jet off to Las Vegas and start hunting for her man?
CAREER ASSESSMENT
Melanie is going to lose her job if she doesn't come up with some hot new products for her massage oil company. Can attending an adult movie convention give her some ideas? For sure, rubbing up against sex toy company CEO Rob Black is giving her some seriously amorous thoughts. But it will be hard to focus amid the spies, handcuffs and mayhem.
Blush: This is a suggestive romance (love scenes are not graphic)
Two on the Hunt
Moonlight-dappled water, a luxurious boat and a handsome man in the next slip. Life at the South Seattle Marina is heavenly. Georgia Bellair and her four-year-old daughter Abby have been reunited after a tough couple of years and it's time for a few days' relaxation before moving into their new home together. Georgia would never have gone there though if she'd realized a cult was operating on the calm waters of Puget Sound and the leader thinks drinking Abby's innocent blood will make him a full chiang-shih, a Chinese vampire.
Bounty hunter Yun MacCready is investigating a series of break-ins reportedly caused by a bail jumper at the marina. He doesn't expect to get involved with a beautiful blonde, much less work to rescue her kidnapped daughter from a vampire cult. Nor could he have expected this family's complicated past would come back to haunt them in the form of gang lord Oscar Nesell. Evil is storming the gates of heaven.
Blush: This is a suggestive romance (love scenes are not graphic)
In Flight
Very single Margot Smith is set up for disaster or a dream come true when her family's airline hires sexy pilot Wall Phillips. She's an up-and-coming manager who can't date employees, but there's nothing wrong with trying to be friendly, right? Besides, who can help getting involved when the new guy is destroying your best friend's career!
Wall Phillips is consumed by the family secret that brought him to Detroit. He doesn't want a relationship, despite his eyes being continually drawn to the luscious Margot, whom he thinks is a substitute flight attendant. His goal is to do the job right and get back to his personal life, which leaves no time for checking out the coworkers.
A woman who can't date pilots. A man who needs to focus on his brother's precarious situation. Two people who can't keep their thoughts or hands off each other. It's time to decide what they really want from life.
Blush: This is a suggestive romance (love scenes are not graphic)
Cupid Gone Wild
Cupid Gone Wild
Sometimes true love needs help. Five Cupids take on a challenge this Valentine's season: To match the most unlikely couple they can find.
Love Transposed by Pepper O'Neal and Chelsy Day
One arrow straight through two chests was all it took for carpenter/painter Dan, and trust fund baby Jane to go from making each other crazy, to being crazy about each other. The match that won Cupid X the Challenge in 1981...
Love Potion 2-14 by Pepper O'Neal
White witch Kole Trillion has a successful business, customers who swear by her potions and spells. Unfortunately, she also has the bad luck to fall in love with a man who doesn't believe in magic, Police Detective Gage Corwin.
The Bachelor by Heather Hiestand
Abbie Harper didn’t mean to buy the date, but one look at Jake Cordalys and she’s ready for red-hot romance. Jake is not looking for something complicated, but when Cupid is involved, all plans go out the window and romance flies in.
The Boss Wore Red by Delle Jacobs and SamMarie Ashe
For city fashionista Alexandria Bergstrom, there's nothing worse than learning her crazy parents' past unless it's having to re-live it herself on the ranch she's inherited. It's the worst possible time for her heart to tumble, especially for hunky, city-hating ranch manager Clint Riordan. But does her heart listen? That's what Cupids are for...
The Wrong Target by Sherry Gloag
Headmistress, Tina Blackberry and Ryan Thomas can't control events after Ryan's daughter steals his coveted golden arrow and takes it to school, But put Cupid on the job and nothing can go wrong, or can it?
The Hollywood Hookup by Chelsy Day
Actor Casey Jones and Stunt Woman Sandra Benson have a history. Can Cupid get them past the animosity and prove that true love in Hollywood is NOT impossible?
Holiday in the Heart
12 Stories from 12 Authors, ranging from very old-fashioned holidays cheer to more modern tales of love, romance and wishes. The power to believe can work miracles - wishes can come true...love heals hearts. A two book set - with story sequels from authors Leanne Burroughs and Deborah Macgillivray to the first book in the set Christmas Wishes. The two books in tradesize paperback make a winning Christmas gift. Stories also from Aleka Nakis, Candace Gold, Diane Davis White, Anna Kathryn Lanier, Heather Hiestand, Keelia Greer, Kemberlee Shortland, Michele Ann Young, Rachel Michaels, Victoria Houseman
Gunshot Grange
Unemployed Chicago historian Marci Sky isn't looking forward to bridesmaid duty at her old friend's Washington State mansion. Her deceased movie star grandmother was born in the area though, and she's always wanted to solve the mystery surrounding her grandmother's youth.
Rick Kinslee is best man at his cousin's wedding. He'd rather focus on propping up his troubled company, but is distracted by the beautiful out-of-town visitor. When she, lonely and very attracted to him, offers him a one-night stand, he eagerly takes her up on it. Though she's as sexy as hell, he soon has reason to be suspicious of Marci's true motives in pursuing him.
But Marci is targeted in several minor crimes and soon the stakes are escalating. Could the Kinslee family have been involved in Marci's grandmother's tragedy? Can Marci find a new family and love after being set adrift from her former life? Lives and futures are at stake at Gunshot Grange.
Blush: This is a suggestive romance (love scenes are not graphic)
Reviewer: MonicaW
Review: Feb 19, 2008
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
Marci Sky, unemployed history professor, agreed to fill in as a bridesmaid for an estranged friend, but with ulterior motives. Secrets to her late grandmother's past may hide somewhere in her friend's home. Those secrets would add extra oomph to Marci's family memoirs, never before revealed in all the biographies of Marci's famous movie-star grandmother.
However, the tall, dark, and handsome Rick Kinslee
One Juror Down
"If you want to live, restore my freedom. The jury must vote not guilty."
All Cass Bellair wants is to go to lunch with the cute guy sitting behind her. Performing her civic duty as a juror while making new friends, what could be better? Paradise is a few days away from her burdens at home. Unfortunately, the defendant has different ideas. His henchmen are looking for weak spots in the jury and secrets to exploit. Cass has a past tailor-made to haunt her.
Soon, it seems no one wants the defendant to be convicted except the jury. The last person Cass can trust is the only person who can help her…
Ben Cameron was once the friend of a man who brutalized her, and Cass wants nothing to do with him. Still, they are forced to work together to uncover the roots of the conspiracy targeting them. Getting close to him will put her heart at risk, but staying away will put the lives of many, including her own friends and family, in danger.
Blush: This is a suggestive romance (love scenes are not graphic)
Reviewer: Melinda
Review: Sep 8, 2007
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
The setting is in a courtroom, tension is running and someone is pressuring Cass Bellair to vote not guilty. As a member of the jury Cass takes her duty seriously. She has been listening closely to each witness and knows that this is more than the usual robbery. Cass has one worry in her life that her ex-brother in law would harm her again. She has grown strong but the pain of losing a loved one is still in h
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