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Destinies IntertwinedReviews
Book Jacket: 1861 Maryland After her father is killed in the Civil War, Bond Stockard is left homeless unless she’s willing to accept a neighboring man’s offer to become his live in mistress. Refusing, Bond steals one of his coaches and intends to escape to her relative’s home in New Orleans. It’s a dangerous trek, especially with the war going on, yet desperate times require desperate measures, and she’s willing to risk it. However, during a blizzard, her driver loses his way, and the carriage overturns down an embankment. The following morning, while making their way to Washington to meet with President Lincoln, Major Robert Ashley and his brother Captain Josh Calub come across the coach wherein Bond lies unconscious, nearly frozen to death. After taking her to their nearby home, Robert learns her father, General William Stockard was the dying man he’d promised he’d care for his family. After circumstances beyond Robert’s control finds himself enamored with his young charge, he urges marriage by proxy once she awakens. Concerned for Bond’s reputation, Robert’s mother forces the wedding to take place immediately upon Bond’s recovery. However, with the aid of a jealous ex-girlfriend, she once again escapes another man’s clutches and hurries south. A series of misunderstandings, along with the cruelty of war cause Bond’s life to become embroiled with lies, lusts, jealousy, and hatred. Will she ever find a man she can love and trust? You’ll only learn her fate by reading her story…
Honor BoundReviews
April 1863 Outside Washington, DC Having just returned home from the Union captured city of New Orleans, Captain Josh Calub realizes he’s still in love with his sister-in-law. He can’t be. He just can’t allow himself to be. It’s why he immediately heads for Washington to speak to the President about getting new orders. Maybe if he’s away from her, he can get on with his life and not live with the constant guilt. However, on his way through the city, he comes across an elderly man auctioning off his daughter. Seeing the exploited, terrified female on an auction block, makes his sense of decency rage. He outbids all others then learns part of the buying, is marrying the girl. It’s not what he planned on. Not at all. However, mentally debating it, he believes she might be the answer to his prayers; those of finding a way to put his sister-in-law out of his mind and heart forever. Selene Gray has seen the worst men have to offer. She loathes and distrusts most, including her stepfather Horace Wilby who has abused her much of her life. She’s only known hard work, and little joy. When she unfairly gets fired from a Union Hospital, her stepfather intends to get even by selling her off. Her humiliation reaches its zenith when she’s put on an auction block. But when a handsome captain buys and marries her, she needs to learn how to survive this newest threat. Josh and Selene’s love story delves into the harsh reality of war, and the raw emotions that it causes. Can they learn to trust? Love? Read their tumultuous story to find out…
HER HEART’S DESIREReviews
1599 England. Because of a disastrous youthful affair Sir Edward, Marquess of Graysmarkshire, had been banned from court. Now years later, the queen is willing to forgive and forget if Edward will marry her favored goddaughter, Zara de Varden. Edward sends his trusted fellow knights to retrieve the wayward girl, but they accidentally kidnap Aleana Brigham, a commoner healer, instead. Aleana, who raises her two-year-old sister, and whose side she’s torn from, is determined to escape the marquess and reunite with the child, thus a battle of wits and wills ensues. Can Aleana’s sweet, giving nature calm the beasts that rage within the hardhearted marquess? Can she get Her Heart’s Desire?
KATIE Reviews
1893 South Carolina. Gorgeous, spoiled, young, and rich, Katherine Katie Cat Beauchamp can have any man she wants. Any man but the one she has her sights set on; Captain Andrew Kolder, and unaccustomed to not getting her way, she’ll stop at nothing to gain his love. Nothing. However, having been betrayed years earlier by a woman having similar characteristics as Katie, Drew is just as determined not to lose his heart to her. Thus, a battle of wills ensues. Their sensuous love affair takes them from South Carolina to England, to Ireland, to Seattle, Washington, to New York, back to South Carolina before a resolution is found. An epic love story that will keep you reading long into the night, that’s a promise!
PREVAILING LOVEReviews
1795 England. Young and uneducated, Sheena Worden must work as a serving maid to support herself and her younger brother. Bitter towards men because of the way her late mother, a prostitute, had been treated, Sheena has no desire to ever fall for honeyed words nor pledges promised in hopes of taking her virtue. In fact, she’s well prepared to live her entire life single. However, when a determined Captain Brant Branhard decides he wants her, he forces himself into her world, and she must find a way to protect her heart against his onslaught of worldly overtures. Their tumultuous love affair takes them from England to the Azores, to Albany, New York. Ah, such is prevailing love….
WOODLANDReviews
1768, Maine. In a time when women are considered property and have no money or assets of their own, young, vulnerable Ashley Hatch is forced to leave the only home she’s ever known in England and travel to Maine in the Americas to marry her late father’s partner if she wishes to inherit a dowry, half ownership of a logging company, WOODLAND. Never having met her parents, Ashley struggles to come to grips with this new bit of betrayal since her father’s Will won’t allow her to wed her current fiancé. More importantly, her betrothed won’t marry her without a dowry. Owning the other half of WOODLAND, Aaron Chatwell chaffs that he must wed his late partner’s daughter if he wishes to keep control of the business. To make matters worse, the Will states they must live together under the same roof for a year. If at the end of that period Aaron and Ashley have not consummated their vows, they may dissolve their marriage. Aaron is then free to buy out Ashley’s interest in the business and they’re free to go their separate way. From the beginning, their relationship is tested. Desires and attraction run deep. Superstitious loggers resent Ashley as half owner, and of a female even being present. Then accidents begin happening regularly, making tensions worse. Can they find a common ground? Do they want their marriage to endure? Are superstitions true or are there more sinister forces at play? Will past relationships destroy them? Will love win out? An emotional story that will keep you guessing until the surprise ending….
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Book Jacket: 1861 Maryland After her father is killed in the Civil War, Bond Stockard is left homeless unless she’s willing to accept a neighboring man’s offer to become his live in mistress. Refusing, Bond steals one of his coaches and intends to escape to her relative’s home in New Orleans. It’s a dangerous trek, especially with the war going on, yet desperate times require desperate measures, and she’s willing to risk it. However, during a blizzard, her driver loses his way, and the carriage overturns down an embankment.
The following morning, while making their way to Washington to meet with President Lincoln, Major Robert Ashley and his brother Captain Josh Calub come across the coach wherein Bond lies unconscious, nearly frozen to death. After taking her to their nearby home, Robert learns her father, General William Stockard was the dying man he’d promised he’d care for his family. After circumstances beyond Robert’s control finds himself enamored with his young charge, he urges marriage by proxy once she awakens.
Concerned for Bond’s reputation, Robert’s mother forces the wedding to take place immediately upon Bond’s recovery. However, with the aid of a jealous ex-girlfriend, she once again escapes another man’s clutches and hurries south.
A series of misunderstandings, along with the cruelty of war cause Bond’s life to become embroiled with lies, lusts, jealousy, and hatred. Will she ever find a man she can love and trust? You’ll only learn her fate by reading her story…
April 1863 Outside Washington, DC Having just returned home from the Union captured city of New Orleans, Captain Josh Calub realizes he’s still in love with his sister-in-law. He can’t be. He just can’t allow himself to be. It’s why he immediately heads for Washington to speak to the President about getting new orders. Maybe if he’s away from her, he can get on with his life and not live with the constant guilt. However, on his way through the city, he comes across an elderly man auctioning off his daughter. Seeing the exploited, terrified female on an auction block, makes his sense of decency rage. He outbids all others then learns part of the buying, is marrying the girl. It’s not what he planned on. Not at all. However, mentally debating it, he believes she might be the answer to his prayers; those of finding a way to put his sister-in-law out of his mind and heart forever.
Selene Gray has seen the worst men have to offer. She loathes and distrusts most, including her stepfather Horace Wilby who has abused her much of her life. She’s only known hard work, and little joy. When she unfairly gets fired from a Union Hospital, her stepfather intends to get even by selling her off. Her humiliation reaches its zenith when she’s put on an auction block. But when a handsome captain buys and marries her, she needs to learn how to survive this newest threat.
Josh and Selene’s love story delves into the harsh reality of war, and the raw emotions that it causes. Can they learn to trust? Love? Read their tumultuous story to find out…
1599 England. Because of a disastrous youthful affair Sir Edward, Marquess of Graysmarkshire, had been banned from court. Now years later, the queen is willing to forgive and forget if Edward will marry her favored goddaughter, Zara de Varden. Edward sends his trusted fellow knights to retrieve the wayward girl, but they accidentally kidnap Aleana Brigham, a commoner healer, instead. Aleana, who raises her two-year-old sister, and whose side she’s torn from, is determined to escape the marquess and reunite with the child, thus a battle of
wits and wills ensues. Can Aleana’s sweet, giving nature calm the beasts that rage within the hardhearted marquess? Can she get Her Heart’s Desire?
1893 South Carolina. Gorgeous, spoiled, young, and rich, Katherine Katie Cat Beauchamp can have any man she wants. Any man but the one she has her sights set on; Captain Andrew Kolder, and unaccustomed to not getting her way, she’ll stop at nothing to gain his love. Nothing. However, having been betrayed years earlier by a woman having similar characteristics as Katie, Drew is just as determined not to lose his heart to her. Thus, a battle of wills ensues. Their sensuous love affair takes them from South Carolina to England, to Ireland, to Seattle, Washington, to New York, back to South Carolina before a resolution is found. An epic love story that will keep you reading long into the night, that’s a promise!
1795 England. Young and uneducated, Sheena Worden must work as a serving maid to support herself and her younger brother. Bitter towards men because of the way her late mother, a prostitute, had been treated, Sheena has no desire to ever fall for honeyed words nor pledges promised in hopes of taking her virtue. In fact, she’s well prepared to live her entire life single. However, when a determined Captain Brant Branhard decides he wants her, he forces himself into her world, and she must find a way to protect her heart against his onslaught of worldly overtures. Their tumultuous love affair takes them from England to the Azores, to Albany, New York. Ah, such is prevailing love….
1768, Maine. In a time when women are considered property and have no money or assets of their own, young, vulnerable Ashley Hatch is forced to leave the only home she’s ever known in England and travel to Maine in the Americas to marry her late father’s partner if she wishes to inherit a dowry, half ownership of a logging company, WOODLAND. Never having met her parents, Ashley struggles to come to grips with this new bit of betrayal since her father’s Will won’t allow her to wed her current fiancé. More importantly, her betrothed won’t marry her without a dowry.
Owning the other half of WOODLAND, Aaron Chatwell chaffs that he must wed his late partner’s daughter if he wishes to keep control of the business. To make matters worse, the Will states they must live together under the same roof for a year. If at the end of that period Aaron and Ashley have not consummated their vows, they may dissolve their marriage. Aaron is then free to buy out Ashley’s interest in the business and they’re free to go their separate way.
From the beginning, their relationship is tested. Desires and attraction run deep. Superstitious loggers resent Ashley as half owner, and of a female even being present. Then accidents begin happening regularly, making tensions worse.
Can they find a common ground? Do they want their marriage to endure? Are superstitions true or are there more sinister forces at play? Will past relationships destroy them? Will love win out? An emotional story that will keep you guessing until the surprise ending….