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My Wicked Enemy
Fiends, mages and witches. Who's evil and who's hot? Read Chapter 1
August 2008, Grand Central Publishing
90% done.
Scandal
Romantic sensualist meets widowed novelist. Hot. Hot. Hot. Read Chapter 1
Late 2008, Berkley Books
50% done.
Untitled Sequel to My Wicked Enemy
Fiends, mages and witches. Is Xia f'n hot or what?
May 2009, Grand Central Publishing
0% done.
Untitled Historical
Some guy in a castle, pacing around. Meets a girl. That's what's in my head right now.
Late 2009, Berkley Books
0% done.
Published Titles
DX - Shards of Crimson Anthology - January 2007
Hell Marshall meets the DX and deals with her vampire criminal ex-boyfriends while running from some angry werewolves.
A Darker Crimson - Nov 2005
Long ago, the portal was sealed, and Los Angeles -- now Crimson City -- rid itself of demons for eternity. Or so Claudia Donovan believed. With the city's other paranormals more active than ever, and the treaty between humans, vampires and werewolves all but dissovled, she and the rest of the CCPD had enough to handle.
But now her daughter has been kidnapped and she's learned that demons still exist-- and that they are plotting. SHe herself is caught in a dark ritual and must go to the creatures' shadowy world. To whom can she turn for help? The vampire Tiberiu Korzha whose eyes promise death but whose lips taste of eternity? Or does salvation lie with the powerful Lath, he who inspires lust beyond name?
The Spare - February 2004 from Leisure Books
Captain Sebastian Alexander of His Majesty's Royal Navy is The Spare, a younger son who inherits more than a title after his brother's death. Pennhyll Castle, the family estate, comes with dark secrets, ancestral ghosts and a love that crosses the bounds of time. All Sebastian wants is to recover from a near-fatal wound and after that marry to beget an heir and rejoin the war. But first he must discover how, and why, his brother Andrew died and, along the way, learn that falling in love means completion, not sacrifice.
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Lord Ruin - Leisure Books
Mistaken identity and a night of shattering passion force a marriage of opposites: Ruan, duke of Cynssyr, a sophisticated and notorious rake, and Anne Sinclair, a spinster with the bad luck of being a pretty woman born to a family of beauties. Will "Lord Ruin" succeed in showing Anne that more than passion unites them or will their differences keep them apart?
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Stolen Love - Harper-Collins
Elizabeth thought she knew Nicholas through and through, but now he seems a stranger to her. Most of the time he treats her like a child, when he notices at all. Then, suddenly, his smoldering glances are telling her she is the woman of his dreams. There's a thief in London and Elizabeth is afraid she knows who it is. Read Chapter 1.
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Passion's Song - St. Martin's Press
Beautiful American Isobel St. James is an orphan with a daring dream-- to create music that will move the world. Her life takes a fairytale twist when she learns that her real father, a wealthy English aristocrat, wants her home to reclaim her birthright.
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Completed
A Stranger's Heart
Griffin Farrer is a self-made man who inherits what every gentleman needs, a country estate. Only, this estate comes with a mystery to be solved and a woman's heart to be won. Beautiful young widow Katherine Saxbe isn't easily wooed. Her past haunts her, but is it the memory of an unhappy marriage or something far more sinister that keeps her from accepting Griffin's love? The answer to her secret leads Griffin into peril and to some surprising discoveries about his own past.
Completed draft. This one has some troubles, but, if I do say so myself, signs of excellence. When I do sit down to fix this MS, I think it will be a heartbreaking read.
Titles In Development
Sequels?
Lord Ruin contains broad hints of a story for Devon Carlysle and Emily Sinclair as well as Lucy and the earl of Thrale.
Have started notebooking about Devon and Emily. I now have a skeleton plot and am working on the details. Also, working on Lucy and Thrale. I think they're next. Hopefully, I didn't shoot my career dead by sending initial pages of The Spare. (Fortunately, that turned out to be not the case...)
The List
A marriage-minded nobleman makes a list, checks it twice and hies incognito to the countryside to find himself a bride who meets his criteria. When he meets the perfect woman, she won't give him the time of day! Well, I tried to write this story, but it turned into The Heir. So, I guess I can still use this idea! I think the heroine's name will be Cordelia.
Well, now it's back to just an idea!
The Barbarian
A Highlander ends up married to the daughter of an English lord. He speaks only Gaelic and she doesn't. She thinks he's the muscle, not the bridegroom. That's about all I have right now. Maybe he steals her away or perhaps the marriage is arranged. A Scottish setting, time period not set, up to 18th century. I've long wanted to do a medieval. This has moved beyond the idea. I've done a little plotting, setting up character backgrounds and making lists of Gaelic names for my hero.
Plotting stage, researching Scottish history, studying Gaelic.