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Book 3: Three Times to Make Sure

She’s always feared abandonment. Is she about to face it again or find happily ever after? M’Kenzee Davenport knows love doesn’t last. So despite marrying her high school crush on a whim in Vegas, the gritty photojournalist never believed the union was real. But when her husband-in-name-only goe ...

Summer Sounds

WHEN THE MUSIC HITS, ALL YOU CAN DO IS FALL.

Hailey
Stop the world I want to get off. I gave up my career to race home and save my family, only to be overwhelmed. We are behind on the mortgage; our family band is struggling, and my two younger brother’s c ...

A Hero at Heart

She’s holding on to her late husband’s memory. He won’t let go of his secrets. Will an old flame light up a second chance at love? Kelsey Swain knows there’s no such thing as a knight in shining armor. Her late husband had one foot out the door when a mysterious accident left Kelsey a widow. Now her ...

Christmas in July

Sylvia Moore returns to Dickens during the annual Christmas in July festival, hoping to land the New England location for a new Christmas romance movie. She knows the town will award only one filming permit a year but is confident the deal’s in Santa’s bag. After all, she’s the hometown girl with th ...

The Billionaire's Royal Secret

One billionaire. One crown princess. Too many secrets.

When Nate meets Elena, neither of them is interested in being honest about who they are...but they are interested in each other. Can their love survive their lies?

The Sweet Spot

If you had a second chance with your childhood crush, would you throw caution to the wind and try again…or take a step back and forget about your brother’s best friend? Ari: When your good friend asks you to be the ambassador for her new food truck, what do you do? You say yes! At least that’s what ...

Her Mail Order Family

Ten year old Chloe loves her dad, wealthy rancher, Tanner Holt, but she needs a mom. So, armed with her dad’s credit card, she orders one. Down on her luck, Heather Ayer did the craziest thing and filled out an application at a mail order bride agency. Could it be the fresh start she needs?

The Farmer's Wife

The secret they've kept can either bring them together or tear them apart. Youngest sibling and only sister, Kim Luchetti returns to the Illinois family farm after her father's heart attack. Eight years ago she vowed never to return, believing only distance would allow her to forget the tragedy that ...

Dear Beth: a Prescott Family Romance novella

After finishing his veterinarian training, Tye Prescott is back in Colorado and ready to give his relationship with Beth another chance, only she's made it very clear she wants nothing to do with him. Beth Walsh is a hopeless romantic, except when it comes to her own love life. In her opinion, l ...

Broken Trails

Wedding Bands

Ditched by her high school sweetheart, Callum Archer, on the night they’re supposed to elope, Jo Kendall casts out on her own, brokenhearted. Over the years, Jo reels in a life she loves, centered on the outdoors, fishing (favoring a lucky wedding band lure), and her fine dining restaurant&mda ...

The Wild Card

Is twenty-three too old for running away? I sure hope not. Because, right now, that's my current and only life plan.

Desperate to escape the dome of control my father has dropped over my life, I visit my brother in Texas--with no plans to use my return ticket home.

But after spend ...

The Amish Cowboy's Second Chance

Can love find a home for a runaway cowboy and the Amish woman he left behind? Noah Detweiler thought he’d left his Amish life forever. After years on the Albertan prairie as a cowboy, he’s finally found peace with God and purpose at Second Chance Ranch working with special needs children. But whe ...

Phoebe

After Phoebe Wilton’s days as a student at the ...

Street Dog Dreams

What if dogs were royalty and humans their loyal servants? Hop aboard our invisible flying machine as Aunt Maddie and Uncle Horace join an international search for a new dogdom. The Royal Canines are recruiting street dogs who want a better life with devoted humans who speak the language of dogs. As ...

Holiday Luv bundle: Four Christmas Romances

A boxed set of four sweet holiday romances.  

A jilted bride meets a handsome Scrooge.

Love blooms on a Christmas tree farm.

Second-chance at love on a TV bake-off.

A lost dog stirs up Christmas romance for a single mom.

“Warmed my heart and had me bel ...

Vinegar Pie by Varinia

For years, Varinia Jewell yearned for Arnie to one day look her direction. When her parents invite him and his widower father to join them for Christmas dinner, she decides to bake him one of her favorite pies—lemon meringue. Only, when her mother and sister leave to deliver several figt sacks of ...

Christmas Lovebirds

Paperback (on sale), large print also available.

A sweet holiday romance that will delight your heart.

A mix-up between lovebirds brings Melisa Hart face to face with the dashing Dr. Rob Reed, the man she crushed on her entire life.

Unfortunately, he ...

Loyalty's Web

Heléne de Laurant has not forgotten how the Earl of Gunthar destroyed her father’s castle during Henry II’s war with his sons. Apparently neither have her family and friends, for when someone tries to murder Gunthar, every sign points in their direction. Heléne realizes the only way to prove her lov ...

Enchanted Holidays: A Collection of Short Stories

Sandy's Valentine The One That Got Away

Sandy had always done what was right. She was a nurturing, loving person. Now, she was ready. Ready to live and experience life before it was too late.

A rich tapestry of emotional depth with ...

Coming Home To Your Heart: Pining for a Point Perry Christmas

Her farm. His hideout. Their second chance.

Annie Schultz returns to Point Perry with a fresh start and an impulsive property purchase—Pining for Point Perry Christmas Tree Farm. She’s ready to rebuild on her own terms.

Then she finds him.

JJ Nash ...

A Hand-Me-Down Heart

Second hand, never used. Vintage Condition. Grace Stavenaugh has lived her life in the shadow of her older sister. Even as children, Hope was always the talented one and Grace the smart one. Hope received the attention, the boyfriends, and the beautiful clothes; Grace received the hand-me-downs. The ...

Whistlestop Lodge

Grant Walker knows how to build companies. Ellie Parker knows how to build something harder to find—a place where people belong.

At her historic mountain railroad lodge, life runs on train whistles, Sunday suppers, old traditions, good friends, Martha's pie, and the occasional runaway goa ...

The Raven Witch of Corfu - Episode 2

Escape to sunny Corfu but beware... Lizzie does her best to help her brother adjust, and together they set out to do the witch’s bidding, in the hope that if they do as she asks she will finally let them be. The witch’s ravens are forever spying on them or paying them a visit, but soon the sight of ...

Together for Christmas

Four sweet and clean Christian romances to warm your heart! Snuggle up with these faith-filled stories of hope and love, celebrating the true meaning of the holiday season. Visit London for a Scrooge accountant's fake Christmas dates with a Hollywood heart-throb. Experience New Year’s Eve in Edinbu ...

Fake-Dating My Billionaire Enemy

Samantha can't seem to keep any guy she likes. Nor does she appreciate her recent ex flaunting his newfound happiness with his fiancee. She needs an escape. Fast. But gorgeous Henry, her ex's cousin, is the last person she'd expect to step in and save the day. Henry knows Samantha would rather ...

Cowboy Friend Zone for Christmas

A wounded rodeo champion and his horse trainer make a friendship pact to protect each other from rebound relationships. The ground rules are simple: 1. Need a plus one at a holiday get-together? Ask each other. 2. Feeling bored or lonely? Call or text each other. 3. Accidentally step beneath ...

The Bride Who Step Dances

Stranded in Laramie City, Wyoming Territory, British immigrants Maggie Clarke and her sixteen-year-old brother, Eddie, hope to earn enough to buy train tickets to take them closer to the gold fields in the West. Eddie plays the fiddle while Maggie step dances. The pair searches for a location wit ...

Rocky Mountain Diner (Free Novella)

After losing their father and learning local mob boss Caruso wants to collect on their dad’s old gambling debts, Dahlia and Minerva hightail it out of Chicago on a hilarious and sometimes scary journey west. Accompany them on their adventure and be right beside them as they unexpectedly find new fri ...

The Yorktown Christmas Time Travel Trilogy

The Yorktown Christmas Time Travel Novellas are now in a boxed set! Includes bonus short story The Conservatory. Seeking Second Chances… Journey through time with three friends as they find romance and happily ever afters! Max: Successful merchant Max, cursed in 1769, travels forward through time to ...

How to Spot a Fake

·       Lovelyn Pettigrew wants to transform the mansion and collection of f ...

Rocking Her Boat

Lifelong passion and perseverance have finally given Nina the one thing she ever wanted: her own environmental non-profit. And yet it’s when she should be on top of the world that she feels the empty results of her neglected personal life. At twenty-seven, maybe now’s the time to see what happens wh ...

Always, Ransom (Three Rivers Express Book 1)

The Express took men and rode them hard across the West. That adventuring spirit belonged to men full of life, ready for whatever met them on the trail, everything, except for love. Ransom McCain was the last man hired to ride for the Three Rivers station, but he was chosen to take the first ride we ...

Somebody Like You

When Laurel Stone's garden center is targeted by vandals, she comes face-to-face with the man who once broke her heart: Aiden Gallagher. Aiden's now one of Darling's Finest, but the memory of how he hurt Laurel back in high school has stuck to his conscience. Helping her get back on her feet is the ...

BLUE LADY

A friends to lovers, second chances, romantic comedy short story… BLUE LADY is the Prequel to The Angelica Mason Series (There are three books in this series with a new book,Blue Lady's SEARCH for LOVE scheduled for release in the Spring 2023).

The books revolve around a common theme—the ...

Better Together

Love kindles when a fake engagement brings best friends together. World Champion snowboarder, Wyatt Fernandez, should be hitting the slopes in the Andes and spending his days teaching as the new ski instructor. But an emergency means he’s heading off the family’s tree farm with his best friend, Harp ...

I Love You More

A billionaire and a single mother have more in common than they know.

Handsome, self-assured, every inch the successful billionaire, Luciano is out of Anastasia's reach. But when a hurricane strands them together and they must trust each other to survive … things heat up despite th ...

The Chaplain’s Daughter

A minister's daughter abandoned during war survives by taking on the grueling work of an army laundress. A wounded widower feels God has forsaken him. Will her devout care bring medicine to his soul or rub salt in his wounds? Ellen White is assigned to attend a debilitated artillery captain after th ...

Take Two

Legally Wedded: A Marriage of Convenience Romance

Marrying an attractive stranger for college cash? Yeah, nothing could go wrong with that. Morgan has one goal: finish college so her sister can start classes. But her financial aid goes awry—flinging away her chances to graduate and help her sister. Josh needs to graduate a.s.a.p. His girlfriend is ...

Daisy Does it Herself

When 26-year-old Daisy's life in London comes crashing down around her, the only thing she can think of is getting away - far away. That's how she found herself stumbling off a train in England's picturesque Peak District - 150 miles from home, with no idea why she'd gone there and even less idea ...

The Long Road to Loving Royce

One prestigious job opportunity, two main contenders. She’s trapped under a glass ceiling. His career is all he cares about. Ambitious divorcee Verity Parker is determined to break new ground for professional women in the male-dominated Australian mining industry, by shattering the company’s gla ...

The Wedding Favor

Ava hasn’t given much thought to her hometown in years — until her gorgeous former neighbor Mateo comes knocking. Ava owes him a favor from a decade ago, and now that Mateo needs a fake fiancée, it seems like the perfect time to collect

Written In The Stars...

A Father's Dying Wish...Miserable after the failure of her restaurant, chef Grace Cooper receives a deathbed letter from the father she thought was already dead, offering a free vacation at an Alaskan island resort. Exhausted, Grace jumps at the chance to escape, and to learn about the father she ne ...

Sarah: Discovering Love

Joshua Keerny’s thirst for adventure keeps him from settling in any one place for long. This cowboy loves to roam and never wants to be tied down to any place or person. As Joshua repeatedly becomes entangled in Sarah's life, their opposing natures clash, and sparks inevitably fly. When Joshua fi ...

Christmas Wishes Anthology

Twas the night before Christmas and all across the world, thirteen authors gathered to share stories untold. From comedy to dark romance they cover it all. So sit by the fire with your pipping hot drink and read the stories brought to you by ST Nick. This is a multi-author anthology stories may end ...

Call It Chemistry

Kate Brady never thought she'd set foot in her hometown of Golden Grove again. After all, it was the scene of the biggest embarrassment of her life, back when she was "Katie Braces", the art nerd. But if she's going to make good with the bosses at her design corporation she has to take on a job with ...

Kitty, It's Cold Outside

Paperback on sale, large-print also available

Kitty, It’s Cold Outside is a romance with a serendipitous twist at the end. I’m betting you’ve never read a story like this before, past, present, or future.

A lost kitten travels through time to bring deliverance to Victo ...

Sewn With Love

Madeline Graham is hard at work on the eve of her youngest sister’s wedding, sewing intricate details into her dress. No one in the household appreciates her fine needlework and poor Madeline feels that she is destined to a life of servitude for her family. Madeline is the eldest sister but the last ...

Inking the Deal

Second chances aren't guaranteed... Motorcycle enthusiast, Mickey Diaz, loves the small town of Cataluma, CA where she grew up and now owns a successful tattoo shop. At twenty-eight, she hasn't found "The One" yet, and isn't sure she ever will, but she has plenty of non-romantic relationships tha ...

Eclipsed by Love, Books 4-6

Enjoy reading these second three romances inspired by the 1878 total solar eclipse. In the first book, Mail Order Blythe, Eli Morgan’s mother gives him two letters from prospective brides. Eli promises to write before the end of summer. Once he finds the woman he chooses to marry, he convinces his t ...

It Happened One Night

Who has time for dating these days? Certainly not struggling entrepreneur Paisley Jameson, who has way too much on her plate to pay any real attention to her shriveling social life. And not mechanic J ...

It Started with a Note

Avery Parks loves her job in the Admissions department. She really does. It's nice and calm and...far too predictable.

Just like her personal life.

She has big dreams—how would she ever realize them if she stays in her current rut? She needs to take a big, bold, daring move to sha ...

The Island Adventure

Two weeks to survive on a deserted island with a woman he can’t stand… Cade Armstrong Waters turned his back on his family’s money and walked away from his legal career to build his foundation to help at risk children. To secure the funding he needs, he agrees to spend two weeks with a woman he j ...

Light in Our Darkest Night

Countin' On Jesse

Determined Dreamer

She’s been hiding her pain her entire life. If she doesn’t come clean, it could jeopardize the future she’s always wanted… Cologne, Missouri. Kalie hasn’t been completely honest with her family. Telling no one she was bullied since childhood by a classmate, she’s finally taken control of her destiny ...

Eyes of the Heart

In this whimsical, light-hearted fantasy tale, Morgan Hunter, a struggling florist stricken with a sudden onset of color blindness, starts to lose all hope. After winning a gigantic Powerball lottery, he travels to Paris, France, for a life-changing experimental operation in a desperate attempt to r ...

Finding Southern Comfort

The Savannah widower infuriates Harper...but his little girl wins the nanny’s heart. An endearing story that delivers laughter and tears!

Not the Marrying Kind

Who said marriage had to be convenient? LA party planner Poppy's side business—planning divorce parties as the Divorce Diva—is a secret. When a new party prospect gives Poppy the opportunity to save her sister's company, she can’t pass it up. But this time, she’s about to get way more than she barga ...

Falling For My Bashful Boss

My guarded, bashful boss lends a friendly hand to this damsel in distress. I fled to Willow Creek to escape my charming but thieving ex and start a new life. Love is the last thing on my mind, and it's certainly not on Ethan's radar. He’s my new boss, a kind and bashful doctor grieving the loss o ...

Her Christmas Secret

Lila courts a cold-hearted investor for her handmade toys, but finds herself instead drawn to a handsome maintenance man. With her sister’s family on the line, a distracting romance is the last thing she needs.

Red: The Color of Failure

In the fall of 1995, Carmen Simpkins experienced both the best and worst moments of her life. After several years of infertility issues, Carmen miscarries and withdraws from everything and everyone. Out of sacrificial love for her husband, Spencer, she files for divorce and sets off on a journey of ...

Garrett's Ghost

What's a time traveling Texas Ranger supposed to do? Garrett Houston is being harassed by a ghost. Trouble is brewing and her name is Margarite. She's an unrelenting force determined to get his attention. It may be too late for her, but if she could get him to listen, she may be able to save some li ...

The Putting Green Whisperer

Suddenly unemployed, Allie Masterson returns home to Cary, North Carolina where she caddies for her father on the PGA Seniors Tour. There, she encounters a man who possesses an alluring gift of reading the contours of the green. Fascinated with his uncanny ability, Allie is excited to meet the Green ...

Somebody Like You

Strike One ... in one night, Brooke Miller loses her boyfriend, her job and possibly her reputation. She vows revenge on her old boss by bringing a defunct vineyard back to its former glory. But ex-baseball star Billy Tur ...

The Groom

The only thing more awkward than falling in love on national television, is having your heart broken in front of millions of viewers. When public school teacher Millie Kincaid signed up for the popular dating show, The Groom, falling in love was always a possibility. But then Jace proposes to someon ...

Eclipsed by Love, Books 1-3

Enjoy reading these first three romances inspired by the 1878 total solar eclipse. Although the books were originally published in several multiple author projects, for the first time I have put them in order of occurrence. MAIL ORDER BLYTHE – the book that started it all. Blythe is forced out o ...

Redd, Whit & Blue

We weren’t supposed to kiss...again. Is it still a second chance when our first one was a secret? Rewind: In high school, I was Little Miss Brainy Rebel Girl to my twin’s athletic Mr. Popularity. That also meant I avoided wading into the dating pool. Like a shark, it didn’t help that my protectiv ...

Summer Encore

He returned in search of fame, she had other plans.

Seaside’s salty breeze carries memories of festival nights and stolen kisses. Laredo, haunted by fame’s fleeting promise, returns in a last desperate attempt at fame.

Betty, the local girl who shared a festival fling with L ...

New Chemistry

She’s desperate to belong. He wants to give her heart a home. Can they survive the rapids of a broken past and paddle to a happily ever after? Colorado. Rylee Ryan strives to prove her worth. Slinging pans and formatting brochures as a ranch kitchen sous-chef, the once-abandoned woman now yearns for ...

Unforgettable Valentine

To honor the happy lovers everywhere celebrating Valentine’s Day, six New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Authors have joined together to offer this beautiful collection of holiday romance stories. From full-length books to novellas, they all have one thing in common—a thrilling happily-ever-af ...

FOREVER FOUND

IS LOVE GOING TO THE DOGS? Head vet at the Forever Friends animal rescue shelter, Gabriel Moretti is known as the Dog Whisperer because of his gift for soothing rambunctious patients. But it’s the two-legged species that has him, and his libido, working overtime. Marla Popov single-handedly saved th ...

Making Sweet Music

Only For Love: A Clean Regency Romance Boxset

Love Makes a Comeback

Andrea Peterson gave her heart to Lance Foster. She knew him before he was famous. She started dating him when he was waiting tables for a living. She was there for him through one failed audition after another. Then, the minute he got a taste of acting success, Lance broke her heart. After that And ...

Paws for Healing

She came back to settle an estate. She never expected to rediscover herself.

After surviving cancer, a painful divorce, and the loss of the career she once loved, Chantal Davies returns to Sunshine Bay to prepare her late grandmother's seaside cottage for sale. Once the renovations are fi ...

Gift of the Magpie

Amanda Larrowe’s lack of trust sabotages her relationships. The English teacher and award-winning author of middle-grade adventure books for boys has shut off communication with friends and family to meet her January 2 book deadline. Now, in the deepest snow accumulation Richmond, Virginia has exper ...

Let Every Heart

An uplifting Christmas anthology to take your heart on a romantic holiday ride. These sweet, clean holiday romances from Olivia Hardin and Eliza Boyd will fill you with the Christmas spirit of love, hope, and faith. Celebrate the holidays with stories that will warm your heart this season. All proce ...

Christmas at Holly Hill Inn Box Set

A Dickens of a Sweet Holiday Romance! Get all three books in the Holly Hill Inn Dickens Romance series in one complete box set. Follow Jenny and Ben as they fall in love and acquire Holly Hill Inn in Home for Christmas. Then read about their children in Miracle at Holly Hill Inn. Last, share the hol ...

Wills & Trust

When Brooke is named in a mysterious stranger’s will, she desperately needs legal counsel—especially when the most powerful man in the county threatens her. Unfortunately, there’s only one lawyer she can trust: Dane.

Sink into the sizzling chemistry of these star-crossed lovers.
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Love Overboard

Forced to share a stateroom with her ex-fiancé, Caitlyn fakes amnesia to stay on board her dream Alaskan cruise. Torn over deciding his future, Cruise Director Gregory tumbles into helping her. As they grow closer, unspoken secrets threaten to rip them apart, for good.

Falling for a Pregnant Cowgirl

She’s pregnant with a child that isn’t hers. He can’t stop himself from falling for her. But will the truth pull them apart—or bring them closer?

Renata Vargas never expected surrogacy to unravel her heart. But as the baby grows, so doe ...

The Scandalous Billionaire: A Sweet Clean Billionaire Fake Marriage Romance

Jackson Aldridge has been deemed the second most eligible bachelor in Seattle, Washington three years running. He's an intelligent, handsome billionaire at the top of his game who lives by a strict set of rules. But when a high-risk investment goes South, Jackson will need to re-evaluate his lifesty ...

Falling For My Forsaken Boss

I never expected to run into Lucas, the brooding forest ranger I once adored. He's a single dad now, and still closed off and serious. But his affection for his daughter lights him up from within. When he asks me to be a nanny for his daughter, I'm hesitant at first. But I can't resist the chanc ...

A Royal Christmas Fairy Tale

From Karen Schaler, the Emmy Award-winning writer of Netflix sensation A Christmas Prince, comes this next feel-good royal romance, filled with humor, heart, and hope, featuring an exclusive excerpt from Schaler’s new sparkling holiday novel, Love Always, Christmas! A charming Christmas village, a s ...

To Love

Eager for a fresh start, Jazz McNally throws herself into renovating her grandparents’ mansion in time for the grand opening of the McNally Bed and Breakfast. When vandals strike, she accepts help from drifter Dalton O’Brien. Dalton is willing to lend a hand, until it’s time to move on. But when dan ...

When the Quiet Comes: A Small Town Historical Romance

He returned from Vietnam with ghosts in his chest, hands that would not still, and a mind that refused to rest.

She carried a bouquet of regrets and the weight of a lifetime’s duty.

For Frank Briggs, the war followed him home to the dust of his family farm. For Laurie Crayton, her ...

The Holiday Arrangement

Her mother hired a matchmaker. He’s tired of being set up. Will their holiday arrangement fizzle or sparkle with the new year? Corinne Carter returns to her maiden name and her hometown, ready for a fresh start. But her impatient mother has hired a matchmaker to get the Christmas ball rolling. Jerem ...

Sunsets At Pelican Beach

Moving on from her divorce and finding love again was the best thing that happened to Payton in a long time. After all, who could resist the charm of the handsome and well-respected Cole Miller? Unfortunately, all it takes is one bad apple to spoil everything… In book two of the Pelican Beach ...

Slate: A curvy girl and mountain man romance

Patience Moving in with my aunt in remote Rye Creek, California was supposed to give me a chance to concentrate on starting my new business. Instead, I’m distracted by the gruff and growly mountain man just down the road. He’s broody and built and begging to be knocked down a few notches. Slate Eigh ...

Divided Hearts

She's running from her past. He's questioning his future. Can small town dreams bring them together? Cory Luciuk never wanted to think about her manipulative stepfather again. But when she learns that he's left her his enormous estate, she's forced to confront her painful past. Was Cory's stepfather ...

Running From Christmas

A heartwarming festive tale about overcoming grief with the power of friendship, family and of course love!: The last thing Charlotte wants to do this year is to celebrate Christmas. With her beloved mother gone, all she wants is to curl up and wait for the day to be over. But when a chance encou ...

Hook, Line & Sinker

Brian Archer, lawyer and infamous playboy, returns to Greenridge after a long holiday to find his life in ashes. Literally. His condo has burned to the ground, and with it, his delusion that he’s a footloose, fancy-free guy who doesn’t secretly crave a home and a place to belong.  

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Christmas in Florence

Dante finally finds the job of his dreams: working in Italy and learning the language but when the Coronavirus hits Italy, his world is turned upside down. The only person who gets him through it is Serenella, and all he needs to do is step out onto his uncle’s balcony and there she is! On top of de ...

Beulah

Beulah Beatrice “Be-Be” Connor, who is approaching the age of thirty, gave up on marriage after the second man who had courted her left and never returned. Unlike the two maiden great-aunts, after whom she was named, she did not have an inheritance to fall back on. She worked almost half her li ...

Beyond our Forever

Some loves last a lifetime. Ours will live forever... Our story doesn't end with happily ever after. For Bruce and I, it was just the beginning. Marriage, the promise of happiness. That was what everyone saw. However, that was nothing more than a mirage. The reflection of the sun on the dese ...

Summer's Squall

Baltimore City Police Detective, Abe (Lank) Lankton, assumes he'll be helping his cousin solve a minor problem when she calls and asks him to fly west. When he learns that he's been called out there to aid in capturing an elusive stalker, his first instinct is go straight back to Maryland. However, ...