Novels
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Never Broken
Avalon Historical Novels
San Antonio Sunset
San Francisco Serenade
Santa Fe Sunrise
A Brilliant Deception (February, 2008)
A Clever Disguise (2008)
A Daring Escape (2009)
Avalon Contemporary Romance
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Rugged, handsome Rory O'Leary has little use for the stately Irish manor where his rich aunt and uncle took in him and his brother when they were orphaned. That is, until he encounters the beautiful peasant girl, Shannon, in Uncle Edwin's rose garden.
Shannon and her sister Ainslee are devastated when their ailing parents send them away from home and insist they emigrate to America. Shannon fears she'll never again see the man who stole her heart in the Gormley rose garden.
But fate has other intentions, as Rory finds when he rescues the sisters from the squalid docks of County Cork.
After trouble with his family and much debate, dejected rancher Jeremiah Jackson sets out from San Antonio to make his fortune mining gold in California. With his heart full of hope and determination burning within, he forges through the Sierra Nevada Mountains searching to stake his claim. But instead of finding a successful life independent of his family, he is robbed, beaten and left for dead.
Drifter Calliope Winters and her con man friend Eli are on the run from the law. They are trying to run as far as they can but when she sees Jeremiah on the side of the road she insists they stop and rescue him. As she nurses him back to health, they both are drawn toward each other.
Both have their secrets, which they are reluctant to share, but as the bond between them grows, they realize they have to learn to trust before they can ride off into their San Antonio Sunset.
Gazing at the beautifully dressed people swaying to the music, Jillian Sanders smiled in awe. Through the sea of graceful dancers she locked eyes with the most handsome man she’d ever seen. As if my magic, he crossed the floor and asked her to dance. Their true identities unknown, Jillian and her handsome man enjoy just one brief dance before Jillian was informed of her father’s death. Abruptly, in a state of shock, she departs without ever finding out the name of her mystery man...
Six months later, Jillian and her brother Roland, the new head of Sanders Shipping after her father’s death, move to San Francisco to open a U.S. branch of the company. Much to her surprise and dismay, Jillian is reacquainted with her anonymous dance partner. He turns out to be Ethan Vincent, part owner of Vincent & Son Shipping, Sanders Shipping’s biggest U.S. competition.
Jillian takes on the responsibility of running the company while also trying to fight her burgeoning feelings for Ethan. He has the power to destroy her company while also gaining her heart.
This delightful tale brings to new life the idea of mixing business with pleasure - and the stake your heart can have in any transaction.
Luke Jackson, a volunteer soldier based in Santa Fe, is eager to return home to San Antonio, Texas. Weary from the war and healing from a serious injury, he is given one last assignment before his discharge—to escort the daughter of a wealthy businessman to Las Vegas in the New Mexico Territory. Luke is stunned to discover that not only does he have to escort the woman and her chaperone, but four young orphans as well.
Melanie Faraday has always been an obedient daughter, but she is dismayed to learn her widowed father has brought her to Santa Fe to marry the son of one of his business partners. Unprepared for marriage to a stranger, but unwilling to go against her father, she feels her future is doomed until she meets four abandoned Mexican children shortly after her arrival in Santa Fe. She vows to find them a home and, in a desperate attempt to avoid her impending marriage, she uses her father’s connections to secure an escort for her to take the children to an orphanage in Las Vegas, unbeknownst to her father.
During the journey the group is hampered with thunderstorms, which delays their travels but gives Luke and Melanie much time to not only fall in love with each other, but to fall in love with the children as well.
Voted Best Avalon Historical Romance for 2004 by Cata Romance!
Television journalist Eve Norwood is on the fast track to achieving her ultimate goal — a job with the news division of a major network. But when Toby Myers, an award winning cameraman and her ex-boyfriend, returns to town, he shakes up her orderly world, causing her to question every aspect of her life — both business and personal.
Before long they are paired together on a special assignment for their local television station, causing old hurts and new feelings to rise to the surface. Eventually they are able to put the past behind them and look forward to the future. But that future is in jeopardy when Eve is offered the opportunity of a lifetime.
Which will she choose? The love of a man who abandoned her in the past or the dream she’s worked her entire life to achieve?
