Boredom from retirement is lost on a day when two retired friends discover the horror of an auction where they have mistakenly bid on the wrong racehorse. But perhaps a hidden blessing may have been planned, unknown to these horse lovers. God allows trouble to help us grow, and with God, all things are possible. Join Jim and Norm and lady jock Vickie in the training of a wonder horse. Charlie and his trainer, Steve, take the reader on a fantastic fairy tale of an adventure.
Highflying Midwest business executive Tag Grayson finds nothing more stimulating than seeking, negotiating, and closing a big deal. On the brink of concluding the transaction of his life, Grayson discovers his potential client has a murderous past that has left his mental state unpredictable at best. The shrewd Grayson knows he has his prospective client right where he wants him desperate. Nate Dillianquest knows he is in hot water. With a criminal background overshadowing his future, he is anxious to sell his mother's health-care business after his family's fortune is lost in a pyramid scheme. But as Grayson and Dillianquest finally meet, Grayson has no idea that Dillianquest will do anything to keep what is rightfully his. Suddenly, Grayson is propelled into a web of greed, secrets, and blackmail woven by a conniving southern patriarch and a pair of strikingly beautiful women. Just as Grayson realizes he is dealing with master manipulators who want revenge in the worst way, his life is turned upside down. In this tale of greed, murder, and sexual obsession, members of a wealthy southern family draw an innocent business executive into their deceptive trap as one of them attempts to escape with millions in blood money.
Megan Harrison has already been burned once by billionaire Max Pierce. Burned badly. He was her first true love, and she'd given him everything she had to offer. She'd thought he loved her too - that is, until he ended their relationship by leaving her a casual note "wishing her well." Now, after three years of licking her wounds, Megan finds herself unavoidably thrown into daily contact with Max when he enters into her professional life. But this time, things are different. No longer a naIve university student who believes in true love, Megan is in the driver's seat. Despite Max's protestations that leaving her was a mistake and that he is a changed man, Megan knows better. Max might seem to have everything else - power, success, looks - but he can't have her. No matter how much he says he loves her, no matter how much he is there for her, she can't let history repeat itself. Or can she?
Stalked by Love is the about the life of a seasoned NYPD detective named Richard Erskine, who is assigned to the homicide squad. He and his longtime partner, Detective Michael Stevenson are in charge of a group of hard core UC's (under cover) team who are named The Predator Squad. Together they track down New York's most dangerous felons, the Code 6-Charge, 'Armed and dangerous.' Some have to pay the ultimate price… death. Take a step into New York's shadows as they bring these criminals to justice alive or dead. However, Erskine is involved in organized crime, The Firm. Before he knows it he's in too deep to get out. In his dreams, he is stalked by love. The Angel of Death often beckons him to join her.
Isabella Walsh was alone in the world. Working full-time and attending the local college, her life was difficult but happy. Until the night she witnessed a police officer execute her boss, forcing her to leave the only place she called home in order to save her own life. Finally, exhausted from months of running, Isabella settles in a small town, but soon realizes the men searching for her have found her once again. Gathering what strength she has left, she fights back, only to collapse in a wooded area, cold, exhausted, and alone. Ethan Shay, a former member of the armys elite Special Forces unit, is happy with the quiet life he has chosen to lead. Finding a broken and bleeding unconscious woman was not something he anticipated, but finding her in the woods and knowing that someone had badly beaten her brings out his natural instinct to protect. Shocked at her vehemence that he not call the police, Ethan takes her home to give her time to recover. When she finally tells him her story, it quickly becomes clear that it will take more than just his resources to help her. As they work together to uncover the mystery surrounding Isabella, they learn that the political ramifications of what she witnessed were only the beginning of what was truly happening. To stay alive, Isabella and Ethan will have to figure out how deeply her secrets go and whom, if anyone, they can trust. The decisions they make going forward could be costly, including whether or not they should stay together and forge a relationship they both desperately want. Its only when the bullets start to fly that their true relationship is put to the test.
For Taressa Wardell, life was nothing more than one huge ball of struggle, chaos, and confusion. Born to an uncaring mother and raised on the streets, her world revolved around drugs, alcohol, promiscuous sex, and more drugs. She completely lacked self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth. Life had reached a point of having no meaning for her. For too many years now, she had felt dead inside; a hollowed husk doing nothing but going through the motions of what others expected from her. However, when an extraterrestrial being shows up at her front door announcing that her presence is required on another planet, Taressa's mind is thrown into panic mode, forcing her to look outside the scope of her blurred and hazy existence. Had she hallucinated the little blue creature and its words of prophecy? She wanted desperately to believe she had. But her soul told her differently. Her soul told her she was about to fall into the biggest vat of manure she had ever experienced. Her mind told her she would never survive
Time had a big secret looming over her head as well as an overly filled sex life. She had decisions to make and she needed to make them soon. She felt herself turning into someone she didn’t recognize anymore. With constant thoughts of Austen floating in her head she knows she needs to make changes in her life before she messes up the life of someone who is special to her heart. She can’t stop thinking about the way Austen makes her feel when she is with him. She thinks about being with him even when he is not present, she can even smell his cologne when she closes her eyes. He takes her body to places it has never been and he makes her feel like she can have it all, but is this what she really wants?
The Shadows of Rhodes series opens with Helen and Morgan, old friends and traveling companions, struggle to get to their destination. Everything seems to go wrong. By the time they reach Rhodes, two days of their two-week vacation was plagued by the traveler's nightmare. They are rescued by a taxi driver in the middle of the night while they walked toward civilization. Helen finds an attraction to their taxi driver that seems to awaken feelings in her that she hadn't felt in a very long time. In a less than ideal marriage arrangement, Helen struggles to resist the Greek taxi driver. She is drawn to him and yet she knows that she will be going home soon. The purchase of an old photograph in a souvenir shop, coupled with an undying curiosity into things better left buried, has Helen unaware of the value of her find. As The Beginning, the first book of the series unfolds, elements that surround the photograph begin to intrude on an otherwise perfect vacation. With the help of the friendly taxi driver and his family, Helen is able to learn part of the story of the child in the photo. News that the framed photo has been found by tourists becomes known to unscrupulous thugs, while a burning attraction to the taxi driver has her fighting his magnetic pull on her.
Nahima is a young, educated woman who takes no shit and holds her own.Thrown into the street life by association, she quickly snatches the heart of Isaziah one of Tampa, Florida's most ruthless dope boys. Isaziah is heavy in the streets and is the HNIC of his organization. Young, ambitios and ruthless. he is fared by many including is own clique. that's until he meets the young and ambitious Nahima....
