Cover art © Dawn Seewer

Caught in the sights of a killer, David and Miranda fight for life—and the chance to love again.

 Miranda Raines thinks she has found a safe haven in Oxford, England, until Scotland Yard DCI David French knocks on her door with terrifying news. Her ex-husband, a convicted murderer, has escaped from prison and he's coming for her.

 Miranda, who for years has harbored a secret love for the driven Chief Inspector, has no choice but to trust him. She just hopes she can guard her own heart at least as well as he guards her.

 After thwarting her ex's first attack, David spirits Miranda and her young son out of England and the three of them end up on the run across Europe. David has no intention of falling in love again, but with each passing day Miranda awakens passions he thought long dead.

 Could this be their forever love? With a killer on their trail, they may not live long enough to find out.

 **This is a previously published title and is revised with additional scenes.

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Cover art © Scott Carpenter

 2008 EPPIE Winner! Too Good To Be True won an EPPIE, awarded by EPIC, in the  Erotic Romance Contemporary/Suspense/Mystery category.

The sheriff has the hots for her prime suspect. What’s a girl to do?

Sheriff Rilla Devane has sworn to serve and protect, just as her father did before he was murdered. An influx of party drugs has killed two teenagers, but she has a suspect: handsome, rich newcomer Mackenzie Callahan, a published author seeking small-town atmosphere.

To build her case, she moves closer to Mackenzie and his dangerous brand of seductive charm. She’ll risk everything for her investigation, even when it means letting her guard down and falling for her suspect.

Mac Callahan lives and breathes for undercover work. But his last mission ended in near disaster, and he has one last chance to prove his value to the DEA. Taking sexy Sheriff Rilla to bed might ruin his career—or lead him to the love of his life.

Warning: this title contains the following: explicit sex, very graphic language, and a modicum of violence.

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Cover art © Dawn Seewer

                       COMING SOON

ONE TOO MANY, May 27, 2008, from Samhain Publishing                                                            E-ISBN: 1-59998-950-6, Print version April 2009

Mystery/Suspense sequel to LOVE ON THE RUN

Murder: Guaranteed to ruin a perfectly good honeymoon.

When Miranda French finally emerges from a few days of connubial bliss with her new husband in an East Anglia inn, she eagerly checks out the local shops…

...and stumbles over a body. A mutilated body. The unfortunate victim was known to be a connoisseur of married women, so it’s a good bet that one of the ladies’ husbands is the culprit. If there’s any hope of getting back to the “honey” part of her honeymoon, Randi will have to take matters into her own hands and get involved in the investigation.

Detective Chief Inspector David French, Earl of Middlebury, has a lot more on his hands than an overly helpful new wife, planted DNA and more suspects than he can comfortably count. The killer isn’t done.

And sending Randi away to the safety of his estate may have been the biggest mistake of his life. She’s next on the killer’s hit list.

WARNING:  This books contains graphic language, violence, lots of blood, multiple felonious hair-coloring incidents and not-so-subtle references to f/f activity.

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HOLDING HER OWN, July 15, 2008, from Samhain Publishing.  e-ISBN: 1-60504-068-1

Pretending to be newlyweds is a dangerous game…particularly when you’re falling in love.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Caitlin Chaney believes in doing things strictly by the book, and she’s determined to prove her father’s position in the federal government has nothing to do with her new appointment. To her way of thinking, Agent LeFevre is a screw up and bound to trash her operation and career.

Agent Jake Lefevre is used to running undercover ops his way, and he’s not too happy with his new boss, Caitlin Chaney, an FBI accountant, whose undercover experience is limited at best. He needs a partner who can hold her own, not a prima donna.

Jake and Caitlin’s cover as newlyweds at a New Orleans casino is tested from the very beginning as they learn to live together and convince everyone else they’re madly in love. Their mission to investigate money laundering is almost compromised from the moment Jake discovers Caitlin’s boss and CFO is someone he loved as a teenager.

 Warning, this title contains the following: hot nekkid sex, shower sex, an evil voodoo priestess, grisly remains in the bayou, graphic language, and violence.

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Cover art © 2004 Chrissie Poe

THE MAN FOR THE JOB, available now from Wings ePress and Fictionwise
Rated PG-13, published 2004

THE MAN FOR THE JOB is a sassy and romantic murder mystery with a handsome P.I. and a prickly attorney who has a fondness for Italian shoes and a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

From upscale Manhattan to the hills of Virginia, danger stalks attorney Gwyneth Wells. She placates her law partner-uncle and hires a P.I.  But when she meets Mike Carlton, he's pushy and glib. She's just extricated herself from an engagement to an aggressive mob lawyer, and the very last thing she needs is a bodyguard who looks like he's ready to have her for lunch.

Ex-police detective Mike Carlton considers bodyguard work a necessary evil--it pays the bills. But he changes his mind as soon as Gwyn waltzes into his office. A stalker? Yes, he'll guard her all night long if necessary. All he has to do is convince her he's THE MAN FOR THE JOB...and for her.

 Nominated for the 2004 Psyche Award for Best Overlooked Work:  http://www.theromancestudio.com/capa.php

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Cover art © 2003 Chrissie Poe

Glamour, glitz and danger await. In New York City, a chance meeting  thrusts Maxim Devereaux, head of an international modeling agency, and Nikki Prentice, a sixteen-year-old street kid, into a business relationship that culminates ten years later into one of passion.

Plagued by danger and obstacles in their often tragic past lives, they have one more chance to get it right. But danger lurks for the mature Nikki when a stalker decides that she's the woman of his dreams. 

      Nominated for the 2004 CAPA Awards in the category of romantic suspense:   http://www.theromancestudio.com/capa.php

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