Anna's Refuge
Wrackwater Bridge, Book One

GOLD MEDAL Romance -- Royal Palm Awards (Florida Writers Assoc.)

SILVER MEDAL Romance -- President's Book Awards (Florida Authors & Publishers Assoc.)

Crowned Heart of Excellence -- InD'tale Magazine

From the glitter of Regency London…
Knowing little of love, Anna Spain arrives for her one and only Season yearning for love.It’s surely fate when she falls for charming, handsome Gideon Aubrey—but when he spurns her in public, after seducing her with lies, she must find a way to support herself and her baby, or abandon the innocent child to the horrors of the workhouse.

To the grit of industrial Leeds…
For Lewis Aubrey, who has grown up under Gideon’s malignant shadow, there’s never been anyone but Anna Spain. Infuriated by his brother’s treatment of the woman he adores, Lewis steps in to shield her. He thinks he might even court her himself—until one day, without a word, she’s gone.

In a winter of impossible choices…
Can a heartbroken young mother learn to love again? Can her would-be hero endure raising the child of a brother he hates? Can one fragile infant bring these two splintered souls a second chance at love in rural Wrackwater Bridge?

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Learning to Waltz -- Regency Historical 

FIRST PLACE Regency -- 2014 Chatelaine Awards for Romance Fiction sponsored by Chanticleer Book Reviews

Deborah Moore has learned her lessons well–feel nothing, reveal less, and trust no one. Now widowed with a child of her own, she leads a lonely, cloistered existence, counting her farthings and thinking she is safe. When five-year-old Julian is lost one bitter December day, she discovers how tenuous that safety is.

Evan Haverfield has lived thirty carefree years, hunting, laughing, and dancing among London’s high society. His biggest problem has been finding excuses not to marry. But his life changes when he finds Julian Moore half-frozen under a hedge and carries him home to his mother. The young widow hides behind a mask, hard and reserved, but Evan sees glimpses of another woman, wistful, intelligent, and passionate. She’s vulnerable, desirable—and completely unsuitable for the heir to Northridge.

Alone in the earliest hours of a new year, Evan teaches Deborah to waltz. Can he teach her joy and laughter? Will love sweep away the shadows of her past and reveal the luminous woman she could be?

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“Butterfly in a Hurricane” -- Contemporary romance novella
From Florida with Love: Sunrise & Stormy Skies --
Ten stories from Southwest Florida Romance Writers

FIRST PLACE Unpublished Novella -- 2016 Royal Palm Literary Awards sponsored by the Florida Writers Association

The story:
Lydia DiMarco is a young woman with beauty and brains, and no idea what to do with them. She also has Asperger’s Syndrome. Hiding away in her little house in Bonita Springs, she’s doing just fine, thank you… until she falls in love with a cop.

When Lee County Deputy Roy Fuentes stops Lydia for speeding, he sees the beauty of a butterfly, fragile and vulnerable. But if he’s Type A, she must be Type Z. He wants her. But can he catch her? And even if he does, can they possibly find happiness in the middle of the alphabet?

The book:
Here in Southwest Florida, we know a lot about the power of hurricanes.
We know a lot about the power of love, too. We know love can survive storms of all kinds, and these ten new stories from Southwest Florida Romance Writers prove it. Within these pages, love comes to rich and poor, young and old. It lurks on the beach, in town, and in Florida’s agricultural heartland. It might creep up on you… or it might strike with the power of a hurricane.

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