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WHAT THE LIBRARIAN DID
A Rock Solid romance
First published March 2010
Republished February 2021

Desert Island Keeper at Likes Books
RBY Finalist 2010
Jane’s 2010 Best of the Year List, Dear Author

Is Rachel Robinson the only one on campus who doesn’t know who Devin Freedman is?  No big deal except that the bad-boy rock star gets a kick out of Rachel’s refusal to worship at his feet. And that seems to have provoked his undivided attention. Read More >>

 

RISE
A Rock Solid romance #1 
January 2015

He’s no hero.
The only pure thing about rock icon Zander Freedman is his voice – and he’s given up booze and drugs to protect it.  Unfortunately, they were anesthetizing his conscience.  Read More >>

 

PLAY
A Rock Solid novella #2
February 2017

Rock star Jared Walker is within reach of career glory… but his marriage is in the pits. Determined to save it, he talks his wife into holiday dates with only one rule: they must pretend they are strangers.  Read More >>

 

Fall coverFALL
A Rock Solid romance #3
November 2016

Keep Rage together at all costs…
Powerhouse PA Dimity Graham is off her game. Her career is everything to her and she never lets anything personal mess that up. So how can she explain getting busy between the sheets with Rage’s nice-guy drummer Seth Curran?  Read More >>

 

REDEMPTION
A Rock Solid romance #4
November 2020

He gave up the world for love. The world isn’t ready to let him go.
Fame is a destroyer. Which is why Zander Freedman quit music. These days its moderation in all things, except Elizabeth Winston. But building an ordinary life with an extraordinary woman isn’t easy. For one, she’s deep in the snake pit he left behind.  For two, he has a stalker that stops him being by her side.  Loving her is easy. Letting her love him is something he works on every day. How hard does Elizabeth’s life have to be before she regrets choosing him?.   Read More >>

 

RESURRECTION
A Rock Solid romance #5
March 2018

No more rock stars. Not ever.
Lily Hagan has done that scene to death. Her new career in early childhood education is way more rewarding and she deals with far fewer tantrums. Then a stolen sex tape is posted online and her future is in jeopardy. She needs to get away from the paparazzi and the only place that offers refuge is the world she swore never to return to: the music world.   Read More >>

 

Woo Me

WOO ME
October 2015

Can true love overcome a bad hide day and a series of unfortunate events?
Disillusioned in love, Jen Tremaine is done with men. So when her best friends dare her to wear a cow costume to their reunion at an Outback Bachelor & Spinster Ball, she’s all over it.   Read More >>

 

THE SOLDIER’S WEDDING
Special Forces # 1
July 2017

Desert Island Keeper at Likes Books

Love heals all wounds… Special Forces soldier Dan Jansen has come home from Afghanistan with one objective: to marry Josephine Swann. First he has to convince his childhood friend that their marriage ‘agreement,’ a tipsy scrawl on a beer coaster three years ago, is binding.  Read More >>

 

THE RESCUE MISSION
Special Forces # 2
August 2017

Playing with dynamite, a guy could get burned…  Given his aversion to love and marriage, Ross Coltrane—an elite soldier and demolitions expert—has no idea how he ended up playing middleman to his kid brother and the estranged wife. More terrifying is suddenly noticing how sexy his sister-in-law is.   Read More >>

BRING HIM HOME
Special Forces # 3
February 2018

A SmartBitches BookClub pick!

A medal doesn’t make you a hero… Former soldier Nathan Wyatt had no choice but to leave his army buddy to die, a secret that’s still tearing him apart. Two years on, he’s in Hollywood prostituting his war medal for work as a bodyguard to the stars when his best friend’s widow drags him home to fulfil his neglected responsibilities to her family trust.  Read More >>

 

A PRIOR ENGAGEMENT
Special Forces # 4
August 2018

RBY finalist 2014

“I can’t let you get over me…because I’m never going to get over you.”  After two years as a POW presumed dead, SAS soldier Lee Davis is finally going home. Back to his family, friends and…fiancée? He doesn’t have a fiancée…  Read More >>

 

KISS ME, SANTA
December 2016

An American loner finds he’s bought a house in a New Zealand street famous for its Christmas lights. It’s his community-minded neighbor’s task to ensure no one – but no-one – breaks a hallowed twenty-year-old tradition.  Read More >>

 

STAY
June 2017

The last thing Joe Fraser needs is an opinionated young teacher telling him he needs to get his act together with his ten-year-old daughter. It’s hard enough working all hours to meet his estranged father’s medical bills. Who the hell does Philippa Browne think she is? Unfortunately he’s desperate enough to take her advice.    Read More >>

 

rbywinner07MR IMPERFECT
Lost Boys # 1

RBY Winner 2007

She broke his heart… It takes a funeral to drag bad-boy billionaire Christian Kelly back to his rural New Zealand hometown. Now thanks to an ancient IOU, he’s stuck there trying to save the inheritance of the only woman who ever dumped him.  Read More >>

 

MR IRRESISTIBLE
Lost Boys # 2

She’s a crusader, he’s a maverick…  To everybody else, billionaire Jordan King is a selfless philanthropist and most-eligible bachelor, but newspaper columnist Kate Brogan has inside information that he is a home wrecker—handsome and full of false promises. Just like her philandering father.  Read More >>

 

MR UNFORGETTABLE
Lost Boys # 3

Her marriage was perfect, his was a disaster…An ideal match?
Reclusive billionaire Luke Carter can never forget that he’d been abandoned as a child. And that’s why he’s driven to build his camp for underprivileged kids in small-town Beacon Bay. If only the coastal New Zealand community trusted his motives. His only ally is mayor Elizabeth Light, a woman he wants to know better… Read More  >>

MR UNDENIABLE
Lost Boys #4

R*BY Finalist 2009
Romantic Times TOP PICK!

Could she risk loving him again?
Just when he has accepted that he’ll never be a father, Jack Galloway inherits not one, but three kids. He’s supposed to raise this family with his ex? Read More  >>

 


READERS NOTE: My first four books are loosely linked in a series. While each can be read as a stand-alone novel, if you’d like to read them in order, it is: Mr Imperfect; Mr Irresistible, Mr Unforgettable and Mr Undeniable.

Also be aware that Mr Imperfect and Mr Unforgettable were also published with Mills and Boon under the titles Falling For the Tycoon (Jan 09) and The Millionaire’s Private Affair (May 09).

SPECIAL FORCES SERIES
Book 1: A Soldier’s Wedding
Book 2: The Rescue Mission
Book 3: Bring Him Home
Book 4: A Prior Engagement

Dan Jansen and Jocelyn Swann
Hero and heroine of A Soldier’s Wedding. Reappear as a couple in The Rescue Mission, Bring Him Home and A Prior Engagement.

Ross Coltrane and Vivien Jansen
Hero and heroine of The Rescue Mission. Ross is introduced in A Soldier’s Wedding. Both characters reappear as a couple in Bring Him Home and marry in Prior Engagement.

Nathan Wyatt and Claire Langford
Hero and heroine of Bring Him Home. Claire is introduced in A Soldier’s Wedding. Both Claire and Nate reappear as a couple in A Prior Engagement.

Zander Freedman
First appeared as the brother of hero Devin Freedman in What The Librarian Did.  Zander has cameos in Bring Him Home (as employer of bodyguard Nathan Wyatt) and A Prior Engagement, before I gave him his own Rock Solid series, beginning with Rise.

LOST BOYS SERIES
Book 1: Mr Imperfect
Book 2: Mr Irresistible
Book 3: Mr Unforgettable
Book 4: Mr Undeniable

Christian Kelly and Kezia Rose
Hero and heroine of Mr Imperfect. Both characters reappear as a couple in Mr Irresistible and Mr Unforgettable.

Jordan King and Kate Brogan
Heroine and heroine of Mr Irresistible. Jordan is introduced in Mr Imperfect and he and Kate marry in Mr Unforgettable.

Luke Carter and Liz Light
Hero and heroine of Mr Unforgettable. Luke is introduced in Mr Imperfect, and reappears in Mr Irresistible and Mr Undeniable.

And a mention of family ties: Jack Galloway
Hero of Mr Undeniable is foster brother to Luke Carter hero of Mr Unforgettable.

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