The Right Thing To Do

Galen Helliwell, an aimless traveller with a personal ethic of always trying to do the right thing.

Pity and a Shame

A small bedroom community/tourist town rocked by its first homicide, the brutal murder of an unpopular recluse. An unemployed ex military policeman, hired as the only law in the town, attempts to discover the truth when all the clues point to someone in the town.

A Town Called Sunrise

When miners and prospectors visit the town during a yearly celebration in order to meet the government assayer, a notorious land grabber starts preparing to obtain a claim from an elderly prospector who has finally struck it rich. The sheriff and his deputy have other ideas. Bits of fun, humour, and romance sprinkle...

All That Glisters

The setting is New Zealand in the 1860s, when gold miners poured into the fledgling settlement of Dunedin. Rose is unhappy in the household of her fanatical uncle, but Thomas, a young merchant from Canada, offers a glimpse of another possible life, if she is brave enough to reach for it. (Short story)

Aishwarya ~ The Prince's Brown Bride

Marriage had always been my dream but not to a man about whom I know nothing. The moment my father fixed an alliance of me to a Prince without even telling or asking me, all the dreams I thought of a beautiful escape from reality, called marriage shattered into the pieces. Never in my thoughts, had I imagined that I w...

In The Company of Deceit

The bold theft of casino funds by a disgruntled employee and his cohorts, leads to murder and betrayal among a group of bus passengers. When an unexpected accident occurs, their lives change.dramatically. Pursued by the victim's men, each struggle to hide their own story and secrets.

The Librarian

Deadly St. Louis epidemics of cholera and typhoid in the mid 1800s had taken her father and changed Harriet's life. With a lot of patience and courage, she left home to establish a library in a small western town. The excitement and adventure she imagined soon met an ugly reality. "I was a victim, not the avenging kil...

Rule Number One - UIC2023

*** FIRST PLACE WINNER UIC2023 *** 12 chapter contest based on specific weekly prompts. An assassin realizes something isn't right about the new target they've been given. They switch sides to save the person they were meant to kill.

Arc-en-ciel

〚FEATURED〛 ⭒⭒⭒⭒⭒ "My pick-up lines are great." "Yeah, and I have a pet llama." "You do??" "No, idiot." ⭒⭒⭒⭒⭒ Arc-en-ciel (n.): Rainbow He's the perfect example of a thundercloud. He's rude, grumbly, and frightening to most- ready to harshly rain down on anyone in his way. She's a human sunbeam, at best. She's the kin...

Remember Then

SHE IS DIFFERENT... Sophia owes her life to none but one man: Marcus Durley. After saving her from hell, he took her to Rock'oles, the most affluent and sophisticated brothel in the Town, where women are given more freedom, a far cry from the brothel slum Marcus rescued her from. But unlike the others, her role is...

The Devil's Breed

Never get lost in the mountains when winter settles in. Not when the wolves are hungry.

Twelve Angry Guests

Six couples receive mysterious invitations for an all-expenses- paid stay at the private island resort of a notorious billionaire, with only the names and a few vague ideas of whom the other guests are. Why they were all chosen, and for what purpose, they would have to accept to see. The one commonality they do have...

One Glance

The Napoleonic Wars have kept Captain Luke Cassidy away from home, and away from his wife and son, for three years. There was nothing more in his life that Luke wanted than to see his son for the first time. There was nothing more in his life that Luke wanted than to reunite with his family after three long years apa...

Black Marion

She woke up on the 999th floor of the Skyworld's richest tower to luxury, affection, and the perfect life. The problem is that Sasha - if that is really her name - can't remember if any of it is real. Vaughn Scio, the powerful regent who claims to be her lover, is certainly hiding something. (a dark dystopian love sto...

Grace (A Sinclair Society Novella) Rough Draft

Grace Anderson was certain her future was secure when she accepted the proposal of Jonathan Sinclair. When he dies unexpectedly, she is devastated, and even after five years, she has found no man who can equal the man she was to have married. Her mother has introduced uncountable bachelors to her, but she could not e...

Taming the beastly Duke

Cassandra knew her life was over the moment her parents told her she was to marry the Duke of Thornton. She had heard horrible stories about him that made ice cold fear run down her spine. He's a gorgeous man, but rude and insulting at every turn. Cassandra tries to make the best of her marriage but it's quite hard t...

Caveat Emptor

All Barbara Spence had to do was meet the courier at the airport and deliver him to the hotel. Murder, a handsome detective, and the theft of an ancient scroll from a French crime lord, sends ripples across the ocean, where she is swept up in the killing of the courier, and an international hunt.

Across the River - an 1800s Black / Native American Novella

Part black. Part Irish. Part Lumbee Indian. Wholly determined to protect her family. Naomi Jackson made a mistake. Born in the tumultuous years following the American Revolution, she embraced change, excitement, and adventure. So when the Devil Bill Williams swaggered into town, she launched into his arms, determined...

Back To The Roots (REWRITTEN)

Kyla has been trapped in an abusive relationship and has finally decided its time to break free. But how will she do that? In the most unexpected way possible. She'll change her world completely, by creating an entirely new one. A place where she can always do what she wants, a place where the laws of this world can...

Love & Misunderstanding

[Book I of the Gilmore Legacy Series] When Jonathan Gilmore, a pessimistic and cynical young man from a powerful 19th century English family, meets Helene Hoffman, a golden haired immigrant girl from Germany, there's no way that either of them can know the effect they will one day have on one another.

Lady of the Night (Editing)

Lady Lila Addison is the daughter of Viscount James Addison. When her family starts receiving threatening letters and messages telling them to leave their home before danger befalls them, Lila takes it as a mission of her own to solve the mystery. Before she did, she tried to get the help of the constable and the Duke...

Wentworth's Baron

LADY HENRIETTA WENTWORTH is not interested in the dictates of the day relating to marriage. Satisfied with her life, if she will marry, it will be to someone she loves and chooses. Her father does not insist she marry, until now. ALEXANDER DURHAM BARRINGTON will make a suitable match. All is settled between the fa...

Remember Me Not

"I can't remember what happened that night. I'm not talking slippery details or fuzzy-edged visions; I mean a complete and utter blackout. Like I wasn't even there. Except... I know I was." Since the death of her boyfriend six months ago, Morgan Cain's life is spiralling out of control. She didn't mean to stay away fr...

In The Shadows

"I'd spent my entire life in hiding, in the shadows. Until one day he saw me, and I wasn't so hidden anymore." Amber is good at what she knows, staying hidden. Until one day, he sees her. She's taken, forced out of everything she knows, to fight for a cause she doesn't support. But little by little, Amber discovers a...

The Lawman (Historical Western Romance)

On the run from her ex-lover... Jilted by a no-show husband... And now mistaken for a whore in the Diamond Back Saloon... Abigail Thornton doesn't think things can get any worse. That is until a single slap to a man's face starts a barroom brawl that lands her in the last place she expected to be. Town Marshal Morgan...

The Cowboy's Love

Weston Hughes is a lone cowboy who's lost his way and what little family he had. And Lauren Mann is a woman who's been abandoned by her husband early in pregnancy and their ten year old son, Caleb. Both of them missing love and family, that they find in one another. (Finally Completed)

The Secret Attachment

Katy Fairchild is an orphan and knows that no respectable man will marry her. But when a storm throws her into the arms of a mysterious stranger, will she fight society's opinion of her low status to pursue a forbidden romance? ***** At the age of nin...

The Abandoned Lady

Lady Amelia Grey is too rich, too quiet and very insecure. In a society where impressions and arranged marriages are popular, Amelia needs a husband. When she miraculously marries the oh-so-handsome Lord Pierce, he can't stand the sight of her! However, when Amelia is abandoned by her husband of two days, everything c...

Crocodile Tears

"Let us meet again in hell." Before she became the infamous seductress. Before he was the most hated tyrant. Before it all fell apart... Born a curse, she was cast away from the royal family. But when the kingdom needed an alliance, she was the one called upon to marry. As the second son, he had no right to become hei...

LOVE&FAMILY

WARNING: Terrible ML and ending. This is the normal cliché but with lots of plot twists and secrets. And if you have read GONE and here no more, you know that I am full of them. In the 19th century, every father is working or enjoying his money, every mother is searching for the perfect rich match for her daughter, e...