“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”  –Arthur Schopenhauer

Love under construction: Contemporary small-town romance series: Blueprint to Love book 1 Broken down at the side of the road, Jenna Stone’s life is like her car. In need of a jump start. Tired of playing by other people’s rules, the widowed single mom guards her new freedom by keeping her deadbeat husband alive . . . in name only.
The definition of a responsible son, Jackson Traynor runs the family construction company. The workaholic millionaire is all business. No pleasure. Until assisting a beautiful redhead with her broken down car reminds Jake what he really wants.
But what if the only person you want is the one you can never have? As the holidays approach, Jake hopes for a Christmas miracle– because Jen and her kids are the family he’s always dreamed of. Jenna will be forced to choose between a safe life and the one of her dreams. When Jake’s company is threatened, she will risk everything to protect him– even if it means exposing old secrets.

In a small Scottish university town, what links a spate of horrible murders, a targeted bomb explosion and a lecturer’s disappearance? Is a terror group involved? If so, who is pulling the strings? And what does something that happened over forty years ago have to do with it?

Having recently returned to Castletown in the hope of winning back his estranged wife, DCI Jim Carruthers finds himself up to his eyes in the investigation.

Struggling with a very different personal problem, DS Andrea Fletcher assists Jim in the hunt for the murderous perpetrators. To prevent further violence they must find the answers quickly. But will Jim’s old adversary, terror expert McGhee, be a help or a hindrance?

Wanted: Forever homes for twelve adorable puppies.
Needed: A Christmas Eve miracle and maybe a kiss underthe mistletoe.

Alone for the holidays, whenClara finds out the animal shelter where she volunteers receive twelve puppies,all she wants for Christmas is to match them with families, but it’s not easy.On Christmas Eve, twelve wagging tails surround her, still in need of foreverhomes.

Logan doesn’t care if fanscall him the Grinch. He’s had it with the holly, the jolly, the merriment, andthe caroling. If he has to sing, “All I Want for Christmas is You,”one more time, he might lose it, but he’s already lost so much. He’d ratherjust skip the festivities altogether.

When Clara meets up with afriend for coffee to brainstorm ideas to place the dogs, her ex-boyfriend turnsup and harasses her. To top it off, a stranger steps in to help, but he turnsout to be a jerk with a voice that can melt snow and maybe hearts–none otherthan musician Logan Ryder.

Gemma Bradbury used to be the epitome of a basic thirty-something woman—obsessed with social media, Netflix, and Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes.

But when she stumbles into a new life in Magickal Salem, everything changes. Gemma finds herself tangled up in the suspicious death of an elderly shop owner, realizes her cat can talk, and discovers she’s an actual witch.

She also finds out that she’s stuck in Salem. Forever.

But once the Coven assigns her a magical tutor—the drop-dead gorgeous Professor Beauregard Bacchus—and she makes friends with a real fairy princess, things start to look up.

All she has to do now is learn to navigate a new town full of witches, vampires and shifters, manage a magic shop, pass her first wand exam, and maybe flirt a bit with the handsome paranormal bachelors in her new town.

Oh, and find the shop owner’s real killer before Salem’s bumbling moose-shifter deputy tosses her in jail for murder.

Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city and after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he finally moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood. But he soon discovered it’s a different world en France.

From learning the ironclad rules of social conduct to the mysteries of men’s footwear, from shopkeepers who work so hard not to sell you anything to the etiquette of working the right way around the cheese plate, here is David’s story of how he came to fall in love with—and even understand—this glorious, yet sometimes maddening, city.

When did he realize he had morphed into un vrai parisien? It might have been when he found himself considering a purchase of men’s dress socks with cartoon characters on them. Or perhaps the time he went to a bank with 135 euros in hand to make a 134-euro payment, was told the bank had no change that day, and thought it was completely normal. Or when he found himself dressing up to take out the garbage because he had come to accept that in Paris appearances and image mean everything.

Montreal, the long, hot summer of 1996, and in the dark of night, moving like a shadowy wraith, a vigilante prowls the city’s streets. The targets of his bloody rampage, the worst of the worst; murderers, gangbangers, rapists… Six months, sixteen murders and the harried police are still without a clue, until they receive an email from the assassin himself. Lieutenant Dave McCall, head of Montreal’s Special Homicide Task Force, needs help to crack the secrets of the killer’s taunting message. He calls on an expert, Chris Barry, who runs a security firm specializing in computer communications. Together, McCall and Barry launch a grim quest to track down a man who preys on predators – an urgent quest to bring this remorseless killer to justice. But whose justice will prevail? Theirs, or the Vigilante’s?