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The diverse characters portrayed in the stories that make up this collection, whether in flight, trapped or inexorably driven, seek transformative truths that will make them whole. Feelings of dislocation permeate the stories as each character struggles to capture what is missing in their lives, essential to them in ways even they cannot define. The mysterious forces that shape each quest is motivated by powerful emotion at the center of which...

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After a wildly successful and scandalous career as a stripper, Fifi Lemott pens her memoirs and makes a fortune. She buys the house of her dreams in the quintessential town of Dorking, and embarks upon on a journey of adventure and mischief in the hope of finding love. In her search for a new life of romance and respectability, Fifi finds her path crossing with sexually frustrated pensioners, and finds herself baking cakes for the Women's inst...

In the year 1896, Brett Hope Bouvier, a young, distraught woman, in total confusion from medication, commits suicide because she thinks her husband, Jacques, is having an affair. Jacques hides the truth of her suicide and is convicted of her murder and hanged. In 2013, Elaine Dale Bouvier receives a phone call from a lawyer informing her that her spinster aunt died leaving her the sole beneficiary of her estate. Lawyer Robert Michael, executin...

A gun slinging cowgirl, Catrina Anderson lives in Dodge City. In order to inherit her uncle's ranch, she must wed in six-month's time. Living amongst bandits and hoodlums, her prospects are thin. One day, a young English dandy arrives in town. With time running out, Catrina left with no suitable options asks the handsome stranger to become her husband for just one year, and then he'll be free. Nigel Winston, working for Pinkerson Detecti...

Shiloh Martin vacationing in France with her fianc¿eturns to the hotel to find him in bed with the maid. Enraged, she races in her car up a dangerous road to discover her brakes have failed and out of control, she crashes. In 1885, Dorian Wolfermont, a duke known as Wolf, walks his estate that night to discover beautiful woman badly hurt. Shiloh awakens to discover that she's trapped in the past and falls in loved with a man who not only captu...

A stubborn young lady, Rusty Crawford, who loves only one thing more than her father and brother, the delicious oranges she toils over. When a handsome cowboy, Guy Strong wins her land from her father in a card game, she fights against the stranger's plans to raise cattle on the land and refuses to give up her orange grove in San Joaquin Valley, where the climate is perfect for growing citrus. Months pass as Rusty and Guy fight emotion...

Portraits and Landscapes is an eclectic collection of short stories about all of us. The first stories in the collection are about failed romance and how many of us constantly and painfully search for connection in our lives. Other stories take us across the globe, and speak in a variety of voices, which give us brief glimpses of individuals who struggle to make sense of our world. The human beings described in these stories will make you laug...

Leigh Taylor married only six months when her husband is murdered by his best friend. Her husband's spirit lingers around watching her grieve until one day a wounded Cheyenne rides into the yard. Raindancer, a half breed is cared for by Leigh and awakens facing two problems: his attraction to a white woman and her dead husband's spirit asking him to help Leigh hold onto her ranch. Together they battle wits against a murdering neighbor wh...

Two lifes hang in the balance, Two women convicted of murder. Only One may survive. Zandria Adams, living in the present, is executed for murdering her cheating husband. She meets a handsome angel. He informs her that she's been given a second chance, to return to earth to live again. 1856 Selma is being hanged for murdering her cheating husband. To her horror Zandria awakens in the eighteen hundreds just as a rope around her neck tight...

Georgie Love is a young woman out for revenge. As a child she had witnessed the murder of her parents and older brother by a young outlaw with turquoise colored eyes. Cared for by her father's sister, she has only one thought on her mind for years, to kill the man who murdered her family. After her aunt's funeral, Georgie refuses to leave her home and ambushes the new owner. As Jason Kincaid, travels to his newly purchased ranch, he's ...

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Toni Graham is a young girl with an active imagination who fantasizes about a blond, blue eyed hero saving her from the perils of life. After her father's death, a half-breed Indian known as Maverick, Horse with Spirit, escorts her on a treacherous journey to her sister's ranch out west. Toni stubbornly refuses to see the truth of what a "real" hero consists of. Even after Maverick nearly dies from knife wounds, (saving her from renegades, ...

Essie Sherwood, living in the present, grows up loving hot-air ballooning and takes off on her first solo adventure. Caught in a whirlwind, she crash-lands on a cliff unhurt, but with a deflated balloon. Star Gazer, believing the balloon is a giant bird that will endanger his village has shot it down, but is confused to find a beautiful woman in the basket. Each believing the other an enemy, their first encounter is far from civil. After...

Tory, an orphan at the age of ten is taken under the wing of a duchess as a servant but the Duchess has her own motives. Her teenage son, Lyndon Annicott protests and tries everything to make her runaway but Tory is just as strong willed. Maybe she is the daughter of a Duke or perhaps a princess , after all an orphan has to dream. Sometimes you find someone that truly loves you but it is rare for it to happen twice. Years later, Tory ha...

In the sixteenth century, Raven De Veaux is escorting a young prince home to take his rightful place on the throne. During a raging storm he is hit by lightning, experiencing an outer body transformation. His body is slammed to the ground where he lays unconscious. In the year 2090, Princess Alphonsine Zyronk is beamed down to the planet Earth when her craft is damaged. She loses conscientiousness and opens her eyes to discover a stran...

One nightmarish day, during the Civil War, a strong, southern woman, Melissa St. Andrew loses her parents and her sister is raped by Union soldiers. While journeying west she is abducted by Blue Thunder, a handsome White Mountain Apache. Both being strong willed individuals, they fight the strong attraction as they travel through the hot desert. At his village, Melissa subsequently saves his life after a serious injury but she's attacked ...

Blake January is escorting a young slave dealer to a fort when a young, feisty kid, Casey Walsh attempts to free his prisoner and fails. When Blake discovers the kid is a pretty girl, and the sister of his prisoner, he must now deal with two unwanted people. But, as Blake journey's to the fort, he cannot ignore the attraction he feels for Casey. At the fort, Casey manages to free her brother from the brig and they head west only to be ca...

Tia, a futuristic woman hides from the police in a space capsule, which lifts off with her and a resident android. The android believes Tia is another Cyborg, and they travel back to the eighteenth century to collect DNA to repopulate the future after most life on Earth had perished from a rare disease. The capsule crashes on the estate of Earl, Haden Winslow Morley. He, believing they're poor peasants hires them as servants. Modern ti...

Madison Adair travels to Kansas to fill a school teacher¿s position. The first person she encounters is a small child fleeing from a store owner for stealing penny candy. She discovers that the dirty faced ruffian is a seven year old girl who offers Madison a handful of pennies to be her mother. When the girl¿s father shows up, she scolds the handsome blond, blue eyed man for letting his daughter run dirty in the streets. Although the wom...