Hi, Everyone! I decided to wait until today to post this because The Wilderness Bride is now available. I didn’t want to clutter people’s inboxes by emailing twice this month. 🙂

Now Available!

I’m happy to say I have another historical western romance out. I know some of you were looking forward to more westerns, and it was fun to get back into that setting. I love Regencies and historical westerns. It’s hard to pick one that I enjoy more. I just go where the story ideas take me. In this case, I felt led to write a story set in the Oregon hillside. This is Book 1 in the Oregon Series.

Here’s what it’s about:

She came to the forest to die. His solitary life is the only thing that brings him peace. 

1894. Lisa Foxhorn has nothing left. Rejected and humiliated by wealthy Eastern society over an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, the grieving heiress surrenders her baby for adoption and flees to the Oregon coast to end it all. But when her suicide attempt fails, she’s stunned to be taken in by a brooding man whose wild appearance is contradicted by his compassionate touch.

Ashley Carver has chosen isolation. Yet he can’t turn away from the frail redheaded beauty he finds above the oceanside cliffs. And though the routine-loving recluse avoids all close relationships, his emotional walls waver when a traveling preacher makes assumptions about their situation and demands they marry.

Struggling to keep up the lies that conceal her tainted past, Lisa wonders if consummating their union could heal her raw wounds, specifically the need for another child to replace the one she had to give up. Though Ashely hates being vulnerable, their kisses tempt him into opening up to her. Will their deepening bond turn an unwanted marriage into a fiery love match?

The Wilderness Bride is the steamy first book in the Oregon historical western romance series. The hero is a virgin.

If this sound like your kind of book, you can find it at these places:

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Kobo (included in Kobo Plus)

Apple

Google Play (ebook)

Google Play (audiobook)

Smashwords

Everand

Radish

Fable

Tolino

I am Coming Close to Finishing The Hero Least Likely

This is Book 2 in the Love Under Desert Skies Series:

I’m really happy with how this book has turned out. I have a couple more chapters to go, but it won’t be long before it’s done. The nice thing is we’ll be seeing the main cast of characters (Lucas, Gail, Zeke, Bernadette, Blaze, and another woman who showed up in this one) in Book 3. Since I am going to be working on the holiday romance series that will be coming out between September and February, I don’t expect Book 3 to come out until 2026. So we will be saying goodbye to the Arizona desert for a while after this book is finished.

I am over halfway done with The Earl’s Bluestocking Bride

This is Book 1 in the Marriage by Chemistry Series.

Things are still going along really well in this one. It’s definitely a cute, romantic comedy. The hero and heroine still don’t know the truth of their identities yet, but they are about to get married. It won’t be too long after they say, “I do,” the heroine is going to realize who the hero is and will wish she had said, “I don’t.” Don’t worry, though. It’s a romance. Everything will work out. Eventually.

I am making nice progress in The Preacher’s Wife

This is Book 2 in the Oregon Series.

After you read The Wilderness Bride, this whole thing about the preacher will make a lot more sense. In The Wilderness Bride, he comes across more as a villain than a hero, but that’s because the main characters in The Wilderness Bride didn’t like him. Since the preacher is the main character in this book, we get to see him in a different light. We get to view his perspective on things. I am fascinated by the way different characters feel about events that are happening around them. So it’s fun to take a character who was unlikable in one book and turn him into someone who is likable in another book.

At the moment, the hero and heroine are getting along, but both of them are unsure of how to proceed with their marriage. So there is a lot of awkwardness. I’m not sure how they will start feeling comfortable with each other enough to fall in love. The fun part in writing this book is that we’ll get to find out soon enough.

Now to discuss the holiday series I am planning!

This is going to be the Marriage by Holiday Series, and I’m tucking this into a Regency category. The reason I’m placing it in the Regency world is because I want Mr. Christopher Robinson to be the hero in Book 3. (He’s one of my favorites.) Don’t worry, Agatha is still going to be the heroine. I’m not getting rid of her.

I don’t have covers for these books yet. I only have the title to Book 1, which is Masquerade. But I do have the basic setup for this series.

Book 1 (Masquerade) is going to have a Halloween theme to it. It is the eve of the heroine’s wedding night, and she’s worried that her marriage will not result in a love match. She barely knows the gentleman. Their parents arranged the marriage. She is a wallflower. She is not all that pretty, though to be fair, she doesn’t take the time to pretty herself up because she’d rather be reading a book than socializing. She makes a wish that she could be “popular”. I’m not sure what the term would be for the Regency era on this, so I need to look that up. Anyway, in this book, our heroine will get her wish. She is going to get to live the life of a lady who is beautiful, charming, and the center of attention. And, since it is a romance, she’ll get to come across the gentleman she is supposed to marry, but she’ll get to see him from a different vantage point since he doesn’t know her real identity.

Book 2 is going to have a Christmas theme to it. In this one, the heroine is the “popular” lady in Book 1. She is going to be a spoiled brat. That’s the only way this rendition of A Christmas Carol is going to work. I need someone who needs to change for the better by the end of this story. And since someone requested the heroine is the one who is the “Scrooge”, I thought I’d run with it. That person also likes the names Diana and Richard. So that will be the names of our main characters. I haven’t thought too much on this one. We know there will be the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, but I haven’t yet decided who the hero is as a person, nor do I yet know his role in this story.

Book 3, as I mentioned above, involves Mr. Christopher Robinson and his wife, Agatha. This will be their second book. The first was His Reluctant Lady. Okay, so this setup is going to be based off the idea, “What if I had never been born?” The book opens with Christopher having a crisis (of sorts). I haven’t laid out the details, but I think it will involve Christopher’s daughter kissing Lord Roderick’s son at a dinner party. The kids are going to be like 12 or 13, so these two are not set to elope yet. (Though in the future, they will end up doing that. I’ve known for years that Roderick’s oldest son and Christopher’s oldest daughter will fall in love. I’m just not ready to get to their story at this time because I feel there are more other Regency stories to tell first.) Okay, so the kiss occurs, and this begins a lot of fretting and agonizing. Christopher is going to run into other problems, I’m sure. And he’ll come to a moment where he thinks everyone would have been better off if he just hadn’t been born. That’s when he gets a visit from a “guardian angel” who will show him how things would have been different without him. We’ll get to see how Lord Roderick (Nate) and Claire would have ended up, how Lilly and Roger would have ended up, how Lord Edon would have ended up, how Agatha would have ended up, and others Christopher has managed to impact in some way have ended up. I need to start making a list of people to put in this one. Christopher has been a pretty busy guy in these Regency books.

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Alright, I’m going to end this post here. I am going to be looking into joining some BookFunnel Promos. Thankfully, I had a couple requests, so now I know what books to run. The problem with having 100 books is that it’s hard to narrow down which to offer in promos.