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Forgotten roots, abandoned family, lost love and three Christmas tragedies all made Chloe Coleman who she is today. When forced to chose, will she stay with the life it took ten years to build, or put aside the memories of a devastating past to become the person she is called to be in the present? Chloe Coleman has worked hard to forget the...

When big-city girl Grace Bridges rolls into the tiny town of Cove Creek for her best friend’s wedding, she never expects her first encounter with local law enforcement to land her in jail. Sheriff Clayton Johnson is dead set on teaching the speeding, smart-mouthed newcomer a lesson—especially after she seemingly endangers a local feline.
The...

Enos Dean Gunther III has spent his life in the mountains of Cove Creek, as have generations of Gunthers before him. Like many uplanders, Dean keeps to himself. An easy choice, since most of his time is spent trying to sober up his father. Then Heidi Coleman crashes a truck, practically on his doorstep. The cute redhead he knew from school has...

Professional runner Larisa Mae Baker is fast on her way to achieving her goals when an injury during a major event takes her permanently out of the running; damaging her knee, killing her dream, and severing her relationship with her fiancé.
When her beloved grandmother passes away and leaves Larisa a bakery in the small town of Cove Creek, it...

In the shadow-shrouded mountain town of Cove Creek, where Christmas miracles are as familiar as fresh snow, Jake Boles becomes the unwitting recipient of a deadly secret: a baby, abandoned in his arms by a stranger who whispers three chilling words, “This is yours” before disappearing into the bone-deep cold of a December dawn.
For Jake’s bride...

Brianna Walters has made her home in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. Spending time in the misty giants is a coping mechanism since her beloved husband Grant died in a plane crash.
Four years after his death Bree is making some headway in forcing Grant’s memories into the recesses of her mind rather than the forefront of her heart. Her once...

Glory Donaghan has a wonderful church, a devoted family, and a flourishing career. She feels God’s hand on every aspect of her life.
That life flips when Glory awakens in a hospital accused of drug abuse by Tanner Slade, a man she’d just met. Her problems compound when the infuriating angler continues to involve himself in her life.
When Glory...

Dawn’s Gray Light is book three in the Smoky Mountain Mist series.

Had Dawn Ratliffe known the hot August morning would begin with such a bang she would have called in sick.
The high school English Literature teacher has family and friends whose lives often border on the intriguing and exciting. Her own life leans more towards the mundane and she...

Taryn Randolph can fly a plane, ride a horse, play stringed instruments like a pro, and cook a ten-course meal to rival a king’s feast. But risking her heart for love will be her greatest challenge. The feisty chef runs a successful dessert bistro and farm to table restaurant, yet she takes time to care for the homeless in her neighborhood. When...

When Ezra Rosenburg mistakenly pockets mob money on the day he buries his beloved wife, his golden years take a dangerous detour.
Battling memory loss and Palm Beach’s criminal network, Ezra and his best friend Leonard embark on an accidental adventure that’s part memorial celebration part crime caper.
With the police, a tenacious detective, and a...

In the sleepy town of Plum Beach, where gossip travels faster than the seasonal winds, the grisly murder of a local magician sends shockwaves through the community and brings a goth teenager, Azure, out into the open. The teen is more than quirky. She believes in reincarnation in the absolute.
Rookie detective Sam Spaid is determined to crack the...

A murderer, an abuser, two kidnappings, and an undercover assignment repeatedly bring skip tracer Judah Max and Detective Nick Baker into each other’s lives; forcing them to work together, despite their different views.
When Judah is almost fatally wounded while pursuing a bail-jumping-wife-beater-turned-kidnapper, Nick steps in, intent on...

Who do you trust when everyone wants you dead?

A childhood tragedy launched Megan Trotter on a drug and alcohol induced downward spiral. Still, she never expects her twenty-fifth birthday to end with a literal bang.
Now she must figure out if the man who saved her life is also the one who tried to end it, and who he is working for.
When a loved one...

Jamie Brock has loved Josh Blazer for years and always assumed they would marry; until the invitation announcing Josh’s wedding to another woman arrives.
With her life in turmoil and desperate for a distraction, Jamie focuses all of her energy on barrel racing; with a side interest in the new mailman, Sawyer. But he isn’t who he claims to be.
...

Some truths are worth dying for. Others will kill you to stay buried.
Former detective Jodi Jason’s career in LA ended the moment she reported what she saw: beings that shouldn’t exist. Especially on Earth. Leaving chaos in her investigative wake didn’t help her case either.
Exiled to Broken Canyon, California—population 996 and shrinking fast—...

After fifteen years of waiting, Janna DeElk finally receives the summons she’s dreamed of, to meet her father for the first time.
And it arrives on her sixteenth birthday.

But the excitement of the day becomes a nightmare when dragons attack her village, leaving death and destruction in their wake.

When Janna nocks an arrow and accidentally...

Unknown to Priestess Radalyn of Solari she holds the power to save her world in a tiny star fragment, but every dream she interprets is stealing the light from her planet.

Priestess Radalyn is the last of her kind, bearer of an ancient star fragment that allows her to interpret dreams on the dying world of Tancharden. For three centuries, her...

One Christmas a little horse learned a valuable lesson; that not all people who have so much, have anything at all; and those who seem to have little, often have so much more than we can imagine. Theodore the Dancing Horse must survive pouring rain, mucky mud, unfriendly dogs and rejection by his beloved owner before he can find a new life; a...

Willa and Remi. The names alone sound like a match made in heaven. But heaven is not where they meet.
Remi has never missed a sleep window. Armed with enchanted dust and an encyclopedic knowledge of REM cycles, his job is to keep the world’s most chaotic minds drifting peacefully off to sleep, one graveyard shift at a time.
Willa hasn’t had a...

When you’re running for your life with nowhere left to turn, there’s only one place to go: home.
For Miranda Coleman, that means returning to the family she abandoned five years ago without a word of explanation, and she’s counting on their forgiveness.
But Miranda’s homecoming is complicated by her secrets and Cove Creek’s newest doctor: Luke...