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BOOK 1: IF I LOVED YOU

Does love always mean total truth? Shunning the limelight, Megan kept her family secret safe. Gorgeous movie star, Chaz Duncan valued privacy above all. Jealousy and deceit threaten two careers and true love in this roller-coaster-ride contemporary romance.    

BOOK 2: RED CARPET ROMANCE  

Why is gorgeous movie star, Quinn Roberts, sharing his space with a baby he calls “Junior”, if it isn’t his own? Susanna, live-in nanny, can’t figure him out. Mutual heat melts his guarded heart & her reserve until a slip of the tongue shatters his dreams.     

 

BOOK 3: MEMORIES OF LOVE 

Can true love survive anything? A marriage to another? A seven year separation?

Pregnant and alone, Cara stars in her first movie while Grant marries another. When felled by illness, she’s forced to give her child to Grant. Five years later, Fate strikes, reuniting them by chance. Will they discover that true love never dies?

 

Blown away by her lover, Grant’s, quickie marriage to another, Cara, pregnant, and starring in her first movie, struggles along alone. When felled by illness, she’s forced to give her child to Grant. Five years later, Fate strikes, reuniting them by chance. Will they discover that true love never dies? 

BOOK 4: MOVIE LOVERS 
Can revenge turn to regret? Humiliated by a slick producer and her sister’s co-star, Grace uses the Internet for payback. But the scheme turns sour when she falls for one of the men she trashed. Will she confess and try to regain her self-respect as well as the respect of the man she loves or keep quiet and lose it all?

 BOOK 5: LOVE'S LAST CHANCE

Questioning her decision to leave each of three men five years ago, Dorrie returns for one more day with them. Was she hasty in her decisions?  Will her return to the past bring the love she seeks or will loneliness propel her back into the arms of the one man who broke her heart? 

TO BE RELEASED SEPT. 1

 





BOOK 6: LOVERS & LIARS 
Coming November 1, 2013
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TUESDAY TALES - ROUGH

Welcome to Tuesday Tales - word prompt "rough". Here's a bit about the last episode of this story, "The Big Lie". 

After no contact for over 20 years, Dale and Cliff bump into each other at the old barn, home to their high school trysts. Each questions the other as to their reason for being there.

THE BIG LIE

“This place holds a lot of memories for me,” Cliff said in a rough voice.

“Me, too.” Dale moved toward the road. He placed his hand on her arm, stopping her retreat.

“Don’t run off. I haven’t seen you in over twenty years.”

“Twenty-three to be exact. What difference does it make?” You chose to marry someone else then. What do we have to talk about?

“Thought we could catch up a bit.”

“Catch up on what? Desertion?”

“Interesting you bring that up.”

“Is it?” She shook his hand off her arm. It’s so long ago, why do I still care. Why is seeing him again so painful for me?

“What are you mad about? I’m the injured party. I should be furious.”

“You? That’s a laugh!” She moved quickly toward home. Cliff followed. 

 “Wait a minute!” He called, but she ignored him. Run from the pain, girl. Just like you did then. Run, run, forget about him. He caught up with her and placed both hands on her upper arms, trapping her.

“Hold it. I have a right to speak.”

“Do you? Your excuses won’t fix things. She’s a lovely woman. I get it. You preferred her to me. I’m not stupid. Now let go.” She struggled but he held fast.

“What the hell are you talking about? You were engaged when I married Sylvia.”

“Are you out of your mind? I wasn’t engaged until long after you’d tied the knot.”

Cliff dropped his hands. “Believe what you want. I’ve forgiven you. Just wanted to tell you that face-to-face.” He walked away with long, purposeful strides.

A sudden coldness gripped Dale. He did marry first. Mom told me. She saw the announcement in the paper. Her last conversation with her step-mother nagged at her. “Forgive me, Dale. Sweetheart. Forgive me. Please.” The old woman held her hand, her eyes repentant.

A shiver ran up Dale's spine. Her knees shook, forcing her to lean against a tall pine tree. Covering her face with her hands, she moaned. “She wouldn’t. She didn’t. It can’t be true.” As abruptly as her energy left her, it returned with a vengeance. She ran home, climbing the three stories to the attic as fast as her legs would move. Stuggling for breath, she pawed through the dust an inch thick on musty cardboard box after box, to no avail. Then she tried the old trunk.
Digging like a squirrel uncovering buried nuts in the winter, she found it. At the bottom, under a sheaf of papers was a yellowed, crumbling newspaper clipping. Cliff’s wedding notice. Date: August 10^th. Not March twentieth! 

She covered her face with her hands.

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