FREE E-Book

To celebrate my birthday, I'm giving readers a gift. How's that for backwards? The Kindle version of the first book in the Donovan Legacy series, TRUTH, is on sale for FREE. It will be on sale from TODAY through the end of Monday, October 9.

Can a man take you seriously as an adult when he's witnessed all of the awkward phases of your life?

After a serious injury wrecks her plans for a place on the Olympic Equestrian Team, professional rider Missy Donovan marries security consultant Aaron Everett, a man she's known her entire life and loved since her teens. Only one problem - he doesn't love her in return.

Aaron has loved Missy since she was sixteen years old, but she's never expressed interest in him "that way". Despite promptings to tell her the truth, he can't bring himself to tell his wife that he's in love with her. Will she ever see him as more than the "big brother" who happened to grow up next door?

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More e-Books Available

Last month, I announced that my books are slowly becoming available on other sites besides Amazon. More have become available this month. Follows is an updated list of books that are now available at Barnes & Noble, Nook, Apple, and other booksellers (or soon releasing):

Contemporary
Promises (long novel - prequel #1 to the Donovan Legacy series)
Beyond Hope (novella - prequel #2 to the Donovan Legacy series)
The Blind Date (short-short story - prequel to In God's Time)
In God's Time (long novel)
Truth (long novel - Donovan Legacy series book #1)
Defender (long novel - Donovan Legacy series book #2)
Healer (long novel - Donovan Legacy series book #3 - available now for pre-order, releases Nov. 25th)
Peace (long novel - Donovan Legacy series book #4 - available now for pre-order, releases Dec. 9th)

Fantasy
Curse of the Talmara (long novel)
Shadows (short novel - Otherworlder book 1)
Visions (short novel - Otherworlder book 2)
Specters (short novel - Otherworlder book 3 - available now for pre-order, releases Nov. 21st)
Destiny (short novel - Otherworlder book 4 - available now for pre-order, releases Dec. 5th)

Urban Fantasy
Wolf short story series (#1-4 have released, #5-9 will release Nov. 23rd, Nov. 30th, Dec. 7th, Dec. 14th, & Dec. 21st but are currently available for pre-order)

• Turned
• Family
• Dark Moon
• Mate
• Rescue
• Super Moon
• Invader
• Acceptance
• Thanksgiving Moon

Non-Fiction
Patchwork Baby Blanket (crochet pattern)
Authors Unchained

MORE COMING SOON

E-Book Availability

CHANGE IS A'COMIN'!

I'm in the process of releasing my books in other e-formats besides for Kindle. If you obtain books through Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iBooks, or Scribd, you should see my stories releasing with those vendors over the next several months.

New releases will be Amazon-only for the first 3-6 months and then put out on other vendors after that period of time.

Currently available on other vendors (click on the title to go to a page with links to various sites):

Contemporary
Promises (long novel - prequel #1 to the Donovan Legacy series)
Beyond Hope (novella - prequel #2 to the Donovan Legacy series)
The Blind Date (short-short story - prequel to In God's Time)
In God's Time (long novel)
Truth (long novel - Donovan Legacy series book #1)

Fantasy
Curse of the Talmara (long novel)
Shadows (short novel - Otherworlder book 1 - available for pre-order now, releases Oct. 24th)

Non-Fiction
Patchwork Baby Blanket (crochet pattern)

MORE COMING SOON

Cover Evolution

In 2013, I made my first venture into cover design. Scary, and I didn't really know much about what I was doing, but I was happier with the results than I had been with the Createspace Cover Creator's results. I posted about that back then. I've learned a great deal since then, and figured out a few things about what I do and don't like about the covers I see online and in bookstores and WHY. I finally decided to redo the covers I'd done 3 years ago. Results?

The original covers:

The new covers:

The new covers are live as of last month. I also compiled those four novels into a Kindle e-book collection. I enjoyed doing the cover for that as well.

If you enjoy Christian romances with a suspense twist, check them out!

PEACE - Donovan Legacy book 4 - RELEASED

For those of you who have read and enjoyed the first books of the Donovan Legacy series, heads up! The final book in this series has released! It can be purchased in paperback or Kindle e-book (will be on Nook e-book as soon as Barnes & Noble finally catches up).

To celebrate the release of this final book in the series, the first book - TRUTH - is available for only .99 on Kindle on December 16th and 17th. If you haven't read it, snatch it up while you can!

When tempers collide, everyone loses.

Deputy Dax Donovan has struggled to find peace, in any measure, since a tragic accident in his teens. Weighted by guilt and the certainty that God failed him, he walks in a constant state of anger. He just wants everyone to leave him alone, but between his family and a nosy paramedic with too much compassion for her own good, he can't find a moment's peace.

Though fighting to control anger issues of her own, paramedic Holly Randall won't take Dax's bad attitude lying down. She's drawn to him even as his bouts of hostility frighten her. Didn't her mother's mistakes teach her anything? After a particularly nasty, and unwarranted, explosion, she determines to avoid him. Then tragedy strikes.

Will they finally embrace the peace God offers in abundance?

Memes and More Memes - Part 8

Doh! I thought I had already published this last month. Here it is for those who didn't see these memes on Facebook.

This week is memes I created for my book coming out this coming winter - Healer, book 3 of the Donovan Legacy series.

Photo by "deegolden" of morguefile.com

Baby pic by "bluekdesign" of morguefile.com
Bride pic by "phaewilk" of morguefile.com

Photo by "jade" of morguefile.com

Photo by "duluthdanai" of morguefile.com

Memes and More Memes - Part 4

For the past few weeks, I've been sharing the memes I've created for my currently published novels. Promises, Beyond Hope, and Truth (Donovan Legacy series, book 1) have all been shared. Today's offerings are for Defender, book 2 of the Donovan Legacy series.

HOW DO YOU STAND UP TO SOMEONE ELSE'S DEMONS WHEN YOU CAN'T FACE YOUR OWN?
 
Jordan Bridges finds Chase's concern sweet and more than a little endearing. However, she knows she must discourage his interest for the sake of his reputation. But he’s a tough man to deter.

Park Ranger Chase Donovan is hooked the moment he meets Jordan. How can time spent with the reserved, gentle-natured library assistant possibly be risky? Besides Donovans don't run. Then everything he’s worked for is threatened, and he must find the faith and the courage to face his own demons as well as hers.

Jordan wants nothing more than someone to love her enough to defend her against the lies running rampant in town. Just when she think she's found that someone in Chase, everything falls apart.

Photo by the author

Chain photo by "wallyir" of morguefile.com
Cross photo by the author

Photo by the author

Next week, the contemporary romance novel, In God's Time.

To see previously posted memes, click on one of the following - Promises, Beyond Hope, and Truth.

Memes and More Memes - Part 3

The last couple of weeks, I shared memes I created for the novel Promises and the novella Beyond Hope. (If you missed those posts, you can find them here and here.) Those two books lay the foundation for what comes next - the  Donovan Legacy series - which starts with the novel Truth. This week's memes are for that novel.

CAN A MAN TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY AS AN ADULT WHEN HE'S WITNESSED ALL OF THE AWKWARD PHASES OF YOUR LIFE?

After a serious injury wrecks her plans for a place on the Olympic Equestrian Team, professional rider Missy Donovan marries security consultant Aaron Everett, a man she's known her entire life and loved since her teens. Only one problem - he doesn't love her in return.

Aaron has loved Missy since she was sixteen years old, but she's never expressed interest in him "that way". Despite promptings to tell her the truth, he can't bring himself to tell his wife that he's in love with her. Will she ever see him as more than the "big brother" who happened to grow up next door?

Will they ever find the courage to tell each other the truth?

Photo by "d3designs" of morguefile.com

Photo by "jdurham" of morguefile.com

Photo by "msquanna" of morguefile.com

Photo by "dave" of morguefile.com

Photo by "Karpati Gabor" of morguefile.com

Next week, book 2 of the Donovan Legacy series, Defender!