Christmas at the Bay: A Chesapeake Novel

Christmas at the Bay: A Chesapeake Novel
An aging mother wants nothing more than to spend Christmas with her family…

Carol Taylor has been through it all.

After going through a nasty divorce with Robert and her four grown children and grandchildren scattered across the country, Carol is planning to spend Christmas alone.

That is until her dying father gifts her a month at a bay house in the Chesapeake Bay.

When Carol arrives, she receives the surprise of a lifetime, but then tragedy strikes.

Will she get to spend Christmas with her family like old times?

Will she find new love?

Christmas at the Bay is a touching stand-alone novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat and fill your heart with warmth and love this holiday season. $3.99 on Kindle.

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Not His To Love: Legal Romantic Thriller (The Black Widows Book 4)

Not His To Love: Legal Romantic Thriller (The Black Widows Book 4)Years after a vicious attack, Daniel Baker still wakes up a sweaty shaky mess from horrifying nightmares. But it’s expected. Someone did try to kill him, and not just anyone. But unlike the rest of everyone else involved, he still can’t move on. Can’t forgive. And now, his life is about to become even more complicated with his ex’s re-entry in his life, baggage and all. Luciana Garcia- Jones has been trapped in her nightmare of a marriage for twelve years. She’s tried everything to get out of it but has failed repeatedly, and miserably. Then the one man she’s ever loved shows up in her life as her husband’s lawyer and Luciana is sure it’s a sign. Could he possibly be what she needs to finally escape the hell that is her life? The last thing Daniel wants is more complications in his life as he works on recovering. That is, until he finds out the truth about Luciana’s marriage. Now he wants her back. Whatever the cost. Trigger Warning: The content might include graphic references to topics such as sexual abuse, self-harm and violence. $2.99 on Kindle.
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The Trials of Adeline Turner

The Trials of Adeline Turner
From Charming Falls Apart author Angela Terry comes a story about finding the courage to face your past, be true to your heart, and live your best life. Fans of Sophie Kinsella and Emily Giffin will enjoy cheering for Adeline Turner as she navigates the twists and turns of her newly complicated life in this fun, heartwarming novel.
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Witching Well

Witching Well

Soon to be a TV series!

Welcome to midlife meltdown… with a side of magic and a whole lot of “oh hell, did I just do that?”

After her cheating, thieving excuse of an ex walks off with basically everything—including her dignity—Shannon is left with exactly one win: a crumbling mountain resort from her eccentric Aunt Maeve. Not exactly the fresh start she ordered… until she finds a very suspicious wishing well that doesn’t just grant wishes—it kicks open the door to witchcraft.

And yeah… turns out magic isn’t exactly user-friendly.

One tiny spell goes sideways? Boom—best friend turned into a walking hormone hurricane. Try to hex the ex? Surprise! Karma slaps back harder.

Now Shannon’s juggling rogue spells, questionable decisions, and a magical glow-up she absolutely did not train for. But between the chaos, the cocktails, and a growing power she can’t ignore, she might just turn this hot mess into her best life.

If the magic doesn’t kill her first. $4.99 on Kindle.
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Future Plans

Future PlansCan you always go home again?
When her daughter’s life is suddenly in jeopardy, Hazel has no choice but to move back to her hometown to spend the summer creating quality memories with Ellie. Little does she know that this roller coaster ride is just beginning. Amidst uncovering relationships both new and old, Hazel will discover that there are some things we just can’t plan. $0.99 on Kindle
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The Fortune Cookie Writer

The Fortune Cookie Writer
“The Fortune Cookie Writer will delight…”–Midwest Book Review. Dog walker by day and fortune cookie writer by night, Marissa is broke. Blindsided by divorce, she’s determined to support her young son, Owen, musically gifted and struggling to hide his peculiar behaviors from the world. When a stranger offers her a week’s pay to cook dinners for a widow who lives one floor down, Marissa accepts. She’d be a fool to turn down such easy cash. But the arrangement isn’t simple with ninety-four-year-old Rose, who tends to lapse into Yiddish and has no interest in visits from an unfamiliar neighbor. Soon Marissa discovers clues about Rose’s unspoken history: a piano, silent for decades, yet still in tune; a locked case with an unbreakable code; and three hidden photos bearing an inscription. As Owen’s future darkens, Rose’s past is revealed—leaving Marissa to decide how to create good fortune for the three of them.
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Snips and Snails Mystery Cafe Boxset

Snips and Snails Mystery Cafe Boxset
Life after 40 can be a challenge…what with too many gray hairs to pluck, all the sagging and bagging, and a faulty internal temperature control…

But in Veil Falls all things are possible. ..

Add in one cup Murder, three teaspoons of Sass and Snark and a dash of Romance, and life over the hill is more than just Juli Mason’s next murder case. It’s an opportunity to live out her bucket list, one blessed bowlful at a time… $0.99 on Kindle
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Free: Refuge at Pine Lake

Refuge at Pine Lake“ … a tender story of healing and finding a place to belong. This sweet, Southern romance doesn’t disappoint.” – Liz Talley. Robin Lancaster, a twenty-six-year-old former kindergarten teacher, has her summer and her life all figured out. She’s ready to be on her own, writing and illustrating children’s stories at her family’s beloved lake house. Once there, she intends to rekindle a romance with Caleb Jackson, the area’s top hunting and fishing guide, and bag him for herself.Complications arise from the start when Robin finds out her mother has rented the lake house to a man they know nothing about. Matthew McLaughlin, forty-year-old widowed university professor and author from California, shows up at Pine Lake in crisis. A sabbatical might be his only hope to save much more than his career. He needs a place of refuge. Sharing the lake house with a lighthearted young woman and her dog is the last thing on his mind. Caleb has his own plans. He’s used to things going his way, but a man staying in Robin’s house presents unforeseen challenges. When paths unavoidably entangle for these three, hearts are on the line. Free on Kindle.
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Getting to Forever

Getting to Forever
He was protecting those he loved…. She wanted him to notice her and when he did, she knew she could never let him go. #Unputdownable

Amanda (Mandy) Gilchrist was just baffled by her colleague. One minute he was her rock and the next he couldn’t get away from her fast enough…only to land himself in jail. Her bosses now hate him and wouldn’t help him cross the street let alone post bail, so it was up to her — except someone got to him first. What the heck was going on? By now he must realize he needs her help… And it’s going to cost him because this time she’s not going to turn a blind eye.

Mandy’s going to make sure David sees her skills as a PI and as a woman too — one he’s got ‘tied up inside and out’.

Because he may not know it yet but they’re both looking for exactly the same thing.

David aka Hack Varetti is in deep. A little finagling with the FBI and maybe he’ll get his life back on track but there’s no guarantees. Making the wrong associations only landed him in the clink, but now he’s got a second chance — to fix his life. And to take care of her. Because, although Mandy doesn’t know it yet she needs something only he can give her, and he can’t wait to show her how a Dom brings his Sub to fulfillment because it’s something she’ll never forget.

Even though the last thing he wanted to do was involve her in his mess, afraid she’d get hurt.

He knew, if he wanted her to trust him again, he was going to have to work for it.

Everyone’s got to learn the ropes sometime…

“I love the way this amazing author brings the characters to life before your eyes and makes you feel their emotions …. I can hardly wait to see what’s next…” ~ 5 stars, Amazon Reviewer

The steamy standalone novels in Tara Eldana’s, Kinklink series are best read in order:

TAKING THE LEAD
MAKING THE SWITCH
GETTING TO FOREVER
REACHING FOR FOREVER $2.99 on Kindle
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Mayhem & Monotony: A Quarantine Affair

Mayhem & Monotony: A Quarantine Affair
I began working at MAGN in January of 2020 and I loved everything about the place. Soon after, COVID-19 came and everyone was afraid of the Corona Virus. Lockdown happened here in Manhattan, quarantine hit, and I was stuck at home with my abusive husband, Jonathan. My superior, Colin, helped me to escape my husband by allowing me to come to the office as much as possible, he even gave me my own set of keys. Colin was a great boss and a friend, who was also married. Eventually, I end up spending more time underneath him and not just under him, as a colleague. Someone learns our secret and is willing to expose us. Colin and I cannot let that happen, we will do anything to remain a secret, even kill. Note to readers: reader discretion is highly advised. This novel contains picturesque depictions of MF/BWWM relationships, so mature readers only, please and thank you. $3.99 on Kindle
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When Bad Things Happen Box Set

When Bad Things Happen Box Set

Ordinary people living their lives. Then bad things happen.

A sheltered young mother and her medically fragile child disappear. Again.

Just when security is within their grasp, those entrusted with their welfare turn on them, creating a parent’s worst nightmare.

How do ordinary people react to extraordinary circumstances? When the world they knew is no longer safe, when those they held dearest turn their backs, what is left?

Read the When Bad Things Happen series of psychological thrillers: GONE, TRUST, and INSTINCT. $0.99 on Kindle.

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A Dickens of a Crime

A Dickens of a Crime
It’s Christmas in July, the perfect time to get started with a new cozy mystery series. Meg Miller discovers a dead body in the featured house on a holiday homes tour. Just hours before the tour is to start, Meg is dressed in Victorian costume and on a mission to check the floral arrangements in all the houses.

An interview with Detective Penny Crawford, and the realization that Meg is among the suspects, dampens her enthusiasm for the festive event. A notification from Crawford about the identity of the body further heightens Meg’s determination to clear her name and find out “who dunnit.” She’s willing to do surveillance, bake a batch of cranberry scones, or hide in a closet to help solve the murder. However, there’s a bigger menace to the community, and Meg suspects it’s centered in the mega-church at the edge of town. Will she be jailed as the murderer, hailed as the hero, or captured by the evil members of an organized crime ring? And, why is she recently noticing odors and seeing visions?

Follow Meg as she begins a series of adventures challenging her to embrace the technology of her cell phone, check out social media, face the history of her deceased mother and sister, and cozy up to local law enforcement. Followers of Rhys Bowen, JL Ryan, and Faith Martin will look forward to each book in this dynamic series. $0.99 on Kindle.

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The Munich Girl

The Munich Girl
The past may not be done with us. What family secrets is a portrait of Eva Braun hiding? Fifty years after WWII, Anna is plunged into the treacherous world of the Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante — and Hitler’s lover — and finds her every belief about right and wrong shattered. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” $0.99 on Kindle.

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The Lion and the Leopard (The Knights of England Series, Book 1)

The Lion and the Leopard (The Knights of England Series, Book 1)
Lady Maria Rendell is torn between two men: a loving but absent husband and the illegitimate half-brother of Edward II. When civil war breaks out against the feckless Edward, Maria must pay the price for her scandalous affair with his half-brother. Personal love, duty, and loyalty collide with larger events—ending in the deposition and death of one of England’s most unfortunate kings and Maria’s own private reckoning. $0.99 on Kindle.

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The Secondary Inheritance

The Secondary Inheritance
Heartwarming Christian Women’s Fiction. Two wounded women fight for the love of a baby girl. Anna decides to become a foster parent with the hopes of adopting a baby. When a baby is placed with her, she’s told it’s a slam-dunk adoption case, but then Delilah, the child’s birth mother, shows up and decides she wants her baby back. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: Lock & Key

Lock & Key
Four epic tales of redemption & revolution, blazing secrets and daring second chances with hot alpha anti-heroes and the bold women they hunger for. This is the Lock & Key Series – full of all the feels, raw emotion, gritty suspense, and satisfying happy ever afters in a small town in South Dakota for characters over 40. Free to $4.99 on Kindle.

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Lessons From My Mother’s Life

Lessons From My Mother's Life
Was the happy housewife of the 1950s really all that happy?

Women in post-war America should have been contented to live a Leave it to Beaver life. They had it all: generous husbands with great jobs, comfortable suburban homes with nice yards and a two-car garage, and plenty of house-cleaning and PTA meetings to fill their time.

They were sold a bill of goods about post-war life. Some bought it. But some didn’t. This book is about those women who didn’t.

Five stories. Five women. Five journeys of self-discovery. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Pathfinding Women (Waxwood Series: Book 3)

Pathfinding Women (Waxwood Series: Book 3)
There are paths in life we have no choice but to follow.

At the close of the nineteenth century, Vivian Alderdice is twenty-six, unmarried, and has no prospective suitors. Now the heiress of the Alderdice fortune, she has yet to fulfill her duty to her family and to society: to marry well and produce heirs.

Her brother’s tragic plight the year before left her and her mother on shaky ground with the San Francisco blue bloods of Nob Hill, and the only way they can re-establish their social position is to win the heart of Monte Leblanc, a wealthy Canadian in search of a wife and looking to become a member of the exclusive Washington Street society.

But a young man on the train tells Vivian things about her grandmother that shake her to the core. Even as she is pursued by the debonair Monte Leblanc, Vivian can’t avoid ghosts from the past who send her on a journey she is reluctant to take.
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To Leave a Memory: A Warm Coming Together

To Leave a Memory: a warm coming together

When history professor Andrew Ward ignores his wife Lizzy’s warning that something will happen if he allows their teenage son to go out one stormy night, tragedy strikes on a rain-slick highway. Andrew is too anguished to admit he was wrong, and, over the years, he and Lizzy drift into avoidance.

Forgotten in the marital divide, the couple’s daughter Jane, a high-tech guru and mother of three, can’t forgive the long-ago loss of her big brother. Nor can Andrew’s elder brother Thomas, an arrogant millionaire.

Just as Andrew’s wife Lizzy decides to leave Andrew and start life anew, Jane urges her mother to repair her marriage. Lizzy silently resists and tells only her best friend of her decision.

Oblivious to either woman’s plans, Andrew escapes to his office, where he tries to write a grand apologia to atone for his long-ago mistake. But when a second tragedy strikes, each family member faces a choice no one wants to make. And Andrew must find a way to leave a memory. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Lessons From My Mother’s Life

Lessons From My Mother's Life
Debuted at #1 in the Historical Fiction Short Stories category!

It was the 1950s. The war was over and women could go back to being happy housewives. But did they really want to?

Women should have been contented to live a Leave it to Beaver life in the mid-20th century. They should have been fulfilled. Women’s magazines told them so. Advertisers told them so. Doctors and psychologists told them so. Some were. But some weren’t.

In the 1950s, women were sold a bill of goods about who they were and who they should be as women. Some bought it. But some didn’t.

These five stories are about the women who didn’t.

A teenage bride sees her future mirrored in Circe’s twisted face. A woman’s tragic life serves as a warning about the dangers of too much maternal devotion. And the lives of two women intersect during two birthday parties, changing both of them. These and other moving tales of strength, discovery, and hope are about our mothers and grandmothers and the lessons their lives have to teach us. $0.99 on Kindle.

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A Dickens of a Crime

A Dickens of a Crime

Meg Miller, a retired librarian, discovers a dead body during her preparations for a historic homes tour. She’s a suspect, but that doesn’t stop her from visiting the widower with a covered dish and attending the elaborate funeral in the community’s megachurch. Will she be a witness or the prosecuted in the trial of the year in her little town? $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: Pretty Boy Blue

Free: Pretty Boy Blue
From playing house as a child to her first kiss as a teenager, Nikki Blue knew that she was different from other girls. One day her slice of the American dream would include a white picket fence and a wife.

While her family life is in upheaval and her loved ones battle around her, Nikki’s struggles escalate as her childhood innocence is stolen and she is uprooted over and over again. Despite her father’s abandonment and her mother’s denial, Nikki is determined to discover her truest self.

She stumbles through adolescence with the visage of a debutante and the attitude of a cocksure college boy. To escape being bullied in school, Nikki finds solace in the Washington, D.C., gay and lesbian club scene. Flamboyant gay men and drag queens teach her the nuances of being fierce. Through one-night stands with older women who understand her body, but not her heart, she masters the game of sex without strings.

By the time Nikki adjusts to college, accepted by the skin of her teeth, she embraces her identity and is thrown into life in the fast lane. But Nikki is still flailing, and with encouragement from her stepfather, enlists in the army.

Just as Nikki finally has a plan for her future, everything is thrown into question when she meets Katrice Carrington, the one woman who can convince her to settle down. The stability Nikki craved as a child is at her fingertips…until she volunteers to go to war. Even if Nikki survives, can their relationship? Free on Kindle.

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Promises Fulfilled

Promises Fulfilled
Promises Fulfilled is the much anticipated fifth and final installment of the Promises to Zion Christian Women’s Fiction Romance series surrounding Paige Morganson.

A year and a half ago Paige Morganson’s world went sideways. Within the span of a few months, she learned that everything she’d been told about her life was a lie. Still, she was able to bounce back and forgive those who deceived her with the love of a good man and constant communication with God. Then her world turned upside down. Will she be able to let go of her lost dreams in time to notice the one person standing in the wings?

With four strangers bound by one secret that has slowly revealed itself amidst budding romances, deception, second chances, and betrayal throughout the series, the final book will take readers through a myriad of emotions as it brings the story full circle. $2.99 on Kindle.

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The Specter (Waxwood Series: Book 1)

The Specter (Waxwood Series: Book 1)
To what lengths will one go to exorcise a specter?

In 1892, people gather to mourn the death of San Francisco socialite, Penelope Alderdice. Among them is a strange little woman who claims to have known “Grace” as a young woman in the small coastal town of Waxwood. But Vivian, Penelope’s granddaughter, has never heard of Grace or Waxwood.

Vivian journeys to Waxwood and eventually discovers a packet of letters her grandmother wrote forty years ago.

As Vivian confronts the specter that holds the truth to the secrets and myths buried in the family consciousness for forty years, she is forced to examine her grandmother’s life as a mid-19th century debutante and her own life as a Gilded Age belle. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: Two Girls, Two Dogs and.a Campervan

Free: Two Girls, Two Dogs and.a Campervan
This debut book inspired by real life follows Mia and J, two struggling tech co-founders, as they hit the road with J’s disabled and aging dogs for a California road trip. Narrated by Mia, an avid outdoorsy-type, the story follows two very different women as they travel through Yosemite, Napa Valley and Big Sur. During the women’s journey together, they not only experience a variety of entertaining and heart-warming ups and downs, they also have moments of self-discovery (and bonding with the dogs, too). Free on Kindle


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