When budget cuts at my local school leave me scrambling to find a job before I get evicted, I stumble upon the listing of a lifetime. How hard can being a live-in nanny for a little five year old girl be? Especially when its double the salary and comes with a sexy, single dad.

But the moment I step inside Graham Hayes multi-million dollar estate and meet the grumpy billionaire I know I’m in way over my head.

It’s not just that he’s quite possibly the most attractive man Ive ever seen, its the way he stares at me like it takes everything he has to keep from devouring me.

The way he curls his hands into fists to avoid touching me. The way he reprimands me through gritted teeth while his lust filled eyes burn through me. The naughty things he whispers against my lips as his hands explore me. Way over my head.

Caring for his daughter is a dream even his mother loves me. Soon, Im head over heels in this fantasy Im living. Im even able to ignore the cryptic threats from his house-keeper who’s hellbent on getting me fired.

But Im not prepared for the world of high-powered billionaires and glitzy parties. Besides, Graham isn’t like these people he’s different.At least, I think he is until a shady character Ive tried to leave in the past reappears as Grahams new business partner and Im reminded that I don’t belong in this world.

Sometimes life changing news comes in the form of just three simple words. Sometimes it comes in the form of an unexpected, heart-wrenching secret and the fairytale is shattered. Sometimes, it comes in the form of the opportunity of a fresh new start. You just have to be willing to take the risk and walk away or maybe there’s three little words that can fix it all. Free on Kindle.

“Marlis Manley’s heartfelt novel of the heartland goes nowhere fast in all the best of ways. It moves and moves us.” –Michael Martone, author of The Complete Writing of Art Smith

It’s summer 1957, and when fourteen-year-old Sandy Turner goes missing—along with one of her late mother’s hidden scrapbooks—Aunt Maggie can think of only one place the girl might be.

Frank Haggard, the race-car driver in those yellowing news clippings, assumes the girl claiming to be his daughter is a fan acting on a dare, until Maggie tracks them down. Memories of his annulled marriage to Maggie’s sister flood over him, and the timing couldn’t be worse. With the first-ever National Championship for stock cars a week away, the last thing he needs is a child-custody battle with Maggie-as determined as she is beautiful. When the car he’s planned to pilot is turned over to a younger driver, Frank and Maggie make the riskiest deal of their lives-her savings for a race car, but if Frank wins, he gives up his daughter. $0.99 on Kindle.

When Callie MacCallum sews her first quilt after the death of her lover Jack Sebring, she doesn’t realize she’ll be drawn into a Sebring family battle between wife and daughter-in-law. She simply wants to fulfill her promise to Jack to visit their cabin in the West Virginia mountains, where their long love affair was safely hidden. Free on Kindle.