Welcome to Spruce Hill, a small town nestled between the shore of Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes in the middle of New York State, where the residents harbor big secrets and every happily ever after is hard-won. These steamy standalone romantic suspense novels can be read in any order, but the timeline progresses from book 1 to book 10, so certain locations and side characters from earlier books will pop up again in later ones!
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UNPACKING SECRETS is out now in Kindle Unlimited, Amazon ebook, and paperback everywhere!
She inherited a mystery that might prove deadly to unpack…
Alone and adrift after her mother’s death, Juliet Morrison finds a cryptic note in her childhood home that leads her to a surprise inheritance several states away. A family legacy awaits her at the Lakeside Inn, where the grandmother she never knew built a livelihood and safe haven for her family. But Juliet has inherited more questions than answers, left to deal with her mother’s mysterious past—and one surly inn manager.
Henry Walker’s diligent, steadfast nature saved the Lakeside Inn from ruin when Juliet’s grandmother fell ill, and he’s sure as hell not going let some clueless heiress walk in and risk the jobs of everyone there. His sharp tongue ensures Juliet’s welcome is far from warm as he makes it clear he wants her gone, but their plans to avoid each other are dashed when they realize he’s the only person who knew her grandmother well enough to help Juliet uncover her roots.
As they move past their rocky start, Juliet and Henry will have to work together to unpack the secrets of her mother’s abrupt departure from town. Those initial sparks of animosity flare into an irresistible attraction with each passing day, but the shadows of her mother’s past are resurrected when threats are made against Juliet. Suddenly, her newfound love isn’t all that’s in danger. A killer is on the loose, and solving the mystery of her mother’s past is the only way to stop him.
If they fail, every sacrifice her family made will be wasted—and Juliet will pay the ultimate price.
A LONELY ROAD is out now in Kindle Unlimited, Amazon ebook, and paperback everywhere!
After years of running from the past, love is the last thing she thought she’d find.
Nora Cassidy, freelance translator and staunch introvert, wants nothing more than to stay under the radar when she arrives in the quiet town of Spruce Hill, her latest stop as she zigzags across the country in a quest to stay hidden from the ghosts of her past and find a place to call home. Unfortunately, her new neighbor notices her immediately, and none of her usual defenses seem to convince him she’s no good at friendship.
Jake Lincoln keeps himself too busy running a restaurant and renovating his fixer-upper to search for the kind of enduring love his parents found together, but he knows it’s out there and won’t settle for anything less. When his prickly new neighbor moves in, cinnamon roll Jake can’t resist the urge to win her over, especially after it becomes clear that Nora’s nomadic lifestyle has left her in dire need of a friend.
Despite the thorns guarding Nora’s heart, Jake creeps past her defenses with each passing day. There’s no denying Nora can take care of herself, but the closer they get, the more Jake can’t help feeling she’s hiding from something. When a sinister shadow from Nora’s past resurfaces, she has nowhere left to turn. Worse, she’s already let Jake in, hurling him into the path of danger.
As Jake and Nora fight to survive, one thing is certain—Nora can run, but she can’t hide.
CANVAS OF LIES is out now in Kindle Unlimited, Amazon ebook, and paperback everywhere!
He needs her as leverage, but she has her own score to settle.
Eccentric toyseller Kat Willoughby grew up as Spruce Hill royalty, but she’s desperate to get as far from her past as possible. When Nico, her unrequited first love and childhood best friend, crashes back into her life, she has to decide whether to keep running away or finally make a move. But there’s a catch—he needs her in order to reclaim the inheritance stolen by Kat’s treacherous father, a painting that’s the only connection Nico has to his own parents. While she might be a willing accomplice, Kat has her own agenda.
Nico Beaumont can’t let his feelings for Kat derail his plan to restore his family’s legacy, no matter how the memories haunt him. He regrets walking away from her without a fight all those years ago, and his attempt to use her as leverage to get the painting makes a warm reunion unlikely. Failure will devastate Nico’s family back in France, severing generations of shared history, but success could destroy his burgeoning relationship with Kat.
With time running out to recover the priceless artwork before her father sells it, Kat and Nico must overcome their past and outsmart the man who once tore them apart, even when their lives are threatened in the process.
Because second chances don’t come cheap.
CRUMBLING TRUTH is out now in Kindle Unlimited, Amazon ebook, and paperback everywhere!
Can one sweet deal erase the bitterness that haunts them?
Theo Silver left Spruce Hill after a tragic accident in high school and hasn’t looked back—at least not until his mother lures him home under the guise of looking after the widow renting her guest house. When he discovers the woman is neither elderly nor helpless, he makes the best of his family’s deception by devising a plan to convince the town he and the widow are dating. What better way to avoid unwanted holiday invitations than to cozy up with a fake girlfriend?
Esther Malek survived a terrible marriage and forged a new life for herself after her husband died, launching an allergy-friendly baking business with her food truck, The Nutless Wonder. The last thing she needs is her landlord’s handsome son distracting her in the lead-up to holiday events, but his suggestion of a fake relationship might present certain advantages . . . if Theo will accept a few adjustments so she can end her dry spell without diving back into the dating pool.
When a string of pranks directed at Esther shifts from annoying to potentially deadly, their fake liaison grows into something neither of them anticipated—but all of it will mean nothing if the threat against Esther escalates further.
Because the broken pieces of the past might cause their future to crumble, too.
PLAYING FOR PARADISE is available now for preorder!
With a roll of the dice, everything can change.
A one-night stand at Comic Con might’ve eased the sting of bad news for Milo Davies, but he wakes up alone, with only the woman’s hair clip as proof he didn’t dream it. When the person who beat him out for the retail space next door—and who’s been stealing his parking spot for weeks—turns out to be none other than the woman he’s been thinking about ever since that night, he’ll finally get the chance to find out if that chemistry can survive in the real world.
Though Eden Campbell regrets running away after one beautiful night of impulsivity, her dreams are finally within reach. Opening her size-inclusive lingerie shop flies in the face of her conservative upbringing, but she’s broken away from all that in order to forge a new life for herself. Or so she thought, until increasingly violent threats put all her dreams at risk, including a second chance with the man she never should have left behind.
To protect themselves and everything they’re building together, Eden and Milo will have to confront her painful history to search for the culprit.
But this dangerous game might put paradise out of reach.
Rachel Fitzjames, Author 