Hi Everyone

We move on again this Sunday after a wonderful stay in Bundaberg where I caught up with a friend of fifty years and wonderful reader one on one. I love being able to spend time with my readers and giving them my full attention without being hurried. Next stop is Tannum Sands near Gladstone Queensland for two weeks.

Release of the CEO's Country Gal is not far off and it starts a steady flow of releases for the remainder of this year. I have a couple more commitments left, one an anthology and a western for a shared world and then I am hoping to finish writing the first of my Australian historical romances under the pen name Annabel Vaughan. I look forward to putting my research onto paper and weaving a love story throughout.

Woke up to the news that the Bred to be Owned - Anthology, had hit No#1 in both the US and Canada which was very exciting. My story in the anthology is Property of Benvolio.

Enjoy the wonderful selection of books I have for you again this week.

Until next time.

Thank you so very much for your support.

Sue

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Release Date 23 June 2023

Elizabeth loved the wide open spaces, isolation, and cattle station she had grown up on in the top end of Australia, but she was ready for a change.

She wanted to dip her toes into the waters of the big city, so Sydney, NSW, was where she headed on her adventure.

Hudson was busy running a multi-billion dollar corporation and had no time for anyone serious in his life. Or so he thought.

He was frozen in place when the gorgeous brunette appeared in his life and was, for the first time ever—speechless.

But, there is more than what meets the eye with this pair and things are about to get a whole lot more interesting when the CEO finds out he’s the new boss of his outback gal.  

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BRAND NEW WORLD COMING in 2024!

Marissa Ann Ballard

 Sweet Cocktails 

Book 1

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Releases.... May 27, 2024.

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☆ Piper ☆

Life has sucked for me recently. My mom passed away and then I caught my boyfriend “working overtime” in our bedroom with his secretary when I came home early from work.

When my friends suggested a little vacation to the beach, I packed up my bags and drove straight down to the Flora-Bama line without making any reservations.

Everything was going amazingly well until life decided to suck yet again. Now I’m tied up with a bunch of other women inside some kind of shipping crate with no hope that anyone will save me.

☆ Rome ☆

Leaving my family behind years ago for a different kind of life, I’ve done well for myself, making my own way working as a bartender for the exclusive Sweet Cocktails franchise.

Meeting Piper should have been like any other meeting I’ve had with women here. Instead, I like her immediately. Spending time with her, I can’t wait for more. Then one night someone grabs her from the street before I can get there.

I was prepared to never lay eyes on my twin brothers again until I need their help. I just hope they don’t turn me away or worse…

Shoot me in the head.

Book 1 in the Sweet Cocktails Series

*****

In silence comes a different type of madness.

Locked inside a comatose state, I can hear it, yet I cannot move to save myself.

Falling for words, sweet whispers in the dark. Lulling me into his darkness—a web laced with lies.

Love being the deadliest lie of them all.

I loved one man, and he became my destruction. Tried to kill me. Then fell into the dark eyes of another who promised to save me.

Madness and chaos ran through them both, and a taste for vengeance and blood thirst on either side of their deadly playing field.

Caught in the crosshairs of each scope, I was lost to the abyss and didn’t want to leave the safety of its clutch.

His hands, built for pain, handed down to him from his father’s before touching me so softly, but on his tongue I hear his hateful words… his hands will bring pain down onto them all—each and every one. Even the ones they loved would feel the fists of Killian Kinahan.

Lies, secrets and chaos will be exposed, thrusted into the quiet night to scream into the breaking dawn of a new day; each and every day until he has had his fill and won the war of the man who tried to take from the house of Kinahan.

There is no escape. You hurt the one thing he had ever loved and now you will pay with all the things that make you feel human.

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*****

Life for successful real-estate mogul Andre Auclair could be summarised easily: Women. Money. Cocktails.

What couldn’t be summarised so easily were the feelings he had upon encountering the raven-haired beauty, Satine. She was the sexist woman he’d ever seen, and he’d seen a few over the years.

All soulful eyes and luscious lips, she’d just walked into Club Rhythm with a purpose.

It was only meant to be one night. Nothing more, but something more powerful than them had other ideas.

Andre wanted her to stay. Satine feared for her heart if she did, sneaking out while he slept.

Until fate intervened a few months later, bringing them together again, under the most unexpected of circumstances.

Will they have the strength to fight the powerful attraction that time hadn’t diminished, or will it be too much for them?

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*****

Wrong place, wrong time...and now she's running for her life...

Audrey Winthrop has everything figured out. At twenty-one years old, she’s got everything she ever wanted… Well, almost everything. But, she’s on her way toward living her dream. It's 1920 and the world is changing, especially for women. Bright lights, a big city, and independence are finally within her reach. And now that she’s living in New York City, it’s all just a few steps away.

With the help of some friends from her boarding house, Audrey is excited to get a taste of big city life at last. But when it’s finally her turn to step out and dance her heart out at one of the local speakeasies, she witnesses a crime that will change her life forever...

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A Motorcycle Club Romance

Coming in June 2023, your favourite Contemporary Romance authors have come together to give you 30 nights you'll never forget. Every day in June you'll get to read sassy, sexy, curvy, confident women in locations all around the globe, take part in the night of their lives, at Club Curve.

Max “Commando” Sutcliffe was tired of the muffler bunnies that hung out at the clubhouse. They were all skin and bones with nothing to feast on.

One long ride, takes him into a small city in the southern tip of Ontario, Canada. As he pulls in for the night he spots Club Curve and decides it was time to take a load off, get some food and enjoy some good ole Canadian beverages.

Mae Ironside, was done trying to find money to pay for her father’s funeral and all the bills that had built up during the last month of his life. Her dad was her favourite person and her mom meant the world to her, so she would do anything to make sure things worked out.

Even working as an exotic dancer at Club Curve, a respectable place where no touching was allowed and the bouncers made sure everyone was protected.

Two paths cross, one set to settle debts, the other ready to see just what lay beneath Club Curves exotic scene.

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FROM BOOK FUNNEL

Swayed by the stronghanded military regime of the Shogun, Japan left feudalism much later than most European powers. A nation dominated by a rigid samurai code of honor and power-hungry warlords, Japan's transition to modernization, would not be achieved without bloodshed imbued with stoicism, resilience, bravery, deception, treason, and lots of romance.

The most rapturous insight of this historical period, dubbed Bakumatsu, that dragged from 1853 to 1868, is the presence of a Westerner who was instrumental in the political machinations that brought down the shogunate rule and reinstated the emperor to the supreme office, ushering the country into a sort of capitalism.

Thomas Blake Glover, a Scotsman from Aberdeen, had neither advanced academic qualification, nor professional training. Placed in an unseemly place, yet during a crucial period, he was armed with vision, a sharp nose for business and a staunch determination.

Working with the inequalities rather than fighting them, Glover understood cultural differences could survive on reciprocal respect and concessions; forbearance applied when values conflicted.

Living through the twists and turns of Japan's mythic culture, pulling the strings of his hard-harnessed power, Glover forever changed the course of the country of the Rising Sun’s history...

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*****

FROM STORY ORIGIN

For years, the five clans ruling the Isle of Skye have been trapped in a constant battle for control over the land. The enmity between the Glenelg, the Cuillin, and the Ruairidh is bitter, the fighting barbaric, and the atrocities committed against each other unspeakable. So many lives had been lain to waste that the island's population is now under threat. And yet, no other battle was as bloodied as the one between the Tormods and the Farrows.

After Eddard Tormod’s father, the clan's bloodthirsty Laird, decides to unleash a vicious attack on the innocent Farrow clansmen and women, Eddard gets caught in a whirlwind of injustice he cannot escape. When the mission fails tragically, Eddard cannot help but blame himself for it. Had he not let the Farrow lass who fled the attack bewitch him, his father would be still alive, and his brother would be in one piece.

Eddard swore an oath to the girl that day to thank her for saving his life, putting his pride aside, and living to fight another day. But at what cost?

Ten years later, the struggle for dominion still rages. Faced with the impossible choice of marrying a man twice her age, Agnes Farrow seeks out the boy who swore an oath to save her from a fate she considered worse than death. Yet now she finds a man staring at her as though she were his worst enemy, and death suddenly seems like a fate approaching fast.

He had sworn a solemn oath and was duty-bound to see it through. But now, the bells of death are about to sound again, wreaking havoc on Eddard’s and Agnes’ land and their hearts.

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*****

USA TODAY BESTSELLER • Style and seduction collide as the world’s best-dressed men and women shed their clothing . . . and their inhibitions.

On the run from her abusive fiancé, ER doctor Mallory Bryant arrives at her sister’s Connecticut resort desperate for a place to restore balance to her life. But Club Inferno is more than a haven for the rich and fashionable. Beneath its elegant facade, dominants and submissives play out their fantasies. At first, Mallory is wary of Max Spencer, the martial arts trainer acting as her bodyguard—until he introduces her to passion so intense she wants nothing more than to surrender to his touch.

As one of Club Inferno’s most skilled Doms, Max enjoys taking Mallory to the limits of pleasure. It’s a dangerous proposition, and as their sensual games draw them into a relationship beyond the boundaries of pupil and master, Max starts spiraling out of control. But when Mallory’s violent past catches up with her, Max knows what he must do: draw her closer than ever before, even if it means risking a surrender of his own.

“Club Inferno is deliciously sexy, and Max is a Dom to love. A nonstop ride of sexual exploration and emotional healing, Heat will keep you entertained.”—Stacey Kennedy, USA Today bestselling author of Bared

“With Jamie K. Schmidt you get to have it all, diamonds and champagne, and rope and leather. Heroines and readers alike will find every wish and every heart’s desire come true at Club Inferno.”—Award-winning author Cecilia Tan

“Jamie K. Schmidt’s Heat burns with its red-hot sex scenes and thrills with a passionate and wonderfully tender love story. Enter the world of Club Inferno and be very, very satisfied!”—Laura Moore, author of Once Tasted

“If you like your books super hot and sexy, you need to read this.”—Crazy Four Books

“One of the reasons I enjoyed this (aside from the smoking hot sexy scenes) is the hilarious fun banter and internal dialogue.”—Fab, Fun & Tantalizing Reads

“Max is just a diamond. He is beyond sweet and understanding. He has a heart that women would love. I think I might have even fallen a little in love with him.”—Books-n-Kisses

“I’d definitely recommend it to others and would read more books by this author.”—We Read Romance

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Two women, one farmer, and a reality show that will change their lives forever…

Cindy Lockhart is a successful, independent woman who is longing for a change from her mundane life. When her friend secretly enters her into a reality show, “Farmer wants a wife”, Cindy reluctantly agrees to go on the show.

Mark is a handsome, charming farmer who must choose his future wife from a pool of beautiful and attractive women.

Cindy seems to have it all figured out, until her past comes calling and threatens to derail her future.

Grace Williams is determined to win Mark´s heart, but she´s struggling with her own inner turmoil and hatred. When an unexpected event changes her course, she surprises everyone around her.

With time running out and obstacles in their ways, Cindy and Grace must fight to make their dreams a reality. Who will be the winner?

Escape into this captivating novel that will take you on a journey of mystery, romance and adventure. The Battle for love Series is a gripping women’s fiction with a dash of intrigue and a heartwarming clean romance that will make you feel good. Scroll up to grab your copy now...

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I was hesitant to introduce myself to the new neighbor. Until I found out he was my Ex-Boyfriend.

Marcus Wilson. Doctor. First love. And now my next-door neighbor.

Marcus moved back to town after living in Texas for fifteen years.

In high school he was sweet and nerdy, but he was my nerd.

Now he’s all grown up and I’m loving the new Marcus.

I’ve hoped he would come back to me even if it was unintentional.

But I have a secret about my past that I’m hiding.

So, when I went to the hospital to get treated for an injury, turns out he’s the one treating me for the day.

I knew he could sense I was hiding something.

We could get back together, but only if he and his family are willing to accept the new me.

All of me.

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*****

Hi, I'm Amanda Smith and I'm sure you remember how my life turned around when my dear neighbor Mrs. Janey died - may her soul keep resting in perfect peace and left her billion-dollar company to her parrot, Boosh, well and me, technically.

What I thought was a turnaround for the better proved otherwise when I was met with resistance from her grandson, the irresistible Craig Vans. The man was insufferable, and I could not stand him one bit, well except in bed. I told you he was irresistible.

His impenetrability was more annoying though and damn, I wanted to strangle the life out of him. I had to enlist the help of Mrs. Janey's lawyer, Mr. Shaw who served Craig with only two weeks to dispute mine and Boosh's inheritance of the company or step down as CEO, and just when it seemed that I would finally be getting the break I needed, a new obstacle arose. Craig's mother.

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Kimberly

I can’t follow my heart. I refuse to. My heart will not be touched. I won’t permit it.

I am a progressive and talented specialist with patients who depend on me for their precious lives and their daily well-being. It’s natural that gorgeous mentors and other professionals would also want to validate their egos and opinions with my positive and flawless medical research and experience already in this early stage of my career.

The charming and assertive Eric comes into my world again, looking to extract all the untapped sensual desires I’ve not yet tried.

I hate it when he sees the control he has over me… the wild tigress that I become when he unleashes my mind and body…

I’m sure I can focus so why do I wake up every morning thinking of my technology billionaire patient Michael and the love we could make when I cure him back to strong health?

Kelly

I never give up an opportunity to go clubbing as I’ve always had a weakness for bad boys. Those amber-colored eyes, boyish, cleanly-shaven features, and neat tight t-shirt and jeans just sent a jolt through my body. In a delightful spell-like trance, I followed him to the club’s management office where nobody should be…

With his deep beautiful baritone voice and slightly rough embrace, this was the perfect forbidden cocktail I needed that night.

How could I expect to have this same electric character to be a stable and long-term caring and attentive partner?

Unexpected.

Intriguing.

Captivating.

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*****

It’s now or never! Krista Gervais has just one week to make Ryan see her as more than just a friend, but hiding in a bush to spy on him making out with the new fitness instructor isn’t how she planned to spend their romantic week away.

And neither did she plan to take off on an impromptu hiking trip with Shane McDermit, one of her gym’s star athletes, who is so smug with all of his “love is for losers” talk that of course he thinks getting even with Ryan would be a fun game to play.

Just goes to show how much he knows.

Shane doesn’t do love—and for good reason. But since Krista’s heart has just broken right in front of him and she’s looking a lot like the mess he was in this time last year, the least he can do is help her out by making the other guy jealous.

Well, that's the plan anyway, until one prank taken too far leaves them both breathless…

Author’s Note: Vacation romance. Cute banter. Down on love guy meets romcom loving girl. Stunning Rocky Mountain scenery. Al fresco you-know-what. Hero with a past. Sweet, kick-assy heroine who doesn’t hold back. Occasional F-bombs. Pace: Fast. Steam Level: Hot. Feels: ALL OF THEM!

This 50,000 word novel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone or as part of the Take a Holiday interconnected series. The next books in the series, Her Outback Driver and The Summer of Sebastian, are both 90,000 word novels.

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There is always this place in a town that is vacant or so we think is. But only a few really know the truth behind it. Join these authors as they take us inside showing us the darkness and the stories behind The Haunting At The No Return Motel.

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Alexandra Martin, fresh from a bad breakup, heads to Scotland for two weeks to forget her woes and do some work. Using the time to gather her thoughts for her next book, she chooses Arisaig as her final destination. The town is a perfect setting. Especially when your favorite genres are horror and romance and she’s just in time for the annual masked ball. The locals tell her that Mac an tSaoir Castle is haunted and it’s THE place to check out if she wants story ideas. Trying to figure out how to meet the recluse and ask him, she happens to run into him at the pub. Dougal McIntyre owns the castle that sits on the shores of Loch Nan Ceall. He only comes into town once a week for a pint, to catch up on the news then goes home. This time, there is a beautiful American wanting his attention. After explaining who she is and what she wants, on the spur of the moment, he invites her to his home. But there’s one condition, she has to spend the night. Will the ghosts of his ancestors scare her to death? Or will the adventure of a lifetime end in romance?

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*****

How will you feel when you discover the truth of a long lost secret. These 8 authors search for that answer.

Brian McCord and Christina McCord

S. L. Carpenter and Anne Rainey

Claire Marta and Nia Farrell

M.C. Baker and Alannah Lawrence

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*****

Never Let Me Go, a Silverbell Shore novel is an age gap, small town contemporary romance with elements of suspense, a gorgeous dog named Mr. Woolley and a threat that takes a violent turn.

Fern

Love arrived when I least expected it. It was lust at first sight, I just never thought he’d ever love me back.

Bradford Manning was my boss. He was older than me and was technically off-limits, but a chance encounter one evening changed everything.

Since then, I’d never been happier. Until one day, it all came crumbling down. He broke my heart and sent me away.

I never stopped thinking about him. I couldn’t. He was it for me. Now he’s back and he wants a second chance, but can I open my heart a second time?

Bradford

Love came when I’d given up hope of finding ‘the one.’ I never thought I’d get the chance. Especially not from my assistant, my much younger assistant.

Fern Halstead was the forbidden fruit, but I couldn’t stop thinking about her. One kiss changed our relationship forever.

When someone tried to take her away from me, for her safety, I did something I swore never to do, I pushed her away.

But Fern owns my heart and I want her back. She’s my endgame. Now I just need to find a way to eliminate the threat so I can never let her go again.

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*****

Young Outlaws MC Vice President Gabriel Parish, otherwise known as Stone, doesn’t do romantic relationships—especially when it could put a target on anyone that’s his.

Being the VP of The Young Outlaws MC, Nevada, means his responsibilities keep him close to home. Until a family tragedy strikes, leaving Stone to manage not only his responsibilities to his club but a new responsibility toward his three-year-old niece.

With no alternative, he’s forced to hire a live-in nanny. However, the arrival of Oriana, the young, intelligent university graduate, brings temptations he finds hard to ignore.

When a second incident leaves Oriana injured and Sasha missing, Stone is forced to ask questions.

Could both car accidents be a coincidence or a targeted attack against the club?

One thing is clear through all the mayhem and madness; Stone can no longer ignore his growing feelings toward Oriana.

Once the club get news that at least one of the accidents was an act of revenge, Stone and his Young Outlaws brothers vow to seek their retribution.

This book is a MC romantic suspense, love story containing dark elements.

STONE is the first book of the new spin off series of the YOMC Florida trilogy. You do not have to have read the Florida series to enjoy the Nevada series.

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*****

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Leave humanity at the door.

Only godless heathens survive here.

— Saint —

Chryseum Reformatory Academy aka the Asylum.

This is where the rich send their screwed-up sons and daughters, delivering them to a prison in the Catskills of New York.

The Asylum doesn’t cure. It camouflages, protecting old money from apples rotting on the family tree.

They call me a psychopath, a lunatic, unhinged.

But here, I am god.

Now, say your prayers at the door, pet, because this is my senior year, my school, my world.

Even God doesn’t step foot here.

— Willow —

I didn’t want to off myself, not really.

I wanted help.

I wanted someone—anyone—to listen.

But I’m just a flesh-and-bone cry for attention.

Now, my father’s shipped me here, where evil and old secrets seep through the cold, stone walls.

An inky-haired guy with a devilish smile offers me protection, but his price is high.

Wear his collar.

Be his pet.

Give myself to him, body and soul.

Author's Note: Bloody Savage God is a dark academia gothic romance recommended for those 18+. It features mature themes including, but not limited to, an incendiary heat level, bullying, branding, collaring, and, like my other novels, struggles with mental illness.

This book is the first of three standalone novels in the Godless Heathens universe, each of which takes place at Chryseum Reformatory Academy and features one of the three lords of the Academy (Saint, Gabriel, and Killian).Reading the other books in the series, although recommended, is not necessary to enjoy this book.

Please read the content/trigger warnings carefully before reading, linked on my Amazon author page or through the Look-Inside feature in the book.

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*****

This is my school, my kingdom. 

My brother's and I rule, we are The Lords.

Our secrets have always been just that, ours. Until her—Remington Hearst.

She hates me, but I despise her and what her family did.

She needs to learn her place because she doesn't want to cross me.

I'll make them pay.

I'll make her pay.

This is a game she isn't prepared for. Turns out, neither was I.

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One minute I was that uncool kid who hated piano lessons.

The next, a high school dropout, playing in a start-up band.

A year later, that band, ‘Screaming Shadows’ was one of the biggest in the world.

Life was phenomenal apart from my one regret. That I never had the guts to tell my best friend, Blaire Hutton my true feelings about her.

As we grew up, I believed Blaire was my soulmate, but as she was every teenage guy’s wet dream, I stayed her nerdy school friend.

That was until the night before I headed out on my first big tour when I’d kissed her goodbye and she’d jokingly made a pact, that if we were both still single by thirty, she’d give up and marry me instead.

For a decade I’d held on to that pact, and with each year that passed I became convinced she would wait for me. But I’ve just heard at twenty-nine she was getting hitched… and it wasn’t to me.

My dilemma is, do I want her? Would she want me?? Should I go home and try to claim what I’ve grown to believe is mine, or am I delusional to think we should ever be together in the first place?

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*****

Now on pre-order for release on 30 December 2023

When Joanne McCarthy was given the opportunity to join a company as a Construction Diver, in a world dominated almost completely by men, a long-held dream finally came true.

Joanne was aware the career she had chosen didn’t have a glass ceiling for women that would be difficult to shatter—It had one of solid steel which couldn’t be penetrated.

Or so she thought.

Less than four years later, the respected construction diver found herself in a position she never imagined was possible. Somehow, Joanne had found a way around the steel barrier and was now running her small part of the world.

Boston Canon, a respected scientist, cared about the ocean and the creatures who call the environment home.

When he and his business partner finally received permission to research the ocean and reef nearby a new platform, he was elated.

What he wasn’t prepared for was the beautiful woman in charge. A woman whose work was in opposition to his own.

Can these two find common ground?

Or will their opposing work goals tear them apart? 

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BRED TO BE OWNED

No#1 in USA and Canada

RELEASE DATE 24 August 2023

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RUN THE WORLD

RELEASE DATE: 12 September 2023

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