“The Ambition is a riveting story of high-finance business deals, Italian family ties, an illicit romance, and murder. You won’t soon forget Connie, Lorenzo, and the other vivid characters who populate this unique tale.” –Marcia Trahan, author of Mercy.
Italian American
A tale of hope, sacrifices, and the unbreakable spirit of women who shape their destinies.
Nine years after their fateful meeting at the Colosseum in Rome, Mariella is ready to start a life in America with her husband, Jack. But, this means leaving her family, her beloved city and all she holds dear. Will their love endure the challenges of adapting to a new country?
The cobblestones felt familiar beneath Mariellas feet as she made her way through the streets of Rome one final time despite her heart aching with each step she took. Emigrating to America means saying goodbye to a family she fiercely loves, a city still bearing the scars of war and ghosts of the past. But the promise of a lifetime by Jacks side is all she needs. Or is it?
Mariellas dreams quickly fracture when she arrives in Asbury Park. She struggles for a sense of belonging while navigating gossiping housewives and a disapproving mother-in-law. And with Jack working late nights at the restaurant, she often longs for his company.
Yet, once they move into their charming house in Wanamassa Gardens, Mariella finds her footing. Friendships flourish, and their family grows, giving her hope for a future in their idyllic corner of suburbia. Just as her dreams become reality, a heartbreaking call forces her to return to Italy and confront the decisions that led her across the Atlantic.
With so much at stake, Mariella must choose between the place shes always known and the life she’s always yearned for. Can she find the strength to say farewell to her family once again? What will it cost her if she cant? $0.99 on Kindle.
The Sin Series: box set
Red is the color of blood, sacrifice, danger, and courage. It’s also associated with heat, passion, and sexuality. When two people meet unexpectedly with an inexplicable attraction that defies common understanding…it can be called RED SIN.From New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig, who brought you the blockbuster Infidelity Series, comes a steamy romantic suspense series set in the world of high finance where success is sweet and revenge is sweeter. Steeped in intrigue, lies, and secrets, you will fall in love with the Donovan Sherman and Julia McGrath. Prepare for the unexpected with the twists and turns in her – The Sin Series.
This box set includes four full-length novels: RED SIN, GREEN ENVY, GOLD LUST, and BLACK KNIGHT
Tropes: forced proximity, reclusive billionaire, age-gap, in experienced heroine, family saga $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Brittle Saga Trilogy
The Titanic disaster triggers a bloody-feud between two families in early 20th century America.
Magda Asparov, a young woman from Ukraine, is part of an arranged marriage, and due to travel to America to marry Matthew Turner, a shrewd and unscrupulous American businessman. In return for taking the Asparov’s daughter as his bride, Turner is hoping to get his hands on a parcel of land sitting on top of an untapped oilfield in the USA.
But Magda’s journey to America is cut-short when the ship she is travelling on, the Titanic, hits an iceberg and sinks.
Magda loses her memory and a new personality, Maggie, takes hold. Richard Blackmore, Captain of her rescue ship, falls for her. What follows is the hunt for Magda by Turner’s evil henchman, William Harker, who aims to succeed by any means, fair or foul.
The ensuing search leaves Richard Blackmore as collateral damage.
Free to $1.99 on Kindle.
Lost Child
Home Is Where the Heart Is
A photojournalist damaged by war. A web of family secrets. Can she untangle the past to save her future?
CJ Beck’s career as an international photojournalist has been ripped from her by the sniper’s bullet that killed her husband. Forced to return stateside to deal with the resulting PTSD, CJ discovers home is anything but peaceful. Therapy forces her to relive the worst year of her life. Her family’s ancestral ranch is threatened by outside financial forces. Worst of all, the guy that broke her heart in high school is back in town, reminding her of how life could have … should have … been.
In order to return to the career she loves, she’ll need to face the truth about her past. Can she find the courage to reclaim the life she worked so hard to build?
Home Is Where the Heart Is begins the family saga set in the extraordinary country of Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front. If you like strong women, small-town western settings, and books that keep you reading from page one, you’ll love this book $0.99 on Kindle
The Consequence of Anna: An Epic Family Saga About Love, Friendship, Obsession, and Madness
“SHAMED BE THE WOMAN WHO ALLOWETH SUCH A SIN.” – The Amazon #1 Bestseller, inspired by a true story . . .
Two cousins share a deep, sisterly love for each other. And a man. One of them will be driven into madness.
It’s the year 1930, and Anna May Shahan’s world is about to change. The eccentric housewife from the small woop woop town of Esperance, Australia, lives on an isolated farm by the sea with her loyal husband James, and they lead a simple, hardworking life. That is until Anna’s beautiful widowed cousin Lottie returns from the States after being absent for over a decade. Lottie confesses to Anna her heart’s greatest desire to have a child, and Anna, in fear of losing her beloved cousin again, seeks to grant her wish by means of her own husband.
James knows his wife has some undiagnosed mental condition, blaming it for her salacious idea, and refuses to take part in it. But Anna is relentless, and finally one night successfully manipulates him into going along with her plan. She gets her way, but her choice to help her cousin soon brings devastating consequences for them all.
A literary achievement and the most emotionally gripping book of the year, The Consequence of Anna is a complex family saga, intertwined with the haunting mystery of Anna’s mental illness and the secrets, lies, and revelations revealed through the hidden passions of Lottie and James.
Kate Birkin and Mark Bornz have crafted a poetic story layered with lush romance, the frightening effects of altruistic intentions gone wrong, and the strong bond of female friendship. A provocative and powerful allegory, cutting through rules and boundaries, and proving the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished. $0.99 on Kindle.
Then Like The Blind Man: ORBIE’S STORY
While fiction about the 1950s Civil Rights era is far from rare, few capture the period and struggles from the perspective of a white child.
At nine, Orbie seems to live his life along a precipice. He is burdened with an overabundance of difficult choices which would be beyond the capacities of most boys his age–but Orbie is about to discover he’s no ordinary boy…
Then Like The Blind Man: ORBIE’S STORY is an electrifying porthole to the South of the ’50s, where, though inane prejudice may have dominated, kindness and justice also had a place…$2.99 on Kindle.
False Fathers (Waxwood Series: Book 2)
Sometimes no father is better than a false father.
In 1898 California, Jake Alderdice comes of age as a shy and contemplative youth who is passionate about art. On vacation in Waxwood, now a fashionable resort town, he meets Harland Stevens, who takes an interest in the young man’s artistic ambitions. Stevens seizes upon the fatherless young man to counsel him toward a path to manhood inspired by Teddy Roosevelt and Thoreau. He introduces Jake to The Order of Actaeon, a secret society built upon Roosevelt’s ideals of masculine virility and virtue.
But the path to maturity is a complex thing in the Gilded Age. Will his journey free him from the Alderdice family illusions, half-truths, and lies that have kept him a child? Or will it lead him into the world of Actaeon, where the hunter becomes the hunted? $0.99 on Kindle.
False Fathers (Waxwood Series: Book 1)
Sometimes no father is better than a false father.
In 1898 California, Jake Alderdice comes of age as a shy and contemplative youth who is passionate about art. On vacation in Waxwood, now a fashionable resort town, he meets Harland Stevens, who takes an interest in the young man’s artistic ambitions. Stevens seizes upon the fatherless young man to counsel him toward a path to manhood inspired by Teddy Roosevelt and Thoreau. He introduces Jake to The Order of Actaeon, a secret society built upon Roosevelt’s ideals of masculine virility and virtue.
But the path to maturity is a complex thing in the Gilded Age. Will his journey free him from the Alderdice family illusions, half-truths, and lies that have kept him a child? Or will it lead him into the world of Actaeon, where the hunter becomes the hunted? $0.99 on Kindle.
Brothers of Belle Fourche: Books 1-3
Three brothers, broken by circumstance. Three women, trying to fulfill their dreams.
Conrad is shamed by his inability to read. When a woman shows up on his doorstep who may give away his secret, he will be tested to the limits of both his honor and his heart.
Arnold lost his first love young. A teacher arrives in Belle Fourche and is convinced he saved her life. Her hero worship forces him to examine what he holds dear. Can he remain true to the woman he lost, or could there really be another love meant for him?
Eli killed a man in self-defense. He hides his black soul from everyone by keeping his distance. A new nurse arrives in town with her own sordid secrets. A revelation and understanding lead to a choice: his pain or a new life? $0.99 on Kindle.
Conviction
Free: Grace
Brothers, Antony and Sonny Luciano grew up knowing exactly what their lives would hold.
Antony, driven by power and money, is prepared to take over the streets his father runs. Sonny reluctantly surrenders to a similar fate until their mother’s fresh talk about her faith births in him a hope of a better future.
One bullet changed their destinies forever.
After years of working the streets his father once ran, Antony reunites with his brother to find Sonny has not only obtained the power and money Antony craves, but also the woman he loves.
The brothers must put aside their animosity toward each other so they can work together to protect those they love. Free on Kindle.
Captured Freedom
A cruel and greedy slave owner. An angry mob. A struggle for freedom that could end in death.
Nat is a personal slave and confidante to the High Priest. He fights to maintain his integrity amongst his master’s vengeful plans and the master’s wives’ attempts to seduce him. With all this, how can he free his own unacknowledged wife? Or himself? He knows too much.
Ziva, Nat’s sister, rebels against laws shackling a woman’s thoughts and actions while striving to free her brother and his wife. Her novice self-protection skills will soon be tested. Is this the end for Nat and Ziva? Or a new beginning?
Captured Freedom, the second in the Lost Children of the Prophet series, is a historical fiction book about life in early biblical times.
Immerse yourself in this compelling story about caring and courageous people and buy Captured Freedom today. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Girl on the Mountain
The land is wild and the women must be strong: The Girl on the Mountain is a heartening, at times chilling story of a young wife abandoned in 1899 in a town ruled by one of the lumber companies logging the last of West Virginia’s virgin forest. To survive with honor, she must find friends and overcome an unjust reputation, but she has no resources but her wits, a litter of pigs, and the attachment of a wild, homeless girl.
The story of May Rose and Wanda is the first book in the Mountain Women Series, bringing to life the struggles and triumphs, friendships and families of women in a small West Virginia town in the early 1900s. $0.99 on Kindle.
Lost Children of the Prophet
Abducted as children. Sold into different lives. Brother and sister struggle to find each other.
After years of separation, Nat succeeds in finding his sister, Ziva. Though he remains a slave, she is a beloved daughter, purchased to replace a lost child. Unfortunately, Nat’s despicable master lusts after Ziva and will do anything to force their mating. Her rejection sets off a devastating chain of events that could send Nat to the mines and ruin her adopted father. Can they avoid the trap set by Nat’s master and protect Ziva and her father?
First in a new series, Lost Children of the Prophet is an ancient historical fiction set in earliest biblical times. Follow the danger and intrigue of this family who fights for each other in near constant turmoil. This book is a must read. $0.99 on Kindle.
Abandoned Hope
Push Not the River (The Poland Trilogy Book 1)
Travel back to 1790s Poland and “all the sweep and romance of ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘Doctor Zhivago’.” This family saga is based on the diary of a countess at a crossroads in her personal life and in her country’s history. Volume One of the trilogy that just won the 2018 Gold Medal IPPY for a Regional Fiction E-Book. $3.99 on Kindle.
Free: Opal’s Story
Free: Billionaire Wins The Game
Joseph Anderson has decided it’s time for his three successful sons to find brides. Joseph wants grandchildren to fill his mansion, and he wants them immediately. His eldest son, Lucas, is successful in all areas of his life, except love, and Joseph begins matchmaking. He finds Amy Harper and deems her the perfect daughter-in-law. He just needs to get her and Lucas to both realize they’re made for each other. Lucas Anderson is wealthy, sexy, and stubborn. He has no desire to have any woman enter his life, causing chaos, or using his family’s name. Many women have tried, and he’s been successful in finding out who they are beneath their false smiles. Amy Harper was raised in tragic circumstances and doesn’t like pampered, rich men who have been handed everything with a silver spoon. She spent years finishing her education and then received a job with the Anderson Corporation. She instantly doesn’t like her incredibly sexy boss, who is arrogant and thinks every woman should fall at his feet. When Amy becomes pregnant after one reckless night of passion, she’s scared he’ll take the baby and run. Lucas is demanding, and used to getting his way, but Amy has just the right amount of spark to ignite his fuse, and challenges him each step of the way. Lucas’s father, Joseph, and his brothers Alex and Mark, offer laughter, love, and support. With the love of Lucas’s family, who aren’t only rich and successful, but also kind and giving, Amy starts to realize that being wealthy doesn’t make or break a man, and starts to picture the happily ever after she never believed in for herself. Free on Kindle.
Evanthia’s Gift
This Greek American family saga follows a multigenerational story of love, loyalty, and culture. An emotional novel about family bonds and the difficult pull between home and heritage. From Greece to New York. From the 1950’s to the 1990’s. Two generations of passionate women overcome life’s struggles to chase their dreams. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: A Family Affair
When Christine Blacksworth’s larger-than-life father is killed on an icy road in Magdalena, New York, a hundred miles from the ‘getaway’ cabin he visited every month, she discovers a secret that threatens everything she’s always held to be true. Her father has another family which includes a mistress and a daughter. Determined to uncover the truth behind her father’s secret life, Christine heads to Magdalena, prepared to hate the people who have caused her to question everything she thought she knew about her father. Free on Kindle.
Free: Winds of Betrayal (Books 1 & 2)
A rousing family saga for the fight for America’s independence!
The winds of change brews over the colonies. Tension against the crown is mounting daily. In Williamsburg, the rebellion burns strong in the hearts of two siblings, Jonathan and Hannah Corbett. Spirited and headstrong, Hannah finds herself thrust in the middle of a conspiracy when her father receives a strange package from Philadelphia. Jonathan, a physician for the Continental Army, is torn between duty and family. With war looming on the horizon, the siblings soon discover there is a high price to be paid for the cry for freedom. Free on Kindle.
Incendiary
Free: Feels Like Home
When Autumn Maddox’s plans fall apart, she goes back to the town that never forgot she’s from the wrong side of the tracks. Jude Southerland is the town doctor and most eligible bachelor — a status he plans on keeping. Until he runs down Autumn and realizes she’s his perfect match. But can he convince her? Free on Kindle.