A Place to Call Her Own
Contemporary Romance
63,000 words
Complete


Growing up in America as the child of Eastern European immigrants, Melia Kovac has never felt like she belonged. Now she’s taken a job as the director of a local migrant center in tiny Blackrock, Ga, where she hopes to give another group of immigrants that sense of belonging she’s searched for all her life. She meets town commissioner Ben Borelli, who will soon vote on a bill that would eliminate funding for Melia’s center. The presence of the migrants threatens his strongest tie to his father and grandfather—the family nursery and greenhouse business they both loved. Melia hates Ben’s sense of entitlement and blind loyalty to his family. He hates her belief that his hometown owes anything to outsiders like her. They both hate the undeniable attraction that sizzles between them each time the other is near.

Climb to Freedom
Contemporary romance
62,000 words
Complete
 

Gina Blanchard decided after her sister's death that she would spend her life helping others mistreated by society.  That dedication led to law school and an internship at Morgan's Ladder, an organization helping those wrongly convicted of crimes climb to freedom.  She meets handsome Landon Vista, who works for a state senator known for his tough stance on crime.  What Gina doesn't realize is that she's stirring up Landon's own painful memories.  When her organization takes on the case of Henry "Smooch" Alexander, she may be forced to choose between love and justice . . . because he's the man convicted years earlier of murdering Landon's mother.

The Neighbor
Contemporary romance
65,000 words
Complete
 

Elle Masterson is able to make her own decisions for the first time in eighteen years. Her husband’s sudden death means the family is no longer at the mercy of a corporation that kept them moving every two years. She selects tiny Lone Jack, North Carolina, to begin a new life and establishes the first permanent home her teenage son has known. Her hopes of small town bliss are bolstered by her handsome new neighbor, who fled to Lone Jack for reasons of his own. But her dead husband’s parents don’t care that the man next door is a corporate-guru-turned-college-professor who may soon stand trial for the death of a U.S. cabinet member. Their concern goes only skin-deep—that she is white and he is Black—and Elle must decide between a love she’s never had and separating her son from those who knew his father best.

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