“So, I don’t like to tell you your business but…if we’re making a run for it, we should do it now. It’s really quiet, and I think this is our best shot. Only I’d like to make that run for it without a knife at my throat.” A pause. “You can trust me.”

He could not trust anyone.

“I’ll help you get out of here. I’m not going to leave you.”

His chest burned. Probably because of the stupid drugs he’d been given. Not because of what she’d just said. Certainly not because this was the first time in his life that someone had promised not to leave him.

ONE WEEK to go!!! CRUEL ICE releases on 1/28/25. What can you expect?

🩵 Morally grey hero
🩵 He’s good at being bad.
🩵 She just saved him from extreme torture.
🩵 Current & cold case mystery
🩵 Steamy, steamy steam…
🩵 They both have dark pasts.
🩵 He’ll bring her into his world and never, ever let her go.

CRUEL ICE will be here in two weeks!

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫…𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝.

Make no mistake, Declan Flynn is not a good man. He’s never claimed to be. He’s rich, powerful, dangerous…and, apparently, on someone’s kill list. When he wakes up one night, tied to a chair in a dank basement, Declan is certainly less than pleased—and in a killing mood of his own. Then she appears. His most unlikely savior.

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥.

But fate is often funny, and she’s in the wrong place at the right time in order to save one very ungrateful and gorgeous billionaire. She’s a low-rent PI, he’s crime royalty (if you believe the gossip) and she may have just stumbled onto the first big case of her career. Now her job is to protect her new client—and in order to do that, she plans to stick to Declan like glue. He’d better get used to having her around. Intimately close.

𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭, 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐠𝐨.

Good things—and people—don’t come into Declan’s life often. And when Marley inserts herself into what will obviously become one very bloody battle, the only thing he can do is protect her…even as Marley mistakenly thinks she is protecting him. By saving him, Marley put a target on her delicate back, and he intends to make sure that no one so much as touches a hair on her head. He also intends to claim the brave and fierce woman who calls to a dark and savage hunger that he’s buried deep inside.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞.

Someone wants Declan to suffer. To pay for the crimes his father committed. To unmask the predator who is now hunting both Declan and Marley, they will have to face the hell of Declan’s past. Monsters aren’t born. They’re made. Declan was made into a monster long ago, and this beast will do anything to protect the angel that slipped into his world.

𝐓𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐦? 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡.

𝐴𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟’𝑠 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒: Some cases are never truly closed, and when it comes to Declan Flynn’s past—the nightmare is not even close to over. The Ice Breakers are returning to solve a very cold case, and new Ice Breaker recruit Marley Jones is about to find herself the target of a vicious killer…even as she becomes the obsession of a man who has known very little that is 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 in his life. A cold case, a hot romance, and a hero who knows all about being 𝑏𝑎𝑑 are waiting in CRUEL ICE.

She’s a low-rent PI.
He’s crime royalty.
When she saves his life…she becomes his new obsession.

CRUEL ICE will be here on 1/28/25!

“You’ll need to move in with me.”

“What?”

“Move in. With me.” Was that clear enough? He thought he’d enunciated things very well. “While we are in town, you’ll stay in my hotel suite. Don’t worry, it has two bedrooms.” Unfortunately. “No one bed situation.”

“Uh, good to know.”

“And if we travel to Chicago, my estate has ample rooms.”

“Ample, right. Check.”

“Where I go, you go. And, of course, if any reporters get too curious about what’s happening and why you’re so close, we’ll just provide the handy cover story you already created for us.” 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜, 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒́𝑒.

Her pink tongue swiped along her lower lip.

And his gaze became absolutely locked on her sweet mouth. 𝑂ℎ, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒.

“Can’t we just admit that fiancée stuff was BS? Tell everyone I’m a PI? I’m sure some enterprising person will pull up my job info, anyway.”

He wondered what she would taste like.

“Uh, Declan?”

His gaze slowly rose so that he could get lost in that dark stare of hers again. “You’re going to marry me.”

Her brows rose.

“That’s the story we are telling everyone. It will allow you to move in all of my circles. To be with me at every moment. No one will think I’m just moving a junior PI into my life. But they’d buy that I was moving my new obsession in close to me.”

𝑂𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛. A slip of the tongue.

She bit her lower lip. Dammit. And his eyes were right back on her mouth. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟.

She freed her lower lip. “So this is to be an…undercover mission?”

If that was what she wanted to call it. “Do you have a boyfriend who will object?” Boyfriend, lover, person who Declan needed to make vanish.

“No, I’m not involved with anyone right now.”

“You are.” Again, he held her with his stare. “You’re involved with me. Going forward, this will be our story.”

Surprise! I have a paranormal rerelease available now!

WED OR DEAD was originally published with Kensington back in 2012 (it was released in the HOWL FOR IT anthology). I received the rights back to the story, and I’ve just made it available again for readers. WED OR DEAD is a 44,000 word novella. It has a new cover, but there have been no major content changes to the tale. (So if you read it before, you are not missing anything new!)

She not-so-accidentally married a wolf shifter…

Hunter Kayla Kincaid had one job—get close to wolf alpha Gage Ryder by any means necessary. That means hadn’t necessarily included marriage, but the minute she met the shifter, Kayla began to fall under his spell. Now she’s stuck between a wolf and a serious hard place. She’s supposed to help take out her new husband. Instead, she’s trying to find a way to save his savage self, even as Gage reveals that he’s been keeping secrets of his own.

He fell for a hunter, and now she is his.

It’s adorable the way Gage’s new bride thinks that she has tricked him. Priceless. The truth is that he recognized her as a potential wolf mate from the first look, and Gage moved heaven and hell to make her his. Now that he has Kayla, there is no way Gage will let her go. So all of the hunters at the door had better back off. This wolf has his mate, and he will fight to the death in order to keep her.

WED OR DEAD contains a fierce alpha hero and a heroine who enjoys a walk on the wild side. Paranormal fun, action, and adventure are waiting. Kayla and her alpha wolf are about to show that some bonds are absolutely meant to be. Provided, of course, that they can both stay alive long enough to get their happily-ever-after.

Want to read the first chapter? It’s up on my site for you!

I’ve got an early Christmas present for you!! My USA Today best-selling romance, ONE HOT HOLIDAY, is F*R*E*E right now!! You can snag this book at all major ebook retailers.

I had way too much fun writing this story. Danger, romance, humor…and a parade of wild elves? Come on, that is some holiday merriment right there! Here’s the full blurb for you:

She’s running for her life. He’s the safe haven she never expected to find. The holiday season is about to get HOT.

Hiding out for the holiday season in the heart of the South? Not something that Haley Quick ever expected to have on her to-do list but then…she never expected her ex to want her dead, either. Turns out, life is full of surprises. Time to deal. Haley has ditched New York for a crazy little dot on the map known as Point Hope, Alabama. It’s a town gone extra crazy for the holidays, and Haley is sticking out like a sore thumb with her very much Grinch-self.

But enter sexy sheriff Spencer Lane…Tall, muscled, and made with an extra dose of sex appeal, he is exactly the kind of man that Haley should be avoiding. He’s charming, he looks way too good in a Santa hat, and, oh, yes, he’s her new landlord. The hits just keep coming. She can’t afford to let Spencer learn all of her secrets, a tough job since she is living with the man. No sex, though. It’s purely a business relationship. Except…the holidays in the South sure do get HOT. Or maybe that’s just sexy Spencer. Usually, Haley falls for the bad guy. It’s the whole reason she’s running for her life. She can’t help but wonder…What would it be like to fall for a man like Spencer?

He just got his Christmas wish.

Sheriff Spencer Lane can’t believe his luck. The most beautiful, fascinating woman he’s ever seen has just dropped into his life like a gift from, well, the big guy in red. Only the problem is that Haley seems to think Spencer is some by-the-book, nice guy. Probably because of the badge. And if she wants him to be the hero, that’s a role that he’s happy to play for her. But the truth is, Spencer has plenty of darkness inside, too. An ex Navy SEAL, he knows how to get sh—um, stuff done. He also knows how to be very, very naughty.

When danger threatens his Haley, all bets are off. No one is going to hurt her. No one is going to threaten her. Not in his town. Not on his watch. The nice guy will show Haley just how bad he can be.

Fake snow, a parade of wild elves, and a stalker ex don’t make for the merriest of times, but in Point Hope, anything can happen—and it usually does. Ready for a steamy story that will get you in the ho-ho-ho spirit? Settle back, curl up with Spencer, and have yourself a jolly old time.