SOLD! Mardi Gras Madness (86,200 words): A young, widowed librarian comes to the small town of Chapelle, Louisiana, to run the local library and finds herself embroiled in the secrets of the Robert LeBlanc family as well as an outbreak of pyromania. Rather a good, old-fashioned gothic in tone. Sold to L & L Dreamspell publishing for release in fall 2012!

Hartz (70,300 words): Billionaire techno-geek, Jonathan Hartz, comes to Chapelle intending to help the economy of the small town by opening a factory. He falls for a lovely Cajun woman, Celine Landry. When both his personal assistant and her brother plot to break up the romance on the basis of incompatibility, Hartz simply moves his empire to the town and tries to become Cajun. Light-hearted romance.

Blessings and Curses (82,500 words): Under the influence of a love potion, Hartz’s reserved, sophisticated assistant conceives a passion for Celine’s brother, the Cajun entertainer named Crazy Pierre. Always wondering if the potion is the only reason Pierre stays with her, she beds, weds, and has a family with the man who must resist the lure of other women and an adventurous life to keep his family together.

SOLD! Queen of the Mardi Gras Ball (113,560 words): Spirited flapper, Rosamond St. Rochelle meets two men on Christmas Eve of 1925. One is rich and well-connected in New Orleans. The other, a poor Cajun doctor, plans to return to the bayou to practice. Both would like to have Rosamond by their side, but she longs for a career of her own as one of the New Women of the Twenties. More of a Mainstream novel with romantic elements. Sold to L & L Dreamspell publishing for release in April 2012!

Devil in Disguise (70,900 words): An antiques expert comes to Port Jefferson, Louisiana, to inventory and appraise the contents of an ante-bellum home. While she finds the owner of the mansion awkward and uninteresting, she is playfully abducted by a masked man on a white horse during the annual Courir de Mardi Gras. Escaping her captor easily, she remains intrigued by his identity. However, when fake antiques start showing up among the originals, Suzanne must put her fantasies aside and face the fact her dull employer might be guilty of insurance fraud. A Cajun Country set romance with a mystery sub-plot.

Star-Crossed? (99,560 words): In ante-bellum Louisiana, Esperanza Niles discovers her secret fiancé is actually her half-brother and breaks their engagement. Rufus Courville weds another but continues to desire Espy. The Civil War brings about both their deaths and ends their tragic love—or does it? Young Noreen Courville has been plagued by strange dreams of the past all her life. When she meets Rusty Niles, she knows they are the reincarnated spirits of Rufe and Espy. He isn’t so sure. Noreen sets out to prove her case and end the feud between the two families. A hybrid novel, both lyrical historical and sassy contemporary.

Deserving of Love? (115,580 words): The contemporary villains of Star-Crossed? figure they don’t deserve the kind of love Noreen and Rusty found, but that doesn’t keep bull rider, Bodey Landrum, from trying to marry to religious, ethereal Eve Burns. Often-married Renee Niles makes a play for Bodey, but finds herself carried away literally by a rodeo bullfighter who teaches her how to love the simple things in life again. Both are helped by two interfering nuns and the spirit of the Blessed Mother Leontine. A double romance.

Why Can’t I? (87,170 words): Noreen and Rusty’s youngest daughter is possessed by the soul of Addy Courville, a suicide who wants to live again to find her long lost fiancé who died in the Civil War. Little Sarah Beth Niles, however, refuses to give her body over to Addy. The two souls learn to work together, but Sarah is determined to marry Bodey Landrum’s oldest son and Addy cannot allow that to happen. An unusual ghost story.

Lady Flora's Rescue (107,000 words): Last of the Mohicans with a humorous twist. Lady Flora will follow the man she adores anywhere to gain his regard-across the ocean and into the wilderness. Pearce Longleigh, Viscount Laughlin, resists knowing he cannot take this seemingly fragile woman to live among the Shawnee as he flees his responsibilities as a lord in order to return to his mother's people. The opening saga of the Longleigh Chronicles.

Of Turtles and Doves (97,310 words): In Regency England, Jason Longleigh, third son of the Duke and Duchess of Bellevue craves turtle soup. When he attempts to get some, he is waylaid by a young American woman crusading against the killing of turtles. Despite her crazy notions, he is smitten. Unfortunately, little Miranda comes with a venal father and an easily insulted brother. Nevertheless, he takes the Clary family and two rescued Galapagos tortoises home to meet his own very eccentric family, including his sharp-tongued sister, Pandora. When the young couple appears to elope, a chase across England and over the ocean to America ensues. Sense and Sensibility with a touch of The Tempest.

The Earl’s Ugly Mistress (89,000 words): Blinded at Waterloo, the Earl of Edgemont takes out his bitterness on those around him. When he insults a spinster he has been stuck with for the evening, she insults him back and insists he can learn to live normally again. He dares her to show him how—and she does, falling in love with the handsome earl as she gives him lessons. But will he still love her when his sight returns, and he sees how very plain she is? The match-making Duchess of Bellevue is determined to bring them together. Part of the Longleigh Chronicles above.

The Greatest Prize (70,000 words): Joshua Longleigh jilts the woman he has long been expected to marry by telling her she cannot compete with the women of London, one of whom he is courting, the nonpareil of The Season. Instead of bursting into tears, Kate Morely bets him that she can land the greatest male prize, Viscount Astin. And the game begins. Just as Astin is about to offer for Kate, she vanishes, the victim of a rival.  Joshua will not accept that Kate is dead and he might have lost the woman who is truly the greatest prize.

Lack of Will (93,236 words): Turning away from her college crush, Will Collier, Kara Shafer marries the wrong man, a wannabe rock musician who drags her across the United States with his band and then dumps her when he achieves success using her poetry as lyrics for his songs. Kara and her small children return to her hometown where Will now works as a surveyor. She’d like to have another try at Will, but his vicious mother stands in their way. A women’s novel.

SOLD! Wish for a Sinner (105,000 words): Joe Dean Billodeaux, quarterback for the New Orleans Sinners is beginning to get the idea his many seductions might not be a healthy lifestyle. His friends try to fix him up with Nell Abbott, a child psychologist, just what he needs. When another woman presents Joe with a love child and dies, he is badly in need of a wife and mother for the boy. Nell, unable to have children of her own, accepts the challenge. Joe promises to be a faithful husband and good father, but can he keep his vow and still win a few Super Bowls along the way? The sequel to Goals for a Sinner. Sold to L & L Dreamspell publishing for release in 2010! Read the first two chapters.

Lion in the Heather (85,800 words). Enthralled by Scottish lore after reading Waverley, Lady Euphemia Longleigh, the Duke of Bellevue's most biddable daughter, leaps into the arms of a Highland laird who seems to have stepped from the pages of the book. With her father and brother in hot pursuit, Phemie aids her abductor in her own kidnapping until she can convince him they must be wed. Another humorous Longleigh Chronicle.

SOLD! Kicks for a Sinner (90,800 words): During the off-season, Joe Dean has two problems to solve-convincing his wife to increase the size of their family and deflecting the advances of Cassie Thomas. Joe puts his new kicker, Howard "Howdy" McCoy, between himself and Cassie. Can Howdy persuade the sassy redhead to switch her affections from the bad boy to the nice guy? Sold to L & L Dreamspell publishing for release in January 2012!