Mildred Petrie expected a comfortable retirement after years as a meter maid. Her husband dies, and his secrets change everything. At the age of 71, broke, and desperate, she walks to the Ivory Winds Casino, and takes the first job they offer-undercover security. Mildred tackles the hidden secrets with sass, courage, and elastic-waist pants.

A story based on some true events of the author, blended with his vivid imagination. 

Who are the Abductors? Where do they come from? Where are they hiding? Join the author as he travels the world searching for the answers and eventually comes face to face with his abductors. Any other descriptions would be a spoiler. 

Awarded the PIPS Book Quality Award. 

Peter and Sarah grow up living next door to one another in a small town in the east of Scotland.  They also share the same birthday.  He’s not so bright, but she’s formidably intelligent.  She’s also autistic, and can’t understand why nobody except Peter likes her.The days of our birth follows Peter and Sarah over twenty years.  His journey into adulthood is fairly effortless; hers, more complex.  It explores how two very different people can grow up as best friends, but never quite understand why they’re best friends and what they really feel about one another.The book, filled with humour and poignancy, is an exploration of how people change, the things we...

RESCUE. DANGER. DEVOTION.THIS TIME, THEIR HEARTS ARE ON THE LINE.She was born to fight fires...When Tori Mitchell said goodbye to the handsome stranger after their heart-stopping dance on her last night of freedom, she never expected him to wind up on the same Midnight Sun elite smokejumper team. Now the two rookies are on the run through the Alaska backcountry, chased by militia men intent on stopping the wildlands firefighters. Forced to rely on each other, Tori has to ignore the sparks between them if they're going to stay alive. Otherwise that spark will turn into a flame neither of them can put out.He's got something to prove...Born into a family legacy of firefighting, Orion Price is d...

She knows his secrets. But can she drop her spurs and forgive him?Vivienne Cavanagh’s half-sisters invite her to join them in building Happy Trails Stables, which sounds like the kind of stability Viv has craved all her life. She’s become a pediatric nurse practitioner so she’ll never need to depend on a man for anything the way her needy mother did. God, her sisters, her horse, and a real home in Jewel Lake? That’s all she needs.Branson DeWitt knew a guy shouldn’t date his best friend’s kid sister, so he didn’t. But when his past jumps in front of him, destroying his engagement to Viv’s best friend, he reacts poorly. Being a lawyer means he knows right and wrong, but it’s ...

He crushed on her twin. Now she's ready to take the reins and pursue the man she wants.Middle-school teacher Emma Cavanagh and her two sisters join forces to start a boarding stable and riding academy on the edge of Jewel Lake, Montana. Their brother hires Josh to run a farrier shop on the premises. Great — it sounds like high school all over again when Emma had crushed on Josh, who’d only had eyes for her twin.Josh McDiarmid can’t believe his luck running into Alexia Cavanagh again, but she’s as indifferent to him as she ever was. Josh enlists Emma to help him get her twin’s attention. When a crisis hits at Happy Trails Stables, Josh realizes he’s pursuing the wrong cowgirl.Emma...

A woman who spends her entire life thinking she is cursed, and the man who never expected to fall for her.The minute he exited the cave opening, the light hit his pupils. He felt like a vampire rising after millennia of dormancy. The sun was low, a purplish-orange fireball sitting on the surface of the ocean. Even in the darkening evening light, it took a while for his eyes to get adjusted. But then, they did.Ben…breathe.It wasn’t simply because it was the first time he was seeing her in direct light, and her skin glowed like the volcanic rock attached to the blade in her hand. It wasn’t the way the sun hit her hair and he could make out all the different hues of blue that adorned each...

I don't care what happens to me.As long as Larke Tapley is safe.As long as no one tries to take her from me.But then, the world collapses.Because of my Navy SEAL background, I’m thrown into a role as an elite guard at a survivors’ camp in Fort Totten, DC. At the camp, Larke and I are forcefully separated. And, when I find her—because I will always find her—she’s on the brink of death. So, I break every last one of the camp's rules to save her life…except the rule that she won’t allow me to break. The one that says we can’t be together unless she plays the role of my mistress.I hate everything about it.But it gives me an excuse to see her as many times as I’d like.Day or nig...

New and Exciting series from award-winning author, MaryLu Tyndall!.Batten your hatches … the Queen of the High Seas is back with a tempest-tossed adventure that will shiver your timbers! Whenever I pick up a novel by MaryLu Tyndall, I actually get a tingle of excitement because I know I’m in for pulse-pounding romance that no author can match, and in The Summons, Ms. Tyndall takes it to a whole new level.—Julie Lessman, award-winning author of The Daughters of Boston, Winds of Change, Isle of Hope, and The Cousins O’Connor seriesEmeline Hyde is the runt of the litter. Especially in comparison to her incredibly talented and comely siblings and heroic parents. She longs for a hero like...