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Someone is watching Cory.
She can feel it in her bones . . . but why?Navy SEAL Sean MacKay’s teammate is murdered after stealing a deadly nerve gas formula from Syrian terrorists. Naval Intelligence believes MacKay’s teammate was a traitor and shipped the stolen formula to his sister in the States for safekeeping. MacKay is ordered to find the sister before the terrorists do and to recover the stolen formula at all costs.
Foreclosure looms for Cory Rigatero as she struggles to keep her rustic resort near Mt. St. Helens afloat after her brother abandoned her to join the SEAL Teams. Cory’s whole world plummets into a tailspin when Sean MacKay shows up at her resort with news of her brother’s death and the shocking suspicion that her brother sent her traitorous classified documents.
r>No way will Cory ever trust MacKay—the man who once seduced her and then vanished into the night without a trace.
Enjoy an Excerpt
Cory stopped in the kitchen on her way outside. “I thought I’d go out front and see if Vern needed any help.”
“He’s all done,” Cookie told her and handed Garth a dog biscuit from the jar on the counter. “He had a boy out front helping him when I peeked out the window a bit ago.”
“A boy? You mean Jasper?”
“No, I’ve never seen this one around here before.” Cookie went back to stirring her pot. “Handsome, though,” she added. “They headed for the barn.”
“I’d better go see who it is,” Cory said, already striding for the back door.
She called out as soon as she reached the open barn doors, and Vern hollered from the small office that doubled as his shop. Cory threaded her way through all the equipment in the back half of the barn. Cookie’s stranger stood up when she appeared in the doorway, and Cory froze.
This was no boy. This was a man. All man. And he literally stole Cory’s breath away. She had read that in novels before. Never believed it to be possible.
Until now.
Shaggy hair and dark brown curls, perfectly teamed with a matching beard, were her first thought. Her second thought was broad—really broad—shoulders beneath his black flannel shirt, and hips so narrow that his black jeans sagged a smidge on his tall, muscular frame. His sleeves were rolled up, and those forearms and biceps belonged to a working man.
Good grief! Stop staring, Cory!
She caught herself before she licked her lips and jerked her gaze back to his face. Blue eyes that snared her gaze like a predator traps unsuspecting prey. Those blue eyes sparkled with just enough mischief to send a wicked flutter through her belly. Blue eyes that looked startlingly familiar.
.
Maybe she just wanted them to look familiar, so she could already know this handsome man.
“Mac here is our new help.”
About the Author
Petie spent a majority of her career at Walt Disney World—”The Most Magical Place on Earth”—where she loved working in the land of fairy tales by day and crafting her own romantic fairy tales by night, including her series, The Cinderella Romances. She eventually said goodbye to her “day” job to focus on her stories full-time.
These days, Petie spends her time writing new tales for her Cinderella series, her new paranormal-romantic-suspense series, The Watchers, sequels to her Regency time-travel series, Lords in Time, and more standalones like Any Fin For Love and Ambush in the Everglades.
Petie shares her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with her horticulturist husband and an opinionated Nanday conure named Sassy, who makes a cameo appearance in Christmas Watch, Book 2 of The Watchers series.
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On Halloween Eve, 1961, in his dingy Bronx walkup apartment, seventeen-year-old Jimmy Welton hears the opening notes of a song in his head. Jimmy’s still mourning his firefighter father, who taught him to play the guitar but recently died in a house fire, leaving his family destitute. Jimmy takes this song, about all he misses from his life now, to the New York amusement park where he works after school. There, he meets Mark Morgan, a rebellious teen with his own band, who eventually invites Jimmy to join them. And the rest is rock’n roll history…
SUSAN SLOATE is the author or co-author of more than 25 published books. This includes 3 editions of Forward to Camelot, a time-travel thriller about the JFK assassination that became a #6 Amazon bestseller, was honored in 3 literary competitions and was optioned by a Hollywood company for film production. She also wrote the autobiographical Broadway novel Stealing Fire, which became a #2 Amazon bestseller and Hot New Release, and Realizing You (with Ron Doades), for which she invented a new genre: the self-help novel. 
Love. Lies. And the Road to Redemption.
The story unfolds in 268 AD, when Rome is ruled by cruelty and fear. At its center is Valentine, a once-feared warrior who narrowly survives death and is forever changed by Agatha, a woman whose blindness hides extraordinary courage. Through their love, Valentine finds a new calling: to defy imperial law by secretly performing marriages for Christian couples. Each ceremony risks his capture and execution, yet with every vow spoken he plants the seeds of resistance against tyranny. As his defiance intensifies, Valentine’s actions ripple far beyond his lifetime, giving rise to the enduring tradition of Valentine’s Day. More than a love story, this novel is a chronicle of rebellion and faith, where devotion shines brightest in the darkest times.
Sheldon Collins built his career in Hollywood, where he wrote and directed films that were praised for their narrative depth and showcased at international festivals before airing on premium television. With The Legend of Valentine, he translates that cinematic storytelling to the page in his first novel, complemented by a multi-cast audiobook edition he co-directed. He lives in California with his wife and daughter, where he enjoys the outdoors—surfing, skiing, hiking, and biking—as well as music, podcasts, and audiobooks. Collins holds a BA in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute, blending academic insight with directorial expertise in his fiction.
A vegetarian veterinarian needs cash for a no-kill shelter, which is her life’s passion. But her efforts to fundraiser have been stymied, because she doesn’t know anyone rich.
Jim Turner writes crime but doesn’t live it. He respects his grandfather’s tales of heroes but doesn’t believe them. When his failing grandfather sends him to a remote peninsula to write the end of his own heroic love story, Jim includes a war criminal interview to maintain his edge.
Society may be run by the men of the ton, but six scandalous sisters are determined to take it by storm one gentleman at a time.
Helene Matheson writes steamy regency historical romance novels with intelligent, unstoppable heroines who don’t require an alpha male to save them—having one in their bed is another story.
