That’s the one thing Brace Cordova is convinced of when he’s released from a five year stretch in a military prison.
He figures the best he can do is spend the rest of his days as a freighter pilot and vicariously live out his dream of a Commonwealth Fleet career through his cousin, Commander Letessa Cordova.
His plans unravel when he’s accosted by gangsters, rescued by smugglers, and swept up in the search for an ancient Earth relic.
With a vengeful crime lord and a Commonwealth Fleet gunship both hot on his heels, Brace soon realizes he might not live long enough to ever get a taste of the quiet life.
The Cordova Vector is book one in The Brace Cordova Space Opera Series. It’s an action packed science fiction adventure filled with diverse alien races, ruthless criminals, dedicated soldiers, and millennia-old mysteries.
Harlow James is a pen name I use to protect my identity as a high school teacher. Keeping those two roles in my life separate is necessary, but also fun! It’s like a live two lives, and anonymity gives me the opportunity to be bold and take risks in my stories.
I stumbled upon romance novels in 2018 when I picked up Driven by Kristy Bromberg, and I was obsessed. I had just lost my grandmother too, so reading offered me an escape from reality and a chance to grieve on my own terms.
About a year later, I got an idea for my own book and started writing. I researched self-publishing and jumped in with both feet. I had no idea what I was doing!
But now I’ve built a business and hobby that I LOVE! I have an outlet that’s just for me. When I write, I’m not a mom, a wife, or a teacher…I’m a woman who gets to tell stories that no one else can.
My books are the perfect blend of heartwarming moments, full-bellied laughs, and PLENTY of steam to melt your Kindles 😉 And there are always elements of me sprinkled in to every character and story that I write.
When I’m not writing you can find me reading or spending time in my kitchen. I love to cook and feed my family and friends. Otherwise, you can find me watching comedy specials with my husband, camping with our kids, or taking naps. I live for naps 😉
Pretending to be fake engaged to my enemy might not be my brightest idea.
But it is definitely necessary.
On the brink of the biggest car show of my career, I start to panic because it’s the first time I have to see my ex since our break-up.
Spoiler alert: it wasn’t clean or amicable.
Then when Elliot Thorne’s ex-fiancé shows back up in town, I devise a plan for both of us to get what we want: a buffer from our exes with a dash of revenge.
The problem is Elliot takes his role to protect me too seriously.
He brings me food while I’m working to make sure I eat. He even silences the self-doubt I feel on a day-to-day basis.
And before I know it, he has me on my knees in my garage, and on my back on the hood of my car.
The hate I’ve harbored toward him melts away as fast as my panties, and I soon realize we have more in common than I thought.
Then he tells me a secret that makes me reevaluate our entire relationship.
Now I’m left to consider if something fake could be real…
And that maybe it’s about time I admit that Elliot isn’t my enemy after all.
Rule #1 on the Everly Fletcher Matchmaking Manifesto…Never fall for your best friend’s grumpy brother.
Everly is the matchmaking mastermind of her family, but her own love life is a bit of a flop.
Back from four years in Dublin, she’s ready for a quiet summer on Fletcher Mountain helping launch her aunt’s animal rescue center—until Conri “Wolf” Reilly shows up.
Wolf is her college roommate’s infuriating twin brother. He’s brooding, Irish, and rugby’s resident bad boy with thighs that could crack a watermelon.
His red card reputation has trashed his career prospects…until a training camp in Denver comes calling. As a favor, Everly reluctantly gets Wolf a place to stay if he volunteers at the rescue center.
Now Everly finds herself working and living next door to the Irish tattooed grump who treats her like a nuisance—but looks at her like he could press her up against a hay bale until they forget their own names.
Wolf swore he came to America to fix his image, not fall for his sister’s best friend, but the more time he spends with Everly, the harder it is to keep his distance.
Perhaps Everly’s in her bad boy era…or maybe Fletcher Mountain has its own matchmaking plans.MINI BLURB
Now that she has helped her father and uncles find their loves Everly has relocated to Dublin to attend school and is helping other students do the same. The only problem is that as much as she wants to find her love that isn’t happening and she is beginning to believe it is her. When she finishes school she heads back home to be with her family however she also ends up taking Wolf, her brother’s best friend with her.
Wolf is a talented rugby player however one decision on the field has put his career in jeopardy. The best way to stay in the game is to try and earn a spot on the only team that is willing to give him a chance which is in Colorado. He finds himself staying with Everly’s family and he soon realizes that being close to Everly and not being with her may be the biggest challenge he has faced.
I really enjoyed getting to know the man behind Wolf’s grouchy personality and what made him this way while also seeing Everly’s insecurities and the unfolding relationship between them was endearing as they finally give up fighting the feelings between them. Connor Crais was the perfect choice for Wolf as he plays the gruff and gentle giant to perfection while Erin Mallon brings out the sass of Everly.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Number 1 Amazon and USA Today bestselling author Amy Daws writes spicy love stories that take place in America, as well as across the pond. She’s been known to pen her steamy novels in a tire shop waiting room and that experience inspired her rom-com Wait With Me that was turned into a feature film on Passionflix. When Amy is not writing, she’s likely making charcuterie boards from her home in South Dakota where she lives with her daughter and husband.
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She’s everything he can’t stand. He’s everything she can’t ignore. Cotton Mercer likes his life simple—his ranch, his routine, and zero complications. Sela is the opposite of simple. She’s sharp, stubborn, and used to getting her way—and from the moment she steps into Sagebrush, she gets under his skin in all the wrong ways. And all the right ones. The tension between them is instant. The arguments are constant. And staying away from each other? Not happening. Sela knows better than to want a man like Cotton—too rough, too stubborn, too rooted in a life she was never meant to be part of. But Cotton Mercer doesn’t play games. And once he gives in to temptation… he doesn’t let go.
Cotton thought he was happy with his life as he enjoys working on the ranch and helping out at his mom’s shop when required. Selah is a whirlwind he never saw coming as even thought she may infuriate him there is no denying she makes him feel.
Selah has come to town for her friend’s wedding and is feeling out of element. From her first interaction with Cotton she enjoys getting a reaction from him and as they spend time together she can’t imagine a future that doesn’t include him and the town.
The banter between Cotton and Selah was humorous and they proved that when it comes to love even their different lifestyles couldn’t keep them apart.
He lives by the club’s code; she’s bound to a man who isn’t him. When their forbidden love ignites, every stolen moment binds them together, until they discover secrets that twist their lives in a way they never expected. But some hearts collide despite the cost and fall anyway. After all, all’s fair in love and sin.
Life can change at the drop of a hat. I should know.
On the way home after crossing state lines, my club and I stopped at a diner just outside of Vegas. While standing outside, taking in the sunset over the desert landscape, the wind blows a baseball hat in my direction, and I catch it.
Only to have the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life run straight to me.
There’s something about her that my soul instantly recognizes as mine. But it’s the fear in her eyes that has my over-protective instincts rise. It’s obvious she’s on the run. From what, I’m not sure, and I don’t care. Jessie is mine. And by the way she’s looking at me, she knows it too. I’ll do anything in my power to prove I’m nothing like what she ran away from.
I make her an offer she can’t refuse. A place to stay and a job to help her get back on her feet. I’ll be her shelter in a storm and keep her safe. Forever.
Dear Reader,
Sheltered by Stone is a steamy instalove with a rough around the edge’s biker daddy with a soft side for his woman. But don’t get it twisted, Stone would burn the world down and not blink and eyes to put someone down if it meant keeping his woman safe and sound.
When Stone decides to stop at a diner with his MC members he never expected it to change his life. When fate brings Jessie into his life he knows that she is in a difficult situation and all he wants to do if protect her and claim her as his own.
Jesse is trying to stay one step ahead of her past and when she meets Stone not only is there the intense feelings she has for him, but she knows that she can trust him to keep her safe as she heads off on an adventure she never wants to end.
This is an age gap romance that features a protective hero and the woman he would do anything for.
Raven’s never been one for fairy tales, especially not the ones where a mischievous sprite explodes in pink goo, an imp smells of old boots and bong resin, or she ends up with a demon god’s tattoos. But in the gritty, magic-soaked twin cities of Dusk and Dawn, fairy tales are very real – and Raven’s just been unwillingly cast as the reluctant harbinger of the apocalypse.
As a ‘gifted thief’ (and a street rat, thank you very much), Raven’s used to sticky situations. But a botched heist at the Malachi family manor lands her squarely in a supernatural turf war. With ancient Infernal gods vying for control, a newly awakened Fae royalty planting enchanted trees all over Dusk, and a secret government agency (headed by a detective Raven totally isn’t sleeping with) watching her every move, Raven’s got a lot on her plate.
Good thing she’s got Mia, her sprite-summoning apprentice (whose creatures are as unpredictable as her loyalty), and Caleb, her crime boss father-figure (who always seems to be torturing someone). Together, they’ll navigate a world of mind-flaying Fae, sword-wielding zealots in white tracksuits, and deadly magical artifacts like Rowan’s Ravenous Maw.
Can Raven survive long enough to figure out who’s pulling the strings, stop the world from ending (again), and maybe, just maybe, get these infernal tattoos to stop itching? Or will she discover that being “Ruin Marked” means more than just a really bad day?
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