Hello All!
I want to welcome our visiting agents. We know finding the time to attend sessions like this can be time-consuming. We all, both MuseTrackers and authors alike, appreciate your willingness to participate.
Please contact me at DanciLlaw@yahoo.com with the number(s) of the pitches you’d like more information on, what you’d like the author to send, and how you’d like them to send it.
We hope you enjoy!
But first – STATISTIC time.
Pitches recieved: 62
- Too long: 12
- Not Romance: 5
- Missing info: 9
- Joke pitch: 1 (Yep, seriously.)
- Over thirty limit: 5
I know I’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating since I am constantly amazed by all the new names I see in my inbox. (I love that the word is getting out there.)
READ THE RULES!
I can’t say it enough. This marks the one year anniversary of Agent Shop at the MuseTracks blog. As much as I LOVE my delete button, I’m saddened and sometimes frustrated by the pitches I have to deny because of foolish, simple mistakes.
Pitching and querying is a part of this business. It’s your first shot at the big guys/gals. It’s your virtual first impression. Why-oh-why would you want to send something that tells an agent or editor that you don’t do your research and find out what they expect from you, but that you also don’t play by the rules? For those who insist upon continuing to do this, my only advice is: get used to the words form rejection.
And it’s too bad.
On a happier note, I did have some great pitches come in. Wanna see?
Well what are you waiting for?
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#1
Tombstones and Treasure
Romance
76,500
Betrayal, murder and a fortune stolen a century ago from a Colorado silver mine bring journalist Elise Baxter to Cedar Bend, Ohio on a quest to solve a mystery–and recover a treasure.
Clues from a family diary lead her to the Victorian mansion restored by handsome Max Holt. Luck is on her side when she’s assigned to report on the inn’s grand opening.
Convincing Max her only interest in his house is historical research, Elise begins her treasure hunt. She finds herself reluctantly, but irresistibly, attracted to Max, but her deception could cost more than she’s willing to lose.
Max, on a whim, paves his inn’s garden path with recovered tombstones, never dreaming it would bring him guests from the netherworld- -a pair of ghosts who seek justice for a past murder, and a rightful heir to their hidden fortune.
Leery of loving again, he lets passion overrule caution, tumbling Elise and him into an erotic encounter, unaware that a web of history ties them more deeply than they realize.
Their treasure hunt seems like a harmless adventure until the diaries are stolen. Now dangerous schemers know their secret and will stop at nothing to own the treasure.
#2
DRAGON CHILD
Paranormal with strong romantic elements.
90,000 words
DRAGON CHILD, the second novel in the Warriors of Light series, is a fast paced quasi-mythical story based in an open magic concept of Earth and the magical beings of Otherworld.
During a dangerous mission where failure means death, Moira O’Neill, a rebellious Fae princess-who discovers she was exchanged for the real princess and is really a fire-breathing dragon-grudgingly partners with a were-leopard major from the Army of Light.
Were Major Steve Taylor, furious at babysitting Moira, soon learns she is not only a fire-breathing dragon but a weapon of The Goddess’ warrior Archangels. Worse, his leopard decides the weapon is his soul mate, leaving the man at war with his cat.
I am the published author of five romance novels co-written under the name Terry Campbell. Two books, published by Macmillan, sold out in their first hardback print run and were produced also in large print. The same two books, MR. WRONG and FAT CHANCE, came in second in the Booksellers’ Best Bet in consecutive years. MR. WRONG was also marketed in audio. My current works are now written as a solo author.
I look forward to hearing from you.
#3
Tigress by the Tail
Paranormal Romance
68900
Lance is a Wizard. He’s not a great wizard, but he’s all right. Descended from a long line of wizards, his brothers taunt him for being slow to learn. And as the youngest, it’s his due course to accept such teasing. Life is good, and normal. For a wizard that is.
Cassie is a Shifter. A tigress to be exact. Raised by her father after her mother’s death she’s as well adjusted as any shifter can be, and still live in the human world, hiding who and what she is.
Bliss comes to a screeching halt the night Satanist kidnap Cassie and her best friend to use as sacrifices to bring forth their Dark Lord. Running to escape, Cassie literally collides into Lance. But when Lance overhears Cassie’s father threaten his life, he heads for the hills. But evil is still afoot and Cassie is taken by a secret government organization dedicated to the eradication of all things magick. Lance must put his life on the line to save the life of a woman he believes is out to kill him, saving her from the very organization for which he works!
#4
Who Needs A Hero?
Category Contemporary Romance
65,000 words
A Heroine in Distress…
In the span of one afternoon, Maggie Sampson lost everything—her job, her fiancé and her inheritance. The thing she’ll miss most though is her mind. What else could explain her vision of the handsome and enigmatic stranger who retrieved her engagement ring when she hurled the rock into the Atlantic Ocean? Normal people just don’t do things like that. Sometimes fantasy is better than reality.
A Hero Who Needed Saving…
To the rest of the world, Neil Phillips is a decorated war hero, a Navy SEAL who has what it takes to get the job done. In private he is a raw wound with two boys, a broken marriage and a nasty case of PTSD, but despite his personal struggles he helped Maggie when she needed it most. Now, Maggie is on a mission and she’s not going anywhere until she returns the favor—with interest.
Who Needs A Hero?
A warrior with a broken heart, a woman with nothing to lose—there are no victims here, only courageous souls, both in need of rescue.
#5
Redeeming Characters
Contemporary Romance
79,000 words
Animals may bite but people always suck.
It’s the motto thirty-two year old Drue has lived by all his life. He longs for the snow to melt so he can disappear into the wild with nary a nitwit to be seen—to escape the confines of a narrow-minded and cloying society. Yet, when he discovers an old friend has published the book he helped create, a new plan surfaces. Revenge.
Bestselling author Dakota Whitmore is in a slump. Sure, her husband is dead and she’s adopted his long-time mistress’s child, but she’s endured more difficult things. Maybe what she needs is a little help, a beta reader who will tell her that her work hasn’t turned into a steaming cow pie. How about uber sexy Drue, the man who helped her pen her first—and only, bestseller? Nothing could possibly go wrong. Right?
#6
Faithful Deceptions
Romantic Suspense
85,000 words
Money dictates the rules of this game and the victim could be anybody regardless of sex, age, or color.
When high-end antiques dealer, Hailey Devlin, discovers her business partner’s boyfriend has bankrupted their company, she sets out to expose the thief. Unknown to Hailey, her target is involved in a brutal human trafficking ring where human lives are sold off to the highest bidder and she fits the next customer’s order perfectly. She awakens to a world she can’t remember. An alluring man claims to be her husband—a man who seems both to want and reject her. Is this amnesia or something much more sinister?
ICE Agent Patrick Roark jumped at the chance to put his training to the test on an elite human trafficking squad of Homeland Security. Undercover as the bodyguard to the ring leader and key suspect in a murder case proves more than he bargained for. Masterminding a clever deception, he’s determined to keep the next victim safe, even if the high-stakes operation costs him everything—including his heart. Can they survive a killer’s wrath? And if they do, will the lies be too damaging for their love to endure?
#7
Double Witness
Category romance – Silhouette Romantic Suspense
58,000
Fearing for her life, Carey Smith is on the run from her former flame, a dangerous criminal who needs to keep her quiet. Her security shattered, she’s changed her identity and carefully guards her heart. When she witnesses an attempted murder, Carey can’t keep her distance from a handsome detective determined to catch the would-be killer. Unable to trust anyone, Carey needs to run again, but this time, the relentless detective is hot on her heels.
Police Detective Reilly Truman is a by-the-book cop married to his job. Assigned to protect the star witness in a case that will end the reign of a serial killer, Reilly will do everything in his power to keep Carey safe. He can’t afford the distraction, but Carey’s secretive nature compels the detective to dig deeper.
Absconding to a remote ranch seems safe, but being alone with Reilly presents its own dangers. Carey’s time with Reilly is temporary, their passion hot and fleeting, and she’ll need to leave before the past catches up to her. But Carey’s underestimated Reilly’s personal code of honor – he won’t let anyone hurt the woman he’s sworn to protect – the woman who’s captured his heart.
#8
Missing Magic
Romance/fantasy
120,000
Destiny can be deadly when dreams come true.
A madman’s curse drives outlaw Finn macc Liamor on the quest to find the lost high queen of the Leannai and restore her magic to his war-torn world. The hunt leads him to the alien realm of 21st century Earth. Here his Gift for Finding fails him and the long-cold trail ends without answers. Then a meeting with the enigmatic artist Annie Doran proves his mission is more than a fool’s dream and breathes new hope into his shuttered heart.
Annie pours her nightmares and sensual dreams into her art and hides her disturbing visions from her overprotective family. Then a quiet stranger inquires about her paintings. His touch soothes, and this time the voices whisper: he’ll listen, tell him all. A forbidden kiss changes everything.
But Finn’s enemies strike, plunging Annie into his dangerous quest. She learns her dreams mean more than madness. The visions also leave her torn between the outlaw Finn and the dark temptation of his vengeful brother. Pursued across two worlds, they race to unlock Annie’s spell-bound secrets and restore the queen before the treachery and magic legacy overshadowing their lives destroy them all.
#9
The Goode Girl
Young Adult
50,992
Growing up in a family of physically unremarkable sisters, Irene Goode is under no illusions about how she’s perceived by the world. She simply doesn’t allow that to keep her from pursuing her own dreams. Dreams that center around the boy next door. Sam Cassidy is the only guy who’s ever looked beyond the wild hair and public perception of Irene to find her true beauty – and appreciate it, even as he’s frustrated with Irene and her antics. But when she becomes the target of his rival, Sam appoints himself her protector, spending most of his time keeping her out of trouble. But it’s not long before his sense of obligation to watch out for her transforms into a genuine desire to be with her. She’s unlike any of the college girls he’s dated and he likes that, too.
But if there’s one thing Irene and Sam learn during the course of their budding friendship, it’s that the road to happiness is often pitted with challenges and complications. Like their own mixed up feelings for one another, the prospect of playing the title roles in a modernistic high school version of Romeo and Juliet, and the revelation of family secrets.
#10
HIGHLAND MAGIC
Paranormal Time Travel
90,000
Take a 21st-Century fashion magazine writer and a 17th-Century Highlander and you have a recipe for mayhem and magic, thanks to eleven elderly witches whose good intentions go awry.
When Remy Parker’s scheming co-worker out-scoops her article ‘Heroes of the New Millennium: A 12 step guide to spotting and keeping them’, Remy’s Wiccan foster mother offers the assistance of her off-kilter friends to cast a compatibility spell. In the midst of spell casting, a costly blunder occurs. The spell backfires. Not only is the spell one to find Remy’s soul mate, but one that accidently sends her to Scotland in the year 1696 to locate him.
Driven by revenge 17th Century Scottish Alexander McDonald has vowed to destroy those who took part in the Massacre at Glencoe, killing his wife and unborn child. In the midst of one of his many forays, Alex runs down an oddly clothed woman. Unable to leave her unattended, he takes her with him.
As the days turn to weeks they fight their attraction to each other only to succumb to a love they cannot deny. Alex comes to a realization that with Remy by his side at last he has found his salvation.
#11
Broken Prophecy, Heirs of Aeden 1
Paranormal Romance
70,000
Lilith, exiled Angel, eradicates the shield segregating humans from the Divine races merging the realms in chaos then frees her ‘Nightmares’ wreaking havoc upon the world.
Killian, impulsive deposed Faerie king, recruits soldiers to fight Lilith from dying humans.
Marcella Rowan, oncology nurse, dreams of the Faerie world and is intrigued by her patient’s talk of joining the Faerie. When Marcella is possessed by a Nightmare, the warrior of her dreams saves her life by claiming her as soulmate. Their union forbidden, Marcella conceives validating Killian’s claim.
Killian unites humans, AWOL ‘Nightmares’ and scarce few of the Divine races forming a renegade army battling Lilith’s Harpy horde.
#12
Don’t Cross the Line
Urban Fantasy
100,000
Don’t Cross the Line is a 100,000 word novel, the first in a series of stories. This one follows Gemma Davies, a were-tiger. She is reaching the age where her alpha and father demands that she must find a mate, or he will find one for her.
However the man that she loves, Cade MacDonald can never be hers, he is of another species of shape shifter, a werewolf, and to be together would mean execution for them both.
When the female heir of a neighbouring pack is murdered, Gemma must work alongside Cade to find out who killed her. It doesn’t look like the murderer is done though. Gemma is attacked in her own home; she escapes and lands in the arms of Cade. While she fights to keep her distance from him, fate keeps on throwing her right back at his feet.
She meets Karl Ellis, another were-tiger like herself, a potential mate. Cade does everything in his power to prove that Karl is just using Gemma. When the evidence from the case begins to build up and it all starts to point to Karl, Gemma considers that Cade might have been correct.
#13
The Embroidered Pussycat
Contemporary, erotic romance with humor
27,264 words
When Brian affronts Jennifer on their first meeting she runs away and disappears. Fate brings them back together. Will Jennifer find it in her heart to forgive Brian?
Brian insists that he’s let go of the memory of his deceased wife. How will Brian come to grips with his present and let go of his past?
Brian opens a tack supply store, while Jennifer begins to start a horse riding school for kiddos both based at the same horse stable. Brian’s needs to find a new nanny for his son, Drew. Brian assigns his new assistant to find a new one. The assistant enrolls him in Jennifer’s school. One day, Brian has to pick up Drew when he’s missing. Remembering Brian from the incident at a lakeside resort, she calls Brian a stalker.
Eventually Drew catches Brian and Jennifer in each other’s arms. Drew asks a blunt question about his deceased mother causing Brian to freeze up. She leaves him alone to contemplate her concerns. He returns with a story of his vision of his deceased wife who told him to declare his feelings for her.
#14
The Land of Imagining
Fantasy YA
80,000
Fifteen-year-old Alexia writes stories during class and couldn’t care less about schoolwork. One day, Artex drops a pen near her and disappears shortly thereafter. The pen writes of its own accord about a Land of Imagining threatened by the Head Demon, who seeks to enslave and kill the All-Knowers, a peaceful race with arcane powers. Alexia learns that what she writes is real, and she has the ability to control the All-Knowers with the magical pen.
Frightened, Alexia hates her new power, believing that she is too young and inexperienced to wield it correctly. She asks her overprotective mother for help but unknowingly confides in the Head Demon disguised as her mother. He steals the pen and kidnaps her family, leaving Alexia no choice but to travel to the Land of Imagining in spite of the danger.
With determination despite lingering doubts, and some help from Artex, Alexia claims her leadership position. The Head Demon wants her dead, but she cares more about her family and her people than about her own life. Alexia must trick demons so she can find their secret lair and secure her pen before the Land of Imagining becomes the Land of Terror.
#15
THE HOUSE ON FOREST BEND
Romantic Paranormal Suspense
77,500 Words
As children, JILLIAN WHITMEYER and her older sister were looking at their father’s gun when it accidently discharged. Her sister’s dying words were a threat to make Jillian pay for what happened.
For the next twenty-six years her sister’s spirit follows Jillian everywhere. The spirit refuses to admit her main goal is to take over Jillian’s body.
While following leads in the deaths of two drug dealers, DETICTIVE ADAM SKELTON interviews Jillian, now a local gun shop owner. She is beautiful and sexy, but her spiked hair and tattoos hint of a darker side and Adam is immediately intrigued. They begin a relationship but he must clear her from involvement in the murders he’s investigating or lose his job. When she tells him the spirit of her dead sister is entangled in his latest cases he suspects she might be, literally, crazy and begins to avoid her. He reconsiders when a ghostly figure starts trying to kill him. Now he needs Jillian’s help to stay alive long enough to catch a crooked cop, close two cases, and figure out how to get rid of someone who’s already dead.
#16
Stepping Out
Rom Com Category Romance
60,000
Alice is a party girl bartender who loses her boyfriend, her job, and her credit rating due to a bunion. Possibly the least attractive ailment for a 30 year old.
She bluffs her way into a receptionist job at a scientific explosions laboratory. How hard can Microsoft Excel spreadsheets be?
Robinson, the team lead, is irritated he has to step up and train the leggy blond. As if the PhD after his name means nothing. But if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.
Alice discovers her nerdy scientist’s deep dark secret- He’s a rock n roll wedding band drummer. This changes the entire dynamic of their relationship. Sparks fly, passions ignite, the attraction is magnetic.
They agree to keep the weekend fling a secret in the office. Which to Alice means, trysts in the supply closet, and hot sexy lunch dates. It means something very different to Robinson.
Alice has to learn to rely on her seldom-used brain to save them from embezzlement claims. Robinson has to learn to let go of control and let his heart take over.
And they both have to learn that stereotypes mean nothing when you’re falling in love.
#17
Blonde Demolition
Romantic Suspense
80,000
Blonde Demolition is Hurt Locker meets 24 with a chick. She is a retired bomb defuser for Homeland Security trying to put her past behind her when a bomb is found at her local carnival. He is her former partner and lover trying to bring her out of retirement because an old nemesis of theirs is back. When they are framed for a bombing they must go on the run from both the good guys and the bad guys while trying to find the bomber.
#18
“Stark, Rave, Mad”
Young Adult Fantasy
60,000
After accidentally bewitching the prom queen with some serious footwear challenges, sixteen year old Charlotte Currer flees her Seattle home. She finds summer work with the eccentric Rochester family on their arctic island, Scandia, where Charlotte hopes to 1). find a boyfriend and 2). finally need a bra. When brooding seventeen year old Victor Rochester declares his love for Charlotte, she’s enchanted. But Victor can’t trust his dark secrets to anyone; how do you tell the girl you love you’re half demon? Meanwhile, Charlotte’s sorcery attracts her long absent mother’s attention. Although thrilled at finding her mother, Charlotte’s expected to enter the demon destruction family business. Charlotte finds trying to date her her immortal enemy driving her “Stark, Rave, Mad”.
#19
Color of Shadows and Smoke
Romantic noir historical
97,000
Los Angeles in the 20s was a seductive, corrupt mistress of bootleggers, madams, crooked politicians and dirty cops. Speakeasies dwelt in the shadows of a city booming with prosperity and corruption that reached the highest levels of city government. A world where sex, death and booze were easy to find, and virtue was a pale flame that became little more than embers in the darkness.
LAPD Officer William ‘Billy’ Trent Brewster walks these shadowy streets, more at home in the night than in the unforgiving light of day. He takes care of the dirty business of protecting the interests of a handful of downtown businessmen while lining his own pockets. Bigot, extortionist and button man, he is a man of his time. He goes where he’s needed and does whatever it takes to win.
Into his world walks Madeleine La Rue, who will change Billy forever. Maddy is a bright light in his world. But the rich, politically ambitious man Maddy is married to may be more dangerous than either of the two lovers suspect.
#20
Cleopatra’s Cat
Young Adult
60,000 words approximately
My name, Tara Brown, was branded on the front of the envelope in Ed’s loopy handwriting. I peeled the flap back carefully, like a mouse trying to prise cheese from a loaded trap.
Since my brother moved out four years ago, we rarely heard from him except through the local police, or gossips spreading the word that “Ed Brown was off his face again”. He had never written me a letter. Fear wedged in my chest. Last time I had seen Ed was two months ago. That’s when I had stumbled across him wasted on the park bench. I had begged, “You’ve got to let me help you. You’ve got to get off the stuff before it kills you.”
Now, his open envelope gaped at me but I still couldn’t bring myself to peer at what was inside. I lay on my bed and closed my eyes. Inside my head I could pretend I was Cleopatra’s pampered and protected cat, black as a panther, able to slink off and disappear into the night.
Ed was always the battle-weary tom, circling and waiting for the right moment to run at me hissing and snarling with sharpened claws outstretched.
#21
SEX, SECRETS, & SABOTAGE
Contemporary romance with suspense elements
90,000 words
Six years after being the favorite subject of the Sinclair University gossip mill, former jilted bride Maggie Thompson finds herself in the only thing more torturous than formal dresses and high heels: bridesmaid duty for four ex-sorority sisters in one summer. She’ll face gossip-hungry wedding guests and have a front-row seat while her ex-fiancé exchanges vows with another woman. When she thinks nothing could be worse, the weddings are sabotaged one-by-one…and she’s the prime suspect.
Private investigator Michael Logan doesn’t trust his ex-girlfriend, but he will do anything to keep in contact with the little girl who once called him “Daddy,” and his ex has promised him visitation if he can find out who sabotaged her wedding. Problem is, every time he goes to feel the suspect out for information, he feels her up instead.
When she looks guiltiest, Maggie throws Mike for a loop, hiring him for an investigation of her own. She claims she’s being framed. When Mike secretly digs into her past, he finds a little wedding sabotage is nothing compared to the sex, secrets, and scandal that went on in one sorority. The truth Maggie’s been protecting may be the one thing he could never forgive.
#22
THIGH NOON
Contemporary Series/Category
52,000
Alexia Ford’s life takes a nose dive when she’s laid off from her marketing position, but the severance package is just enough to throw at the product idea she’s nurtured for years – the Thigh Thing. Finally, after surviving the double whammy of a miscarriage and then a painful split from her ex, Jesse Hennessey, she has the once in a lifetime opportunity to show everyone she can make it on her own. But when she applies for the patent, she discovers someone has beaten her to it – Jesse!
The double-crosser is holding the patent hostage and demands she give their relationship another shot. If she lives with him for three months, he’ll give her the patent afterward. Jesse’s after her heart but she’s after revenge. After all, he’s the one who left her high and dry. They’ll pick their weapons, square off and meet in the middle with blazing heat. Will the hurts of the past rule or will love win at Thigh Noon?
#23
A KISS IN THE WIND
Historical Romantic Seafaring Adventure
73,000
MARISOL CASTELLAN is desperate to find her brother and reclaim the love of family her father never provided them. She intercepts a message containing her brother’s whereabouts, but must find a way to meet the ship he’s on.
BLADE TYBURN is known by many names – privateer, opportunist, pirate, and his favorite, libertine. All true. What he’s not is tolerant. He’s furious to realize a vital keepsake from his troubled childhood was stolen by a beautiful wench.
Marisol strikes a bargain—his cameo for passage to her brother. Blade agrees, and, though he knows his sins make him unworthy of love, he craves it with Marisol. Marisol can’t allow herself distraction from her all-important mission, besides, her murderous father would never allow a match with such a powerful rival, no matter how attractive he’s become to her. When her brother is found with the silver and a fishy story, Blade has reason to be more suspicious of Marisol and her intentions.
Will Marisol and Blade be able to survive the deadly betrayal that awaits one of them and confess their true feelings for each other? Or does their love have no more chance of survival than A Kiss in the Wind?
#24
Ruby Stiletto Blues
Contemporary Romance with Magical Elements
95,000 words
Somewhere over the rainbow, all hell is breaking loose.
Dorrie Caselotti, a feisty thirty-year-old waitress, needs to find her rare copy of The Wizard of Oz to save Emerald City, kitsch capital of Kansas. Her ex-lover, Grayson Parnell, needs it to save his academic career. Chaos ensues when an interfering Fate, who fancies herself a modern-day Glinda, attempts to weave matchmaking magic.
The two former lovers are drawn together by a shared quest, faced with obstacles they never expected: flying monkeys, glittering tornadoes, hidden treasure and a skeleton buried under a trailer. Enter Fate – in the form of an interfering fairy godmother – and an impulsive wish for a romantic do-over becomes a horse of a totally different color.
When their enemies join forces, driven by greed and a longing for revenge, Dorrie and Gray have to call on all their resources – their courage, their brains and, most of all, their hearts. All roads lead to the Emerald City on a fantastical journey that forces pragmatic Gray to accept the unbelievable and makes Dorrie, who longed for the fairy tale, wish for an ordinary life.
#25
A Knight’s Victory
Historical Romance
90,000
Sir Michael Devereux has fallen for his childhood friend, Lady Elena. In return she has also given him her heart. However their love is not to be. Lady Elena is whisked from their homeland of Wexford, Ireland to marry the malicious Earl of Kent in England. Suffering greatly Elena pleas for Michael to come and be her savior. At long last an opportunity arises in the form of a tournament. Winner becomes Kent’s Captain of the Guard—and closer to the Lady Elena.But with victory comes tragedy… When stealing kisses in the dark leads to something more, and the hopes of one young serf threaten them both, Michael and Elena will have to make a choice. That choice could mean life or death and has them asking, does love really conquer all?
#26
Time Couriers
Romance Suspense Thriller
78,000
New Orleans, June 1997. The city’s dying of heat and dying on its feet as the port business shrinks and the powers that be carve up a vanishing pie. Steve Gorman, an executive for the APEX courier corporation, sees his colleague Andrew Sinclair disappear, carrying a high-value package containing a stone with miraculous powers…
Steve gets the blame, quits APEX and loses his place on the city’s Trade Council. Suddenly he’s a “non-person”, but with the aid of glamorous Creole journalist Monique Chauvin and fey historian Louis Duplantier, he unearths an astonishing conspiracy involving time travel, the Templars, Freemasonry and Voodoo. If this “Brotherhood” can forecast events like Hurricane Katrina, millions of dollars could be saved-for the elect few, of course.
C Q Scafidi’s murder story is in fact a stunning exposé of globalism, greed and ritualized gangsterism. His background in journalism and business at the World Trade Center give him a unique insight into the workings of mankind… and how human nature can be corrupted overnight by the allure of power. Read Time Couriers and you’ll see world events in an entirely different light.
#27
His Obsession
Short Contemporary (category)
53,000
Art Professor Isabella Dipaolo enjoys the hum of Washington D.C. but chooses to stay away from the opulence and political intrigue until an incriminating letter jeopardizes her brother’s political career. She’ll stop at nothing to ensure his honorable reputation stays clean, even stealing the letter from top security expert, Malcolm “Mac” Macpherson.
Mac has his own reasons for letting the seductive Isabella steal the letter. She’s the perfect pawn in his revenge against her brother. But Mac doesn’t count on how his desire for her distracts him from his goal and he delivers an ultimatum: go to jail for theft or become his mistress. He knows she’ll agree, seeing no other alternative since her arrest could only create more scandal for her brother.
Isabella wars with her feelings as she settles into a routine with Mac, a cold, unforgiving stranger by day and a passionate, selfless lover at night. Yet she soon finds herself with a jailer she’s not willing to escape and wonders if she can prevent Mac’s need for revenge from destroying her, or will he allow her into his heart to free him from… HIS OBSESSION.
#28
BENCHES
Edgy Young Adult
73,000
Seventeen-year-old DANNY CUMMINGS prefers his life shaken, not stirred. But stirred is what he gets when LAUREN MCINTOSH ends up in his half-empty cocktail.
Since getting released from juvenile hall, Danny has set out to make every rumor about him true. Spending his nights drinking, collecting gambling debt for his criminal Uncle and waking up with nameless girls, Danny is convinced he is on a one-way track to hell and he is in control of the train. But when Lauren innocently stumbles onto the tracks, he realizes he must derail his reckless ways and face the reason he landed himself in so much trouble in the first place.
Lauren can’t see passed the fairy-tale her parents have created for her, even when it’s revealed that after twenty years of marriage, her washed-up football star father and ex-head cheerleader mother hate each other. Marred by rumors of arson and adultery, her family escapes to California, trying to repair their family and start over again. Even as they continue to fall apart, Lauren desperately seeks her happy ending. Even though she fights against it, Lauren slowly develops feelings for Danny, but she’s not going to let that ruin her fairy tail ending.
#29
THE DAUGHTER
Contemporary Romance with elements of suspense
Word count: 93,000
Abandoned at birth, social worker Katie Delynski believes love and relationships are learned. And she hasn’t learned anything good about either. She avoids both by focusing on her career and getting prostitutes off the street. But then a man she’s never met commits suicide and in his Will claims her as his daughter, leaving her millions and a family full of uncles, aunts and cousins. They invite her into their lives, stirring a sense of belonging she is afraid to believe in.
When she buys an old building for a woman’s shelter, her new found family puts her in touch with Conner Patterson, a family friend, to help rehab the building. As work progresses on the shelter, Katie finds herself falling in love with Conner, but fear will keep her from acting on her feelings. But he may be her only hope of survival when someone hurt by her father’s indiscretions is determined to make her pay for her father’s sins.
#30
Daughter of Fire
Paranormal Romance
55K
A rash of theft and the destruction of sacred artifacts have brought the wrath of the United States Geological Survey down on Dr. Jack O’Connor’s head. The handsome volcanologist has been sent a mouthy new assistant to help him get to the heart of the vandalism. Kalama Young is like no woman he has ever known.
Kalama may look like your typical island girl but there is more to the Hawaiian beauty than meets the eye. A secret lies beneath the surface of her fiery demeanor. Kalama is the 230 year old half mortal daughter of Pele, the Goddess of Fire. In desperation, Pele has called Kalama home to Hawaii.
A force beyond anything the world can comprehend is threatening Pele. Only Kalama can stop it. Na-maka-o-kaha’I, the goddess of the sea, has been released from her watery prison at the bottom of the ocean by an earthquake. She wants revenge against her sister Pele and will stop at nothing to get it. Kalama and Jack must join forces and race against time to recover a sacred carving in order to save her mother and all of Hawaii. . For it is written, He who controls the carving, controls Pele.
Phyllis Bourne
Marie-Claude Bourque
Emily Bryan
Christie Craig
Leanna Renee Hieber
Rose Lerner
Tracy Madison
Barbara Monajem 
Elizabeth Naughton
Kerri Nelson
Gerri Russel
Gayle Ann Williams
Cindy Holby
Posted by Marie-Claude Bourque 
