Books published by Satin Romance

Ruth loves her boyfriend. He's handsome, has a killer body, and the sex is awesome. He does have one major fault though. He travels so much with work and when she does see him, he only wants to...stay in. At first she's happy that he only wants to be with her, but over time, his habit of jibbing out at the last minute for any bloody occasion that involves socialising, really does her head in. All she wants, for goodness sake, is for people to get to know her boyfriend. Okay, so she wants them to see she has a hunk of a boyfriend, but is that so wrong? When Ruth wakes in a hotel room suffering from a major hangover, she tries to piece the events of the previous night together. The last thing she remembers is sitting next to an average-looking guy with a nice accent, and wondering just what those hands could do given half the chance. When the bathroom door opens and Mr. Average walks out, she realises that at the ripe old age of thirty-three, Ruth Jones has experienced her first one-night stand.

In a kingdom where magic is highly prized, the king cannot ignore rumors of a girl who claims she can spin straw into gold. When the king locks Millie alone in a room with spindle and straw, she's certain she's about to pay a fatal price for her father's lie. Just when she thinks all hope is lost, a mysterious little man appears and offers to complete the task for a small price. Desperate, Millie agrees to the simple, but odd, deal. So begins Millie's dazzling rise from simple miller's daughter to the queen her kingdom celebrates. Years later, Millie's deal with the mysterious little man is all but forgotten, until the birth of her first child brings his return. Now, Millie must scramble to find a way out of her deal before the king discovers the truth and she loses her son, and the new life that she's built, forever. Lies of Golden Straw is the second installment in the End of Ever After companion series that rewrites classic tales of happily ever after.

American Christine Ragland's search for her missing sister transports her to Regency England. With no choice but to rely on her wits and the English cavalry office in whose barn she arrives, Christine must fight villains and powerful Lords to find her sister and win the heart of her rescuer. Following the trail of her missing sister, American Christine Ragland wakes from vivid dreams to a foreign land and long-ago era. The English Lord Matthew Drake who rescues her is handsome and kind but as danger swirls about him, can she trust him to help her find her missing sister and return them to their home. Matthew Drake knows who his beautiful visitor is. Keeping her safe and close by is vital. Winning her heart and her willing ness to stay will take all of his wits and the help of his powerful friends.

Jewelry designer and gemologist, Megan Foster purchases an antique portrait of a bewitching temptress draped in emeralds and discovers a two hundred year old diary and treasure map hidden behind the frame. To unlock the secrets of the map and the woman, Megan enlist the help of an underwater photographer turned artist. Underwater diver, Eric Cortes, gets much more than he bargained for at his first private showing as an aspiring artist. He never expected to meet an intriguing jewelry designer or hunt for a lost pirate treasure or become the prime suspect in a murder. Their quest embroils them in a maze of mob murder, deceit and a tumultuous relationship.

Big 4 Trucking's long-haul driver and confirmed bachelor, Benet, struggles to find a place to park his truck. Just in time for the engine's piston to slam into the motor for the last time. He decides to let his truck rest in peace. He's last resort is to pull into a farmer's driveway. There he meets the owner of the farm, and she doesn't look like any farmer he's ever seen before. Her hospitality allows him to stay in a worker's room while he deals with is truck. It's not long before his feeling for the woman behind the screen door grows. He also finds he's become attached to her son as well. He ends up helping her with a serious problem. And once he realizes what he wants, his ex-wife shows up to cause trouble. Benet can't believe that she's back after eight years. As always, her timing couldn't be worse.

Everyone believes that Beth Boudreaux needs to get away. Her kidnapping by Beau Manning has her jumping at shadows and friends and family hope a change of scenery will help her move on. So when a telegram arrives from a sick aunt they urge her to visit. Andrew Leroux can't believe that Beau Manning has escaped. Now he has to warn everyone involved in his capture, which includes the lovely Miss Elizabeth Boudreaux. When he learns she has headed to her sick aunt he knows he has to go after her. Catching up to her is easy. Convincing her to go home isn't. The headstrong Miss Boudreaux refuses and only leaves him one option. Kidnap her. It doesn't take him long to realize that the safest place for Beth is with Andrew. Now he has to keep her from escaping, protect her from Beau, and maybe make her fall in love with him.

Sandi Cramer's TV show, Love Cookin', is nominated for an Emmy. She can't forget her early years around 1990 at the bankrupt little station in Iowa where her show began, and the man who came to town to make the station succeed or to fire everyone and shut it down. Josh Pressman saw her talent potential and a lot more. Attracted to her, he struggled to remember that small town girls like Sandi were off limits because they played for keeps. When "accidents" started happening during her show, he had to find the culprit to save the station and to protect Sandi. But when Sandi unwittingly helps the culprit, she knows Josh is left with little choice but to fire her. That will end the station and their budding love.

On the plains of Eastern Colorado, Mitch has a passion for only one woman - and that woman is Christine. She is his dream girl, and he is her dream man, and whenever her old man's back is turned they're quickly in each other's arms. When a tragedy brings reality into their lives, Mitch sets out to find out who he really is, and Christine finds herself facing a dramatic new life as well. Soon, both will find out if their love and passion will survive in the shadow of Wildwood Mountain.

The Marquess Meets Miss Nobody, Unsuitable Brides, Book 2: Growing up, there was no doubt that she was an unwanted orphan. When Helen grew up and attracted the attention of Lord James Tremaine her aunt's vitriol was released. The Countess of Rockingham did everything in her power to stop their relationship, eventually revealing secrets which would change Helen's life forever, The question was, would the choice Helen had to make mean that she must sacrifice her love for James?

Laura Elizabeth Woodbury, heir to a Montana cattle ranch, has just lost her father. The independent Laura is astonished to learn her father has hired a fancily-dressed stranger to assist her--in finding a suitable husband. Matt Black is the right hand man of a Minnesota railroad baron who'd been a friend of Laura's father. Matt's been hired to head up a team of railroad workers replacing damaged railroad tacks across Montana and to find a decent man to marry Laura. Matt is completely unprepared for the headstrong, willful blond and soon finds himself in love with her. Laura feels the same way about Matt-until she learns his secret that will change her life completely.

It's a tale as old as time, that a mother with so many daughters, in a small provincial town in Regency England, will always be in pursuit of marrying them off! All Mrs. Bennet cares about is marrying off her five eligible daughters. The second of her eldest daughters, Elizabeth, has unknowingly made an incredible discovery. While in London, she met a handsome stranger whose name she did not catch, but to whom her heart became attached. When two men arrive in town, Elizabeth is overjoyed to learn that one is the man she met in London, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberly. But he is quite cold and rude to her. Yet, little by little, Mr. Darcy begins to open up to his already existing attraction to her, but can they resolve the disagreements between them both, or will they forever remain at odds? Follow the two most beloved characters of the regency world as they embark on a new adventure that we all know-or thought that we knew.

Trey Dalton is having a very bad day. Someone is trying to destroy his plantation, his meddlesome aunt has decided to extend her visit and some strange woman has appeared on his doorstep ,spouting some crazy nonsense about being from the future. Alexandra Thibodaux's day isn't any better. An urgent message had her race to her grandmother's side, only to find Grams was up to something and it dealt with the old Dalton plantation. It has a painting of a women who is her twin. When her grandmother urges her to touch it she is sent on an adventure that bring her face to face with a man who is a Neanderthal and takes her breath away.

Aliza Bennett is a multifaceted, self-destructive, quirky actress with a major self-esteem problem and a troubled past. After a devastating and abusive relationship shattered her emotionally, Aliza takes a job filming a TV show on location in a tiny East Coast town, far away from her troubles in LA. When she starts to fall for her co-star, Jesse Black, she must challenge her instinctual flight response, a battle she nearly loses.

After receiving devastating news regarding her health, Starla Holloway leaves town, taking a road simply marked with an old, handmade sign that says Highway to Heaven. Finding herself lost with a broken down car, she feels it's really the Highway to Hell, until a handsome man on a Harley shows up and lends her a helping hand. Stranded in Secret Valley River, a town so small it's not even on the map, Starla soon realizes that things are not always as they seem. Secrets, beauty, and light live in Secret Valley River, and she learns quickly that where there is light-there can also be shadows of darkness.

Bobby, one of the Big 4 Trucking partners, decides to give up on love, especially with Torrie. A girl he'd thought he was in love with for almost 6 years. She went off to chase her dream of being a doctor. While he stepped away so that she could succeed without being in her way. Seeing her whenever he could, never seemed to be enough. Bobby was beginning to wonder if he'd made her up in his head. So, he takes a job for the company in Memphis to get away and put her out of his head. When Torrie finds out that Bobby has been feeling the same way about her, that she'd been feeling about him. She goes after him, because she could never get him out of her blood either. Memphis was where they go head to head. All while a plot is being hatched against Bobby and Big 4 Trucking. Some-how Torrie's plunged into the middle of the whole mess.

Jeffers Georgia, 1866 She'd never give in Camilla Langesford has no intention of letting her ailing father's new Yankee partner steal their plantation. But Patrick O'Grady isn't like other carpetbaggers. His powerful body, brooding Irish Temper, and pewter-gray eyes speak of a shadowed past. And his soul-searing kiss melts her frozen heart-until a deadly secret shatters it. He'd never give up Langesford Plantation is the former Pinkerton agent's last chance to solve a mystery that's haunted him for four years. But Patrick O'Grady didn't plan on a chestnut-haired virgin with smoldering green eyes and a fiery temper, dogging his every step. Or that just one kiss would show him a treasure worth more than a cache of gold bars-until one night changes everything.

Cane Smith, recently released from prison, serving years for a crime he didn't commit, comes looking for the son he's fathered, but has never met. Cane, hungering for love and family, arrives in Bozeman to claim his son and finds the boy's mother has died. But the boy had been adopted by successful rancher, Tom Callahan. Tom's daughter, twenty-year-old Annie, can't give up the eight year old boy she named Mark but Cane has a solution: Miss Annie will have to marry him if she wants to keep Mark in her life. Annie will do anything to keep her little boy with her-but can she live with the hard, rough Cane Smith?

That's what Chrysanthemum Lincoln has. Her very own happily ever after, complete with a gorgeous husband, a precious little girl, a thriving business. Until she doesn't. One phone call changes everything, and one phone call leads Chrysanthemum on a year-long journey to discover the answer to a question she didn't realize needed asking. With the help of her childhood friends, The Wildflowers, and a handsome man, Chrysanthemum finds strength she didn't know possible - strength she didn't know necessary. But even the strongest of people with the strongest of support systems can break under the cruelest pressure. And Chrysanthemum is bound to break. At least, that's what someone is counting on. Someone who is watching and waiting. Patiently.But Chrysanthemum Lincoln is no shrinking violet. She's a Wildflower, and wildflowers might bend, but they don't break.This work of fiction is a second-chance romance with a happily ever after.

Food and Romance do go together. Enjoy these romance stories created around food from Satin Romance authors, Sue Jody Vitek, Nancy Pennick, Amy Hahn, Sue Gesing, Gisele Margaux, J. A. Noelle, Nancy Pirri . *RECIPES INCLUDED!

"The Nature of Entangled Hearts" is a fast-paced, edgy, romantic thriller, with a subtly supernatural twist. Enter the story of Elwyn and James, two strangers entangled by their past-life experiences, who are mired in an unquantifiable present. Throughout the novel they work to understand the bonds that hold them together, just as an unforeseen danger threatens to tear them apart.

8 Winter Romance Stories by authors from Melange Books, LLC The Ice Hotel Wedding Test by Charmaine Pauls Lord of Ice by April Marcom Frozen Moments by Nancy Pennick Frozen with Possibilities by Rhonda Brutt Frozen Heart Thawing by Nicole Angeleen Frozen Dreams by Elena Kane Her Frozen Heart by Tara Fox Hall The Thawing of Holly's Heart by Marilyn Gardiner