Books published by Satin Romance

Before avenging the murders of her adopted parents, half-Apache orphan Elena Santiago must pose as white to deliver a warning to the O'Gradys at Georgia's Langesford Plantation. Sean O'Grady has buried his dream of exploring the Wild West to marry his neighbor. Elena's arrival before his engagement ball makes him wonder if she was sent by his enemy. Virgin or Vixen? The question taunts him as they both fight feelings that could get them killed.

The Heart of It by Jannie Lund Sometimes you have to go to the past to find your future. Photographer Katherine Wilkes knows how to find and zero in on the heart of things through her camera lens. Her own heart, however, is heavily guarded from being broken. Again. The Forbidden Suitor by April Marcom Long ago in the highlands of Scotland, a young woman came up missing, her disappearance creating two families of eternally sworn enemies. Four generations later, this everlasting hatred is tested when a descendant from each one comes together in a chance meeting full of laughter and deep attraction, not knowing what bad blood exists between them. The Ring O'Callum Brodgar by Lisa Aldridge In present-day Scotland, Anne Bradenegh is on an archeological excavation to the 18th century Castle Brodgar ruins, hoping to unearth some artifacts from the past. Instead, she uncovers her own past when she is visited by the mysterious Callum Brodgar, who has come looking for the cloak pin he lost centuries ago.

There's no way Mandy Butler would ever let herself get attached to anyone. Sure, sex is fun, but love is for suckers. Her parents taught her that. She has her friends, a job she loves, and lots of fun flings. Everything she thinks she wants. Ashton Gilmore is at a crossroads when he meets Mandy. She's every thing he's ever wanted in a real relationship, but she might have too much baggage for even this hot political fixer handle. For the past few years the women of Growing Strong Montessori have been discovering loves they'd never thought possible. Sans one, Mandy who has spent the last few years taking one hit after another and can't see Ashton Gilmore as anything more than a bump in the road. Ashton has to find a way to teach Mandy that love exists, before she gives up on the concept all together.

A Bride for Christmas, Unsuitable Brides, Bk 1. When he finds a mysterious girl who has lost her memory, the Duke of Whitney takes her into his home. When he finds out who she is and why she was running from her uncle he vows to protect her. When Emily and the Whitney diamonds disappear, he is determined to find her and bring her to justice. Is she a diamond thief, or did she steal his heart?

Northern Polar Printing Company's President, Zane Ashcroft, is in love with the Vice President, Annie McGrath. From their first encounter, both knew they were destined to be together. At the annual Christmas party, Zane, who dresses up as Santa, intends to propose to Annie after dinner. A recent argument concerning Nick, the janitor, and a shocking development thwarts his intentions. Will Annie get that long awaited chance at love and happiness and risk being on Santa's naughty and nice list?

Soubrette knew the language of love- as long as it was aimed at a pitch-black poodle. But one hint of "does Fufu want a kissy num-num?" and Timothy Marsh was running for Seattle's seven hills. The poodle wasn't the only one with baggage; Soubrette was running too. Soon Timothy was involved in everything- car chases, evading P.I.'s, and visuals involving French maids and feather dusters. Will it be Timothy or the poodle that saves her?

Second Chance for Love Who says love doesn't come around again? Seven stories of single parents finding love for the second time The Ticket to her Heart by D. G. Driver The Perfect Beginning by Nancy Pennick A Love for Michelle by Tara Fox Hall The Price of Silence by Katie Stephens Mr. Right or Mr. Right Now by Caroline Andrus For the Love of a Horse by Daisy White Unexpected Match Maker by JT Adeline

Set against the exciting backdrop in the chase for the Triple Crown and filled with mystical surprises. Season can make a horse run and Ty's heart race. Season Moriarty is fey and druid. Now she has landed the dream job that will test all of her skills and abilities. Ty Masters runs his business with an iron fist. Season challenges him, infuriates him, captivates him, and even intimidates him. But can she make a Triple Crown winner out of his willful colt? Mysterious threats bring them together in another race. The stakes for the Triple Crown rise and the unknown identity of who wants to destroy Ty continues, so do their fiery sparks.

IN A STEW Catrine Powell and her sister were forced to leave their Utah home after their overbearing sheriff father was killed. Needing to find a job, they take a stagecoach to a town near where the new railroad is being built across Arizona Territory. Sheriff Brett Barton offers her a job running a restaurant he owns that closed when the cook was shot. This would be a dream come true for Catrine, but will he leave her alone or try to run her life like her father? SECRETS IN THE SNOW The owner of a wedding attire shop and budding designer of beautiful wedding dresses, Cynthia is a virgin at age 35 with romantic dreams about finding the right man to make her dreams come true. Her friend Anne is about to get married. Anne's fiance's older brother will do anything to stop the marriage, including proposing to Anne himself. Mistaking Cynthia for Anne on their first meeting, Snowbound with the handsome big-city businessman for the long weekend. After that weekend, they each have secrets in the snow.

18th century Duchess Amelia is an old maid at thirty-two. She refuses to marry instead romancing strangers. A handsome Time Traveler seduces her and steals the necklace that lays claim to her title. Amelia must Travel to the future to find this scoundrel and retrieve her necklace. She meets museum appraiser, Ryan Redstone, sent to acquire the jewels, and falls in love. Amelia is now faced with the most difficult decision of her life.

Candy learned long ago not to trust the guys that come into her bar. When Trent, co-owner of Big 4 Trucking and an all around good guy walks in, he can't help but get caught in her eyes. Not knowing the kind of guys she deals with on a daily basis, he's completely taken aback when a hand on her arm earns him a black eye from the blond beauty. Feeling regret for giving him the black eye, Candy agrees to go out with him. Breakfast turns into date after date, and a great time on the road with her favorite trucker has them growing closer by the minute. Until they're both tested by mystery and deceit. Before you know it, secrets become part of the puzzle that rock their world. And when someone tries to kill Trent, all bets are off.

Kathryn Ragland never dreamed that one tiny portrait could dramatically alter her life until she woke after a vivid dream in which she changed time and place. Determined to find her way home, Kathryn befriends a mesmerizing stranger. While she has no choice but to accept aid from the brooding war hero, Kathryn learns that thawing the crusty exterior of England's newest and most eligible Duke may just have rewards beyond her wildest dreams. Captain Michael Stafford is reluctantly returning home to step into his role as the Duke of Asterleigh, an unexpected title. After meeting the completely improper American on the last leg of his journey home, Michael quickly determines that Kathryn is destined to be his. Fate, in the form of mortal threats on Kathryn's life, forces him to fight unseen enemies while he must face his own fears of sharing his life with someone, again. Determined, Michael sets out on his most difficult campaign... to show Kathryn he can be the man of her dreams.

Case Thomas is always in control whether its on the basketball court, the lab where he works, or in his love life. All that changes when his parents pass away and Case is thrown into fatherhood when he becomes temporary guardian to two adorable twin toddlers. Weeks later, Case must decide if he's ready to become a father to these children, or give them up. Then he meets Gabbie Vaulst. Gabbie is amazing with the kids, owns her own business, and has all the right curves in all the right places. She can tell Case is attracted to her, but does he really love her or is he just settling for a surrogate Mom who can wrangle his new kids? Knowing that she's falling in love with him, she chooses to push him away until his world straightens out. Can Case prove to Gabbie, and himself, that his feelings are real? Or is this sudden family too much for both of them to handle? The odds, as well as members of their past who've come out of the woodwork, are against them, but when kids are involved, all bets are off.

"Can love survive the ultimate betrayal?" Rivals, Galen Odgers and Cam Fawst have shared many things. Gifted athletes and favored sons of Eagle River Wisconsin, both have been quarterbacks for the same legendary football team, the Warriors. Each was raised by a strong woman, and both love the same beautiful girl, Kjersten Solheim. Though they despise each other, they are inexorably linked. But there is a secret about one of them, a secret that a mother took to her grave, that a high school coach swore never to reveal, and one whose consequences continue to reverberate. Can love survive the ultimate betrayal and the revelation of a decades old secret?

Food and Romance do go together. Enjoy these romance stories created around food from Satin Romance authors, Sue Stewart Ade, April and Holly Marcom, Ryan Jo Summers, Sonja Gunter, Randi Perrin, Jody Vitek. Recipes included. *RECIPES INCLUDED!

Detroit debutante/investigative journalist Iris Edwards gets more truth than she can handle when she tackles her rich and infamous grandfather's tell-all biography. Partnering with his Ojibwa Indian doctor to find the old man's "unforgivable sin," they unravel an eighty year-old web of Machiavellian intrigues from an Upper Peninsula ghost town to an insane asylum and the Henry Ford Museum-to find a murderer, a hero, and a deadly secret that will rewrite history.

What happens when the ties that bind lives together start to unravel, threatening to tear down everything Penelope once knew and loved? Can a passion stronger than Penelope ever felt before be enough to help her let go of her past, and believe once again in the power of love? Dealing with the pressures from a divorce and a pushy mother, Penelope crosses the country in search of a happier place. What she didn't expect to find between the open roads and desert hills, is a path to rediscovery...and two men that are completely different, but equally complicated.

Scott Sullivan is sent on an unpleasant trip down memory lane to secure a location for a client. He's banking on using his talent and his charm to get the job done. Danielle Harris has worked hard to make her dream come true. She's not about to let someone charm her out of it. Charm and temper, stubbornness and attraction. Scott and Danielle soon find themselves in both professional and personal trouble as sparks fly.

Faith formed a unique relationship with her boyfriend, Paul. They liked their independence, doing what they wanted without consulting the other, and they had never said those three significant words, I love you, which none of their friends or family could quite understand. However, there is one complication in their relationship-Paul's snobbish father, who thought Faith an unsuitable lady friend for his son. In fear that his son would marry Faith and interbreed, he demanded Paul stop seeing her. When Paul suddenly does a disappearing act, Faith decides whatever it was between her and Paul was over. He could come back on bended knee, begging and kicking, but there wasn't a chance in hell this time they would get back together. However, when Paul returns unannounced, he finds Faith in the arms of another man. What happens next is a tangled web of double dating, secrecy, sexual favours, and betrayal.

Brittany's life was spiraling out of control and she still needed a groom by Saturday or her father would lose everything he'd spent his life working for. The stranger she just met may be the hero she's been looking for her whole life. Regardless, he would suffice as a groom for the wedding ceremony. Taylor wasn't even looking for a woman and definitely not a bride, when he received an unorthodox marriage proposal from a beautiful trucker. Can they find true love after the wedding and make their dreams of a happily ever after a reality?

Volatile times engulfed 1715 Scotland. Threats of a Jacobite uprising hung in the air. Lady Juliet Kingston traveled to Glenhaven with her entourage to meet and marry Laird MacLaren's son with the hopes their union might help calm the rumblings of war-an Englishwoman weds a Scottish Highlander. Juliet longs for home and the man she left behind, until she meets Ross MacLaren. Both are stubborn and strong, but find love. Now a threat comes from a different front, one Juliet cannot fight. She gives up her husband and home to protect those she has come to love and returns to England with John, her former beau. Will she ever find her way back?

Amy's Gift-Amy Gallagher, gain the amorous attentions of her handsome boss? By playing tricks-until they backfire on her! Winning Sylvia's Heart-A broken-hearted Sylvia Maxwell finds true romance, with more than candy kisses and clichés, with Jack MacNamara, her next door neighbor. Wishes and Kisses For Angelina Marrone's twenty-first birthday she receives a birthday present to remember; a night in the arms of sexy escort, Burke Severson, along with the proverbial birthday spanking. When Maggie Loved Patrick...then John- Maggie discovers her fiance' is cheating on her. She wants revenge. Then the secretary's fiancé, approaches her with a plan. Maggie gets much more than she bargained for. Riding Blue Steel-One woman, biological clock ticking; one widowed father with no desire for more children.

Practical city planner, Cassidy Grant, just inherited her sister's beloved dogs. Except she's a career girl into heels and matching accessories, she's not a dog mom. Worse, she's required to take the furry darlings to the dog park. Jilted, Ethan Sheppard finally got a dog. And he loves their bonding trips to the dog park. He's also the secret cartoonist whose drawings poke fun at the city leadership. After they meet, Ethan learns Cassidy's going to be fired if she can't identify the cartoonist, but telling her will cost his job.

It's instant attraction when new neighbors Jake and Olivia meet. They're just not sure they like each other. Opposites in so many ways, they skip from barely being able to have a normal conversation to setting fire to the sheets. The boundaries they set are ignored from the first second, and none of them are certain they won't fall over the edge they both fear.

Haunted by a Spirit Warrior, Soft Morning Mist, a young woman of the Skuna River Chickasaw tribe, feels trapped into a marriage she does not want.When her friend, Swamp Lily, disappears, Soft Morning Mist suspects foul play when a lecherous, old man from the Hatchie River tribe accosts her. The mournful howls of a dog lead her to Swamp Lily's body. As rumors of suicide circle, she fights to prove it was murder.

Her father steals stolen gold, but she is hunted by the real robbers and held prisoner by a Pinkerton agent--close, very close.

In the spring of 1836, eighteen-year-old Chenoa Sandoval escapes the suffocating Mt. Saint Dominic Convent in Boston and sails around the tip of South America to the wild land of her birth, Carmel, Alta California. Chenoa is determined to honor the memory of Padre Tomas, Mission San Carlos Borromeo's last executor, who was also her adopted father. She will teach the Indian children born the years she was in the convent. Only her guardian, Don Sebastian Viandante, stands in her way.

Some men consider themselves God's gift to women; but with Derrick Barnes, it's just a given. What woman wouldn't want a sensitive, hunky blond exotic dancer under her tree on Christmas Eve; all wrapped up in a bright red bow for her enjoyment? Yet Derrick, by day a college student and department store stock boy, only has eyes for Sheila Baxter; the bright BBW p.r. professional at Leveaux department store. This year serving as Sheila Claus, the jolly replacement Santa at Leveaux department store, Sheila Baxter has quite the crush on her 'elf' for the season, stock boy Derrick. Yet when she learns the secret about his scandalous night job, will she still be willing to meet him under the mistletoe?

Karen Schroeder made the choice to be a politician. Her local success has caught the eyes of her party and she's suddenly thrust into the national stage. She knows how to play the game and exactly who she needs to be, even if it's not who she really is. Sarah Lindstrom has never questioned her feelings, even when they made her believe her girlfriend would say yes to her proposal instead of breaking up with her. When she sees Karen Schroeder campaigning, the rush of attraction is undeniable. Sarah knows she's been wrong before, but her feelings for Karen overwhelm any apprehension for this woman who's trapped in the closet. As the relationship grows, Sarah learns love can be painful when the one you love can only be herself when the door is closed. More importantly, her love of Karen could cost her everything she's worked for. Can love bloom when hidden in the dark.