Books published by Satin Romance

Take one street-tough cop, add a high society salon owner, toss in high-end home robberies, and you get trouble.A brief past gives them something to build on in the present, but is it enough for them to have a future.Two years ago, Ryan Rogers was attracted to Stephanie Lockhart, but as the detective who brought down her criminal brother, getting close to her was out of the question. Now, ready to restart the relationship, he discovers her salon is connected to a series of high-end robberies. In spite of losing her brother because of Detective Rogers, Stephanie hasn't forgotten their attraction. It could be happily ever after when they meet once again...until she and her salon are implicated in crime, sending her world spiraling out of control.

Pilfering food for her sickly máthair, Aisling O'Quinn wanders amidst the filth-ridden cobbled streets of Five Points, Manhattan. A matron of the Children's Aid Society catches her and considers it her civic duty to force the twelve-year-old onto an orphan train to a "better life". Though Five Points is a notorious slum, with its rag-picker alleys and bandit haunts, Aisling desperately misses her beloved parent and their shabby room at the bend on Mulberry Street. In 1863, after four years of misery on a foster farm in Pennsylvania and as troops from the North and the South converge for the Battle of Gettysburg, Aisling finally musters the courage to escape. Not even the crippling fear of capture as a runaway fades her intense longing to reunite with her parent. At sixteen, she digs deep within herself for the courage, faith, and determination that will guide her safely back to the circle of her máthair's love.

Quincy Matthews witnesses her best friend's murder. To protect her friend's child, she kidnaps the four-year-old girl and flees to Hickory Hills, a small Southern Illinois town where she spent summer with her grandparents. She disguises the child and herself. When she meets Ace Edleston a teenage romance is rekindled. Ace suspects that Quincy is keeping secrets and confronts her. Telling Ace about the kidnapping will make him an accessory. Not telling Ace will make him walk away. As Quinn wrestles with this moral dilemma, the murderer is getting closer. Will he find them, and if he does, how far will Quinn go to keep the child safe?

Home from the war, Austin is plagued by dark thoughts. Fleur wants to help but soon discovers that loving a man who hates himself is hard. Both fighting inner battles, Fleur and Austin can't also fight temptation. So they give into it. The result is not something either of them can live with, but they have very different solutions on how to fix the little four-letter problem called love.

At the tender age of seventeen, Mary Beth discovered the family she thought would see her through anything couldn't accept her one mistake. Thank goodness for her best friends that stepped up to support her decision to keep her child. Seven years later together with her friends, she's created a successful business on the verge of a large expansion. But the desire to be accepted by her family continues to be a failure that taints all her accomplishments and has her making concessions she never thought she would.Elias Marquez was content with his life. He definitely wasn't looking for the vibrant redhead down the hall from him. After a chance encounter, he can't escape the need to be in her company again. He wants to explore the possibilities and the undeniable spark her touch inspires.Torn between trying to right the past and accepting that she can only control her own life is Mary Beth truly ready for the love Elias is prepared to offer as a future?

Social worker, Maggie O'Hara, arrives at the Minneapolis airport where she awaits the arrival of her family welcoming her home for Thanksgiving. She has a surprise for them in her arms-her newly adopted baby girl from Korea. With little thought, Maggie grabs a stranger getting off the same airplane, and asks him to portray himself, temporarily, as her fiancé. She knows that her old-fashioned family will disapprove of the adoption because she's not married. What Maggie doesn't count on is falling in love with Dr. Nick Capra, who does more than a passable job of posing as her fiancé that day, and over the holiday week. From the moment Maggie snags Nick, a confirmed bachelor, his gut tells him his single days are over and that she's the woman for him.

She collides with her past; he lets go of his present...will it be enough for a future together? Four years after losing her husband, Elizabeth Farefield's mother-in-law still blames her for his death. Finding it difficult to move forward, she takes a Caribbean cruise to contemplate her future...bumping into the past. Divorced for five years, Robert Burnhamwood is happy with his playboy ways until on a cruise, a chance meeting has him longing for something he hasn't wanted since his first marriage...a monogamous relationship filled with love. But when Robert's youngest daughter retaliates against his new relationship, his oldest daughter takes up with a man against his wishes, and a rapist terrorizes her neighborhood putting his daughter at risk, a peaceful future with new found love may be beyond Elizabeth's grasp.

When you put together a quirky bookstore owner, who just happens to be a witch, and a widowed author, what do you get? The makings for a happy ending. That is until disaster strikes and Kate Waterhouse comes to town. Wading Through Shallow Water is a bewitching tale of how a bit of whimsy and magic can vanquish the dark and restore the flow of fate.

Jimmy and his Big 4 Trucking partners, were trying to find a dispatcher, and it wasn't going well. Until Kelsey Curtis came looking for a job, and to their surprise, she turned out to be a perfect fit. However, Kelsey had a troubled past. And Jimmy's girlfriend Tina, was the jealous type. She wanted her out of their lives. But what Tina was digging up against Kelsey, could only unbury a monster.

Glynis MacLaren longs to see the world, not get married and live a suffocating life in Scotland. She leaps at the chance to escort her sister to the colonies. She soon finds out the larger world is just as constraining for a woman. People expect her to marry and follow certain protocol. Then she meets the ship's captain. He stirs feelings in her that she never knew she had. The trip across the ocean is filled with the adventure she sought, love she didn't expect and a sudden heartbreak when the journey ends.

When Florida antique dealer, Danielle deForet, is kidnapped by a sinister wizard and thrust back to 1559, the last thing on her mind was to meet a handsome knight, Aidan, and fall in love with him. Their love is not free and easy but comes with a price. Danielle is certain to die once the wizard uses her in a special spell for his queen. Aidan, who overhears the plan, risks his own life to try to rescue Danielle. As if that was not enough to turn Danielle's world upside down, she learns that Georgina, the mannequin in her store's antique fortune telling machine, had once been a real woman and seer who was turned to wood by that same sorcerer in 1550. Danielle now must not only trust Georgina's secret powers to bring her back to 2014, but must form an unbreakable bond with her to try to help Aidan escape danger, all the while hoping Georgina has the powers needed to break the spells the wizard cast on each of them.

Eve goes missing. Twenty-seven years later Clara is found. Upon realizing that her life is a lie, Clara searches for who she used to be. There are a new family and an old love to deal with, as well as the question of how to combine Clara and Eve. The new family gives her a headache, and the old love is rekindled. Clara needs to find herself, and while searching she discovers her real home.

In the spring of 1788, Renn Arelia Sheridan stares up at a portrait of the First Duchess of Chippenham, and the painting clearly shows an emerald brooch on her gown. Renn Arelia's hand slips into her pocket fingering the brooch her deceased mother gave her. Her nape prickles with caution. This piece is what they sought when they ransacked her parent's manor and forced her to London, betrothing her to marry a French Marques. The proverbial straw, the significance of her mother's locket, embroils Renn Arelia. She escapes the ancestral estate, hoping the heirloom is a blessing and not a curse. Her quest is a teaching position at an orphanage in Gravesend. Spiraling from one disaster to the next, she deceitfully gains passage aboard a ship and tumbles into the circle of a devil captain, forever changing the course of her life. She has no idea the locket will define her as though it is a certificate of birth.

Seven marriage proposal stories of love, romance, and relationships.Artificial Tears - Charmaine PaulsThe Spark - Ellyse RobertsProposal Unexpected - Elena KaneOne Perfect Moment-Tara Fox HallRunning Late- Caroline AndrusCappuccino Dreaming - Louise RedmannLove Weavers - Katie Stephens

One woman hiding from family abuse and another seeking her lost family each discover that happiness and love can grow from sadness when they don't give up the pursuit.

After losing her mother to cancer and being laid off from her job, Shana Madden never expected her life to go from simply a bad year to the most regrettable year of her life. But she also never dreamed a one night stand with Kal Paxton would end up being the best thing to ever happen to her.

The Wild West gets tamed by love. Three stories showcasing everything you love about Western Romance, and it's not all about cowboys. Starr For The Teacher, Tysche Dwai Fresh out of teaching school, Jayne Kincaid is forced to accept a position in Temptation, Texas. Will feisty Sheriff Prescott claim the teacher's hand? To Tame A Gambler, Nancy Pirri In 1894, college Professor John O'Connell arrives in Bozeman, Montana. He meets seemingly shy Grace Morgan but discovers this 'Penny Dreadful' writer is anything but proper. Winning the Ranger's Heart, Jane Carver Jenny Lincoln keeps one big secret from middle-aged homely rancher Neal Franks. Can he win the Ranger's heart? Maybe, but first he has to rescue her.

Love Has the Best Intentions is an anthology of love stories.Love can be magically romantic. Love can be all about finding "the one". Love can sweep you away or cross borders. Love is sometimes unexpected but always welcome. Love is a choice.Love Has the Best Intentions takes you from an Illinois farm to an orphanage in France, from the divorce court to a puppy training school.Love can't be predicted, reasoned or denied. Love can be anticipated, desired and cherished. Everywhere, every day, love is demonstrated. Love may have unexpected consequences but love always has the best intentions.

Struggling to be a dad and a son, Alexander didn't know he was lost. Living her dream, Sarah didn't know she needed to be found. Enter cupid in the form of a dying man, who hasn't had much contact with his children and grandchildren in the years after his wife's death. In the meantime, however, a new family has formed around him. Patrick McCullough's staring contest with death and wish to unite the family of his blood and the one of his heart kindles love meant to last, causes tempers to flare, and creates second chances that are given, taken, and thrown away. In the middle of the chaos, a young boy struggles to stay afloat.

When Rose McKinney learns of the death of her father, she leaves St. Louis and her life at the Purple Moon, one of the best cathouses in the city, and moves to the ranch she has inherited. What she doesn't expect is the men here need a boss more than a whore. When Cameron Blake arrives on her ranch run by Darius McKinney, he knows he's found a home for him and for his son, Josh. What he never saw coming was someone murdering his boss and now he would be the one dealing with the beautiful Rose McKinney.

Looking for love in all the wrong faces...Clarissa falls for a real jerk but is taken in by his charm and good looks. It isn't until her beloved potbelly pig, Ruthie, takes an immediate dislike to her new boyfriend that Clarissa starts to see Brent for the bad guy he really is. Disillusioned and broken hearted from her last failed relationship, she discovers the cantankerous new young doctor and neighbor of hers, is more than first meets the eye. Despite her rough start and working relationship with David, the doctor, Clarissa and her pig take quite a liking to him and strike up a good friendship. Through a series of mishaps and near disasters, the two discover first impressions are sometimes misleading and second beginnings and chances often lead to great rewards. Can Clarissa overcome her hatred of hunting and cardinal rule of not mixing business with pleasure to find love? Only she can battle her own demons and change her own misconceptions about life and love.

It's not every day a guy gets a chance to go from feeling like a zero to being a hero by saving a little girl's Christmas! Delaney struggles with her daughter's worsening eyesight and their failing farm. She's got a new neighbor, a veteran who suffers from PTSD, but the "never give up" attitude of Lilly and Delaney brings him back to life. A frightening flashback causes Charlie to retreat, but it's Lilly's fascination with fairies that brings them together as a family.

Old family ties broken, childhood pain healed and true love revealed--one step at a time.One phone call sends Chad Rogers back to the one place he's been avoiding--home. Being at his mother's side after she is shot, he faces the older brother who tormented him during childhood and his ex-lover, Chloe Atwood. Chloe Atwood is engaged to a family friend. Chad steps back into her world, spinning it off its axis. She sees him in a new light this time around, leaving her to question if they can have a future together.