Lee Wardlow

Danni got what she wanted, Walker and a happily ever after. Elijah's story was sweet and filled with romance, right? Ben's story started out that way then all hell broke loose. Jasmine left his daughter with Elijah and Jenny and he became a single father until Disa, the love of his life filled that empty hole that had been missing since they broke up.Then Mom was kidnapped by the man that wanted Disa Riley, Ben's wife. Ron Parson wanted more than Disa. We had something or someone that he wanted. Me? I have a chip on my shoulder the size of a bolder. I know it. My brothers know it and my parents know it. I used to take out my frustrations at my parent's discipline tactics on the football field. Then I became an adult. I could no longer use my athleticism to work out my anger issues, so I became an asshole.That's me. A narcissistic shithead. I need anger management, I'm sure. I can admit to all my faults. This game that Heath and I played that Matt helped with planning from time to time was now out of control. We considered ourselves the vigilante for the weaker man or woman. We righted wrong. We served justice when none could be served by the proper authorities.We were just dumb shitheads from Sherwood, Ohio.We had never come across a man like Ron Parson before.In between all the fury and the game playing with Ron Parson I got back together with Daisy Clemmons. She was my kryptonite but was I putting her in danger too?

Danni Rose The Sherwood Series Danni knew what she wanted. She had known for some time but convincing Walker they were right together was another matter. He was Matt, her brother's best friend. Walker always looked out for Danni. He had gotten into some trouble thanks to his own brother, Jesse. He took the rap for a crime he didn't commit. Five years later and three years of probation, he was free and clear, but his past still haunts him. Danni doesn't care about any of that. Walker does though. So many things will work against them including Walker's own thoughts and feelings on their relationship. Even the return of Danni's first love, Jackson doesn't change her mind about Walker. What Danni Rose wants, Danni Rose gets. She just needs to wear Walker Wild down. She needs to show him they can have it all. The perfect life if he will just give them a chance...

The game is Dantea's Hell and I am unwilling participant in this sadistic game of murder. Murder only I can prevent if I play well. I was in hell. A hell of my own making I have to admit it if only to myself and being honest. A deep dark depression that was making my life this living hell. I was doing things that went beyond reason. Out of control. Things that would shock my friends. I had no family to shock but friends in mass that would be disappointed in me. Doing certain things that were dangerous to my own wellbeing. He was there again. As always, I couldn't see his face. It was covered by a mask as was mine. We could only see each other's eyes. His eyes met mine across the room. He walked over to me and took my arm in his broad hand. The other men knew he got to choose first. I didn't know what was special about him. I didn't care as long as he possessed me night after night. It was supposed to be a temporary arrangement between us until we we removed the masks. The game changed because we broke the rules of the house. I was forced into a game of Hell with only this man to protect me. You never know how you much love someone until the thought of losing them is a real possibility Sebastian thought he would never love anyone until he had her every night. He thought he could walk away when his time was up to return to Spain. Then she was in danger. He had to protect her. Then she told him she loved him....

Codi Moore walked away from Jessie Gatlin once. She has had to seen him repeatedly over the last year making her regret that decision. What was she thinking? He was the perfect guy. Tall, dark and handsome. The high school football coach. Her family loves him. Her best friends love him. Hell, she might even love him. Donovan her ex-fianc had taken care of Codi getting involved with any man so when they have a second chance at love Donovan decides he wants Codi back. He will stop at nothing including removing Jessie from Codi's life permanently. Will they be able to save Jessie from Donovan? Is there a Happily Ever After for Jessie and Codi? He knew he loved her when she sat in the cold rain at one of his football games and nothing and no one including Donovan is going to stop Jessie Gatlin from having Codi Moore. What would it take to convince Codi they were right for each other?

Kerry McCoy my first love. The father of my seventeen year old daughter Keegan. To say we made mistakes would be an understatement. He hadn't seen Keegan since she was a baby. I have been asked by my mother to come home to Hell, Michigan. My home. The place I grew up. It didn't matter that my sisters and my father were there she said she needed me. So what did I do? I went home. Guess who else was home? Kerry McCoy. Our Meddling Mothers.A Father-Daughter Reunion.My first love...There's just one problem...I have a husband. One James Ellerton. I have a miserable some would say verbally abusive marriage I contend with on a daily basis. To James I'm a possession. Nothing more. He won't give me up easily especially if he finds out about Kerry McCoy. Will I find happiness again in Kerry's arms or am I destined to repeat the same mistakes over and over.... True love does not always conquer all. Hearts were meant to be broken I'm afraid. People are stubborn fools and I'm the biggest one of all.

The Fall of Damon Kane7 Brides for 7 Brothers SeriesI was the man few thought they could destroy. Few tried either for I was feared. I had power, money and women at my disposal. What more did I need?I was restless. Approaching fifty. Daisy Clemmons had set off something in me that called me to make a change in my life. I needed more. What she did was set about a chain of events that brought down my fall. Not really her just the events leading up to her being at my estate and what happened afterwards. My massive ego did the rest.Now I had to make a choice. My life or the those I loved. For once in my life I made the right choice.Do you believe in salvation for men like me? I hope so otherwise I have a date in Hell, and it isn't going to be pretty.Cursing and mild sexual situations not for children under age seventeen.

Note from LivyHave you ever wanted to run away from it all?I did. I mean I did want to, and I did do it.When Marco cheated on me, I thought my entire world would crash around me. The next morning, I picked myself up by my bootstraps, had my cousin Tony, our lawyer draw up some dissolution papers and presented to them to Marco. It wasn't that easy.We were best friends. Lovers. My only one. What I learned is that sometimes, you lose your way and you need to find it again before you make some big decisions like divorce. He let me go so I ran. I met some amazing people on my journey I saved a Loon in Minnesota. Talked to my dead grandmother's spirit in a sweat lodge and experienced the meaning of life and death from a powerful Shaman. I learned to ride horses in Wyoming. Could have ridden a cowboy too but thought better of it. Why complicate my life more than it was? Or his too. Casper had his own situation to deal with while I dealt with mine. I learned to surf in California. Fell in love. Not what you are thinking. Got my heart broken, again not what you are thinking and left before he could apologize. Became ill in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Marco flew there to nurse me back to health. The cheating husband, Marco. He drove with me to New Orleans. I'll be damned, I learned that I'm not really 100% Italian. Oh, what secrets the Bianchi family has been keeping. I lost loved ones along the way. Mine and Marcos roles have been reversed. I'm the rock and he now is depending on me for support. I have come full circle on this little trip around the states. I have found the woman I was meant to be. Marco and I will be fine in time. We will heal because along the way, I learned the power of forgiveness.Minor language / some sexual scenes preferably not for under the age of seventeen

Butterflies Should be FreeHe should have known better.She was too young for him. He wanted a family. Something he had wanted for a long time. After three failed marriages Jagger Braun wanted to give Mychael and Kaya the life that he could afford. A life they had never known.Beautiful butterflies are meant to be looked at not captured and held in a jar. He couldn't keep her. She couldn't belong to one man.He was ready to set her free. Then she disappeared. As her husband, he should have been the number one suspect, but he was caring for her daughter as he always was. He had an alibi.Why was his oldest brother being questioned though? When her body is found, her lies will reveal themselves through the journal she left behind. Jagger realizes that the woman he thought he knew...the image he was holding onto of her last night...that sweet smile...the innocence...her tender goodbye...it was all a lie that could destroy him if he let it.Her secrets...her murder will devastate them all. The town of Kitty Run will never be the same after Mychael Braun's murder. Small towns have secrets. Some men have more secrets. Mychael Braun will be keeping this small, town gossip mill on its toes for years to come.Sensitive SituaionsSexual ScenesNot for anyone under 18

The Sherwood SeriesHeathDanni got what she wanted, Walker and a happily ever after. Elijah's story was sweet and filled with romance, right? Ben's story started out that way then all hell broke loose. He became a single father and got Disa the love of his life back which started the hell our lives became...Mom was kidnapped by the man who wanted Disa Riley, Ben's wife. Ron Parson wanted more than Disa. We had something or someone that he wanted to sell.AJ is angry and I'm the crazy brother. The two make for a deadly combination. We started a war with Ron Parson that has consequences we couldn't possibly have imagined.The fall out is unthinkable.People we love will get hurt.We were just dumb shitheads from Sherwood, Ohio.We had never come across a man like Ron Parson before.He has our mother.He has Jacey.When will it end?Who will be left standing when the smoke clears?Will I still have the love of my life, Jacey May?

The Sherwood Series Elijah I would be the first person to tell you that I'm an anxious guy. I have loved Jenny Hartfield since probably the day that she walked down the stairs to go to our Junior prom with me. She took my breath away. I have admired her since she knocked Tommy Ward's teeth loose. That was in the first grade. I knew then that she was strong and didn't need anybody until her parents died. Then she needed me, and I was there for her. I was there for her, a little too much after Don, her dad died. That is when we first had sex. I thought maybe I could keep her as my best friend, my sidekick. My lover too without complicating the relationship with marriage. What was I thinking? I was afraid of losing her before I even sealed the deal, as my grandfather said. He set me straight. I got over myself and well the rest is history. She had something she was hiding from me though because Jenny wanted to know that she was loved by me first and foremost. Boy talk about being anxious...

The Matriarch She was manipulative but fragile and na ve. She's had a hard life that no one knows about or understands, that molded her into the woman she became because of the secrets that she's kept. Secrets that destroy her from the inside. She's lost the only love she'll ever have so being with Porter Watts makes no difference to her if she gets what she wants from him. He promised to take care of her and her only child still living at home. Wealth is something she's never known. She hadn't bargained for how much she got. The nice old man had secrets of his own. She's the matriarch of the family. A wife. A mother. A grandmother but they, her sons and grandsons call her Satan's Whore. Most of them haven't even spoken to her in months except Hanson, her favorite. Her grandsons are hot and cold. Her granddaughters and her daughters have always adored her. Now she's dead and she must relive her life on the big screen in a movie theater with her dead husband Bobby Preacher as her companion watching every moment she never wanted him to see. She doesn't know but he's already seen it all as he watched over her, waiting for her to return to him. They both learn that the truth about their happy life is somewhere in the middle and forgiveness is easier than they thought because the ultimate prize is eternity together. But for Delilah to leave the theater and find her happiness in eternity with Bobby she will have to forgive the one man she never wanted to see again. She will have to forgive every aching, abusive thing he ever did to her or she'll be stuck with him forever, right there, sitting in the plush, red leather chairs, reliving all their moments together over and over. Eternity is something Delilah never could have possibly imagined. To have it, she just needs to do the one thing she never thought possible, forgive Porter Watts.

Lucy Dangerfield is the librarian for the Ivywood Public Library. She lives alone with her four cats, Leo, Hank, Jasper and Miracle. She loves her life just fine being the introvert that she is. All she needs is a good Elijah Riley Mystery to read. Her mother tried hard to mold her into what she wanted her to be. A mold, she just couldn't fit into. Lucy had big, thick, glasses until she discovered contact lenses at age fourteen. She wasn't graceful enough for gymnastics. Her dismounts always sucked. Ballet? Big glasses and pink tutus? No way. Then Lucy learned how to play the violin, but she wasn't a prodigy, so that wasn't good enough for Naomi Dangerfield. Although Lucy still loves the violin. Her parents died in a car accident when she was seventeen leaving her in the care of her eccentric great-aunt, Agnes Dangerfield. Aggie's love gave her self-confidence. Lucy came out of her shell a little more, but she still didn't have good friends. She preferred her introverted ways hiding among her books with her four mischievous cats until Colt McCallister moved in next door. The new vet in town has some handsome friends. His college roommate, Eric Williams. His brother, Jason McCallister. His cousin, Rogue Harper an ex-Army Ranger who has a great deal in common with Lucy. He was raised by an aunt and uncle, after his mother, Indie died when he was thirteen. Colt's most famous friend, mystery writer, Elijah Riley. They form a crew, one big, happy family that Lucy hasn't had in a very long time. They welcome Lucy while she and Colt develop a loving, relationship after an interesting start. Although, everyone in Ivywood isn't so happy about the new budding relationship between Colt and Lucy. Lucy has a way of getting herself into mischief. The housewives in her neighborhood sure are acting strange. The house behind Lucy's is where Mr. Hobs, a retired gentleman lives with his wife, Audra. He has daily routines that you can set your watch by. He disappears. Then the other neighbor, Mr. Hammer dies from a heart attack. It was a heart attack, right? His wife had him cremated before the kids could even question her. The neighbor's husbands are dropping like flies. A word from Rogue to the Sheriff about the mysteries at the Hob's house creates a whole new bucket of issues for Lucy and Rogue as they start to investigate the Hobs and what's really going on in that house. She might be pint sized but when an intruder breaks into her house, she is able to fight him off. The intruder she assumes is James Hobs, the son of William and Audra Hobs sent to her as a warning to mind her own business. She's left battered and bruised but she's still curious about what is going on in the Hobs' house as is Rogue. Then there is her aunt's neighbor Teddy. A nice enough fellow who is growing increasingly controlling of her aunt. Lucy has more on her plate than she can deal with after all four tires on her Jeep are slit. The mysteries at the Hobs' house and attacks on Lucy all come to a boil one night in Rogue's apartment and everyone's roles will be revealed by some surprising confessions. The pint-sized librarian just might have to save everyone including Rogue, Teddy and Mr. Hobs.

Feet in the stirrups, staring at the ceiling, Sophie Russack waited for Doctor Ben to finish what he was doing between her legs. She tried not to think about it or she would have had a panic attack. He knew that too, so he had to do everything backwards with Sophie. Sophie girl, you're forty-one years old, not that the number bothered her. It didn't. It was just a number. Often, you're are mistaken for being much younger because you try to take care of yourself with exercise and lots of sunscreen but girl you really need to stop being a baby about these things. You've had two kids and after that experience nothing is sacred. Why does this appointment still bother you? Her life was different than she had anticipated at forty-one. Her two best friends were having babies. Her first grandson had been born. She was afraid of these changes happening around her but not anymore. She was with the love of her life. The only man she had ever loved. Everyone thought they wouldn't make it after getting pregnant at eighteen, but they had proved them wrong. They fought to stay together because breaking up was too easy. Then life threw Sophie Russack a whopper of a curve ball. She was late for her annual exam. She had only gone now because Josh hounded her about it. Doctor Ben found a lump during her exam. Sophie Russack never thought she had to worry about breast cancer because there was no cancer in her family. This is Sophie's journey through all the emotions of fear, sadness, anger and finally triumph as she faces chemotherapy. Along the way she meets other women facing the same battle she is. Cancer patients must find a way to live their life while being pushed to the edge of death, so they can survive while their lives continue around them. Babies are born. Daughters experience heartbreak. They are wives, mothers, daughters and sisters but they show their strength and willpower to become a Breast Cancer Survivor. Sophie only becomes stronger as cancer becomes a wake-up call for her. She changes everything about her life. Except Josh.

LIFE Unexpected They were perfect together and then they weren't, but Kai Manzo didn't expect what Jake threw at her. He was leaving her for another woman. She and Roman were friends. He was her much younger, next door neighbor but after Jake left Roman filled a need in her that had been missing for some time. He helped heal her broken heart. Then life happened. Something she thought wasn't possible. Roman was thrilled. She was terrified. When you least expected it, life threw you some curveballs. Somebody up there, thought these two needed this. She wasn't divorced from Jake yet. She had just turned forty. This was life. This was unexpected. Somebody was a comedian. She had to go with it and see where she landed. She had her friends, her daughter and Roman to see her through this and whatever else came her way. HEA, Sexual Situations, Mild Language