Love & Holidays
SNOWED IN ON VALENTINE'S DAY
Contemporary Romance/Rom-com
It was hate at first sight.
After a run-in with the rude Best Man, Peter, at her best friend’s wedding and a subsequent meltdown on New Year’s Eve, Hazel is ready to make major changes. Realizing she’s a serial dater, she vows to take a break from dating and focus on reinventing herself in her career. Tired of the constant travel from speaking tours, she’s determined to focus on writing—and staying home for once in her life.
But when the jerk from the wedding moves in next door, Hazel can’t believe her bad luck. She does her best to avoid Peter, until a massive blizzard forces her to take shelter at his house. The icy tension between them starts to thaw as they get to know each other, but when they’re still snowed in four days later—on Valentine’s Day—tempers flare as passions rise.
Confused and unsettled, Hazel has no idea what to do with her conflicting feelings, and avoiding him doesn’t seem to be an option.
Can she find love with this enigmatic man amid the winter storm brewing within and between them?
MEET ME ON CHRISTMAS EVE
Holiday Romance/Contemporary Romance
Two people with a reversal of fortunes.
A secret love of Christmas despite a difficult past.
Heaps of regret and resentment, but a fire that was never truly extinguished.
As the owner of an elite resort in snowy Minnesota, Mariana has left her humble past firmly behind her—not to mention an epic heartbreak from 10 years ago, which she doesn’t allow herself to think about. When she decides to expand her business to acquire a quaint Christmas village in a neighboring town and reclaim her secret love of the holiday, the last thing she expects is to run into him.
Once a wealthy young heartbreaker and now a working-class man, Terry Grant is just as dismayed to see Mariana as she is. Resentment about their summer fling and their reversal of fortunes—and the fateful Christmas Eve meet-up that never happened—brews between them as he becomes an obstacle in her quest to acquire the Christmas village.
Mariana is determined to listen to her head, not her heart. After all, she survived these past 10 years by making smart decisions, not pining after a lost love.
But can she resist him when fate brings them together this Christmas?
Currently Querying:
Austen Inspired
Contemporary Romance/Romantic Comedy
Working from home with her best friend Jack down the hall, Viviana Cantwell leads a comfortable life, yet she can’t ignore the low hum of anxiety and whispers of self-doubt: You’re in your 30s now. Working a boring job. Still single, living alone in a drab apartment. Your parents and sister have it all—why can’t you?
When a gorgeous, arrogant publishing executive comes to town with his wealthy, charming friend, Viviana sees the answer to all her problems. She can date her dream man and embark upon her dream career: a novel featuring her very own Mr. Darcy should write itself, right?
But falling for her best friend instead doesn’t fit into her plan—or her book plot. Plagued with confusing feelings about Jack, heaps of self-doubt, and constantly flawed assumptions about everyone, she clings to the one thing that’s always been right in her life, her friendship with Jack—she can’t risk losing him too.
Austen Persuaded
Contemporary Romance/Romantic Comedy
On the surface, Annie has it all. Beauty, brains, youth, a flexible job, and a party girl image—even while a troubled childhood and a missed opportunity for love continue to haunt her. And then it all comes crashing down: her boyfriend betrays her, she has an epic falling out with a close friend, she’s forced to quit her job, and she sinks into a deep depression fueled by alcohol and her toxic narcissistic mother. Beneath it all is a growing fear that she’ll spot her ex, Kylan, who has shockingly returned to town. How could she face the man whose heart she broke four years ago and who—if she’s really honest with herself—she might never have really gotten over?
Just as soon as Annie is finally getting back on her feet, passionate about her new job as a literary agent assistant, another bomb drops. Kylan’s New York agency is acquiring the agency she was just hired at. Now she not only has to work for him, but she has to watch her new agent colleague/BFF flirt with him. Can she survive working for him while he’s in town managing this acquisition, or does she need to give up her dream job?