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Return to Qualicum Bay Cove: Prequel

Qualicum Bay Cove Sisterhood

A West Coast Mysteries Series

Qualicum Bay Cove Resort is a place filled with love, danger, and suspense. It is also home for a wonderful sisterhood of women.

Morgan Harrison is the youngest of four siblings in a very tight-knit family. Training at the University of Victoria in Criminology, she meets the love of her life, Drew Komar, who is studying to be a lawyer. Their love is a fairy tale that blossoms, and they can’t wait to get married – not even until they both graduate with their degrees. After struggling with work, a marriage and school, Drew convinces Morgan to take time off her degree to work…only until he gets his law degree.

That was fourteen years ago. Now, Morgan is a stay-at-home mom of two kids and unfulfilled goals of becoming a police officer. And Drew? He’s a big-wig successful lawyer making business deals with large corporations and foreign investors. And he did it all on his own – not that he didn’t ask Morgan’s parents for help. But he really did not expect them to deny him her inheritance early – she was going to get it anyhow.

Now Morgan is in for the surprise of her life, as her head-over-heels love for Drew is cut off at the knees when he asks her for a divorce…and demands custody of both the kids.

What is Morgan supposed to do with no career, no skills and no money? Sure, her two older sisters now run the Qualicum Bay Cove Resort which they inherited after their parents had a tragic accident. But she can’t ask them for help…can she?

This inspirational romance series which explores divorce, discovery and renewing relationships shows the power of family and the bond between sisters. Anything is possible where there is love.

Till Death Do We Partner: The Agreement - Prequel 

She promised to be his ride or die…

Shari Sinclair is a stunning foul-mouthed blonde who doesn’t take shit from anyone. She loves to smoke, drink, and gamble and keeps her anxiety in check by shooting her pistol at the gun range and boxing at the gym. She works as a cocktail waitress and chip runner at a casino in Jersey, but this isn’t where she thought her life would be at thirty years old.

In Love with the Enemy: Prequel

Secrets of Powell River Inlet Resort

A West Coast Mysteries Series

Having recently graduated from college, Jennifer Adams was excited to start her career as a event planner and moved to Toronto to have more opportunity in the entertainment industry. She had always loved planning elaborate events and she was good at it. It also didn’t hurt her chosen career that she had a minor in dance. She was looking to expand this career into something amazing. At then, at one of her first events, she met Kelvin.

Tall, handsome and rich, Kelvin Prescott was immediately smitten by Jennifer, and he pursued her hard and passionately, swooping her off to exciting destinations and plying her with expensive gifts. But he was also sweet, and kind, and generous.

When Jennifer discovers she is pregnant, Kelvin is quick to propose, and their four-month love affair turns into an engagement blossoming in love. But immediately after the wedding, things change. Kelvin changes.

Taken off guard by the severeness of Kelvin’s new personality and his possessiveness over Jennifer, she is sure that the stress of the quick wedding and the baby on the way has had a negative impact on Kelvin. But she is just as positive that when their baby is born, everything will be fine…better. It’s not.

All alone in a city she is new to, can Jennifer take a stance for her baby and her own life? Or is she too afraid to even try?

“In Love with the Enemy” is the Prequel to the series “Secrets of Powell River Inlet Resort”, A West Coast Mysteries Series where everyone has a secret that they are keeping from everyone else, and they would really like to forget. In love, everyone deserves a fresh beginning – but will they get it?

Two Weeks In Heaven - Prequel

My Late Husband's Secrets, 

A Later Life Romance Series

Do you ever really know someone?

After Ellen Cooper’s husband dies of a sudden heart attack, she discovers that she never really knew him. An almost arranged marriage that her father pushed her into, Ellen had thought she has been happy over the last 33 years – or at least satisfied. But as she packs up Robert’s belongings, she is starting to realize that was just a façade that she let herself believe.

To get over her angst and relax so she can face dealing with the will and all the paperwork from Robert’s death, Ellen decides to take a little trip by herself. Never in her life would she have expected to have an adventure, one that may make up for the loveless and dry marriage that she had endured all those years.

She meets a man. A young man. And he makes the next two weeks for Ellen absolute heaven. Well…almost.

The Dean's Secret

Six Degree Connections - 2 Prequel

Victoria Michaels

Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people on average, are six or fewer social connections away from each other.

Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people on average, are six or fewer social connections away from each other. A friend of a friend, an uncle or an aunt, my cousin Vinnie, or a coworker may connect any two people in the world in a maximum of six steps.

The ending of each Six Degree Connections Series story leads from a person affected by the current story into the next story. We are all connected. Find out how.

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Courtney is a straight A college student, which is a noble achievement. It’s not easy to ace all your classes at that level, especially philosophy. Especially when the philosophy professor is a gorgeous hunk, and she cannot keep her mind on anything except letting him take her…for her first time. And she has another dream. More of a want…a need. All Courtney wants is a baby. If Dean Adam Winters would just notice her, she knows she could get him to make love to her and create a beautiful child with her. There’s just one problem that Courtney can see…he’s already dating one of the other college professors, Ms. Stevenson – Bethany.

Bethany’s idea of a man is someone powerful and good-looking who makes good money. That’s all. She doesn’t need doting attention or fatal attraction…or even love. If he checks all her boxes, he can check her box. But…there better be a ring at the end of it.

Adam is satisfied with his relationship with Bethany. No ties, no troubles, no promises. Or…that’s the way he sees it. He is not the marrying type. As Dean of the university, he is far too busy…and important to have a deep relationship. Or God-forbid, a wife! No, not him. But there’s this girl…woman…in his philosophy class that he cannot get off his mind. He even imagines her face when he’s making love to Bethany. But…she’s so young. And a student! That is so taboo Adam cannot even think about it, so he just puts Courtney Zimmerman out of his mind. But somehow, she keeps slipping back in.

Dean Adam Winters is very powerful, but he is keeping secrets from the world. He and Bethany think they are hiding their relationship, but it is apparent to anyone who is watching them. Will Courtney get her way with Dean Winters? If she does, this would be another secret he would have to keep…from everyone. And maybe Courtney has a secret of her own.

Stella

Six Degree Connections - 1 Prequel

Victoria Michaels

Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people on average, are six or fewer social connections away from each other.

Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people on average, are six or fewer social connections away from each other. A friend of a friend, an uncle or an aunt, my cousin Vinnie, or a coworker may connect any two people in the world in a maximum of six steps.

The ending of each Six Degree Connections Series story leads from a person affected by the current story into the next story. We are all connected. Find out how.

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Stella is a character. Quite a character, or that’ what Bill used to tell her. Before he died. Now, homeless and broke, the 40-something artist needs to start all over again. She raised Bill’s kid since the boy was twelve, but he took off the day he turned eighteen, and Stella has not seen him since. But this is still his home, if he wants it. The one thing for shit-sure, it’s not Stella’s home. Not anymore. After she leaves the little farm outside of Oakville, Ontario, Stella decides to return to the city that helped her become an artist – Toronto. Glen might be able to get some of her paintings into this gallery – if she had any. She’s got to find some place to hunker down for a while so she can set up her studio again. Then, after she’s sold a couple, it will smooth sailing right on ‘til destiny throws another loop at her.

Arriving in Toronto in the early hours of the morning, Stella is deep in thought, pondering her first move now that she’s back in the big city. She’s so engrossed in her reflection that she’s too late when she finally notices the light turning red at the intersection. Gunning it, she decides to peel through, after all, who would be out on the streets at three o’clock in the morning? When she hears a thump, she realizes someone must have been out. Stella has run over a man.

Registering that his leg is broken, and badly, Stella’s guilt leads her to drive him to Emergency. Then wait for him. Then…take him home. Where she plans on looking after him until he can heal…and she can paint a few best-sellers. But the man takes a little convincing.

Phillip is a sports reporter. Never wanted to be anything else. He’s tall and athletic, and stoic and quiet. He loves his aging mother dearly and takes her to church every Sunday, never misses a one, even if he has to work all night. He takes his mother to church and breakfast, even if there was a game the night before. Even if he’s had no sleep and has smoked an entire pack of Players, he still gets dressed up and picks Mom up for church. He loves her. And he loves God even more. He loves God, but he doesn’t think of himself as a church-fanatic, this is just the way he was raised. He’d love to go on a retreat one year, but right now, his church only offers that for couples. And…Phillip is single. There was a woman in his life once, early on, right after University. But when he found her in bed with not one, but two of his good friends only weeks before they were to be married, Phillip swore off women for the rest of his life. Sure, it’s been difficult, but he has his job and his love of sports to keep his mind busy. And church and Mom take up a lot of his time.

The morning he decided to pick up his dry-cleaning right after reporting the late hockey game and after party, he also chooses to run across the street before the light has completely changed. Who else would be out this early in the morning? They’ve got to be crazy. Like him.

Pain is searing through his leg as he lies in the street, having just been hit by a speeding car that he didn’t even see. Then a hand touches his shoulder, and he rolls his head back to look up into the eyes of what must be an angel, there to take him to heaven. What else could she be? She’s…beautiful.

Phillip has no idea what he’s in for when he agrees to allow Stella to care for him while his broken leg mends. The pushy woman, who looks to be five years his junior ,starts by telling him what to do, in his own house! Then…she cleans it! Phillip does not care how good looking he thinks Stella is, she’s a woman. And that means, she’s bad news. And not the kind he likes to report.