Mr. Maybe (Sycamore River)

Literature & Fiction

Quinn, M. Kate

Contemporary

Wild Rose Press

Megan Harris regrets her foolish, margarita-fueled hookup with a cute guy at a party. Needing to forget her unhappy youth, she concentrates on realizing her dream of opening a thrift shop in her small town. But capricious fate throws her in the path of her one-night stand at every turn. Years after tanking his baseball career, Henry Denhawk has a chance to become a commentator for the major league. But first he must go back to his hometown roots to clean up his act. There he finds Megan and discovers she is so much more than that one hot encounter. Despite a growing attraction, their pasts get in the way, and a secret threatens their chance at love. Can hope heal the past to give them their future?

The Hope Chest (Sycamore River)

Romance

The last thing Iris Stanton feels like doing is celebrating her fiftieth birthday. She's divorced, has been downsized out of a job, and her post-marriage condo is for sale and she can't afford to buy it. And when her crazy, out-there best friend, Yvonne, offers her the use of a beach cottage for the summer, Iris thinks the idea is preposterous. That is, until she comes up with what could be a solution to her pending homelessness. Selling off her small piece of waterfront property would save the very roof over her head, so she heads to the shore with a mission. The cottage is in the midst of renovations orchestrated by handsome flirtatious owner, Sam Hanratty. His roguish attention gets Iris' heart doing flips, jump starting it into remembering she's still a woman. Sam's foreman, Eddie Morgan, is the most annoying hulk she's ever met, and Iris's heart sinks like lead when she learns that he alone could sabotage the sale of her property. Iris' heart gets a workout this summer, with a string of unlikely events that force her to turn inward to examine what makes her tick, what is her heart's true desire and who might hold the key.

Summer Iris

It's a pack of lies that turns Daisy Cameron's life upside down, but it's the truth that changes everything forever. Affluent playboy J. Randolph Press Jr. learns of his disapproving uncle's deathbed threat to cut him from his will, and he's desperate to change his mind before it's too late. Daisy's job at the Brookside Café can barely cover her household needs let alone fund the prestigious art school she feels her son, Adam, should attend. When Rand stops into the café and eavesdrops, learning of her financial crisis, an outlandish idea is born. Daisy agrees to play Rand's fiancée in order to receive money for Adam's college. But what will happen when the line between fact and fantasy blurs, when feelings and longings emerge for which neither realizes their hearts yearn?

Brookside Daisy

The Wild Rose Press, Inc. (Last Rose of Summer)

'Why?' has no place in what the heart knows for sure. On the eve of their wedding, Victoria Gliden and fiancE, Owen Walker, call it quits. He accuses her of not being able to get over her deadbeat father's vanishing act when she was a child and she and her cold feet run and don't look back. Victoria, an interior designer, has an important meeting on Cancun that could garner her a promotion and the plan had been to incorporate her presentation with the honeymoon cruise that's journeying to the island. Since she's sure Owen is on his way to Portland to escape the aftermath of their ruined wedding, Victoria takes the honeymoon cruise anyway. Only Owen has the same idea and they're stuck with each other for six days, five nights. When Tony Gliden, Victoria's father, dies in a freak accident, he is sent back to Earth disguised as a crotchety old man with the mission to convince his daughter to believe in love. So, he, too boards the ship. At sea, destiny takes a detour when Victoria befriends the quirky old man with kind eyes and together they join forces with a quartet of unabashed women in their fifties who drink pink martinis and flirt with the waitstaff but are wiser than they look. While trying to dodge Owen, Victoria's new acquaintances help her face old wounds and confront new fears. By journey's end, will two broken hearts get their answer?

Victoria at Sea

Soul Mate Publishing