Fiction

Lavender’s Blue

Lavender’s Blue
Liz Danger has come home after fifteen years to deliver a giant teddy bear for her mother's birthday...

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Maybe This Time

Maybe This Time
When Andie Miller goes to see her ex-husband, North Archer, to return ten years of uncashed alimony checks, he asks for one final favor: A...

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Wild Ride

Wild Ride
Take a ride on the Dragon Coaster! Eat amazing ice cream at the Dream Cream! Smack a whack-a-mole and win a dragon! Avoid the demons....

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Dogs and Goddesses

Dogs and Goddesses
Abby has just arrived in Summerville, Ohio, with her placid Newfoundland, Bowser. She's reluctantly inherited her grandmother's coffee shop, but it's not long before she's...

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Agnes and The Hitman

Agnes and The Hitman
Agnes Crandall's problems are roiling to a boil. First, a dog-napper invades her kitchen, seriously hampering her attempts to put on a wedding that's she's...

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The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes

The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes
You're invited to spend the weekend with three extraordinary sisters... When she was sixteen, Dee Fortune kidnapped her two younger sisters and ran from danger....

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Don’t Look Down

Don’t Look Down
A book about real men, real women, and real gators, Don't Look Down is the perfect blend of he said/she said, excitement and romance, Mayer...

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Bet Me

Bet Me
Min Dobbs knows that happily-ever-after is a fairy tale, especially with a man like Cal Morrisey, who asked her to dinner to win a bet....

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Faking It

Faking It
What has reality ever done for you? She has a history of forgery she’s trying to forget. He has a knack for scamming he’s trying...

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Fast Women

Fast Women
Nell's been discarded. Suze's been repressed. Margie's been put on hold. But now they're hitting the ground running, kicking up dust, and moving at the...

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Welcome to Temptation

Welcome to Temptation
Sophie came to Temptation, Ohio to help her sister make a movie. Now she's making trouble for the town council, love with the mayor, and...

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Crazy for You

Crazy for You
On Wednesday, Quinn McKenzie adopted a dog and changed her life. On Thursday, she tried to get somebody to notice. On Thursday night, somebody did…...

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Tell Me Lies

Tell Me Lies
Maddie was coping pretty well with the adultery, the embezzlement, and the blackmail. Then her old boyfriend came back to town. March 1998

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Trust Me on This

Trust Me on This
Dennie Banks is an investigative reporter chasing down the biggest story of her career. Alec Prentice is a government agent working undercover to catch an...

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The Cinderella Deal

The Cinderella Deal
If you're going to be in a fairy tale with somebody, make sure you're both telling the same story. Daisy Flattery is an incorrigible free...

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Anyone But You

Anyone But You
For Nina Askew, turning forty means freedom—from the ex-husband whose career always came first, from their stuffy suburban home. Freedom to have her own apartment...

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Charlie All Night

Charlie All Night
Allie wants to be on top in radio. Charlie wants to stay on the bottom. Somehow they keep coming together in spite of themselves. Dumped...

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What the Lady Wants

What the Lady Wants
If he's Cary Grant, where's his Girl Friday? Mitch Peabody was learning pretty fast that the life of a private detective was nothing like the...

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Strange Bedpersons

Strange Bedpersons
Tess loves Nick but he’s too conservative to keep her interested… until she decides to loosen him up a little. Tess Newhart knows her ex-boyfriend...

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Getting Rid of Bradley

Getting Rid of Bradley
Lucy isn't sure who's more dangerous, Bradley her ex-husband who may be trying to kill her, or Zack the detective who's assigned to keep her...

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Manhunting

Manhunting
Kate’s search for Mr. Right is a lot harder since she’s spending so much time with Mr. Wrong. Kate Svenson may be a dynamite businesswoman—but...

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Short Fiction

Crazy People

Crazy People
For fans of Jenny Crusie, of witty and warm writing, and of contemporary fiction, this collection of short stories was the genesis for one of...

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Wild Night

A short story prequel to Wild Ride by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer Mab Brannigan and Ethan Wayne’s Wild Ride begins when Mab accidentally turns...

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Hot Toy

Hot Toy
Mayhem ensues under the mistletoe as a determined shopper grabs the very last hot toy action figure off the shelf, only to find herself plunged...

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Sizzle

Sizzle
Business takes a backseat when successful ad executive Emily Tate meets Richard Parker. He's an accountant who's been sent to keep her in line and...

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