Forsaking All

2012 Christy Award finalist, Historical category. Camilla Fox is alive. The last thing she remembers is being lost in the snow after leaving her home to escape the Mormon faith she no longer calls her own. She’s been taken in by the 5th Infantry Regiment of the US Army and given over to the personal care of Captain Charles Brandon. As she regains her strength, memories of her two children she had to leave behind come flooding back, threatening to break her heart. Camilla is determined to reunite with her daughters. But when news of her father’s grave illness reaches her, she knows she must return to the family farm to reconcile with her father. As spring arrives, Camilla returns to Salt Lake City a changed woman, but nothing could prepare her for the changes to the city, to the Mormon church, and to the family she left behind.

A novel of crime and passion in the South Bronx by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight and The Good Rat. The Department of Corrections makes a mistake when it grants parole to a young Puerto Rican man named Teenager. After a few years in jail for dealing narcotics, he promises the parole board that he’s gone straight. But Teenager has no intention of abandoning his life of crime. He dreams only of money, and will do anything to make himself rich. When Teenager enters business with the Lucchese family, whose boss has a line on the purest heroin in New York, success seems all but assured—until a scorching affair between the boss’s wife and a young lawyer named Maximo threatens to ruin the entire operation. Their passion is instantaneous, but Teenager will make certain that before they can be together, the Bronx is going to burn. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

The powerful young warlock named Dorian Masters had to put aside his grief over the loss of his child and the mother of that child. Her deceitful games brought about their destruction. He would continue the almost endless battle against the Collins family as they tighened their control over the city of New York. They alone had started this bloodbath of death. He had showed Derrick love and selflessly saved his life. Now he was the world's top male supermodel with killer looks and a soul to match. That selfless act would make one of them go on a killing spree across the country. Everyone thought she had died. But she was back and this time she was eliminating all obstacles, his male lover,an ex-girlfriend, the current girlfriend;a former prostitute and most of all his meddling half-sister. This time she was deadly serious! Families,enemies and friends would take sides in this struggle to the death. Somethings were not as they appeared. Love,betrayal, lust and more blood would push them all to, Forsaking All Others.

They are all wrong for each other… Jessica Harrington knows what she doesn't want for Christmas—to be roped in to her parents' matchmaking scheme. Ever since she and Weston Chamberlain were children, their fathers hoped they would marry and merge their families' fortunes. One problem—Jessica and Wes can't tolerate one another! But love can make everything right Wes, who arrives in Aspen for the families' shared ski vacation, has grown up…in delicious ways. And beautiful Jessica is nothing like the awkward teen Wes remembers. The breathtaking setting fuels a sizzling attraction that surprises them both. But living on opposite coasts is only one of many obstacles ahead. Can romance last once they've left their winter wonderland behind?

My story tells of meeting my BSHERT, my destiny, at an early age. We were 17. We married at 20, much to my familys disapproval. The story continues about the life and love we had together for the next seventy years. In honored memory of Dorothy my wife, my love, the light of my life.

In 'Forsaking All Others', Julia Nicholson is blissfully happy. She's married to the wonderful David, they have a gorgeous home and a ginger kitten called Kitchen, and she wouldn't change a thing. Until a chance encounter with the devastatingly attractive film director, Richard de Lisle, shows her what she never knew she was missing. In 'Temporary Set-Back', for Jenny, the only good thing about working at fusty publishers Mildew & Rambridge is the delectable editor Rupert Rambridge. Jenny is desperate for him to notice her - if only he'd pay her a fraction of the attention that handsome but sleazy Mr Curtis does. The chance to temp for Mr Rambridge's usual secretary might just see her daydreams become reality - but does she really know the type of man she's dealing with? Part of the Storycuts series, these two short stories were previously published in the collection Lisa & Co.