Sourcebooks Casablanca Romance Authors

Love is the Antidote When the son of a serial killer falls for his father’s only surviving victim... The first thing Mercy became aware of was her facing throbbing a low level beat. Her bones ached and her muscles felt too heavy to move. Her side burned with every inhale and exhale. Her stomach felt oddly distended and empty at the same time. And she was going to milk it for all it was worth. She finally had a viable excuse to stay in her room, avoid group, and cancel her session with Dr. Payne. The flu. She’d tell everyone she had the flu. Couldn’t be too far from the truth. It wasn’t like she was faking how bad her body felt. She would spend the entire day lying here, eyes closed pretending to sleep, and luxuriating the rare bit of isolation. “Are you awake?” A masculine voice whispered. Her heart slammed against her spine, her muscles leaped. She gasped a sound of undiluted shock and wrenched her eyes open. The world around her had changed. Gone was the sterile ...

Visions of Sugar Plums... by  Abbie Roads What's your favorite part of the holidays?  I love all the baking!  This seems to be the only time of year when I can get away with being a crazy cookie baker!  So far this Holiday season I've made Texas sheet cake cookies, pumpkin cookies with brown butter frosting, chocolate chip/dried cranberry cookies, crushed candy cane cookies, turtle cookies, and today I baked one of my favorite family recipes...  Sugar Plum Surprise Cookies! I love these cookies for a few reasons... 1. They are simple to make. 2. You can load the whole batch on one cookie sheet to bake  (which saves a ton of time). 3. And the best part...There's a surprise inside each one! Here's the recipe: Sugar Plum Surprise Cookies (Preheat oven 325 degrees) 1c. soft butter 1/2c. powdered sugar 1 1/2t. vanilla 2c. flour 1/2t. salt 1c. oatmeal 36 candies--I use candied cherries, all f...

Flying Feather 2013 Four Miles on Thanksgiving It's almost Thanksgiving! Woohoo!  Bright and early every Thanksgiving, my husband and I throw on our warmest workout wear, then drive an hour to The Flying Feather Four Miler!  It's a tradition we started nearly ten years ago and one we look forward to every year. Some years the weather is mild. Some years it rains. And one year it was Flying Feather 2016 so cold and snowy during the race that my clothes were actually frozen from my own sweat by the time I finished! It took all day to get warm again! Part of our tradition is to stop by Starbucks to get coffee and snacks and pick up a newspaper with all the day-after-Thanksgiving sales before driving home. There's something very satisfying about doing this run every year. But maybe it's just a way to not feel guilty about all the overeating that will be occurring... lol.  How about you? Do you have any fun Thanksgiving traditions? Abbie Roads writes ...

When I was little, I had horrible nightmares. I would wake up in my bed so petrified I couldn't move and worse of all I couldn't even scream. The diagnosis: Night terrors. The recommendation: Nothing scary. No scary movies. No scary TV shows. My parents took this to heart and I didn't watch anything scary until my teen years. Which means... I missed out on all the really good horror movies of the times! I saw none of them. No Jason. No Freddy. No Micheal Myers. Until last year, when I decided that each Halloween I would pick a classic horror movie series and watch it. 2016 was the Halloween Movies. Maybe it's their age--or my age--but they didn't frighten me. And I finally got to see what all the fuss was about! This year my plan is to watch the Friday the 13th movies. I watched the first one on Sunday. Kevin Bacon was in it. Who knew? For Halloween 2018 I'm going to watch the Nightmare on Elm Street movies! What's your favori...

Enter to win a signed copy of Saving Mercy  HERE .  I have a confession... I love old cemeteries. On Sunday I found this cemetery. I've driven by it a hundred times, but never noticed it before. Probably because there were only a few scattered graves tucked way in the back--hard to spot from the road. I find cemeteries to be serene places. The headstones, even the decayed ones, are oddly beautiful. They remind of being a child and going with my grandma to visit the graves of all the relatives who'd died decades and decades before I'd been born. It's sad when the headstones are broken and illegible. To me it feels like that person is well and truly forgotten. And there's always curiosity when a name is completely legible. Who was Joseph Prettyman? I don't live far from this area, and my father grew up down the road from this cemetery, but I've never heard the last name Prettyman. Did all the Prettyman's die ...

I'm so thrilled to share this sale with you! All three of my books; Race the Darkness, Hunt the Dawn, and Saving Mercy are on sale for 99¢.   RACE THE DARKNESS Series: Fatal Dreams Series, Book 1  Genre: Dark Romantic Thriller Cursed with a terrible gift... Criminal investigator Xander Stone doesn't have to question you-he can hear your thoughts. Scarred by lightning, burdened with a power that gives him no peace, Xander struggles to maintain his sanity against the voice that haunts him day and night-the voice of a woman begging him to save her. A gift that threatens to engulf them Isleen Walker has long since given up hope of escape from the nightmare of captivity and torture that is draining her life, her mind, and her soul. Except...there is the man in her feverish dreams, the strangely beautiful man who beckons her to freedom and wholeness. And when he comes, if he comes, it will take all their combined fury and faith to overcome a madman bent on...

It's been sweltering hot here in Central Ohio. And of course what better time for our air conditioner to start acting up than right now! The good news is that it's still blowing cold air. The bad news is that it's leaking water all over the basement. The even worse news is that it's thirty years old and has to be replaced rather than repaired. In other news, I've been hard at work on my next novel which is set in winter. It's strange writing about snow and cold when it's in the 90's with high humidity here. Which reminds me of my novel RACE THE DARKNESS. This book is set at this exact time of year--the weeks leading up to July 4th!  And guess what? Guess what? Guess what? **It's on SALE !**  Grab your copy for only  $1.99 . But hurry, the sale lasts only a few days! AMAZON BARNES AND NOBLE GOOGLE KOBO And to wet your appetite, here's the first two chapters for your reading enjoyment! RACE THE D...