Coming Soon
Calderwood Grove Series
Let There Be Snow: A Novella
Dixie Dunham likes everything about her job at the Starlight Winery smack in the middle of Oregon wine country. Except for the fact that she moved across the country from New York after her husband left her at the altar. Almost worse is that she’s facing a Christmas without snow. Or much of anything or anybody for that matter.
Max Pettigrew never met a woman he didn’t want to flirt with. All innocently, of course. But what he thinks is a charming flirtatiousness is plain old annoying to Dixie. And when the two of them turn out to be vying to win the same city-sponsored contest, her annoyance turns to anger.
Can Max mend his entitled bro ways? Will Dixie get her snow at Christmas in rainy Oregon? Let There Be Snow, a novella, launches November 3, 2022. Stay tuned for pre-order information.
The Journalist’s Passion
Ruby Jenkins travels the world with her famous boyfriend, Kai, as they report the news. Until the day she breaks down on air. Put on sabbatical by her network, and ditched by Kai, she’s got nowhere to go but home to Pineview, Oregon. Where her first love, Judd Calderwood, and a complicated family await. She’ll be back reporting soon, Ruby thinks. But life has a way of working out differently.
The Matchmaker’s Temptation
Bridget is determined to build up her matchmaking business after her ex stole it in a divorce battle. Finding a match for Cade Calderwood is her ticket to renewed success. She doesn’t expect—and can’t allow herself—to fall in love with him, or the small town in Oregon where he lives. That would mean the end to all her plans. But the heart rarely listens to the head.
The Soapmaker’s Crush
Willa Davis’s handmade soap business is struggling. And she is, too, trying her best to ignore her feelings for Amos Calderwood, who is betrothed to another. It doesn’t help that Amos and Willa have become internet famous after they participated in The Kissing Project. Or that Amos’s fiancee starts a soap store of her own, in direct competition with Willa. Or that Amos’s hotel business is deeply in debt.
Stand Alone Novels
The Bonne Chance Bakery
All Madeleine Miller wants is for her new Portland business, the Bonne Chance Bakery, to be a success. But things get off to a slow start when her husband Will runs off with an employee. Luckily, Mad has the help of the bakery's accountant, Jack, and his precocious daughter Daisie.
And then one day, world-famous entrepreneur slash actor Richard Bishop appears at the bakery. He’s smitten with Mad's macarons—and her. She’s forced to accept his offer of financial help as the bakery teeters on insolvency. Mad is catapulted into a world of luxury and excitement as she supervises the opening of a second Bonne Chance in Hollywood.
But in her efforts to save the bakery, will she lose herself? Set in Portland, Los Angeles, and Paris, the novel illuminates the crazy path romance sometimes leads us on—and the circuitous route that will lead the way home.
Emma Jean’s Bad Behavior
Best-selling novelist Emma Jean Sullivan longed for a baby for years, but after she and her husband Peter were unable to conceive, she staunchly vowed to become the standard bearer for all childless couples. And she succeeds spectacularly. At age 48 (43 according to her blog, Life, Full Tilt) Emma Jean enjoys a rabid anti-baby fan base and her novels have sold millions.
But now she confronts a dilemma larger than any that her heroines have faced: she’s pregnant. And the baby’s father is not her husband. Through no fault of her own (he was just so damned adorable), Emma Jean had begun a passionate affair with Riley, a fetching airplane mechanic she met at a book signing in L.A.
Terrified of losing both her fan base and her identity, she struggles to maintain her sham brand and her marriage. But Peter is busy embezzling Emma Jean’s money and completely uninterested in fatherhood, and Riley has his hands full with problems of his own. Not only that, her latest novel is a miserable failure, and a Vanity Fair reporter, who plans to out Emma Jean’s pregnancy to her fans, is stalking her. What’s a suddenly broke, failing, middle-aged, pregnant novelist to do? Why, flee to a glamorous resort town, of course. There, Emma Jean plots her next move.