Bøker av Linda Needham

When mining baron Jackson Rushford coerces beautiful folklorist Mairey Faelyn into using her extensive knowledge to help him search for a map to a legendary deposit of ancient Celtic silver, she has no choice but to agree to the devil's bargain. The beastly man has already abducted her family's research library and installed it on his estate, threatening to hire a rival expert to find the Willowmoon Knot if she refuses. The Knot is the key to finding the treasure, and has been missing from her family's protection for centuries. The vast resources that Rushford offers to Mairey prove as irresistible as they are dangerous to her family's legacy. Trapped into 'helping' him, Mairey plots to lead the dark, thunderous 'dragon' astray at every turn.But while adventuring together into dusty catacombs, castle towers, cozy country inns, even into the bowels of a coal mine, Mairey soon finds that Rushford has charming chinks in his armor, and guards his heart more strongly than any treasure. As their search draws them ever closer to the treasure, Mairey finds herself falling deeply for the man, fearing she'll be forced to betray either Jack or her pledge to her family. Is their love just a fairy tale, or will it last forever?

Every bestselling story begins with an idea. But in the highly competitive publishing market how does a writer decide which ideas need telling and which stories to tell?As every writer knows, an idea is not a story. It's merely a spark, a memory, a current or historical event, a snapshot, an insight, a family story, a feeling.It's an iceberg that sinks an unsinkable passenger ship on a crystal clear night in the North Atlantic. But an iceberg sinking an unsinkable ship still isn't a story. It's just an idea.It's an historical event that lacks the ill-fated, forbidden romance between the beautiful, young, upper-class Rose DeWitt and the free-spirited, steerage passenger, Jack Dawson who, in that short voyage, teaches Rose that 'life is a gift', that 'she must make every day count' and, with his heroic, dying breath makes her promise she will survive the icy waters, and never give up on her life, no matter how dark or hopeless things become, giving Rose the courage to throw off the shackles of the suffocating Edwardian society that held her prisoner and, in the decades that followed, to make her life count.James Cameron's Titanic is a fully-realized story that came from a simple historical event. An idea.Ideas! We writers see them everywhere. But sorting through the clutter of ideas for the one that suggests the greatest story potential can be painful, time-consuming and frustrating.From First Spark to Blockbuster takes the pain out of brainstorming your next book! You'll learn how to:Brainstorm the Origins of Your IdeaReveal Why your Idea has Meaning to YouCompile a List of Theme WordsDevelop a Dynamic PremiseOrchestrate a Robust Cast of CharactersDevise an Elevator PitchJoin Award-Winning, USA Today Bestselling author, Linda Needham in this interactive brainstorming workshop-in-a-book, and turn your First Spark of an Idea into a bestselling work of fiction.

From USA Today bestselling author Linda Needham, comes a "passionate, heart-wrenching tale of honor and justice, loyalty and betrayal, love and forgiveness" set in England during the politically turbulent and often dangerous 12th Century.An Inconvenient Marriage; an Unexpected LoveTo honor a deathbed promise to her foster father, Kailey Hewett must marry Simon Rutledge, Henry II''s chief justiciar - a darkly forbidding, mystery of a man. As she leaves her home and all she holds dear, Kailey wonders how she can keep her pledge to give this stern man his "heart''s peace" - but she vows to create a new family, no matter what it takes.Simon had intended this marriage as private penance for his still-secret role in the long-ago conspiracy against her father that led to the man''s execution for treason. But her generous heart draws him into her ad hoc family of endearing misfits and he quickly finds himself yearning for her forgiveness, yet barred by his own harsh code of justice from accepting the love she offers so freely.Kailey''s indomitable spirit and her war against injustice exposes a corrupt merchant, a ransom plot and a murderous Templar, finally teaching her stubbornly resistant husband that mercy is as important as justice-and love and forgiveness can heal all.

USA Today bestselling author Linda Needham crafts a passionate tale of Beauty and the Beast in this mismatched, marriage-of-convenience between a dark and brooding financier, and a free-spirited travel-writer.Felicity Mayfield has no choice: marry cold-hearted financier, Hunter Claybourne, or he will throw her into Victorian London''s most notorious debtor''s prison for the crimes committed against him by her uncle. But before she agrees, she proposes a bargain: she''ll become his wife, in name only for one brief year-if he allows her the freedom to continue living an independent life as a roving travel writer.Hunter never suspected a wife could be such a nuisance. The marriage-of-convenience was supposed to be a simple business arrangement. Instead, she invades his cavernous home, rearranges the furniture, wins over his servants, and blinds him with her sunlight. Her constant presence is unsettling, her lavender scent enchanting, her skin a soft temptation. Suddenly it seems only right that she should wear his ring...and share his bed. After all, she is his wife. Yet even as Felicity opens a chink in Hunter''s heart, her exposé of the scandalous workhouses threatens to uncover his darkest secret, forcing him to choose between his hard-won empire and the miracle of love.