Bøker av Mickee Madden

When Passion Alone Rules the Heart....Brehan Tucker's recurring blackouts and bouts of temper set the crew of the Stellar on edge and further distances her from her estranged husband, Erth. Not only must she battle her inner demons but suffer the wrath of Erth's half-brother, Zanus-Roul, who declares war on the occupants of the thru-space craft for entering his domain. Before she can fully recover from this assault, she finds herself pitted against Erth's ex-lover, Lanulee, who transports her back to Earth and into the diabolical hands of the headmistress of the orphanage where she was raised. Erth comes to realize there is more to Brehan than temper, fortitude and beauty. She is not only his adverse lifemate and the reluctant mother of his children, she is someone he cannot separate from. And he also realizes, too late, that within her resides Di'me, a spawn conditioned to destroy the Earth women in his care, the Syre men he raised from infancy, and all the Guardians of Haveth, including himself.Love wielded a shield of denial. Now it must serve as a sword of justice.

Rumors of Lachlan and Beth's reappearance have Baird House once again besieged by reporters, but this time their outcries are about the fraudulent portrayals of the supernatural perpetrated by the laird. And as if the three couples residing at the mansion don't have enough to juggle, Roan's belligerent sister, Taryn, arrives uninvited from the States, followed by his and Laura's parents. Baird House is a war zone.But more challenging is the return of centuries-old former residents, for the Kingdom of Faerie brings yet another couple to the mix in desperate need of the land's magical intervention.Lachlan Baird has always managed to charm his way out of trouble. But this time...he's out of his league.

Once again, Baird House opens its door to the lost.Winston Connery, a detective with psychic abilities, has seen too much and has suffered too much to go on. Having witnessed the Christmas Eve miracle at the Baird Estate, his desperation to save the last victim of the Phantom ended up slipping through his fingers because of bureaucratic red tape. Now, alone as he has been throughout his life, he is parked across the road from the mansion this bitter cold winter's night and waits for death to release his tortured soul.Hidden deep in the shadows of the infamous house, Deliah watches and waits. A magical woman of an ancient clan, she understands the depths of Winston's hopelessness and believes her love for him is enough to save them both.Two willful souls. Two diverse paths. One destiny.

In the Face of Diversity, Love Will TriumphFor twelve years on Garon, Brehan Tucker has chosen isolation from her people on the chance she will misuse her power. It has become a comfortable way of life. No responsibilities. No expectations. No messy emotions to confuse her. And if she's patient long enough, perhaps even her persistent, annoying husband, Erth, will renounce his undying love and move on.Loving Brehan is enough to push any Guardian over the edge, and Erth is close to plunging into an abyss of regret from which there seems no escape. He sees his wife's isolation as a means for her counterpart, Di'me, to garner more power until she is able to take over the shared body. Since he can't bring himself to destroy the woman he loves, he creates a series of schemes to confuse their enemies and test the strength of Brehan's human side. It only creates a wider emotional chasm between them.Understanding that love has brought her nothing but pain and grief in the past, Erth offers up a supreme sacrifice to tear down the walls between them and to win her heart.

As the onset of war approaches, Elfins, Faers, Gargoyles and Humans flock to Magus Reddak Locc. Only some of the errants oppose his authority in the name of their absent king, Brodin, who Reddak considers a mere nuisance. That is until Britin and Brodin's most guarded secret alters the man he once believed himself to be. Racked with excruciating pain from an incurable poison in his blood, discovering the people he cares about are not who or what they seem, and learning of a centuries-old conspiracy to wipe out his bloodline, physically and mentally breaks the young magus. Reddak not only doesn't have the strength to stand against the sorcerers and their armies, he has lost the willpower to resist the dark foreboding miasma rapidly closing in around him.

LOVE WAS NEVER PART OF THE AGENDA, BUT IN THE END, IT WOULD PROVE TO BE THEIR ONLY SALVATION. Brehan Tucker spends the first eighteen years of her life fighting poverty and abuse in an orphanage in Maine, then six years struggling to make a relatively simple life for herself and two other young women from the orphanage. But one stormy night, a roadside assassination attempt and a plummet from a cliff, sets her life on a course among the stars.Her hunger for freedom and identity ignites anew when she and the other women are stolen from Earth by a godlike being, as breeding stock to an alien race. With every intention of returning to her world, she uses her wits and cunning to sabotage his authority and win the loyalty of his crew. But fate has other plans for this fiery woman who becomes known as the people's Katiah.Erth is the unfortunate incarcerator. A being whose immeasurable power is confined within a humanoid shell, he doesn't expect this last journey to Earth to be any different than the previous twenty three. A Guardian, a Katian, his laws are unchangeable, his command, unquestionable, his will, undeniable. Until confronted with Brehan, he has but two goals: to produce a son, who is to replace him as supervisor on the re development of the new Syre race, and to return to Haveth where his own kind await him.But fate has other plans for him as well.

Taryn Ingliss has never wanted or needed friends. Betraying family to get whatever she wants...no problem. She has never regretted burning her bridges behind her. Until now. With the stolen MacLachlan dirk in her possession, she journeys to the Isle of Lewis in Scotland in search of answers to the mysteries surrounding Lachlan Baird and her ancestor, Robert Ingliss.What she uncovers leaves her captive of an ancient creature in a subterranean world beneath the Callanish Standing Stones. She knows no one is looking for her. There is no one to rescue her, and no one to blame but herself.Her only other companion in the vast underground chambers is a barbarian called Broc, who has been held prisoner for over two centuries-a man, she comes to realize, she will forsake everything to love, including her life, if necessary.

A fortuitous snow storm and a car wreck bring American Laura Bennett, her three young nephews and Roan Ingliss under the roof of Baird House, where lively ghosts Lachlan Baird and Beth Staples welcome them. However...it isn't long before the century-and-a-half old animosity between Lachlan and the Ingliss clan casts a pall over the mansion and a deadly secret is exposed.Only a love forged through truth and trust can unshackle the dead and the living at Baird House. But Roan and Laura aren't sure their love is strong enough to survive the present, let alone the past.

In 1843, Lachlan Baird brings his bride to the mansion he'd built just for her and their future children. But the honeymoon is cut short when Lachlan is murdered. He's been haunting Baird House ever since, determined to protect his "treasures" and hoping to find a woman willing to spend eternity with him.In 1993, Beth Staples is ready to live her own life after caring for her ill mother for eight years. She accepts an invitation to visit a friend residing at Baird House, but instead of a delightful vacation with Carlene, she finds herself in the care of an irresistible, seductive and sometimes annoying Scotsman-with a secret.At Baird House, anything is possible...

A diabolical plot contrived by three sorcerers begins to unravel on the island of Kevlon when CasKae, a Woodland Faer, escapes an orb of light, one of hundreds conjured to enable the sorcerers to feed off Faer magic. CasKae flees to Cambrius with other escapees, where seven Magi are the only hope of saving the entombed kingdoms and stopping the sorcerers. On the isle of Cambrius, twenty-one-year-old Magus Reddak Locc believes the only challenges in his future are discovering the cause of his father's death, winning the respect of the other six "ancient" Magi, and capturing errant leader Brodin Highwater, whose twin sister, Britin, he secretly fancies. Death and destruction cuts a wide swath up through Cambrius. Reddak discovers the other Magi are returning to their respective islands and leaving him alone to face the sorcerers' armies. For the first time in his life, he is not confident in his magical abilities to face his enemies. Unless he can convince the warring beings of the united isles to join with him, thousands will die or become enslaved, and everything his forefathers have created will be lost forever.