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Love grows and then falters under the weight of rumors and threats to thwart it. Lacy is tired of losing at love. After her last heartbreak, she struggles to trust again. She doubts if she even deserves love. George returns to his hometown after a nasty divorce. He strives to be an attentive father to his troubled child. With the end of his marriage, he feels he can't trust any woman ever again. When George begins booking bands at Misty Mountain where Lacy waits tables, they begin dating and are drawn to one another. However, the death of Lacy's sister ten years earlier creates tension between her and George's ex-wife, Becca, who threatens to take away George's visitation rights with his son, Jed, if he continues to date Lacy. When Jed sets fire to George's house, Lacy and George decide to call it quits, convincing one another that being apart will solve all the problems in their life. Except it only complicates and hinders what they both want. There is no hope for them unless George can learn to stand up to Becca and do what is best for Jed and himself. And Lacy must face her past and learn she deserves to go where her heart leads. Misty Mountain is the second book in P.C. Zick's Smoky Mountain series of sweet contemporary romances. If you love heartwarming romance with moral and decent characters, then you'll be captivated and enchanted with this series. Buy this book and be transported to the Smoky Mountains where you'll fall in love with both the scenery and the characters as they struggle to find love.

An uptight builder. A quirky travel show host. An explosive passion that surprises them both. Six years of traveling for her television series has left host Kiley Nelson longing for a place to call her own. Spending a weekend at her girlfriend's beach house is the perfect reprieve, especially when she purchases property to finally settle down. But her peaceful escape is shaken when she smashes into a car containing the sinfully sexy and infuriated passenger, Jeff Hammond, who immediately melts her heart. Jeff, staying at his friend's Montauk home to relax after a trying week of building a home for a spoiled diva, doesn't count on sharing his weekend with the flaky, yet incredibly sexy, Kiley. He agrees to build her house, despite the tug on his heart as Kiley turns him on in every delicious way. Passionate weekends and shared dreams begin to shape the house they start to build together. As their relationship deepens, so do the wounds from past hurts, rousing ghosts from Jeff's traumatic past. When a summer storm rolls in at the nearly complete house, they're forced to deal with the past before it shakes and cracks the very foundation they've built. Misunderstanding and stubborn personalities threaten to rip apart the fledgling relationship until both Kiley and Jeff learn to trust one another. Love on the Wind is the first novel in the Montauk Romance series, which feature novels filled with steamy passion, and always, everlasting love. Buy your copy of Love on the Wind to begin reading about the sexy men and beautiful women who seek meaningful relationships beyond lust at first sight.

Childhood history between a race car driver and an event coordinator collide at the Indy 500. He can't be distracted by romance. And she can't trust love will last. Stone Crandall wants more than anything to win the Indy 500, but as the race approaches, other things begin to distract him. Not only has his family descended on Indianapolis, but a schoolboy crush in the form of his sister's best friend appears and changes his focus. Tara Hartman grew up with the Crandall family as her safe haven from a broken family. As an adult she's grown a successful business planning events for major corporations. Stone's race car team hires her for the two weeks of the big race, which is a surprise to Stone. At the start of the activities, Tara and Stone make a pact to remain single when they discover neither of them has ever fallen in love. Then when Tara's father and stepmother invade the festivities, along with her mother, Stone provides her a strong shoulder for comfort. When comfort turns to passion, the two are caught in an embrace by all the parents, and Stone's concentration on winning is all but destroyed until he tells Tara she's a distraction. He also starts to let the attention of the media expand his ego. Tara is convinced all men are attracted by shiny objects just like her father when he left her mother for another woman. Tara ends things with Stone, just as his career soars. Once the parents and Crandall siblings see how much the two care about one another despite their stubbornness, efforts are made to show them that love is worth the risk, no matter the outcome.It's up to Tara and Stone to figure out whether they want to take the leap and find out for themselves. Love on Track is the third novel in the Rivals in Love sweet contemporary romance series. Rivals in Love showcases the Crandall family siblings who are all in successful careers. But they forgot one thing while becoming rising stars. They forgot all about love. Their father a U.S. Senator aspires for high office, but their mother, the heir to a fortune, only wants her children married and with children. Buy your copy of Love on Track to learn how two people conquer the fear of falling in love.

Danger lurks in the swamps and wetlands of Florida. The Spanish conquistadors threaten the native people. A greedy conglomerate destroys anything in its path. Innocent and passionate people throughout the centuries engage in a battle simply to survive. Traverse the years from 1760 to the present day in a constantly changing environment as the novel unfolds. Join Locka and Mali as they lead their tribe of Timucuans away from the Spanish invaders near St. Augustine in 1760 and settle into a new life in the Everglades alongside the Calusa Indians. Their progeny grow and hide in the swamp, attempting to keep their bloodlines pure. Hundreds of years later, the exiled native Floridians thought to be extinct, rise up and form their own band of warriors to fight a conglomerate intent on destroying the last vestiges of the natural environment of Florida. With the assistance of nature, they attempt to halt the annihilation of the natural world they treasure. Mangrove Mike, Joey Cosmos, and Rob Zodiac have lived their entire lives with the secret of their heritage kept hidden until they learn that human connections transcend the fear of extinction. Join them, along with Barbara Evans in the Everglades and Emily Booth in St. Augustine as they form the foundation and prepare to fight forces, which are intent on completing manmade "living zones" throughout Florida. It's a dangerous journey for this mismatched group of fighters as they attempt to halt the destruction of the natural world they treasure. Cultural boundaries established centuries ago are erased as love and nature seek the balance lost during the battle for power and control of the last of the Florida frontier. Buy Native Lands for a thrilling read filled with adventure, intrigue, history, and romance in the race to save Florida.

The couple who started the whole Crandall clan face a crossroads as their fortieth wedding anniversary approaches. As their six children plan a surprise party, the couple struggle to stay together through the holidays. Nolan and Sofia Crandall have remained in love and together for forty years despite their differences. He's Irish. She's Italian. He comes from a working-class family. She was raised as an heiress to a meat packing dynasty. He's a Republican senator. She's a staunch Democrat. In the past, they had worked through the differences. But a rift develops between them even as all their dreams as parents are realized with a houseful of grandkids on the way. Their six children, facing their own issues, look to their parents as an example of how a marriage should work, until things begin to fall apart right before the surprise party on Christmas Day. The six siblings work to save their parent's marriage for the sake of their own. During the Christmas holidays, they all come together to help their parents find their way back to one another or face a divorce of gargantuan proportions. Love on Holiday brings back all the characters from the six previous books. Readers will learn how the "happily ever after" couples are faring in this seventh book in the Rivals in Love series.Love on Holiday is the seventh and final novel in the Rivals in Love sweet contemporary romance series. Rivals in Love showcases the Crandall family siblings who are all in successful careers. But they forgot one thing while becoming rising stars. They forgot all about love. Their father, a U.S. Senator, aspires for high office, but their mother, the heir to a fortune, only wants her children married and with children. Buy your copy of Love on Holiday to learn how a long marriage can be revived into something even more beautiful than before.

Sea turtles stumbling toward an oil spill. A mystery threatening a family. A reporter struggling to save them all. When environmental writer Caroline Carlisle sets off to report on endangered sea turtles during the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, she also uncovers long-kept secrets that threaten to destroy her family. The situation is complicated further by Caroline's love for her late sister's husband, Simon. An uproar ensues as Caroline's southern family embarks on a collision with its past and future. At the same time, the oil from Deepwater Horizon continues to spew forth into the Gulf of Mexico, creating an urgency to save Florida's wildlife. It's in this atmosphere that Caroline discovers the truth about her family and writes noteworthy articles about wildlife rescues. If you enjoy books that combine fiction with real world events, you'll enjoy how the timeline and facts from Deepwater Horizon's oil spill serve as the backdrop for Trails in the Sand. Buy this book for a compelling read filled with drama and secrets and romance.

He wants a break. She wants a ring. Love stands on shaky ground. Susie Williams yearns for a romantic wedding with her boyfriend of five years. Reggie Barker runs from demands to marry any woman, including Susie. After the wedding of their best friends, Reggie resists Susie's hints about marrying. He suggests they take a break. An angry and heartbroken Susie kicks him down the road and into the arms of the voluptuous Sally Jean. After Susie is mugged, she discovers Reggie's gambling debt brought the thugs to Victory to scare him into paying. With her love for Reggie in doubt, she is tempted by a rich publisher and reconsiders her options. Meanwhile, Reggie starts to realize Susie means more to him than the tavern he owns, more than the gambling he's hidden, and more than any other woman he knows. But it all might be too late for Susie, who begins to unravel a mystery from a night long ago when Reggie and all the other characters played a pivotal role in her life. And before Reggie can commit to marriage, he must come to terms with a father who abandoned marriage many years earlier Both Reggie and Susie must learn to trust each other before love can ever survive a second chance. Behind the Bar is the second novel in the Behind the Love contemporary romance series, but it is also a stand-alone romance. Once you read one novel in this series, you'll want to learn more about the romances that feature sizzling attractions, dramatic confrontations, and intertwined and complicated lives. Set in the fictional small town of Victory, Florida, friends fight and love and form families of their own choosing. Buy Behind the Bar to read stories about irresistible characters filled with passion.

She wants to be a star. He wants her. Only a quest for stardom stands in the way. Lisa Williams has discovered a way to achieve her life-long goal of becoming a famous actress by bringing a reality television show to her hometown. Tommy Jackson despises the idea of exploiting the town and hates it even more when his editor assigns him to cover the show for a Tampa newspaper. Lisa and Tommy have known each other all their lives. Tommy even dated her baby sister, Susie back in high school. But he's not her type, and her values disturb him. Besides, when she returns to town, she comes with her boyfriend, Jet, who will also star in the television show. When Sally Jean makes an appearance on the show, the producer falls in lust with her, and Lisa worries that Sally Jean will be made the star of the show. Tommy is disgusted by Lisa who seems intent on dragging her family and friends through painful memories in her pursuit of stardom. When Tommy's mom is diagnosed with cancer, Lisa shows a different side to her character. Sitting with Mrs. Jackson during her final days gives Lisa a perspective on her own life she's never had before. Tommy and Lisa are drawn to one another through the real-life tragedy unfolding. But first they must deal with an out of control Jet and reality show producer who want to exploit the small town even more as they see the potential of showcasing some of the more famous of Victory's citizens, such as the fallen football star, the criminal publisher, and a tattoo artist turned farmer. Mrs. Jackson and Lisa's sister Susie share in the circle of life to bring this dramatic romance to a bittersweet end. Behind the Curtain is the third novel in the Behind the Love contemporary romance series, but it is also a stand-alone romance. Once you read one novel in this series, you'll want to learn more about the rest of the romances that feature sizzling attractions, dramatic confrontations, and intertwined and complicated lives. Set in the fictional small town of Victory, Florida, friends fight and love and form families of their own choosing. Buy Behind the Curtain to read stories about irresistible characters filled with passion.

Travel to Casablanca and Marrakesh, Tuscany and Venice, Bocas del Toro and Panama City, and Santiago, Chile and back to P.C. Zick's home in the United States. Odyssey to Myself takes the reader on trips to Morocco, Italy, Panama, Chile, and down Route 66 in the United States. The compilation of essays provides travel guides to the places the author visited and follows the internal odyssey as she discovers her place in the world. P.C. Zick writes about her experiences traveling outside the confines of her small world in Florida. Observations about life and culture bring to life the ancient alleyways of Fes, the master artists of Italy, the bustling Panama Canal, and the resilience of the Chilean culture. From P.C. Zick's Odyssey to Myself: "Traveling removes us from our small safe environment and thrusts out into the world. When I travel, I realize what a tiny ripple my life is in the ocean's constant waves. A few months ago, I had to endure a full body MRI that lasted more than two hours. I almost swooned when the nurse told me how long I'd be in that long encompassing tunnel. She recommended I remain awake because if I moved after falling asleep, they'd have to pull me out and begin again. I did not want that to happen. My brain fought against any touch of claustrophobia as they closed me in the tube and sent me inside the machine. I frantically searched through the files in my brain. With a little prayer for help, I went into the tube and decided to travel in my memories back to the most important trips of my life. The first trip I remembered was my visit to Morocco in 2004. I knew it was a watershed year as many things had been happening in my life, and I went on the trip to heal and find direction. I began with my arrival in Casablanca in the early morning hours after flying all night from New York City. It came back so vividly I could even smell and feel the air of my travels during a magical two weeks. Then I started on Italy in 2005, where my daughter and I traveled for a month to celebrate her graduation from college." The two-hour MRI passed by in a blur of memories and inspired her to write about the travels that brought her world into sharp focus. As the author faced a decade-long swirl of tragedies, she discovered traveling outside of her home country and her safe personal zones had brought her new insights, and eventually, a new love. Travel removed her from her narrow world into a kaleidoscope of colors, smells, noises, and textures. This book explores some of those experiences as she embarked on an odyssey to find herself during one of the darkest decades of her life. Buy Odyssey to Myself and be inspired from the stories of one woman's quest to find meaning in a troubled world.

A childhood crush and a lost kitten combine for one sweet Christmas romance in the Smoky Mountains. When Molly retreats to North Carolina with Gracie, her ten-year-old daughter, she's surprised to find her childhood crush, Nick, still living in the area. Recovering from a divorce, Molly only wants to carve out a peaceful and happy existence for Gracie in a place where Molly always felt safe as a child. The morning after her return, Nick, more handsome than she remembered, shows up at her cabin where she spent her childhood vacations. The flush of first love surprises Molly, and Nick is shocked to discover the grown-up Molly. When Harold, Molly's old cat, runs out the cabin door and into the woods, Nick discovers the cat lying dead at the base of the tree where Molly always went to read as a child. After burying him under the tree, a broken-hearted Gracie and Molly return to the cabin and discover a gray furry kitty under the porch. Gracie names him Minty. Gracie refuses to believe her father won't come back for them, so she resents Nick spending time with her mother and tries her best to pull them apart. One small kitty named Minty helps Gracie accept the love developing between Nick and Molly in time for her first Christmas in the mountains of North Carolina, but only after learning that life doesn't always turn out how we want. Buy Minty's Kiss today and enjoy a sweet romantic novella, filled with holiday cheer brought to life by an adorable kitten.

A tattoo artist on a Harley. A do-gooder beauty. A forbidden passion. Leah Bryant lives a quiet life helping others. When her future mother-in-law, Geraldine, threatens her causes, she's left confused by the hypocrisy and befuddled by a stranger who roars into town on a Harley. Dean Davis never wanted to return to his hometown. But when his father dies, he knows he must return and faced his mother, Geraldine, and his ugly past. When Leah discovers the stranger is the brother of her fiancé that she'd been told was dead, she's drawn to him and furious about the deception. Both are bowled over by an intense attraction to one another. The magnetic pull draws them into a passionate embrace within minutes of meeting. Leah's controlled life and Dean's emotional barriers both shatter and force them to examine their lives. Leah must choose between her safe engagement to Dean's estranged brother, Jacob, and a dangerously passionate affair with Dean. And Dean must confront the demon from his childhood, his mother. Dean's fear of loving and Leah's need for security pull them together, rather than apart. But none of it will matter if they can't stop Geraldine, an unhinged woman on a destructive course to abolish everyone who opposes her thirst for power. When Dean and Leah, along with Jacob, threaten her, she goes on a rampage to destroy them all. Behind the Altar is the first novel in the Behind the Love contemporary romance series that features sizzling attractions, dramatic confrontations, and intertwined and complicated lives. Set in the fictional small town of Victory, Florida, friends fight and love and form families of their own choosing. Buy Behind the Altar to start reading about irresistible characters filled with passion.

He worries he'll never find love. She fights to follow the career of her choosing. Flying across the Atlantic, love and careers collide. Rock Crandall returns to the Rival in Love series as he contemplates why he can't find a lasting relationship. Sabrina Holiday has never wanted to be anything but a pilot, but many obstacles stand in her way, including the handsome pilot who takes her for the flight attendant on his international trip to Paris. Sabrina manages to forgive Rock after a romantic dinner on the Seine, but the peace is short-lived when Rock attempts to control her career. They share a love of old movies and flying, but Sabrina must learn to trust Rock, who struggles not to take care of Sabrina and all her needs. Turns out she can take care of herself. Buy Love on Board and discover how love can conquer even the steepest of take-offs.

Love and romance, family and holidays, pets and rescues - four stories with a community of characters living in the fictional town of Laurel, North Carolina. The Smoky Mountains provide the perfect backdrop for falling in love. Minty's Kiss - A holiday story about Molly and Nick rekindling a childhood romance and creating families with a little bit of help from a little girl and a kitten named Minty. Misty Mountain - All the characters return as Lacy learns to forgive her past and newcomer George discovers he really can trust again. Mountain Miracles - Sissy and David are strangers until they move separately to Laurel and discover the importance of family--both blood and those of their own choosing. A Merry Mountain Christmas - She's been the mother to all in Laurel, and now it's Fran's turn to find love after she becomes a widow. As she struggles to find her way, several rescue dogs lead her to both love and purpose in this holiday romance. Travel to the mountains where wholesome stories and heartwarming families show us what is most in important. Grab your copy today of Smoky Mountain Romances filled with four novels made for reading in front of a roaring fire.

An actress intent on finding her place in the theater after leaving Hollywood. A fire fighter reeling from a bitter divorce. When she inherits money to open her own playhouse, the inspection ignites love at first sight. Ruby Crandall, the twin of Rock, often faded into the background with her large family. But the way to gain attention came to her in the form of acting. After her character is killed off on a series, she returns home to Chicago to help her parents face some health issues and ends up buying an old theater in a revitalized community. The Windy River Playhouse takes center stage in this love story between a woman born into a life of privilege and Captain David Dixon of the Chicago Fire Department. He's a man burned by his ex-wife and carries a bias against spoiled rich women. But he when he meets Ruby, he fights the attraction when he learns she comes from the famous and wealthy Crandall family. Ruby, while drawn to the handsome captain, struggles to understand how he could have ever been married to her high school nemesis, Camille. Both must prove to the other their mettle if they can ever hope to forge a relationship despite the sparks of love flowing between them. Love on Stage is the sixth novel in the Rivals in Love sweet contemporary romance series. Rivals in Love showcases the Crandall family siblings who are all in successful careers. But they forgot one thing while becoming rising stars. They forgot all about love. Their father, a U.S. Senator, aspires for high office, but their mother, the heir to a fortune, only wants her children married and with children. Buy your copy of Love on Stageto discover how love at first sight might just be the real thing.

A man in mourning for his dead wife. A woman unable to trust the opposite sex. Blind date fiascos until they discover one another. Denny's wife-the only woman he's ever loved-died the year before and his friends are intent on finding him a new love. Jill's first experience with love in college left her skeptical that she would ever be able to find love. When Denny and Jill find themselves lustfully drawn to one another, they're ashamed of their secret encounters. When friends suspect there might be something between them, they disapprove. Unsure of how they feel about one another, the attraction continues. To keep things on the downlow, they hatch a pact to be friends with secret benefits. When those benefits explode into something more than primal urges, one of them breaks the pact, and the whole affair and friendship ends up unraveling as the holiday season approaches. This steamy romance jingles all the bells for the Christmas season. Jingle Bell Love is the second novel in the Montauk Romance series, which feature novels filled with steamy passion, and always, everlasting love. Buy your copy of Jingle Bell Love to begin reading about the sexy men and beautiful women who seek meaningful relationships beyond lust at first sight.

He was her first love. But life intervened to keep them apart until fate brought them together again with help from a rescue dog named Chester. Fran is adjusting after her husband's death when her first love comes back to town upsetting her family and leading her to an inspiration. Fran first fell in love with Michael as a teenager. When he broke her heart, she married Carl and lived a happy life for more than thirty years until Carl died tragically. Just when she's becoming fed up with the well-meaning, yet tiresome comments about Carl's death, her first love returns and stirs long-forgotten emotions. The characters from the previous Smoky Mountain Romances by P.C. Zick return to tell Fran's story filled with heartwarming tales of families, friends, and love triumphing over heartbreak and tragedy. You'll love this sweet Christmas tale featuring rescue dogs and love returning just in time for the merriest holiday of all. A Merry Mountain Christmas is the fourth book in the Smoky Mountain Romances series. If you love a touching sweet romance with moral and decent characters, then you'll be captivated and enchanted with this series. Buy this book and cozy up to the fire to be transported to the Smoky Mountains where you'll discover that family takes many different forms when love is allowed to grow and thrive.

Garden to Table - Recipes for Life provides plenty of healthy recipes for vegetables and fruits from the garden during seasonal bounties. P.C. Zick has learned over the years how to handle and use the vegetables and fruits her husband grows in his fertile garden. With each season, she discovers new methods for efficiently cooking tasty meals, many of them vegetarian. She's also found ways to preserve the produce in a way that is sustainable. While her husband perfects his backyard gardening techniques using raised beds, P.C. perfects her healthy recipes. This cookbook will help you discover some tricks and shortcuts while still making food that is healthy and scrumptious. Nothing beats sauce made with fresh tomatoes. Overwhelmed with zucchini and yellow squash? No problem. You'll find plenty of uses for them from appetizers to bread to delicious side dishes to accompany any summer meal. Recipes for winter squash will warm any and all on cold winter nights. Even the typical sweet delights are made even healthier by depending less on sugar and more on the sweetness of the fruits themselves. Grab a copy of Garden to Table today and find your own way to eating healthier without feeling deprived.

Do you want to write a book? The Author's Journey provides the answers to all your questions about producing a book in one handy resource. From idea to story to published book may seem like a daunting and impossible task. By taking one step at a time, author and editor P.C. Zick breaks the whole process down into doable tasks. The book provides information on the following topics: -Steps to preparing for the process of writing a book-Craft, style, and mechanics of writing-Elements of story-How to choose the best publishing route for you-The three major types of publishing-Checklist for Pursuing Traditional Publishing-Checklist for Publishing as an Indie Author-Step-by-step guide for publishing on Amazon-Legal Considerations for Writers-How to start a freelance writing career-Ways to market your book-Appendices with sample templates, writing exercises, definitions, and resources After publishing more than thirty books-fiction and nonfiction-and helping her clients do the same, Zick has pulled together two decades of writing and publishing know-how into a handy reference book for beginning writers. More experienced writers will benefit from this guidebook at any stage of their writing career. She starts by asking the important questions she poses to all of her potential clients to help focus choices for both creating and publishing books. Finally, a reference book to take the mystery out of writing and publishing a book, whether through traditional channels or as an Indie Author. And if your questions aren't answered, Zick provides a lengthy bibliography for all aspects of writing, editing, publishing, and promoting your book. Buy The Author's Journey today to turn your dreams of publishing a book into reality.

Delve into the mind of a writer who explores diverse topics such as politics, conch fritters, and Whale Bob, a magical fish that can never be caught.Award-winning author P.C. Zick offers up a collection of her writings, which span the course of more than two decades. The collection contains her columns, blog posts, editorials, creative nonfiction, and short stories. Many of them won recognition at state and national levels. Eclectic Leanings offers a little bit for all reading tastes.The pieces begin with her first published essay in 1998 about her mother. She writes about birth, Alzheimer's, and death as she recounts personal stories. Exploration of the aftermath of 9/11 and her own personal 9/11 express universal grief for tragic endings. But there are lighter moments as well when she encounters a woman and her sperm doll. Her quest for the perfect conch fritter ends with metaphors for life and waiting for a revolution results in a bouquet of flowers. She recounts her journeys to Morocco, Panama, Italy, Chile, and good old Route 66 in the U.S.A.There are sighs and tears and laughter within the pages of Eclectic Leanings. And hopefully, thoughtful musings from the writer will turn into civil and considerate discussion even when we disagree.

A voluptuous woman unlucky in love. A wounded psychologist on a mission. An undeniable attraction with an ethical dilemma. Sally Jean Compton is in love. And this time it's with a man who isn't in love with someone else. Dr. Brett Gorman arrives in Victory to help the veterans of Deer River with PTSD symptoms. When tragedy strikes, neither Sally Jean nor Brett are prepared for what happens next. The shocking aftermath of the terror of PTSD untreated leaves the entire town of Victory reeling. But none are more affected than Sally Jean and Brett who must deal with their own pasts and the trauma left behind. When Sally Jean seeks out the expertise of Dr. Brett, the psychologist of the river folks, they discover an intense attraction that leads them both to learn about themselves. But before anything happens, Sally Jean must learn she deserves to be loved, and Brett must forgive himself for the death of his friend and his sister, his wife. It's a rocky journey to love. Behind the Curtain is the fourth novel in the Behind the Love contemporary romance series that features sizzling attractions, dramatic confrontations, and intertwined and complicated lives. Set in the fictional small town of Victory, Florida, friends fight and love and form families of their own choosing. Buy Behind the Door and the rest of the series to start reading about irresistible characters filled with passion.

Two lawyers on opposite sides of the aisle despise one another...at first. When Jude Crandall fights for justice, she is a formidable opponent. Malik Moore may hate his job as an attorney for a prestigious Chicago law firm, but he stands up to the force of prosecutor Jude in the battle of opposites. They disagree on most everything, except the love they both feel for their dogs, a Boston terrier and a Jack Russell terrier. When Jude's Italian mother and Malik's Iranian mother decide they are a great match, Jude and Malik are thrown together out of the courtroom. Both dogs and mothers fight to bring the two sides together. But his Persian heritage and her father's political aspirations throw the biggest barrier of all between them. Their dogs, Clyde and Suzanne, show them how to love. It's up to the two lawyers to overcome culture, religion, and their families to find happiness. Love on Trial is the first book in the Rivals in Love contemporary romance series set in Chicago. The six Crandall siblings find success in their careers, but sustaining a relationship eludes all six of them. Their father, a U.S. senator, demands perfection, and their mother, heiress to a Chicago meat-packing conglomerate, only wants grandchildren to fill her empty nest. A lawyer, a pilot, an actress, a race car driver, a cable news anchor, and a chef-over-achievers all-discover there is more to life than a career. Buy your copy of Love on Trial to begin reading about the Crandalls of Chicago and their attempts to find love.

A start-up newspaper. A new coffee shop next door. Two fledgling entrepreneurs forced together by circumstance--drawn together by chemistry. Sissy wants to escape the grasp of her mother by moving to a new community and opening a coffee shop. David hopes to make a success of his own newspaper despite his father's wishes he practice law. When Sissy and David both move to the small Smoky Mountain town of Laurel, they are strangers but not for long. Renting storefronts next door to one another forces them together, while others in town decide they should become more than neighboring businesses. The characters from the previous Smoky Mountain Romances by P.C. Zick return in this heartwarming tale of families, friends, and love triumphing over heartbreak and tragedy. However, before Sissy and David can forge a relationship, they must stand on their own as individuals. Sissy must break free of her controlling mother, and David must learn the truth about his own Cherokee mother who he thought had died long ago. As both of them seek the comfort of family they've never known, they struggle to forgive, allowing the attraction to turn into something more. Mountain Miracles is the third book in theSmoky Mountain series of sweet contemporary romances. If you love a touching romance with moral and decent characters, then you'll be captivated and enchanted with this series. Buy this book and be transported to the Smoky Mountains where you'll discover that family takes many different forms when love is allowed to grow and thrive.

A wild and raucous ride through the crazy world of Florida politics Kelly reported the news. But when a bomb is left on her desk, she becomes the news. Someone wants her to stop reporting on proposed developments that threaten to destroy the landscape and bucolic nature of rural Florida. Bart taught Kelly how to be a compassionate journalist. And in the process, he became the great love of her life. But Bart doesn't realize the price Kelly pays with each story and each threat to their love and her life. While Kelly continues digging into the contentious politics, her personal life explodes and exposes her darkest secrets. A murder/suicide connected to Kelly's sources exposes further deceptions. When Santa Claus totes a gun during the annual Christmas parade, Bart and Kelly begin to piece together the whole story. Danger lurks in the dark shadows, and unless the newspaper duo can reveal it all, more than a bomb will threaten Kelly's life. And their love will be the ultimate sacrifice for failing. Tortoise Stew by P.C. Zick pays tribute to Florida and its quirkiness. You'll love this irreverent and often humorous glimpse into Florida politics and rural life where gopher tortoises are left as calling cards and ranches boast African safaris. Buy Tortoise Stew to be transported into the often humorous and always entertaining world of Florida's wildest life of all-its people.