Smoky Blues

IN PLAIN SIGHTA concert violinist and musical prodigy, Francesca Giordano is internationally acclaimed and always in the spotlight-right where she doesn't want to be. Not after she's witnessed a murder. Suddenly on the run, she finds her way to Bristol, Tennessee, and to the music club Acoustics. There, as " Chessie Hope," she can hide out in the open. But with this newest gig comes a different kind of danger. Older and impossibly sexy, bluegrass singer Cooper Barstow is everything she's ever wanted in a man, and his daughters are just as easy to love. Yet Francesca cannot enjoy the luxury of such a relationship, not even if he could protect her from the men on her trail or if she could be honest with him about who she is. Cooper is as wounded as he is strong, and he needs someone who will stay by his side for the rest of his life. Just as Francesca does. And the smoke on the mountains and the haze of desire almost make her believe that could happen. Intrigue and suspense are surrounded by the splendor of the Great Smokey Mountains where you'll find music and love.

TWO NOTES, DISCORDANTThirty-year-old musician Leilani Mahuiki is in Tennessee to find Joe Barstow, the birth father whose bone marrow might save her daughter's life. She finds Bradley, too, Joe's adopted son. Against all odds, she and Bradley make wonderful music together, she on the ukulele, he on the banjo. And Bradley is everything else she's ever wanted in a man.Bradley wants her, too. But is that enough? He needs a family of his own. Having grown up an outsider, he's always dreamt of something simple and old-fashioned. No entanglements. No complications. Just mom, dad, and the kids. Not something Leilani can ever offer. She already has the very complications and entanglements that he so desperately wants to avoid, and that are not going away any time soon. And yet, as he and Leilani pull out all the stops to save her daughter's life, he knows Leilani is the only woman for him. The most beautiful music in the world can sometimes happen when disharmony resolves-and a lonely Tennessee winter can become a tropical paradise. Intrigue and suspense are surrounded by the splendor of the Great Smokey Mountains where you'll find music and love.

AFTER THE FALLWidow Timberlynn Barstow is pregnant-not by her beloved husband, but by the man she holds responsible for his death. Big, blond, infuriating Sawyer Ellison has returned, demanding to be part of the baby's life and hers. But he is still consumed by his war on drugs, ruthlessly disregarding anything that gets in the path of his quest, including those around him. Timberlynn's uncharacteristic surrender to that beautiful stone-carved face and rock-hard body means much less than her child's safety.Sawyer Ellison harbors a deep hatred of drugs...and an even deeper secret. He wants to make Timberlynn his, yet his personal crusade is everything. It drove him to decisions he regrets, mistakes that haunt him unto this day. Yet he cannot grieve over being with Timberlynn. The banjo-playing beauty-and now their child-is everything he never dreamed he could have. Now it's just a matter of paying the piper. Intrigue and suspense are surrounded by the splendor of the Great Smokey Mountains where you'll find music and love.

FINDING FOREVERAsher Ellison and Trish McClellan are united in the fight against drug abuse, and Asher, an ex-con turned minister, thinks he's found the successful businesswoman of his dreams. But Trish's businesses are intimate shops and a strip club-and she herself occasionally takes to the pole. Fury is his first reaction upon finding out who she really is. Then desire, always desire. Asher's surprise is no match for his attraction to this brash beauty, and then his devotion. And hers to him. Not the consternation of his congregation or the church's board of deacons, not the threat to take away his ministry, not even the unknown and murderous enemy who's about to zero in on Trish. His scarred, powerful arms will draw her close and keep her safe. As those who seek shall find, true love is eternal and divine. Intrigue and suspense are surrounded by the splendor of the Great Smokey Mountains where you'll find music and love.

GETTING THE GIFTAspiring songwriter Caitlyn Murphy is tired of her sister's hand-me-downs. From toys and bicycles to men, it seemed like everything in Caitlyn's life first belonged to her late sister. Roped into doing Christmas for motherless nieces, and entering into a pretend romance with their dangerously attractive father, Caitlyn soon finds herself falling in love with the girls, and the enigmatic Tanner Dyson. She resists the temptation and Tanner's insistence that they make their pretend relationship real. She wants her own family, not the one her sister had first.SHE ALWAYS WANTEDTanner Dyson doesn't get why he is so attracted to his overweight, opinionated sister-in-law. She wants love and the whole romance thing, emotions that died with his late wife. He wants a woman who is nice to have around, and he can't understand why that isn't that enough for Caitlyn. Worried their pretend relationship will wither and die come the new year, Tanner is surprised to find the magic of the holiday season gives them the gift of a new love neither expected, but both need. Intrigue and suspense are surrounded by the splendor of the Great Smokey Mountains where you'll find music and love.

HE'S EVERYTHINGKaren Gregory has always been into big, take-charge, brooding alpha males. Not small, cute, second grade schoolteachers. Even though her marriage to Deke Gregory failed, she still thinks his type of man is what she wants. Or does she? When she returns to her hometown with the son her ex all but abandoned, she meets fellow teacher and singer Gary Jeffries, and finds herself falling for a man who is the antithesis of everything she thought she ever wanted. When Deke dramatically re-enters her life, Karen is faced with an impossible choice. Go back to her romantic ideal, and the father of her son, or stay with Gary?BUT NOT HER IDEALGary Jefferies knows he's not what smokin' hot, talented teacher and singer Karen Gregory wants. But he also knows that he is, by far, the better man for her and her son. Especially after meeting her arrogant, obnoxious ex. But shared history and a ten-year old child are strong ties to sever. Gary fears he'll he lose Karen to her romantic ideal, even though Gary is the man she hasn't yet realized she needs. Intrigue and suspense are surrounded by the splendor of the Great Smokey Mountains where you'll find music and love.

FOR THE REST OF ALL TIMEForty years ago Lexi Barstow and Collins Wentworth thought they had made the biggest mistakes of their lives. Heartbreaking choices and bitter tears cemented a pact that would shape who they were and what they would be. But now so much has changed...except the passion they share and the differences between them. But some things are fixable, and with forever staring them hard in the face, they learn all their decisions brought them to this place...an ever after filled with love. Intrigue and suspense are surrounded by the splendor of the Great Smokey Mountains where you'll find music and love.

CAN'T GET HER…Deke Gregory has a type – petite, feminine, pliable. His ex-wife was his ideal, but she wasn't his, obviously. Faced with the realities of joint custody and a family "village" raising his son, Deke sets out to find a woman who ticks all his boxes and thinks he walks on water. Enter Doctor Taylor De Witt: tall, strong, willful, opinionated, and too busy to be bothered with soothing his rough edges. Imagine his surprise when he falls for her – hard.OUT OF HIS HEARTTaylor De Witt knew she would be a heart surgeon since college. Now a single mother with a schedule that requires roller blades, she has little time for her family, never mind a social life. When she meets Deke Gregory she thinks he's a Neanderthal – yummy, but from a different era. Little does she know what their mutual attraction will bring, including examining her life to include an everlasting love. Intrigue and suspense are surrounded by the splendor of the Great Smokey Mountains where you'll find music and love.

A VOW…When Ike Jeffries married Cassandra Siler he believed in their future, and he couldn't wait to meet their daughter, born on Christmas Eve. What should have been a blessed event turned into a nightmare when Cassie disappeared with their baby girl. With a hardened heart, Ike finds them five long years later and learns that everything he thought he knew about his wife and child was a lie.AND A PROMISECassie Jeffries loved her husband with all her heart. But after the birth of their daughter she discovered a horrible truth about the child that forced her to run for their lives. Crisscrossing the country until she found a new home, Cassie knew she'd done the right thing until Ike found them and demanded answers she wasn't prepared to share. But life has a way of giving you what you need, and Cassie and her daughter needed the family they had left behind, even if it meant fighting for what was right, and for what she'd forsaken all those years ago. Intrigue and suspense are surrounded by the splendor of the Great Smokey Mountains where you'll find music and love.

SEEING CLEARSomeone is distributing drugs out of the nightclub Acoustics, and undercover DEA operative Reynolds Navarro has come to Bristol, Tennessee, to find out who. His prime suspect? The beautiful and deceitful dulcimer player Kylie Barstow Richards, whose drug-dealing husband was gunned down and who now has illicit funds feeding into an offshore account in her name. To complete his investigation, Ren must gain her trust and access to her home. What better way than with a kiss?Kylie hates liars. She has been lied to all her life, and Ren Campbell seems too good to be true. Handsome, sexy and talented, the bluegrass guitar player is everything she'd wished of her first husband. And suddenly he's her protector, too. But as danger encroaches like the morning mists of the Smokey Mountains, Kylie must soon learn whom she can trust-and whom she can love. Intrigue and suspense are surrounded by the splendor of the Great Smokey Mountains where you'll find music and love.