Northwoods Series

Genevieve Vellechamp believes her social background makes it impossible for her former carriage driver to love the 'real' her. She changes her attitude and appearance into every day trading post life, but he's still not convinced she's worth a second look. She adapts to life at the trading post by learning the everyday responsibilities. She changes her hairstyle and clothes to resemble the other women at the trading post, but even that doesn't convince him she is worth a second look. Robert 'Big Dog' Adams has loved Genevieve forever, but doesn't think he's good enough to reveal his feeling of love for the former San Francisco socialite. Treachery through family ties invades their lives. He won't let gypsy thieves destroy the family he and Genevieve have grown to love as their own. The death of the trading post cook takes Big Dog from the smithy shop into the kitchen. His limited knowledge of cooking proves a challenge, but he's ready for it. Genevieve volunteers to be his assistant. He shows her how to cook and she shows him she has worth.

A secret consumes Diana Bordain's life and sends her running from a certain death. She changes her identity and appearance to fit into her grandfather's world of trapping and trading. Jory MacGregor swears an angel with a whip saved his life. He needs to learn her identity and discover why he's captivated by a woman who cries over a wolf's death. Bounty hunters searching for the runaway heiress send them into hiding. Diana realizes the only way to find peace is to face her father and stop him from carrying out his threats. Jory hopes his love is enough to convince Diana to trust in him before her memories drive her back into hiding with only her wolves and leaving him to yearn for a love he can never have.

Danielle's father hoped working for the pastor would curb her wandering spirit. Only he didn't know the preacher had set his heart on turning the girl into his next bride. Unfortunately, that isn't the only secret their man of the cloth is hiding. In a chance encounter on the beach, smuggler Jax Wellington loses his heart to the redheaded beauty. A job near the trading post gives him a chance to learn her identity and pursue her. Jealousy and moonshine put Danielle's life in danger. Jax won't stop searching until he finds the woman he loves and exposes the preacher's true nature. Northwoods Series  #4   96,074 words

Stunned to have stared at his own reflection on another man's face, Matthias Martel discovers he has a grown son. He'd been robbed and by God, he'd know why! Victoria Thatcher had never forgotten the son she'd been forced to give up, or the man who'd given him to her. Free of her father's dominating hold, she wonders if she still has the right to disrupt their lives. Matthias is hunting for the woman who ruined his life and took his son from him. He knows who might have convinced her to rip his life apart, but that doesn't matter. He prays when he finds Victoria, his heart can endure seeing her again and survive making her tell him why she would deny him her love and the son he'd always wanted. Northwoods Series    #6    87,265 words

Will Hank Hughes get a second chance at love? Temperance Jameson walked into his office looking for employment. Her grace and self-assurance sparked a long-forgotten feeling. Will she awaken his heart? Temperance faced an over-welling task of preparing three meals a day for the huge trading post family, but she'd do anything to please her hard-working boss.  When he insisted she sit at the head of the dining table next to him, it not only established her coveted place in the family, but exposed his feelings for her. Tempie is worried Hank isn't over his grief. When a haunting melody from his dead wife's past turns up, will it draw him back to his memories of his wife or release him to make a new life with her? Northwoods Series   #5   90,670 words

     A knock on the head leaves the Mountie without a memory. And the tagalong woman needs him as the blizzard blows in. Will he wake in time?      A Royal Canadian Mountie, Michel Martel, on the way back from the Wisconsin Northwoods to Canada, gets a nasty surprise--a tagalong woman and a blow to the head. When he wakes, his memory has vanished. With a blizzard upon them and no shelter, he has no time for amnesia. He orders the uninvited woman to gather firewood quickly, or they will die.       Lisette Dupont, a woman on a mission--a misguided one--to find some liveliness in the drab frontier life. Now her knight in fur-flocked armor falls asleep in the snow, and she can't wake him. If he doesn't wake, what will she do?       This is just the first of the northern frontier winter challenges that Michel and Lisette must conquer. But the biggest challenge is Lisette herself. Can she grow into a woman and leave girlhood behind? If the Chippewa medicine man, called Proud, has anything to say about it--she will--and the nuns--and Michel. Challenge after challenge starts the process of maturing her to the woman Lisette was born to be. It will all work out--if she survives the process! Northwoods Series       #7       86,577 words