First in Series Starter Bundle

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Exclusive to the MaryAnn Clarke/Nymphaea Press store: A four-book series starter bundle. Read them all and find out which series is for you.

Be Mine This Time: a compelling, heart-warming steamy second chance romance

A compelling, heart-warming steamy story of second chances, divided loyalties and the power of love to heal the wounds of the past.Vancouver family mediator Kate O’Day adores her work in couple’s reconciliation, despite her own tragic history with relationships. If her current beau wasn’t getting too close for comfort, her life would be perfect.

With winter holidays fast approaching, can Kate’s expertise and sensitivity save the latest young couple on the brink of divorce? She desperately needs this, her fiftieth case, to secure a prestigious career award.

She’s looking forward to the case, until her client’s lawyer walks in, and turns her world upside-down.

Kate’s unrequited college love Simon Sharpe brings back memories both bitter and sweet, triggering her traumatic past. Too bad he’s a married man raising a little girl with his glamorous but damaged wife, the woman he chose over Kate fifteen years ago.

Working alongside Simon to steer their feuding clients towards reconciliation is the hardest thing Kate’s ever done. Every encounter opens old wounds she thought long healed.

When the case takes a disastrous turn for the worse, Kate must choose between protecting her career, the only thing that’s made her feel whole, and the relationship that tore her apart.

Will Kate risk everything she’s built for the one thing she always wanted most? Or is she headed for disaster and heartbreak?

The Art of Enchantment: A fast-paced romantic escape to Tuscany 

Clio is a shy art history student determined to do her family duty. Guillermo is a sexy, reckless architect with the power to tempt her to follow her heart.

Can these opposites fight their simmering attraction or will they answer the allure that will bring them bliss?

Ecstasy is the only thing on Clio’s mind. Specifically, ecstasy as portrayed in the Renaissance art of Italy. She's clinging to her last chance at achieving the college degree of her father’s dreams, when she meets fast-living, handsome-as-sin Italian architect Guillermo. They come from two different worlds, but share a deep passion for history and beauty.

Clio can’t resist being drawn into Guillermo’s problems when his family’s beautiful ancestral villa is at risk of being sold to a rich celebrity who will carelessly destroy its rich history. She tries to keep it professional and fights the urge to surrender to Guillermo's smouldering seduction. Can Clio juggle her PhD thesis, a too-hot-to-handle romance, and rescue a priceless piece of history or will everything end in disaster?

Chatelaine Grand Prize winner.

Next Generation Indie Award finalist.

Steamy and romantic, the Art of Enchantment is a beautifully written, evocative love story of art, history and passion set in Romantic Tuscany, about having the courage to answer the call of your true nature and finding family and home where you truly belong.

The Reporter's UNLIKELY Reunion: A Swoony, Steamy Second Chance Hometown Romance

He’s sweet, caring and loyal. She’s independent, ambitious and brave.

To Julian, home, family and friends are everything. They’re all he’s got.

Ruby’s heart is big enough to encompass the whole world. But she’s all alone.

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Julian

Ruby was my universe. She was all I ever wanted. Then she left me in the dark the summer after grad with a shattered heart, all my dreams dead. The only place I’ve seen her face is on the televisions hanging in high-class kitchens around the world, haunting me. On the eve of our tenth high school reunion, she’s suddenly back, and I don’t know why. My hardened heart is cracked open like an egg. Though I never stopped loving her for a moment, how do I know I still want her? I’m not the same man I was then.

Ruby

Ten years ago, I buried the lede when I betrayed the love of my life and abandoned him to pursue my journalism career. Few people know what happened, and Julian isn’t one of them. Burning with ambition, derailed by loss, I left Julian on the farm to travel the world, investigating others’ strife and trouble. Ten eventful years have passed, and I’m finally back in Port Cam. Now I have to tell Julian the truth. After what I’ve been through, I’m not sure what I want or what I’m capable of, but the one thing I need is forgiveness.

Can their ten year high school reunion give these star-crossed lovers the ingredients to re-write their story?

Author’s Note: A steamy, swoony second chance romance with a big-hearted hero out to save the world one dish at a time, and a wounded heroine who is starting to think hearth and heart might be the balm to heal her broken spirit.

Hiding from Christmas (Off the Grid Christmas Book 1)

He’s been hiding from the world since he lost his family in a brutal attack.

She’s just hiding from her family for the holidays.

What happens when they find each other?

Elle

I couldn’t face the piteous glances of my family over the holidays after my fiancé Austin unceremoniously dumped me. I was too tame, too awkward, too vanilla, too risk averse. Glad he took five years to figure that out.

I’m devastated. Humiliated. And angry. I told Mom I couldn’t bear the thought of coming home for the holidays. I’d rather be alone. Anything was better than their sympathy, but my own company didn’t promise to be any better. That’s why I jumped at the chance to visit my eccentric aunt Muriel in a remote village on the West coast of Mexico.

Joe

No one would call my solitary life here uncomplicated, but on the surface it’s simple enough. After seven years in exile, I’m used to my routine and my solitude, though my grief walks beside me like a silent companion. As much as I might like to go back to my old life, I could never put the people I trust, love and depend upon at risk.

Never again.

I’m regularly reminded that the cost would be too high. Especially this time of year when a cruel gift arrives from my nemesis. My sixth Christmas alone in Mexico. The anniversary of the date I lost everything.

I’m expecting the package, right on schedule. But I’m not expecting the clumsy, beautiful, bewildering blonde that crashes into my world and turns it inside out.