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Blow Me Down

NAL
November 2005
ISBN 0451216393

This gamegirl has wreaked havoc on the high seas—but the tide is about to turn…

In the Internet Virtual Reality game of “Buckling Swashes,” Earless Erika and Black Corbin are two of the most deadly pirates to sail the online seas. And now they’ve met their matches: each other.

But fearless Earless Erika is really just Amy—a financial analyst with little time in her life for anything but work. And Corbin is none other than the man behind the game—owner and CEO of the parent company. He’s intrigued by Amy, the only buccaneer to best him in this test of digital testosterone, while she just wants to take his arrogance down a peg. But soon the two find themselves comrades at arms against a merciless rival bent on Corbin’s destruction—both on the virtual high seas and in real life. Only by setting aside their differences can they locate the actual people behind the swaggering swashbucklers—and along the way, find that love can tame even the most fearsome of pirates.

Shiver me timbers…

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Hard Day's Night

NAL
January 2005
ISBN 0451213866

Men in tights never looked so good. At least that's Pepper Marsh's first impression when she attends a jousting competition at the Rennaissance Faire in Ontario. An unemployed and unattached software engineer, Pepper has had enough of the computer geeks in her dating pool. She years for a man of yore. A man not afraid to stare death in the face and laugh at it. A man with a big lance...

Pepper's cousin has promised to find her a knight in shining armor, on the condition that Pepper walk around in wench garb. With her mind on her embarrassingly revealing bodice, Pepper promptly steps into the path of an oncoming steed...and is rescued by sexy Englishman Walker McPhail. Once the wild man of jousting, Walker has let a brush with death keep him out of the ring. Though his emotions are clad in almost impenetrable armor, Pepper finds Walker infuriatingly sexy--and she's about to go medieval on his heart...

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The Corset Diaries

NAL
May 2004
ISBN 0451411129

"I have to wear what?"

No woman in her right mind would consent to wearing a corset for a month. Especially a "skinny-challenged" woman like myself. But dreams of being debt-free danced in my head when I received the offer to appear on a reality TV show.

A Month in the Life of a Victorian Duke is about real people--people like me--pretending to live on an English estate, circa 1879. Sounds fun, no? Well, it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. We're talking no televisions, no cell phones, no PMS medication. And did I mention the corsets? No breathing for a full month. Luckily, when I met the real-life descendant of a duke who was to be my pretend husband, he took my breath away...

In a manor in which everyone must strictly follow the Victorian lifestyle, things were bound to go wrong. Like when some harmless lust turned into that other thing...

Love was definitely not in the contract!

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Want to see some of the dresses Tessa wore in The Corset Diaries? Check out the CD scans.

Men in Kilts

NAL
October 2003
ISBN 0451411137

Oodles of humor, snogging galore, a love story to die for, men in kilts, and sheep with a bikini wax--where else could you find such a riotous look at life on a Highland sheep farm? When Kathie Wilson (an American mystery writer) meets Iain MacLaren (a hunky Scottish sheep farmer), kilts are sure to fly. Obstacles such as odd friends, eccentric family members, the reality of life on a sheep farm, and the machinations of an increasingly spiteful neighbor all test Kathie's mettle, but with the dishiest Scot alive at her side, she triumphs over even the most exacting challenge.

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Bird of Paradise in the Heat Wave Anthology

Love Spell
June 2003
ISBN 0505525399

A contemporary romantic comedy novella, Bird of Paradise can be found in the Heat Wave anthology, along with novellas by authors Jennifer Archer and Sheridon Smythe. All three stories are related, and tell the tale of participants in a reality dating show. Imagine the Garden of Eden on a privately owned tropical island paradise, and you have the setting for Bird of Paradise. My story centers around a private investigator named Adam, his cat Jesus, and Hero, the heroine.

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Improper English

Love Spell
March 2003
ISBN 0505525178

American versus Englishman--will it be a war of wits, or a battle to find their hearts? Alix hasn't had much luck in her life, but a trip to London, a matchmaking landlady, and the handsome Scotland Yard detective living above her indicate her luck is about to change. Has she truly found her perfect man, or will the disasters that dog her steps destroy everything she's hoped for?

Alexandra Freemar should be in heaven--she's just been handed everything she's ever wanted on a silver plate: a three month stay in London, the time to write the book of her heart, and the chance to finally prove to her mother that she's not the miserable failure her past indicates. Free-spirited, unconventional, and able to find the absurd in almost any situation, Alix finds that heaven isn't what it's cracked up to be when fate, in the form of a matchmaking landlady who promises to fix her up with her perfect soul mate, hands her the devilishly handsome man who lives upstairs. Her perfect man? Hardly! Her perfect man is not a workaholic, straight-laced detective inspector from Scotland Yard who wouldn't recognize fun if it bit him on his (extremely attractive) behind.

Alexander Black is a man with a mission, and no one is going to distract him from that, not even the uninhibited, carefree American who personifies everything he dislikes in a woman: she belittles his devotion to work, insists on dragging him into the most unlikely of situations, exudes sexuality that makes his mouth go dry whenever he's near her, and teases him with a brashness that's utterly foreign to him. But underneath that sassy mouth and devil-may-care exterior, he senses a wounded woman who's calling out to him, and try as he might, he just can't refuse answering.

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