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01. In God's Eyes

Abigail Sommers

02.Vacation of a Lifetime

Abigail Sommers

03. One Heart's Opinion

Cynthia MacGregor

04. An Appetite for Passion

Cynthia MacGregor

05. Love in the Pyramid

Abigail Sommers

06. Ten Minute Romances

Cynthia MacGregor, Deborah McClatchey, Abigail Sommers, & Victor Bobb

07. So Much for Illusion

Deborah McClatchey

08. Bum Magnet

Deborah McClatchey

09. Moon Love

Cynthia MacGregor

10. The Lady and The Con

Victoria Anne Mitchell

11. Love’s Rocky Road

Kathryn Keller

12. Joint Tenants

Deborah McClatchey

13. Absentee Heart

Donna L. Simpson

14. Love is Murder

Glen Ebisch     

15. Casa Verde

Sandra Carpenter     



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In God's Eyes

Abigail Sommers

In God’s Eyes tells about a Brooklyn cop who falls in love with a fat ex-hooker. The path to making this relationship work is strewn with bodies, humor, pathos, and a pimp who wants to kill her. The writer leads us on a merry chase as Tony tries to bring his feelings for Janet and his worry about what his dead mother would think into perspective. To quote Tony's mother "Joosta maka sure she'sa Catholica." Janet on, the other hand, doesn't think any man could accept her fat body or forgive her past. She thinks she's nothing in God's eyes. Find out if Tony and Janet overcome the odds.
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Vacation of a Lifetime

Abigail Sommers

True life experiences add humor and interest to this light romance. Vacation of a Lifetime is a story about a 38-year-old virgin who takes off for Europe looking for love. The story starts out on a "yuppie" cruise where the heroine's fat body is out of place. She hears a mystery man with a sexy voice—could he be Mr. Right? The story continues as we're led on a romp through Europe where Kathy literally "bumps" into a second Mr. Right. In Germany she meets a would-be-lover. Will she or won't she? In Italy a third Mr. Right emerges. Find out why Kathy runs away and who follows her home. The ending is a sexy sizzling experience.
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One Heart’s Opinion

Cynthia MacGregor

Ric is a handsome and strong handyman with a good sense of humor ... but how can Bonnie be sure Ric isn’t the burglar who’s been preying on the tenants of the shopping plaza where Bonnie’s parents’ store is located? Everyone, including her mom, believe’s he’s guilty.

Bonnie’s parents are pushing her to get married, but they want someone more "suitable" than Ric. Their candidate is Graham, an optometrist with a good future and no whispers of possible guilt.

Will Graham live up to Bonnie’s parents’ expectations? Bonnie’s heart tells her there’s more to Ric than meets the eye.

Bonnie devises a dangerous scheme to disclose the burglar’s identity...but will her efforts prove Ric’s innocence or guilt?
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An Appetite for Passion

Cynthia MacGregor

Kari’s appetite for passion is kindled when she buys a modem and finds there’s more than recipes that are hot on the Information Superhighway. Kari and Max exchange recipies, sexual overtures, and pictures. But Kari doesn’t want to scare Max off so she only sends a head shot. Can Max love a fat body? Will Kari surf the net into Max’s arms or is she in for a big spill?

Kari's best friend is preoccupied with her impending motherhood, so Kari turns to a new friend, Jeff. But Jeff's under a cloud of suspicion in a sabotaged political campaign. Kari is drawn closer to Jeff as she tries to clear his name. Jeff believes ‘friends make the best lovers’, but can Kari figure it out or will her appetite for Max keep her sidetracked?
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Love in the Pyramid

Abigail Sommers

Inside the pyramid we experience the first blush of romance as our heroine is drawn into intrigue and mystery surrounding the archeologist, Matthew Garrison. Melissa encounters Matthew when her guide leaves her trapped inside the pyramid. Matthew's translations of the hieroglyphics has taken on all the superstitions that surround the tombs of the Pharaohs. The mysterious happenings at the Pyramid bring Matthew and Melissa closer as they both work on unraveling the changing hieroglyphics. Find out how unraveling the mystery leads to love in the Pyramid.
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Ten Minute Romances

Cynthia MacGregor, Deborah McClatchey, Abigail Sommers, and Victor Bobb

This collection of short romance stories covers issues that face large people all the time and promises you’ll find romance in the most unusual places. For example: Stuck is about a large lady who gets stuck in an airplane lavatory and how an even bigger man rescues her.

In Laundrolove, through a mishap, our heroine finds romance at the Laundromat. In Linda’s Lucky Choice, our heroine looks through the Yellow Pages and finds love. The Art of Love centers on our large heroine, who is an artists’ model. She finds romance in the art class. The stories are fun and a quick read when you’re waiting for someone or just spending a cozy evening at home.
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So Much for Illusion

Deborah McClatchey

Illusions of the Las Vegas Shows are the backdrop for this spicy story of misplaced love. Erica finds love with, Nick, a troubled artist who tells her his work comes first. Rejected she falls in love with Alex. Does she marry Alex on the rebound? Is this love real or illusion? When her first love reenters her life all illusions are revealed in a moment of truth. But has Erica placed her life in danger and her marriage in jeopardy just for an illusion of love?


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Bum Magnet

Deborah McClatchey

Wendy Jackson wanted to expand her horizons. But innocent Wendy soon finds that men are not always what they appear to be. She seems drawn to low life men. She feels like a bum magnet.

Wendy’s thrilled when Ron asks her to marry him. Her friend Chad discovers Ron is married and that he’s after Wendy’s money. Chad comes to the rescue by running a sting operation and helping the police catch Ron. Chad leaves the country and Wendy once again finds herself in hot water with Billy Don Boneé. Another con-man.

Will Chad return in time to come to her rescue?" Will Wendy wake up to the fact she has a hero right under her nose? Or will she continue to be a bum magnet?


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Moon Love

Cynthia MacGregor

Nanci had finally broken free of her husband, Gene. Well...almost. But had divorce been the right choice? The divorce judge had awarded custody of their son, Matt, to Gene. If she fought to get him back, could she win? Her new best friend, Maureen, turned out to have a serious flaw. Then there was Ralph...and Scott...and her son's resistance to the possibility of a new man in her life, a life that seemed more complex every day.

Under the watchful eye of the benevolent moon, in its ever-changing phases, we learn how Nanci deals with life...with love...with her weight...with her son...with her friend. Can she come out a winner?
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The Lady and The Con

Victoria Anne Mitchell

Margaret Mary Meade was a staid professor who loved to curl up with a good Thomas Hardy book. And now she was stuck with a brazen, conceited, sensual, and gorgeous man. How did she let herself get talked into this benefit auction in the first place?

Zachory Taylor knew that Margaret was not his type, too fat, but if she could afford to spend $2000 for a night out she must be rolling in money—and desperate. He was sure he could con her and live high.

Can Margaret get past the "con" in the con man? What does Zachory see behind the stodgy, too fat, professor? Can he change his erring ways and really love her?


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Love’s Rocky Road

Kathryn Keller

Devastated, when Allen broke off their engagement, and married another woman, Tracy vowed not to trust another man with her heart. But, when her ailing father hires the charismatic Cord McKenzie, to help the floundering business, her vows fall by the wayside.

Then Allen re-enters her life. He claims his marraige was a mistake. He also warns her that Cord is a womanizer. When the business, and her life begin to fall apart, Tracy wonders who she can trust. Can she trust her first love? Her father doesn’t trust him. On the other hand, Tracy wonders if her father knows how secretive Cord has been? She needs Cord’s expertise to keep their floundering business afloat, but is that a reason to trust him with her heart?

Perhaps Tracy can’t trust either one?


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Joint Tenants

Deborah McClatchey

Jasmine and Wade were joint owners—joint tenants. She loved their house and she loved Wade, but he refused to say those all important words, “ I love you.” Did he love her, or was he just using her to further his dreams? In her vulnerable state Jasmine was an easy mark for John’s attentions. With his extravagant lifestyle and persistent wooing, John tries to capture her heart. He says “I love you” all the time. But does Jasmine come to see that saying “I love you” too often can have less meaning than not saying it at all?

In an explosive moment of revelation, Wade finally opens his heart to Jasmine. But is it too late? Can she let John go? Will he let her go?

Read on to see if Jasmine finds herself a joint tenant of someone’s heart.


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Absentee Heart

Donna L. Simpson

Miss Jane Southwell has no idea that she is lovely. She has reconciled herself, at 26, to being a spinster. But while staying at her Aunt Lydia's beautiful Southwell Manor she meets the handsome, compelling Lord Alexander Kilpatrick and she knows, that for her, nothing will ever be the same. Jane knows Kilpatrick has a powerful incentive to marry one of her two cousins quickly, for the first to marry will inherit the beautiful Southwell lands in Ireland-land that abuts Kilpatrick's own. What has she to offer? Not even a dowry. Can the magic of a glittering masquerade ball change their lives and hearts forever or will the promise of greater wealth and a slender beauty for a wife win out? What can Jane do but accept the inevitable?


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Love is Murder

Glen Ebisch


Beth Rosswell has reluctantly agreed to work with her friend, Miranda, as a guide for the historic Osborne House during her summer break. Her reluctance fades when she meets the mysterious Kyle Radmore who has shown great interest in the house. As a guide Beth has a good excuse to be near him.

Beth's new excitement at being a guide diminishes rapidly when she is given the role of a humble cook, and her thrill plummets even further when someone dies in the house on opening day. Could this be murder?
Apparently the police think so and Beth is one of the suspects. Her worries about the mysterious Kyle soon make her realize that love can be murder.

Read on to see how Beth handles the mysterious murder at Osborn House and see is she uncovers a murderer or a lover.

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Casa Verde

Sandra Carpenter

What must it be like to love one green house so dearly that you are willing to give up everything for it?

Murder and mayhem swirl about Brienna Norton as she enters the balmy breezes of Mexico for her best friend's wedding fiesta. While that desert wind blows warm, her loyalty evaporates in the heat, the deceit, the sweet attraction to Marcos, the golden boy she'd always dreamed of. In the midst of a shocking drug scheme, lives are lost and loves are found within the beloved old rancho, Casa Verde.



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