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Ashes, Burning Bright Whirlwind, Burning Bright Tiger, Burning Bright

Work In Progress- Not Published

This is some information for an unpublished partial for a straight historical trilogy I’m writing and think they’d be my best straight historicals. Set against Regency America War of 1812.

I had great editor enthusiasm for these titles as to story and character but they were concerned that the American setting might not be of enough interest to readers given it covers a not very well known part of American history, the War of 1812. However, this was still the Regency era, albeit in the new America, but it was also pivotal to the new American identity. When Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans against the British, and we rebuilt Washington after the Brits torched it, we became a united country instead of a loose confederation of states. Each of these stories take a part of that great stage with continuing characters and tell an aspect of it that will tied them all together in the last book. I think they would probably be the best straight historicals (no time travel or paranormal elements) I’d ever written, certainly the best I’ve never written LOL

Apollo’s Gift

Work In Progress- Not Published

Apollo’s Gift is a contemporary I wrote about a marine biologist who falls in love with a billionaire. Had some strong interest from Harlequin but they had an issue with a plot device and I couldn’t think of a way to change it. I may try to market it one day. I didn’t do anything else with it. But I’ve had some friends read it who really love it.

I’ve always wanted to write a book about a dolphin researcher. I took Oceanography at UT Austin and we made a trip to Port Aransas to the Marine Institute. We actually went out a short ways on one of their research vessels and it made an impression upon me. I thought how fun it would be to write about a wealthy marine researcher who has turned away from her heiress roots for love of dolphins. What if she is so determined to protect them from the people she believes are about to exploit them that she’ll have herself wrapped in a rug like a latter day Cleopatra and rolled out at the feet of Alexi Papagos, the most recent People Magazine Sexiest Man Alive and a self-made Greek shipping tycoon? She tried through all the usual channels to reach him to no avail. However, as the founder of the Institute where she and the dolphins work, he’s the only one who can stop the Institute director from letting other researchers use them as test subjects. She has no idea that the immediate attraction on her side to him will be more than mutual, or that her irascible grandfather oil tycoon who has apparently disinherited his willful granddaughter has his own agenda in recruiting Alexi to the family…