Amanda Prescott is at a low point in her young life. Not only has her fiance succumbed to cancer, but her career as a concert pianist has evaporated, and her position with a prominent Senator has been derailed by government funding quirks.

Amanda has few choices. A simple fender bender with Sheila Cameron, owner of an elite real estate agency, however, changes everything. Crippled by financial need, Amanda accepts a temporary position as an agent. Though insecure about her ability to handle exclusive estates and wealthy clients, Amanda uses pluck and creativity to sell her first home-the oldest historic home in Loudoun County.

The home once belonged to the Davis family, who immigrated to Virginia in 1725 seeking religious freedom. When Amanda and her next client, Ali Ahmed, discover the injured owner of a horse farm clutching a cryptic poem, Amanda is both frightened and intrigued by the cascading, intertwined events that follow.

Seamlessly weaving a historical storyline with a contemporary plot, this enticing novel captures one family's struggles, their immigration from Wales, and their efforts to establish places of worship-and one woman's plunge into unforeseen romance and danger.

Olivia comes to live with her aunt to start a life; heading to a new town with a new name under protective custody. She comes to find herself falling in love all over again. Too scared to start another relationship after getting out of a very abusive one. Is it fate that puts them together? Their relationship is tested by jealousy and hate. Shattered when her ex-boyfriend finds her with the help of Matt's jealous ex-girlfriend. The strong love that has put Olivia and Matt together is tested by an old flame gone wrong.

Reeling from the pain of being abandoned by her husband-the father of her son-Megan Richardson's world is closing in around her in a dark haze of depression. She feels lost, without hope or answers.

Worse, she must face the death of her beloved mother. She reaches for answers, wondering what really matters in life. Her mother's final letter to her may hold some of these answers, and Megan clings to hope once again. She reads the letter over and over, desperate to find the meaning of her mother's last words. Megan tries to understand the lesson the Lord is supposed to be teaching her, but she has pulled away from her faith of late.

Perhaps that lesson is hidden within her work as a nurse on a cancer ward. When a patient, a frail young girl, reaches out to save Megan from a panic attack, they make a connection. Sarah heals a bit of Megan's heart with that moment, and Megan's life begins to change. She starts searching for God's place in her life ... and for the man who will make her heart whole again.

Megan returns to her family farm in search of the solitude she needs. There she meets Darrin, the new hired man. Is he the answer to her prayers?

Successful writer Vashti Williams longs for romance. Unfortunately, she has given up on finding an honest man. Still heartbroken over the one man who betrayed her, Vashti has promised herself that there will be no more Nathaniels. But after she receives an assignment to travel to St. Croix to write an article on an up-and-coming male model, she suddenly realizes he is the man she had a brief affair with while vacationing in Spain five years earlier.

As her plane lands in St. Croix, Vashti has no idea that Ramon Perez is secretly still infatuated with her. Now engaged to a beautiful woman he does not love the way he should, Ramon panics when he discovers Vashti is the woman he has not been able to forget. Now he is torn between following his heart and following through with his promises to his fiancee. But the lure of passion and an unforgettable love sends Ramon straight back into Vashti's arms, leaving a path of anguish and devastation for his fiancee to reluctantly follow.

In this contemporary romance novel, tempers flare and hearts break all over again as Ramon and Vashti both discover the truth about family, home, and most importantly, surrendering their hearts.

Bitter Sweet by C. Brown Bitter Sweet is a plethora of vivid and explicit short stories that leave nothing to the imagination. From the first to the last story C. Brown will abduct you and hold you hostage to the drama. Lost Orgasm - Charlene, an overweight divorcee and mother of three sets out to find her orgasm. The no-holds barred, non-stop action will arouse the inner freak and let loose the beast. Black Love - Lisette, a Hispanic woman who has her first taste of black love, will also become familiar with her breaking point - revenge is a dish best served hot and steamy. Love Kills - Beth, an aspiring model, must decide how she wants to make it to the top, on the catwalk or on her back. She makes the mistake of choosing the cameras and the flashing lights over love and ends up regretting it with her last breath.Becareful what you ask for. Office Politics - Felicia, a woman trying to climb the ladder of success discovers just what the term "office politics" is all about, when she has to decide if she will continue her tryst with her supervisor or sleep with the one man who knows their secret in exchange for his silence. Sex on the front lines - Private Love, and her two bunkmates are stationed on the frontlines of Iraq and decide to live-out their fantasies before leaving for their final mission. C. Brown has tapped into his inner woman for these stories and many more. They are written to tantalize and delight men as well as women and they both will find them equally fulfilling. Brooklyn native, Clifford Brown, is the type of author who is not afraid to venture into realms of existence that most people dare not go. He is skilled in the intricacies of the contemporary human condition, and can incorporate an authenticity to his fictional stories that inspire the depth of reality in each of us. Readers will identify with one of his many works, if not all. - Hana Glinsky

Lacy lost everything the night her parent's were killed. She lost her home, her hopes and her dreams. She even lost her identity until she became an adult, and claimed it back. Now, the only thing she had room for in her heart was anger and bitterness for the men who destroyed her life, and the last thing she needed was to allow love to complicate that plan. After one woman's betrayal, Jeff swore he would never trust again. Then he met Lacy. All of a sudden, his thirteen year old niece had someone to turn too for things she needed a mother around for. Lacy wasn't afraid of his son, and actually understood his jokes. Even his dog liked her. Maybe he needed to find out why and he needed to do it before she leaves, and possibly lose the only opportunity for his heart to love again.

Jennifer is a teenage dancer with dreams of becoming a professional ballerina. A severely malnourished teenage girl, she reveals for the first time how she suffered years of sexual, physical, and mental abuse at the hands of her father.

When she was eight years old, she lost her mother. Her childhood almost took her down the same path of self-destruction as her charismatic but predatory father, who molested and abused where when she was only thirteen years old.

Graphic and catastrophic, this novel based on a true story actually happened here in America, and almost nobody knows about it.

This edition of Jack Ketchum's "Broken On The Wheel of Sex: The Jerzy Livingston Years" is the most complete edition of the "Stroup" stories ever collected together. New introduction by Jack Ketchum: "The Goblin On The Dance Floor." These stories, written from 1976 to 1981, and appearing in various men's magazines and other outlets, offer Ketchum readers a look into this author's formulative years. This is where Jack Ketchum honed his writing craft that has become so well known with his novels The Girl Next Door, The Crossing, Off Season and The Lost. Collected here is his character simply known as the "Stroup" stories written under the pseudonym Jerzy Livingston, which are rare and difficult to locate almost thirty years after the original publications gave them life. "I've called these the Jerzy Livingston years because over half of them were written under that name and the rest under my real one. Somehow Jerzy seems more appropriate for this collection. My adoption of that particular pseudonym was both a joke - a play on words -and a nod to a very good writer, which I hoped some day to be." - Jack Ketchum, from the author's introduction. Also includes Afterwords for each story by the author.

A tale of lust and betrayal spanning two continents. Set in London and New York in the 1980s. The author has adopted an almost autobiographic feeling to this book and journeys the reader through the ups and downs of being an adult. The type of book you won't want to put down, a young man's energetic quest for fun and love in London and how he deals with the ups and downs of his relationships. This book but is never boring and you won't want to put it down. Take it to the beach on holiday and I promise you'll be there until sundown unable to tear yourself away. The Taint Gallery grips the reader by mixing the emotions one would feel as a father forced into a doomed relationship. This book can make you laugh out loud so don't read it in open places! Granny better beware though, because at times this book can be a bit racy!! One to share with your partner, again and again.