Giving
up his high-flying career as an attorney to work in his family's
California vineyard was one of the best things Jason Bryant ever
did. The other was falling in love with beautiful bookstore
owner Sara Minton. Jason knows that Sara loves him, which makes
her refusal to marry him even more frustrating. Why does Sara
keep saying she'll be able to marry him 'one day'? Whatever her
secret is, Jason is sure he can cope. But not knowing the truth
is tearing him apart.
Six years ago Sara was at her lowest ebb, until Aminatu's Daughters—a secret organization that helps women and children in jeopardy—gave her life purpose again. Now Sara faces an impossible choice between the man she adores and her dangerous but rewarding work. And as Sara's very safety comes under threat, she and Jason must risk everything to claim a future together—.














always wanted to do an anthology in which the stories deal
with the relationship between mothers and daughters. ALL
IN THE FAMILY does that. I dreamed up the plot and the
setting and invited two other wonderful writers, Melanie
Schuster and Maxine Thompson, to join me. In it Sara
Johnson has four daughters: Candace, Debra, Sharon, and Angela.
Every one of them has issues with their mother. If you
don't see yourself in the anthology, then I haven't done my job,
and I believe it's one of the best anthologies I've ever done!
It will be available nationwide on

The
Sizzling Sands series, which features African-American resorts,
kicks off with a steamy tale of dangerous attraction and hidden
lives. After Rayne Walker learns that the only father she has
ever known is seriously ill, she immediately heads to American
Beach, where he is recuperating. Having been warned by her
mother that her biological father, Benjamin Jefferson, also
lives on American Beach, Rayne carefully avoids him - until she
meets the scion of the Jefferson real estate fortune and finds
herself falling for him...For Wade Jefferson, it's love at first
sight. Rayne is beautiful, alluring, and obviously attracted to
him. So why is she being so cold? Both Wade and his father have
been buying land in the popular beach community to preserve its
African-American heritage and Wade begins to suspect it might be
his father's land that is putting her off. Their mutual desire
seems undeniable, though, and Rayne is obviously determined that
nothing will come of it. What can be holding her back?