Twice Upon A Time
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After I wrote Once More With Feeling, I began to wonder exactly what had happened to Gypsy Dugan, the woman whose life Elisabeth Whitfield suddenly inhabits. If the real broadcast vixen woke in yet another woman's body, whose would it be?
The answer, of course, was easy. What did Gypsy deserve? What did she need to learn? And what part would Charles Casey, who had loved her despite her faults, play in her new story?
Mary Kate McKenzie has pledged herself to a life of service, but a knock on the head shatters her rose-colored glasses. She awakens, a stranger in her own mysteriously pregnant body.
The starry-eyed young woman, who planned to devote her life to the Eden's Gate religious community, is now a take-no-prisoners dynamo who avoids sentiment and religion. Despite this, or because of it, she manages to capture the attention of the wayward teens she works with in the center's community garden. But when former broadcast journalist Charles Casey arrives to do a newspaper article, his presence begins to unlock memories of someone else's life. Whose? And who is the father of the baby she carries?
Mary Kate is determined to find the key to her past, but as the work of the center becomes vital to her, she is faced with a choice. Should she move toward an excitingly different future suddenly offered to her, or will she be happy in the quiet world of Eden's Gate, with the troubled kids she's learned to love, her own son or daughter, and Casey by her side?
"Emilie Richards gives her fans a wonderful companion book to her first reincarnation novel, Once More With Feeling. You will smile and root for the indominatable Mary Kate, as she faces her uncertain voyage of self discovery." Romantic Times
Read MoreFrom Glowing Embers
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Once, Julianna was plain Julie Ann, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who dared to love the son of the town's most powerful family. Gray loved her, too, and married her to give their unborn child a name, but sometimes love isn't enough.
Ten years later they meet again. She is successful, beautiful, and certain that a decade ago he betrayed her, but despite their painful past, both are helpless to deny a love that never died.
As secrets are slowly revealed, and new and surprising friendships develop with other refugees from an approaching hurricane, the past and present come together in one tumultuous explosion.
Read MoreSmoke Screen
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Lost in a landscape of boiling mud pools and geysers, Paige Duvall wonders if she's finally descended into hell. The land her mother inherited in New Zealand is not the pastoral paradise she hoped for, a place where the worldly young woman planned to recover from another failed relationship. Instead one wrong step can end her life. Then mysterious Maori sheep farmer Adam Tomoana, emerges from the swirling mists to guide her to safety.
While she must rely on Adam to guide her home, is it safe to trust this man with her heart? While she's fascinated by their encounter, only Adam knows that it's not their first. Both are battered souls; both need healing, as does Adam's small silent son. But to heal, both must tell the whole truth, and there are secrets in Paige's past, and relationships she can't remember.
If Adam reveals them, will he drive her away, or will he win her love forever?
Read MoreRainbow Fire
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In the dusty Australian outback, a priceless treasure lies under ancient silt stone and sand: opals that gleam with rainbow fire and spark greed and betrayal in the hearts of men.
Kelsey Donovan doesn't care about opal. She arrives in Coober Pedy to look for a different treasure, the precious jewels of family and belonging. But when Kelsey finds Jake Donovan, the father she's never known, she is almost too late. Jake is in a coma, hovering between life and death after a mysterious cave-in at the Rainbow Fire mine that he owns with a stranger named Dillon Ward.
And who better to benefit from Jake's death than his partner?
What can Kelsey do for the father whose love she's always craved except safeguard what belongs to him? She sets out to protect the Rainbow Fire from Dillon himself, and to discover the truth behind her father's accident.
Sometimes though, the most precious of treasures isn't found in mines or in rewriting a difficult past, a painful lesson Kelsey learns almost too late.
After all her struggles, could the greatest of treasures be standing right in front of her?
Read MoreOut of the Ashes
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For Alexis Whitham, Kangaroo Island off the coast of South Australia seems like the perfect place to escape with Jody, her daughter, and begin a new life free from the escalating abuse of her ex-husband. In their new hideaway she can write, and Jody, an adaptable gifted child, can find friends and grow up in safety.
For Matthew Haley, the remote destination is a place to hide, as well. A ranger at Flinders Chase park at the farthest reaches of the island, he can live in solitude and avoid confronting the pain of his past.
Then his new American neighbor brings him an injured koala, and Matthew finds that no matter how much he wants to, he can't escape Alexis or her enchanting nine-year-old daughter.
But while Matthew may find a way to put his past to rest, Alexis's may yet come back to haunt her.
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Hold Back The Night
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Recipient of the Romance Writers of America RITA award as well as a rare 5 star review from Romantic Times magazine, Hold Back the Night, formerly titled Dragonslayer is the story of a minister who has lost his faith in God and a woman who, despite being surrounded by poverty and gang violence, has never lost her faith in humanity or the Corners, the inner city neighborhood where she grew up.
Thomas Stonehill and Garnet Anthony couldn't be more different, ice and fire, but both are determined to make the Corners a neighborhood where residents will be safe to enjoy a wealth of opportunities. After a personal tragedy Thomas, once the minister of a megachurch, forms a ragtag congregation in an abandoned store, despite his own doubts that God listens or cares. Garnet, a nurse, runs a maternal health clinic that she's carved from nothing.
When warring gangs threaten Garnet's clinic and personal safety, Thomas takes action to protect her, despite his conviction that he must remain a man apart. Neither of them is prepared for the startling outcome.
Reviewer Melinda Helfer, of Romantic Times (now RT Book Reviews) wrote: "Innovative plots can often open gateways for an author, but they can never take the place of the human experience that the very best books bring to our hearts."
Hold Back the Night is a subtle blend of romance and women's fiction. But most of all it's a novel about the human heart and the mysterious healing power of love.
Read MoreSeason of Miracles
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In a classic contemporary romance from bestselling author Emilie Richards, a small town English teacher, certain the boy she loved seventeen years ago has forgotten her, learns that she couldn't be more wrong. The man returns, and he remembers her well.
Elise Ramsey has made peace with her quiet life. She's a beloved high school English teacher in Miracle Springs, Florida, where the only genuine miracle is that nothing ever changes. Caring for a self-centered mother, Elise hasn't had time or inclination to change, either. Her one chance to break free came when her teenage lover, Sloane Tyson, begged her to leave town after their high school graduation. When she refused, Sloane never looked back.
Now Elise's mother has died and the tie that bound her to the small town is severed. Before she can consider a different future, the past returns. Sloane moves back to town for one year, bringing Clay, the son he's only just discovered. Sloane and Clay need their own miracle, a chance to create the bonds between a father and son.
Sloane has never forgiven Elise for not leaving with him all those years ago, and he plans to avoid her. But Elise proves to be the person most equipped to help Clay adjust to life outside the New Mexico commune where he was raised. She finds the boy a tutor, Amy Cargil, and between them, Amy and Elise help Clay find a place for himself in this very different world. By Christmas, that place is often at Amy's side.
Despite himself Sloane finds that when Elise reaches out to his son, he wants to grasp her hand, as well. The passion two teenagers felt for each other never died, despite years and miles between them, but can Sloane, a perpetual loner and cynic, learn to trust the woman who once turned him away? And can Elise leave the cocoon she's spun for herself in the town of her birth?
Christmas is a time for miracles in a town named for them. But can the holiday work its very real magic on four people caught up in its spell?
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