"Why are you sad?" The old woman asked the child. "Because all the leaves have fallen except one." "Did those leaves tell you their names?" "No. Leaves can't talk." The child shook his head, but the old woman pointed. "That one did." She leaned in and whispered, "The name of that leaf is Hope." When …
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Life always finds endings. Mine started in Paris. Actually, fourteen years before Paris, when I decided I’d be a famous chef one day, barefoot, slinging food around, with men at my feet. I made that dream come true. But at what cost? Gabriel Hunter was and is a heartthrob, a brilliant chef, and my mentor. …
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Some revenge fantasies should stay fantasies. I know this since Oliver Bain is the bane of my life. The teenage crush I'll never forgive. My best friend's older brother - he deserves every humiliation I can heap on him... Except that he's not the jerk I remember. He's a gorgeous hunk of stomping anger. A …
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my desk... This is a peek at my desk. I'm starting a new book, so this looks like chaos. But there's order here. The pen is my Lucky Pen. The Lucky Sticky Notes are the inspirations that come when I'd busy doing something else, and the Lucky Journals are made by Exceed. They have a …
Mondays are always hard when I've taken a weekend off. The weekend was gorgeous, finally, with a warm sun and a dog, learning how to walk--she's working on her leash manners, which means she leads, and we get dragged behind. But that was the weekend and yesterday, it was Monday. Coffee in hand, I was …
I like to use historical details as a background for the stories I write. In The Smoke in Shadows, a Roman ambush is a major plot element. It's based on an actual event that took place several centuries before Darius' ambush, and in Germany, not in Northern Italy. I found the account in an article …
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Excerpt from The Smoke in Shadows: He paused in the doorway. "We'll be at the hotel for a few more hours, in case you change your mind." "I won't." But as he closed the door, Nic stumbled over the question: why had Julietta sent her to this man? When it was obvious she wasn't someone …
Release Date: April 16, 2020 Pre-order now for this sizzling love story between Darius (Three's favorite Roman general) and Nicola Poppa--the girl who wrote The Judas Horse, a best-selling book about an immortal man who was also a legend... or was he? Nic made one impulsive mistake. She wrote a book about a little-known Roman …
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