My agent has just submitted the sequel to It Must Be Magic to my German editor. The new book, featuring Kate (Lili’s boss) and Joe (our favorite funeral director), is called Simply Magic. Lili and Tanner and Erika make appearances, too, so wish me luck!

If you like your romantic suspense fast-paced and laced with humor, try Jennifer Skully. Jennifer adores quirky characters. The whackier the better! And you’ll find a whole cast of them in each and every Jennifer Skully book. Of course, being in the same body with Jasmine and JB, she doesn’t let you down on the hot, sexy love scenes, either.

 




It Must Be Magic
From HQN books
In stores June 2007

ISBN:  0-373-77197-5
$6.99 US/$8.50 CAN

 

 

Everyone believes in carpe diem...don't they?

"This is one book I couldn't put down."
The Romance Readers Connection

 

 

For flower shop clerk Lili Goodweather that's what life is supposed to be all about--savoring life's precious moments and all the beauty the world has to offer.  So it saddens her when 12-year-old Erika Rutland can't see the magic in everyday moments anymore.  Worse yet--it's her widowed father, Tanner Rutland's doing.  A firm believer in all things practical, Tanner doesn't want his daughter's mind filled with Lili's nonsense--especially her claims that she can communicate with cats, of all things!  Yet there's something about Lili that Tanner just can't ignore.  But can this single-minded career man give up everything he believes for a little touch of magic?

 

 

 

Sheer Dynamite
HQN Books
in bookstores October 2006

ISBN: 0-373-77132-0
$5.99 U.S./$6.99 CAN

Selected as one of the best books read and reviewed by SingleTitles.com during the second half of 2006!

In a family of bona fide psychics, Opal Smith feels very much like a misfit, wanting just to belong. So she's more than thrilled when she has her first honest-to-goodness vision! But she needs Jack Davis's help to prove her vision is real and to prevent it from becoming reality. To Jack—who has had too much “crazy” in his life already—Opal is one more crazy that he doesn't need. Yet he never bargained on Opal's matchmaking grandmother, who swears he's the reincarnation of Dynamite Davis—her all-time favorite race car driver! Before he knows it, Jack is more determined than ever to save Opal from her zany family...and herself!





SHEER DYNAMITE is funny, sexy, thrilling and, in the end, will leave you wanting more!
Romance Reader at Heart

Funny and downright hot, Sheer Dynamite is a must read for fans of contemporary romance with a healthy dose of hilarity!
Joyfully Reviewed's Recommended Reads

 

 

Drop Dead Gorgeous
HQN Books, April 2006

ISBN: 0-373-77104-5
$5.99 U.S./$6.99 CAN

 

Where is love when you really need it?

Certain that she will depart this world at the tender age of twenty-eight, Madison O'Donnell is determined to experience breathless, passionate love in the two weeks left to her, no thanks to her stuffy boss, T. Laurence Hobbs!




 

T. Laurence Hobbs is the perfect tax accountant, a man who likes his ducks in a row, his numbers in a column. But there is no way he will sit by while the lovely Madison throws herself at the absolute wrong man.

If the only way to save Madison from herself is to make her fall madly in love with him, then it's up to T. Laurence to make it happen. And as he turns his number-crunching skills to capturing his sexy secretary, he's beginning to think that there is more to life than death and taxes.

DROP DEAD GORGEOUS is a Fallen Angels Reviews Recommended Read!

DROP DEAD GORGEOUS is adorable. This mad-cap romp is high-energy fare, swirling with kooky characters, office intrigues, a lawsuit, even a stalker. And some laugh-out-loud scenes. DROP DEAD GORGEOUS is funny, often touching and always entertaining. Definitely worth a read.
– Debbie Jett
http://romancereaderatheart.com

Wow! DROP DEAD GORGEOUS took me on quite a ride. If you're in the mood for something that's edgy, somewhat saucy, a little quirky, loaded with sexual tension and intrigue then DROP DEAD GORGEOUS is the book for you.
Connie
http://www.onceuponaromance.net

 

 

Fool’s Gold

HQN Books October 2005

ISBN: 0-373-77081-2
$5.99 U.S./$6.99 CAN

 

Bad Idea #1 - Coming to Goldstone, Nevada for vacation

Bad Idea #2- Not getting out when he had the chance

People came to Goldstone to forget – and be forgotten. Sounded good to Sheriff Tyler Braxton. He needed to get his mind off his past. But when he’s wrangled into investigating his brother-in-law’s suspected affair with infamous local author, Simone Chandler, it’s his present that gets complicated. Especially when his brother-in-law turns up murdered!

Simone writes internet erotica. That doesn’t make her a home-wrecker, or a murderer. But what on earth is she doing in Goldstone? As he delves neck-deep into the secrets of the small town and finds himself falling hard for Simone, Sheriff Braxton is beginning to wonder. Has he stumbled upon the perfect little town and the woman of his dreams, or is it all nothing more than FOOL’S GOLD?

 

 

Winner of the Single Title 2006 Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence

Sex and the Serial Killer
HQN, Jan 2005

ISBN 0-373-77027-8
$6.50 U.S./$7.99 CAN

 

Romantic Times Top Pick!
Skully's novel is a triumph. It's fabulously funny, with top-notch dialogue, terrific pacing and witty compelling characters. The suspense element is well structured, and the love scenes are undeniably steamy!

Romantic Times, 4 1/2 Stars, Top Pick! Jan 2005

Who’d have thought an ordinary housewife could hook a serial killer...

When her husband of fifteen years deserts her for his married high school sweetheart, Roberta Jones Spivey changes her looks, shortens her name and follows her soon-to-be ex. Warren will be sorry he left when the newly svelte Bobbie Jones moves into town!

So what if Bobbie ends up with an alleged serial killer for a next-door neighbor? She seriously doubts that the very handsome Nick Angel is anything more than a misunderstood bad boy, but there’s no denying that sex with an alleged serial killer sounds risky... exciting... just the thing the new Bobbie Jones would do...