Mistakes of past demons haunt him.Strangers cross paths every day. Moments are shared with a smile — the opening of a door, a nod of hello, or help with directions. Most don’t listen to that quiet intuition telling them that something different can be found in this stranger. There is connection and understanding in their eyes. There is truth in their smile. There is an entire life waiting to live. What happens if that intuition isn’t ignored and strangers begin to listen?It happens every day, someone, somewhere, chooses to listen, and love begins.This is the story of two strangers who made that choice.Haunted by the passing of her sister and believing she was the catalyst to cause it, Hannah Anderson lives a walking death. Afraid to embrace life and burdened by guilt, she refuses to accept more than just getting through every day. She believes she doesn't deserve happiness.Consumed by anxieties and self-depreciation from childhood, Wynn Hawthorne shelters himself from the world. Content to live behind his camera and within the quotes that comfort him, he avoids people. He holds himself back from experiences because people always disappoint.Together they learn that their pasts do not define them and that forgiveness is the hardest thing in the world to accept.

    Her father's tragic accident sparked what seemed like a domino effect of heartbreak and loss. Unable to shake the fear of enduring any more pain, she builds walls around her heart, hoping to heal on her own.Dallis' road to recovery is disrupted when she meets Grayson Rivera, a tattooed, coffee shop owner who, by appearances alone, isn't her typical match. Stubborn and hesitant to let him in, Dallis finally succumbs to Grayson's persistence, where he challenges her to face her loss while also having the walls of her heart broken down.With Grayson's assistance, Dallis must decide if she is willing to learn how to be weak in order to be strong.

    My one that I would sacrifice everything for. My one that I wanted to be with until I took my final breath. My one that completed me.I wanted him. I needed him. But he was off limits. I knew this, but the risk of consequences didn’t outweigh the depth of my desire.So, I fought for our love.But, I wasn’t Beau’s “one”.So, he fought against our love.He fought so hard, eventually I had to give up. I had to admit defeat.But, that’s the thing about love – when you’re down and out, true love wins. It prevails…and it raises you up.**This is a stand alone novel, with a happy ever after**

    Every guy that has showed interest only wanted to get closer to her sister. After being kicked out of college, and subsequently out of her apartment, AJ heads to the strip club for some sisterly advice. Instead, she lands in the apartment of a cute stranger who seems way too eager to help. Bryan is a regular guy looking for the simplicity in life. A strip club is definitely not his idea of simplicity, but he is pleasantly surprised at who he finds not prancing around on stage. In the middle of a strip club his eyes are glued to a woman that is fully dressed and thus begins a rollercoaster romance that he never saw coming. When a risky dare is set in motion, an earth shattering truth is unraveled and AJ no longer knows who she can trust. Can Bryan prove that he loves AJ and help save her bond with her sister before it's too late?

    Saving Santa is a heartwarming tale filled with the spirit of love and adventure at Christmas. Christmas is the season for loveCOBRA Securities employee Maggie Addison's Christmas season isn't starting out well...she's been kidnapped - at gunpoint! Ex-Delta Force operative Carter McQueen didn't plan on abducting the blonde beauty, but he needs her help. Together they join forces to make a child's wish to Santa come true. Coming soon from Romantic Suspense Author Velvet Vaughn: Hide and Seek–the sixth installment in the COBRA Series

    Lexi is never happier than when she's dodging bullets, chasing down the leads that other reporters only dream of getting, or swapping stories with her rivals at the bar. She thrives on risk, danger and the thrill of the chase, while keeping everyone else at arm's length - colleagues, friends and lovers. TV executive Jane Marshall needs a Big Idea. With her career nose-diving and her colleagues circling for her job, she needs to pull something major out of the hat. And Lexi might just be what she needs. When a young British woman is kidnapped in Egypt, both Lexi and Jane are thrown together on a journey which will change their lives entirely. It will take them into a world where no one is quite what they seem and menace lurks in every corner. Sometimes, when your back's against the wall, the only thing to do is trust in the person closest to you...An enthralling story of two women brought together in extraordinary circumstances from the bestselling author of LITTLE WHITE LIES.

     Laura Bishop was a world apart from the girl Chase Adams knew back in high school. He was always the gorgeous Greek god who could have any girl he wanted, and she was just Laura Bishop, the girl who blew her chance at having him. Years later her new secrets led Laura far away from the girl he used to know. She could never imagine just how far. What happens when new life clashes with the one person from your past you don't dare forget? What do you do when fate gives you another chance but changes the game?

    Add a cocky billionaire. Throw in a fake engagement. Let the games begin.KayleeI have one rule. I don't date tourists. Ever. Because vacation boyfriends never last. But my life is a hot mess. So much so that my friends throw me a love-life intervention. Never heard of that? Me neither. I may have a problem. So I decide to break my rule just one time because the tourist is unbelievably sexy. Hey, it's more of a guideline than an actual rule. What's the worst that can happen?Cue Chase Covington, the relationship-averse billionaire who blows into my life like a category five hurricane.My Billionaire Fake Fiance is a full-length, standalone romantic comedy with no cheating, no cliffhanger, and a HEA.

    Everything was perfect. That is until her brother tragically took his own life, turning her whole world upside down. Left to pick up the pieces of her broken family, Liberty is faced with focusing all of her attention on helping her parents cope with the loss of their son, while putting her own life on the back burner. But what no one seems to realize is that she is just as broken inside.Now, four years later, twenty year old Liberty is taking back the reins of her life. She leaves behind everything she’s ever known, hoping to make a fresh start…one where she isn’t faced with the constant reminder that her brother is nothing more than faded memory. What she didn’t expect to find along the way was Shayne.Tall, dark and tattooed, Shayne Thompson has developed quite a reputation for being a player. Despite everyone’s negative perception, Liberty still finds herself drawn to him. When she learns that Shayne knows all too well what it feels like to lose someone you love, she finds that they have a lot more in common than just a physical attraction.When Liberty discovers a secret from Shayne’s past that threatens to tear them apart, she begins to question everything she’s ever felt for him. Will Liberty choose to follow her heart or will she give up the one person who finally made her feel whole again?**This story contains language and sexual scenes, some of which may be unsuitable for younger readers.**

    The second stunted by her sister's shadow. The youngest propelled by desperation. Gwen is the oldest of four children in the Aaldenberg family, and the one who seems to have it all. She's also most desperate to escape. Betta, having nursed their dying grandpa for the past three years, is anxious for Gwen to go, so she can finally have reins to the family business. And Esmerelda, viciously determined to follow in Gwen's footsteps, vies for popularity as a freshman in high school, only to learn she must sell her soul, reputation, and most prized possession for acceptance. When Gwen's fiancé moves to town, Gwen does her best to resign herself to a local life, while Betta struggles for meaning without the store. In order to carve out a place for herself, Betta must decide to what lengths she'll go in order to become her own person, and Gwen must decide what's more important: her sister or her future. Can this family pull through their disappointment, jealousy, and regret? Or will they cling so tightly to their desires that it ruins them?

    Along with their college addition, Rob, the four friends have an exciting life in NYC. In fact, Emma Sloan appears to have it all.Despite being happy with her current situation, a big family announcement leaves Emma questioning whether she is truly content with her life. With her thirtieth birthday fast approaching she vows to find her 'perfect' man any way she can. But Emma will soon discover that the path of true love never runs smoothly and that sometimes, instead of chasing love, you have to wait for love to find you...

    Faith:Our story was classic.A typical fairytale.Two young kids falling in love under an onyx sky, making vows they didn’t understand.He was my dream …and I naively thought I was his.Until he bartered our love and sold me a lie.Now, I’m returning to the life I once knew…but not as the pathetic mess that left five years ago.I’m a married woman, wed to the richest man in Nashville.But it seems I wasn’t the only one who changed during my time away…Hardened by life, Jace Walker’s glares drip with heat and derision.He has war in his eyes and venom in his veins.I thought I would be safe coming back home, but it seems I only ran from my present to be caught in the crosshairs of my past.Jace:I traded my future for a life.I knew what was on the line when I made the deal, I knew what I could lose, but I also knew that I didn’t really have a choice.I gambled and lost.Now the one person I had dreamed of having a future with was walking back into my life bearing the last name and wearing the ring of another man.Lips painted red, hair that same honey gold and there against her creamy throat was our promise to one another, still dangling, reminding me that I may have lied, but she ran.I was a liar, she was a coward.Now she was home, and she wasn’t mine.Coming April 2020

    Her niece adores them as well, and Maggie easily wins them over. Taryn can't even do a simple pros and cons list because both men are too different! Their careers are miles apart, their interests vary, and their families are night and day.When death hits close to home, Taryn's world is turned upside down. The only consistency she has is the two stalwart men in her life and the niece she can't live without. But things can change so fast, and so can our choices. In order to find balance, Taryn has to let life, and her heart, lead the way. Comfortable and safe can come in different packages, and as she learns the difference between loving someone and being IN love, she experiences life in a new light. From touring with a famous rock star to uncovering secrets that could tear her loved ones apart, happiness hangs by a thread. But there is one message she receives loud and clear, and it is definitely a choice to be made. Love today, no matter what.

    Now, going to St. Norbert College in the small town she grew up in; she wants to experience living her own life, free of abuse. But on the night she meets Jason Roberts; her fate has something different in mind. Alexandra and Jason have a strong connection but the closer she gets to him, the further he shuts her out. That doesn’t stop Alexandra’s heart from falling for him and she’s determined to let him know. The night she decides to tell him, he never shows up; leaving her to wonder about the mysteries that hold him. After months of mourning his loss, Jason returns to not only let her know that he can’t love her but to wish her well on her next relationship. Heartbroken for the second time by the man she loves, Alexandra decides to move on with what others told her to be “the perfect man”, Zac Millington, but as time goes by she realizes that things were never as they seemed…as he seemed. If you wake up one day and you’re living you’re worst nightmare, would you take the chance to change it or convince yourself that it’s what you’re really meant to be living?Stay is a romantic depiction of how two people that are meant to be together are torn apart by the one thing they both have in common. As they both go through their own versions of abuse, will they be able to stay after finally finding each other again?***CAN BE READ AS A STAND ALONE NOVEL***

     Bev Witnessing the brutal murder of my grandfather upended my whole life. We packed up and moved across the country to start over safely. I built my business and kept to myself, never wishing for more. Never wanting more. Until I met a man who made me want more. Need more. Crave it. Too bad it was all a lie. Too bad my safety depends on trusting him. Too bad I can’t resist him... Lucas It was a chance to start over after the service, and I took it. He was my dad’s old military buddy, and his little princess needed help. I needed a job, a distraction, so I went, expecting to protect a Hollywood brat. Bev wasn’t any of those things. She was sexy as hell. Sweet as a summer night. And she was being stalked by a psycho. I had to keep her safe, not fall for her. Fate had other plans. When she finds out the truth, I’ll do whatever it takes to convince her what we have is real.   ****This is a standalone 51,000-word full-length novel with a touch of steam and HEA.****