Born to an Air Force family at an Army hospital, Melissa has always been a little screwy. She was further warped by her years of watching Monty Python movies and her strange family.

From the time she read To Kill a Mockingbird in the seventh grade, she dreamed of being a writer. After years of struggling, trying to write short stories filled with angst, she finally listened to her college writing instructor, and allowed her natural comedic voice to shine through. She counts Jayne Ann Krentz, Jenny Crusie, Stephanie Laurens, Julia Quinn, and Lori Foster as influences in her writing.

She is a military wife and mother to two military brats and an adopted dog daughter, and lives wherever the military sticks them. Which, she is sure, will involve heat and bugs only seen on the Animal Discovery Channel. In her spare time, she reads, cooks, reads, travels, reads some more, and dreams of living somewhere the bugs die in the winter.

She LOVES hearing from her readers.

Present...
Phaze



Tempting Fate Anthology: Chasing Luck

Luck is the ficklest fate, choosing where and when to dispense her work. But she's tired of being the complete outlaw, running around the world, doing as she pleases. She wants to be a normal girl, as normal as a Fate can be, so she settles into a West Texas town, hoping for normalcy. What she found was Chase Franklin.

Chase has something to hide, something he doesn't want discovered. To everyone in town, he's just the sheriff, keeping order on a Mayberry kind of town. But little does anyone know he is actually an immortal god who has been plotting his revenge for years. When Hera offers him a golden opportunity, he jumps at the chance.

He just never thought he'd fall in love with his one and only chance.

Samhain Publishing



Grace Under Pressure

College professor Grace Michaels has enough on her plate with her research, her ex-fiancé showing up in town, her parents parking their RV in front of her house, and her attempt to entice her sexy neighbor, new sheriff, Ren Morello, into having an affair, when someone breaks into her house and office.

Ren wants nothing to do with Grace. All he wants is hard fast sex. The problem is, she's the only woman he can picture it with!

Past...
Liquid Silver Books



Operation: Love

Three women vow never to marry military and three men determined to change their minds...

Daisy, Dee to all her friends, has always had a crush on Mano. Sinfully delicious, he tempts her in the worst way.

Mano, whose call sign is The Shark, is dedicated to his Air Force career. And, he has his own hang-ups about marriage and the military. After a night of drinking, they fall into bed together and after a night of mind blowing love making, they can't keep their hands off each other.

But there is trouble in paradise when they both have to decide which is more important: their convictions or their love.

Zodiac Series, Cancer Anthology: Sweet Patience

Chance MacGuire has always had good luck. Great childhood, great career and hell, women are easy for him. Except for Patience Sawyer. The woman is a list maker. Hell, she makes lists of her lists. Chance likes to go with the flow and see where he ends up. He hates schedules.

But when she proposes they open a bed and breakfast together, using her business savvy and his culinary skills, he jumps at the chance. Now, if he can just keep his hands off her, they'll be fine.

Patience is sure she's lost her mind. Asking Chance to buy the Rosedale Plantation with her and open their B and B sounded like a great idea. Forget the fact that he doesn't like following her business plans. That she can handle. But after the hottest kiss she has ever had, keeping her mind on work and not on him, is hard. Although his laid back style should turn her off, she is immediately drawn to him. His easy going manner puts her at ease and they find themselves as perfect business partners. But, when too much time spent alone together has their hormones in overdrive, and they can't resist each other, will they be able to forget their differences and find love?

Loose Id



The Sweet Shoppe: Her Wicked Warrior

Librarian Paige Turner isn’t having the best of weeks. Work has been hell, her sometimes fiancé seems only to pay attention to her when he needs research help, and on top of that, she has been losing sleep thanks to some pretty erotic dreams. So, at the end of the day, one week before St. Patrick’s Day, she stops by The Sweet Shoppe for some Irish Truffles. Before falling asleep, she wishes her dream lover were real. When she wakes up in the morning, she finds out he is.

Seamus can’t remember exactly how he ended up in Paige’s bed. One minute he is in a battle, the next he’s in bed with the woman who has been stealing into his dreams. Instinct has him seducing her before he even knows her name, but soon he is confronted with a strange new world, and the possibility that Paige just doesn’t understand he is her soulmate.

Paige decides to keep her warrior, but soon everything goes awry. Thanks to Seamus, her life is disrupted, her career almost ruined, her fiancé has called off their wedding, and she finds herself falling in love with Seamus. But will Paige be able to accept the changes he has wrought, or will her fear of change bring disaster for both of them?

The Sweet Shoppe: Cowboy Up

Linda is unemployed, broke and now her boyfriend has dumped her via email.

Now, she has to confront the man she had a crush on when they were kids and ask for money.

Nick doesn't need some woman who thinks she knows everything and hates small town life. But, once she bursts back into his life, he can't seem to stop thinking about her.

It is useless, because he knows she wants to run back to the city, get off the ranch, but thanks to a shared bag of fudge and shared erotic dreams, fate might make them both change their minds. And once they do, they might just be able to find love.

Hunting Mila

John Hunter can't refuse a request from his birth father to find his soon to be stepsister. But finding Mila means finding trouble, because it follows her everywhere. All he wants is to get her back to Earth and get his father off his back. Problem is, Mila has other plans.

Mila doesn’t need an overgrown Neanderthal in her way. She has a mission to accomplish. So what if she is a thrill junkie and that is the only reason she works for the good guys. She does her job, and does it well.

But before she can dump Hunter, her little game becomes a little more dangerous than she expected. So, getting his help means keeping him around, and keeping him around makes it impossible to keep her hands off him. But even if she does end up in bed with him a few times…okay a lot of times…it doesn’t mean she wants him butting in her business. And that is just what John does best. Uncovering her secrets could get both of them killed...if they don't kill each other first.

Bounty Hunters, Inc: For Love or Honor

Being captured has never been so much fun...

Bounty Hunter Del Littleton has had a run of bad luck and it’s getting worse. She’s just found her latest retrieval job murdered, and keeping with the downward spiral, government agent Dylan O’Farrell has discovered her with the body and the weapon. She needs to trust him to clear her name, but trust is one thing Del has little of, especially with men...

Federation Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Series: Voices Carry

Includes the three action-adventure books, Voices Carry, Lost in Emotion and Hard Habit to Break, previously released in ebook form, together for the first time!

A Federation under siege. A Counter-Terrorism Department overworked. Paranormal abilities outlawed. But when no one suspects what you can do, criminal Voices Carry. Called by lust and longing, three telepaths risk their lives to put their skills to work for the Federation Counter-Terrorism Department.

Charming the Snake Anthology: Seducing The Saint

Liberty Wainwright needs a man and not just any man. She needs Brady St James to help her find her father. Their ill fated love affair has kept them apart but she knows Brady is the man for the job. His skills and knowledge make him the only choice. Now, if she can convince him to help her...

The Sweet Shoppe: Tempting Prudence

A favorite treat, a magical spell, and all your sexual fantasies could come true...

Prudence Merriweather has a dirty little secret. She likes a little bondage in bed. Even though she likes to be tied up she also has another fantasy. She’d like to be the one doing the tying up. Unfortunately, not just any man will do. Her dream man would be tall, built, and as delicious as the chocolate covered cherries she loves. A man like Jonas Smith.

Whiskey Creek Press



The Hired Hand

Stranded in a Dallas hotel room with nothing but a red spandex dress, stiletto heels and thigh highs, with directions on where to meet a gigolo, was not how Marlow Smith planned on spending her thirtieth birthday.

But when Marlow dresses up and sets off to go fire the man, she finds him sitting at the end of the bar and somehow ends up back in her hotel room with him.

Hands on Training

Joey and Heath from The Hired Hand return...

Joey and Heath find themselves unable to resist each other while working on assignment at a tropical resort. Both of them agree to have a short affair, but no strings and it ends at the end of the week. Their only problem is they can't seem to remember the affair has ended once they get back to Dallas.

A Calculated Seduction

Dulcy Menendez has enough problems dealing with her stepmother and two stepsisters. She doesn’t need her sexy new boss, Ethan MacMillan, watching her every move.

Especially since every time she catches his gray eyes studying her, her pulse races and her mind conjures up images of the two of them naked.

Future...
Loose Id



Bounty Hunters, Inc: Sinner's Delight
Coming Soon

A mysterious madam with very few scruples and a bounty hunter with too many form an uneasy alliance while trying to survive. They just never planned on falling in love.

Join Raphael Vicentes for the ride of his life...and the woman who will take him there.

Samhain Publishing



A Little Harmless Sex
Coming Soon

Anna Dewinter and Maxwell Chandler have known each other most of their lives. For Anna, Max was always a knight in shinning armor. For Max, he saw Anna as a little sister. Both of them fight the almost overwhelming sexual sizzle between them.

But what happens when Max pushes Anna for more than just A Little Harmless Sex?

A Little Harmless Pleasure
Coming Soon

Cynthia Myers meets Chris Dupree at her former fiancé’s wedding. After a little dancing, and champagne, she ends up back in Chris’s hotel room. For one night of down and dirty sex. That’s it, that’s all. He lives far away, and she has other things to do…like get a life.

Chris is a switch. He likes to dominate but he also likes to play the role of a submissive from time to time. His last relationship with a sub turned nasty and since then, he has shied away from anything but straight vanilla sex. When he meets Cynthia, he finds a woman who could change his mind. His mate. The only problem is he has to convince her.

In a carefully orchestrated seduction, Chris teaches Cynthia about submission and dominance, allowing her take the reins. As he leads her through pleasures she thought she’d never experience, Cynthia’s self confidence soars and she finds herself falling in love with him. But, when he asks for submission in the bedroom, can she surrender to prove her love or was it all about a little harmless pleasure?