IMPASSIONED Series by Vicki Keener

HEATHER BARRETT divorces her abusive, philandering husband, quits her good job as an Assistant General Manager of a large hotel in Minneapolis, MN and sells her house to begin a new life as the General Manager of a boutique hotel in the heart of Charleston, SC. Eight years earlier she graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Hotel Management. Her sophomore year she met and fell in love with DREW MASON... moreHEATHER BARRETT divorces her abusive, philandering husband, quits her good job as an Assistant General Manager of a large hotel in Minneapolis, MN and sells her house to begin a new life as the General Manager of a boutique hotel in the heart of Charleston, SC. Eight years earlier she graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Hotel Management. Her sophomore year she met and fell in love with DREW MASON. They planned to marry and take the hospitality industry by storm when they had their degree and launched their careers. Drew graduated a few months before she and left school for home. They declared their undying love for each other. She never heard a word from him again. Devastated, she rebound three months later into a loveless marriage that robbed her of ever trusting a man again. Heather loves her apartment, the warmer weather, and her job at The Spanish Gates Inn and for three weeks is happier than she thought possible, until the owner and president of the chain of Inns returns from an extended trip. Drew Mason enters her life as her superior with no explanation of his disappearance so many years ago. Will he explain his absence to her satisfaction? Can she deny herself the only man she's ever loved when his pursuit is relentless? Will she ever trust again? less

IS LOVE REALLY BETTER THE SECOND TIME AROUND? IRREPLACEABLE: a laugh-out-loud Contemporary Romance When Reed Avery meets his new neighbor, Corinne Harris, for the first time he dismisses her as a ditzy dame, a kook and a scatterbrain. He's determined to avoid her at all costs. As a single father, he's raised his daughter, Kirsten, alone for the past sixteen years and is proud of the fine young woman she's become as she nears her senior year in high school... moreIS LOVE REALLY BETTER THE SECOND TIME AROUND? IRREPLACEABLE: a laugh-out-loud Contemporary Romance When Reed Avery meets his new neighbor, Corinne Harris, for the first time he dismisses her as a ditzy dame, a kook and a scatterbrain. He's determined to avoid her at all costs. As a single father, he's raised his daughter, Kirsten, alone for the past sixteen years and is proud of the fine young woman she's become as she nears her senior year in high school. Corinne announces that her seventeen year old son, Gary, who she's raised alone since her husband was killed in the twin tower attacks, is dating his daughter. The news shocks him. Kirsten is not allowed to date and he expects her to remain chaste until her wedding night. Corinne derides his expectations for Kirsten and with unabashed, explicit, descriptions of a teenager's raging hormones and the sexual activity that could follow makes suggestions how to prevent that unwanted occurrence, providing he'll work with her. She's blunt and he's repressed, but he fears she may be correct concerning their kids and he agrees to plot and plan with the “ditzy pixie” to keep his daughter from making the same mistakes he made at her age. Can these two opposites accomplish their goals without entangling themselves in romance? less