C B Maurice: 16 books

When what you want is not what you think it is. Jessica went to the Core to be with the fashionable people where she met Matt who wanted to leave. How could someone so cute be so tasteless? Or did he know something she didn't? 8,000 words

Ginger Luchette had visions of running a charming B&B in the beautiful old house she bought. Unfortunately, that old house had more spirits than spirit and her dreams are turning into waking nightmares. Tim Sullivan took the handyman job at the old Crane House to put childhood stories of...

Belle loved Ebenezer Scrooge once, but his obsession with money drove her away. In the years since she has married, had children and been widowed, but she still remembers Ebenezer fondly. If she goes to see him, will he have changed for the better, or the worse?

Some things are worth keeping. Some guys are keepers. Dina Paxson has a few days before going back to work as activities director on a cruise ship to straighten out a billing snafu at the storage facility. A year ago, her calm head during a crisis on her ship put her marriage onto the rocks...

At Customs on her way home, Maggie is routed into secondary inspection. She’s got a lot of stuff, but nothing too surprising for someone who spent a year teaching in Korea. One agent in particular is making her feel like a criminal and the only thing she has going for her is the cute guy she bumped...

Rachel doesn’t believe in Little Green Men, but she’s got a serious thing for Max. Wait, make that Rachel doesn’t believe in Little Green Men until her dog attacks one in the woods. Max really likes Rachel, but what woman is going to want a guy totally obsessed with aliens? Then she turns...

Sheikh Rashid Abdulla Zayed Al Bloushi wants to build the best television network in Asia and to do that he's got to get the world's most popular soap to shoot there. That means dealing with the world's most popular, and most hated, soap star, Belinda Mitchell. Belinda loves being famous. She's...

A shameful illness arrives with a group of refugees, but before Aine and Daig can contain it, it leaps to the groups with little or no immunity. Suspicion and fear threaten to tear the rebellion apart before Livy, Jessie, and Kevin realize that the "shameful illness" is chicken pox and are able to bring some sanity to the situation.

Livy makes a discovery that leads to her being lost and Daig fears she has been kidnapped by someone who wants to see the rebellion fail.

Millennia ago an advanced race seeded Earth with the cultures in their galaxy so they could find out what would happen when those cultures left their home planets and started to mingle. Then they vanished… Dr. Livy Valens couldn't pass up the opportunity to discover a lost language even if...

In a visit to the villages, Livy, Jessie, and Kevin figure out how to turn on the defensive shield and discover new enemies, but don't get any closer to understanding why one village is in so much better condition than the other.

As the chicken pox crisis passes, suspicion remains. Saida's high temperature left her confused, paranoid, and unable to command. Daig, who had chicken pox as a child, is exhausted from running things for the last two weeks, but many of the Baili and Hiberni feel that he should remain in power. Then...

Saida gives Livy permission to go to the village in search of materials to decipher the Vendae language, but just after they leave, a flood of refugees arrive and Daig is called back to the fortress to deal with them. When the refugees are moved to the village rioting breaks out because some groups feel that others are getting preferential treatment.

The complete story arc. Millennia ago an advanced race seeded Earth with the cultures in their galaxy so they could find out what would happen when those cultures left their home planets and started to mingle. Then they vanished… Linguist Dr. Livy Valens couldn't pass up the opportunity...