Suzanne: 500 books

Annotated reissue originally published 1995 A workaholic thirty-something couple and a baby… Josie Cooper’s got the perfect-for-her life. This former small-town-girl has worked long and hard to grow her computer start-up into a company to be reckoned with. She’s also found her...

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8). She pressed against him then, her curves fitted to the planes of his chest, and...

The long-poem titled, 'eve~ill speaks out' was originally written as a method to evolve a character for Suzanne Dietz's unusual fantasy trilogy series The Legend of The Secret Saga's Books 1, 2 & 3: When Begin Began, The Murky Middle, and The End Of The End. The inspiration for this composition was...

“I’m reckless and mindless and brash. I’ve never known how to slow down and take in what’s around me. Instead, I leap in without looking. I’m the guy who doesn’t realize the water is shallow until I’ve stubbed my toe.” Serena pulled her hands free and draped them around his...

I nodded. It was all becoming real right then, and fear crawled over me. I couldn’t do this. I was the last person who should ever be a mom. Babies were fragile, and I was a … a … klutz. Forgetful. Undependable. I’d do something wrong, and I couldn’t do something wrong with a baby. Tears...

And I made a decision. If I was going to make this declaration, I might as well make it huge. Lay it all out there between us. I mean, he’d either avoid me the entire rest of the week or make my dream come true. Then again, things could go on exactly like they were. I lowered my hand to my...

In association with The Edge Books.   His tongue sliding into the sweet recess of her lips, time fell away and everything he'd come here to find refocused, bright. He groaned, the sound pulled from deep inside.  She was more than one swim in the lake at midnight. She was the...

"Let me ask you something," he said. I waited, my insides twirling around. I'd do about anything for him not to be mad. "What if next time you let me kiss you?" The next time. That there'd be a next time meant he wasn't all that mad. "Would that...

"When are you going to do the very thing you always say that you want?" Atlas continued. Calix released his held breath, willing the tightness in his chest to relax, but found, instead, his teeth grinding together. "Which is what?" Atlas spoke evenly. "Cast off...

“Look down,” he said. Down? She inclined her head and the sight of the words scrawled in the moist sand filled her heart. Ti amo, he’d written, and drawn a heart with their initials, S.C. & V.C. --- Sergio and Vittoria Colafranceschi have a good life: three beautiful...

She took his hand and pressed it over her heart. “I won’t say it,” she said, “but you feel that beating? That’s your name written on my heart.” ----- Fashion model, Whitney Hobart snuck off to Florida to solve her Christmas blues. A bad, extremely public breakup combined...

Her hand on his chin, Lena leaned down and pressed their lips together. Chase groaned, his eyelids flickering. “Me and you are going to tie the knot,” she said. “I’ll be a good wife, dress pretty and make you happy.” He’d be the perfect husband. Smart. Strong. Faithful. Kind and loving,...

*This is a short story of 15,000 words. It can be read as a standalone, though I hope it makes readers want to know more about Books 1-5. As with all my books, it has a happily ever after ending. “I don’t care if you never eat another potato I’ve cooked or if you lay there in bed and...

Sacramento is underwater. A deluge of epic proportions has engulfed the town, leaving Lucinda Martin York and George Arnold stranded. Lucinda uses her medical skills to help save the citizens of Sacramento, working as a physician’s assistant to Dr. Mitchell Kersey. When she uncovers lies and treachery...