The Painted Lady Press: 40 books

Two women... Two life-changing dares... Do they have the courage to accept? A GROOM FOR CHRISTMAS Family pressure just might make her do something crazy... When a young woman hires her hometown’s former bad boy to be her pretend fiancé for the holidays, she finds...

“Flowers make the perfume of love stronger.” A mysterious coin is passed down through the centuries to those deserving of Luck and Love. Five couples in different eras each come into possession of the coin and enter into a marriage-of-convenience. Will the coin lead them to love as well...

Short, sexy sizzler When one fantasy ends, another begins Is it possible to go home again, to reconnect with the guy you’d crushed on during high school, your “one who got away?” Bianca Dillon intends to find out when she attends her ten-year high school reunion. But fantasies...

An accident-prone woman A hotshot radio star What happens in Vegas... In Sin City, a couple, unlucky in love, gamble on each other. Win or lose? Holidays have never brought Las Vegas hotel concierge Laney Sikora anything but bad luck in the romance department. The worst...

Three sizzling award-winning stories of love, romance, and wedding bells. In Loving Or Nothing and A Groom for Christmas, two bad boys hell-bent on revenge are redeemed by love. In A Cinderella Christmas a woman learns that fairytales do come true. A GROOM FOR CHRISTMAS is a new twist...

Danger. Desire. Italy. Murder, jewel thieves and terrorists intrude on an American woman's Roman holiday; can she trust the sexy, mysterious Italian man who comes to her aid? Lexie Cortese is in Rome to forget. The last thing she expects is to meet a sexy Interpol agent who suspects...

Sensual. Sizzling. Scrumptious. There's more than business brewing between two old high school flames... Stubbornly self-reliant Mary Beth Kendrick needs financial backing to keep her catering business cooking. A looming corporate buyout forces her to accept help from Tom Sackett, the...

Redeemed by Love... Three tales of danger, deception, and desire. The Redemption Series by Cara Marsi Three couples with dark secrets stalked by danger, empowered by sensuous desire. LOGAN'S REDEMPTION: Single mom Doriana Callahan finds her life unraveling as a stalker threatens her life and that...

Award-winning novella! When a ruthless developer and a sentimental bridal shop owner clash, sparks fly. No stranger to loss, Tami Morrelle is holding on with one satiny thread to the only thing she has left that ties her to her loved ones - the family bridal shop. Local bad...

Suspense. Sizzling. Sultry. When two federal agents with a heart-shattering history are thrown together on a deadly undercover mission, they must fight to live and to have a future together. Lia Valdez’s heart was broken when her father, a police officer, was killed in the line of...

Winner! 2014 New Jersey Romance Writers Golden Leaf Award A GROOM FOR CHRISTMAS is a new twist on the classic Hallmark Christmas movie full of family, humor, love, and a little bit of redemption. Family pressure might just make her do something crazy... When a young woman hires...

The gift of a magical snow globe from a mysterious stranger paints the scene for romance between a Manhattan art gallery manager and a sexy man who isn’t what he seems. At a Halloween party, uptight gallery manager Bella Cassani lets her friends goad her into kissing a handsome stranger....

How hot do you like your romance?  A special three-book set  Lynn Reynolds  Ann Whitaker  Cara Marsi  Love Capri Style by Lynn Reynolds  A sexy, sun-drenched romance set on the island of Capri. Can inept journalist Amanda Jackson get an exclusive on playboy Eric Greyford,...

Sensual. Sizzling. Scrumptious. Love under an Italian sky. A San Francisco sous chef discovers she might have bitten off more than she can chew when a scrumptious Italian man stirs up a recipe for romance on the delicious Isle of Capri. Sous chef Cat Connors has spent a lifetime...