Leigh Verrill Rhys: 11 books

When I was a little girl, I sat with my mother on the sofa of our most recent home and listened to her stories of her travels during World War II, one of the most significant events in her life as the wife of an officer in the United States Army. For my father, these were the years that gave him...

New Year's Eve is a time for reflection and change. Jocelyn has more changes coming at her from all directions on this Portland, Maine winter day than she's faced since her mother's death. None of it bodes well for the junior editor's fledgling career when her fiancé abandons her to spend this...

Jocelyn Tavers is juggling unwise princes, an ex-boyfriend and her rebuilt 4x4 on one of the coldest days of a Maine winter. Her big date on the night before the day for lovers has some surprises in store but so do her ex and the weather forecaster. What does it take for a girl to get some adoration of her own?

Just when Jocelyn believes she has a grip on her job, the publisher throws a task in her path that proves to be wicked near impossible without the help of a friend, if she can find one. The work she’s editing for her absent father’s apologist strikes chords Jocelyn would prefer to remain silent....

Christmas Past and Christmas Previous haven’t been all Jocelyn Tavers wished, but Christmas Present and Christmas Future are in capable hands – her own.  But even the best laid plans have a way of meeting disaster head-on. No surprise that her ex has every intention of spoiling Christmas...

Jocelyn Tavers faces her 26th birthday, falling on Mother's Day, at the same time as she wonders what happened to a certain officious lawman and a certain deserter father remembers her birthday after only fifteen years of neglect. An ex-boyfriend and the appearance of a complete stranger are...

Months of job-hunting, land Jocelyn in the protective custody of a close friend and seeking the help of a French-speaking public servant whose absence has cracked her façade of laissez faire and nonchalance. Who would have thought a tow truck driver would be her rock in a hard place? Working...

≈≈Salsa Dancing with Pterodactyls is the story of a interracial, multicultural American family. David Gitano’s proud Hispanic-American family believes she is using him. Emily Burdis’s Central Valley sister believes he is using her. She thinks: He's a corporate lawyer. He's...

The war has been over for six years but Rupe Smith still fights his demons. Ten years have passed since he left his Maine village. His Wyoming ranch is the one place he wants to be and the last place he can be. There is no escape from the guilt of his parents’ grief or his longing for the girl whose...

What happens in Edinburgh, stays in Edinburgh — if Mike Argent has anything to say about it. Not every woman drops into Mike Argent’s life the way Jakki Hunter has, at his feet straight from the passenger side of a roadster. Every guy Jakki’s ever known has dumped her, but not...

The war has been over for six years but Rupe Smith still fights his demons. Ten years have passed since he left his Maine village. His Wyoming ranch is the one place he wants to be and the last place he can be. There is no escape from the guilt of his parents’ grief or his longing for the girl whose...