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In the summer of 1966, Richard Franklin Speck, a twenty-two year old Ordinary Seaman, waiting for a berth aboard a merchant ship, murdered eight student nurses inside a townhouse in South Chicago, shocking the surrounding hardworking, religious community to its very core. Twenty years later, Carly Rocket and her business partner, Mike Holtzer, find themselves inside Stateville Correctional Facility hired to cast extras for a Hollywood movie. Unbeknownst to her, Speck is one of Stateville’s inmates. His infamous murders took place only blocks from her childhood home leaving her with deep emotional wounds. Discovering that Speck is enjoying his life behind bars, Carly is outraged and conspires with a guard to make a video tape of Speck’s uninhibited life in an attempt to change prison regulations. But it backfires, and suddenly Carly finds herself in danger of becoming Speck’s ninth victim. |
When sexy world traveler, Max Rosso, walks into With a Twist, the San Diego based martini bar and bistro Rose Cupido owns with her two best friends, she immediately knows she's in trouble. Not only did the mysterious gypsy prophesize that Rose would find true love by Valentine's Day, but the gypsy also warned that this new love must be returned. If it is not returned, all will be lost, including With a Twist. |
Rudy Riandear thought he’d left North Pole, Main in his rearview mirror. After ten years, he’s returned to convince his beloved grandfather to retire and sell him Sugar Plums bakery – the lynchpin in a potentially lucrative real estate deal--great for Rudy, devastating to the small, dying town. But all is not what it seems to Rudy in this magical Christmas town, especially after he and his two friends, Nick and Kris, land on Santa’s Naughty List. Suddenly Rudy’s nose is turning red for the tiniest of white lies and the one girl he wanted to impress is on his case for trying to close Santa’s favorite bakery. What’s a guy to do? Start baking . . . and just maybe he can go from naughty to nice to get everything he ever dreamed of this Christmas. |
Touch of Twilight In Fox’s A Chill at Twilight, memories of a sexy cowboy named Luc Winston haunt Rachel Holt’s mind, but there’s a ghost in Onyx, Texas haunting her in reality... In Leo’s A Shadow at Twilight, uptight, but ever so sexy, Dillon Spencer gets a second chance at life when his spirit takes up residency in Hilly Thomson's room at a hotel haunted by some rather notorious and opinionated ghosts. And in Quinn’s A Shiver at Twilight, a tragedy from the past haunts the house where Carly and JD are trapped for one terrifying Halloween night. The sparks fly between the two of them, but will they survive to explore the flames of passion they ignite? Purchase:
Touch of Twilighty - Mary Leo | Calista Fox | Erin Quinn |
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Feverby Mary Leo Becky Montgomery's husband was a real catch, but when he died two years ago she buried her emotional needs with him. Not even their two great kids could keep her from becoming a workaholic. Sailing aboard the cruise ship Alexandra's Dream for a weeklong vacation with her kids and a painfully exacting mother-in-law, Becky figures a Christmas holiday doesn't seem like the time to start dipping her toes into the sea of love. But when she finds a magical pendant that's supposed to bring her luck in love ---and meets Dylan Langstaff, the ship's charismatic diving instructor---she may be ready to take the plunge. Dylan has charmed a lot of women during his time aboard Alexandra's Dream, but there's something different about Becky Montgomery. It's changing the way he thinks and the way he wants to live...just the way something about him is changing the way Becky wants to love... |
Release Date: February, 12 2008 |
Write It Up by Mary Leo Welcome to alternative dating...the tenth circle of hell! It started simply enough. The editor of Tess Magazine demanded an assignment about dating practices for the urban set. Something fun. Something sexy. Something that the three women working on the assignment could research and really get into. Suddenly, Julia is smitten with a stranger she meets while speed dating, Samantha's coffeehouse dating research is less engaging than the naughty e-mails she's been getting from her pen pal in Italy and Abby is busy dealing with her new roommate, an Irish photographer who looks like sex in pants. Needless to say, there's not much work getting done! So how do you write about relationships when your own love life has been less than noteworthy? Until now... |
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Release Date: January 2006 ISBN: 9780373836833 Purchase: Write It Up - Mary Leo  |
 A Pinch Of Cool by Mary Leo When trend-spotter and supreme-style-guru Mya Strano is called in to rescue her mother’s cooking show from ratings oblivion, what she has in mind is a little seasoning to heighten the taste. That’s the plan. Until she discovers that it’s her childhood nemesis, Eric Baldini, whom she’s up against. He’s got a few ideas of his own that sound like a recipe for disaster in her expert opinion. And the two of them in the same kitchen? Never! Still, she’s noticed that for someone who really works at being anti-hip, this guy has a way of making her divinely hot. Which makes him so cool that this fashionista is actually toying with the idea of trading in her designer gear for oven mitts and an apron.… Ouch! |
| Release Date: February 2005 ISBN: 9780373442102 Purchase: A Pinch of Cool - Mary Leo
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 For Better Or Cursed by Mary Leo When all else fails…marry him! That’s what it’s going to take to finally bust the bad luck surrounding Cate Falco’s love life. Jilted at the altar ten years ago, her fiancés ever since have been saying, “I’d rather not,” before they, uh, could accidentally expire. It seems the curse is always out to get them. Now Rudy Bellafini, the original jilter, is back in town, and it’s Cate’s turn to right this wrong, but does she have the cannolis to do it? Maybe. But Cate’s large Italian family decides to get involved, and with that family, it means danger is on the way. Then Cate begins to wonder…is getting Rudy to the altar and then jilting him the way to even up the score? Perhaps the best revenge might come with a real wedding…. |
| Release Date: June 2004 ISBN: 9780373441921 Purchase: For Better of Cursed - Mary Leo |
 Stick Shift Lucy Mastronardo is heading in the right direction—good job, good apartment, good fiancé—until a detour to Naples throws her off the map! Sure, she’s just days away from tying the knot, but her next big promotion hits a roadblock and Lucy can’t steer away from the last-minute business trip. With reassurances to everyone, including her vanilla-pudding-cup fiancé, she vows to return before she has to say, “I do.” Lucy’s certain she’ll have everything sorted out in no time. But then her drop-dead due dates are laid to waste by the wacky staff and the tempting restaurant owner next door. The one who makes her think there’s more to life than deadlines and rules. Will Lucy continue her drive in automatic—or will she take control and learn to downshift…? Don’t miss this raucous ride in romantic comedy! |
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Released: January 2004 ISBN: 9780373441815 Purchase: Stick Shift - Mary Leo |
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