Overview

One needs reassurance…

Caitlyn Adams has spent her whole life crafting a delicate balance between her self-image and the way the world sees her. Now, several years after competing in her last beauty pageant, an old friend asks her to step onto the stage one more time…

If only she wasn’t in the middle of house hunting to accommodate her growing family!

Another has taken on too much responsibility…

When Jane Wong agreed to watch over her niece while she attends school in America, she didn’t think it would collide two completely different worlds. Except Jane has gone from juggling investments and family politics to bonding with a high school sophomore.

Yet she can’t turn down a good deal when she sees one. As her calculating mind scouts a way to bridge together two of the city’s biggest business rivals, she’s also distracted by her niece’s burgeoning independence.

And another is reclaiming her place…

Having given up her room to a student, Rebecca Pruitt plays a game of tennis between her girlfriends’ lives as one pursues her passion and the other chases new ideas. As usual, it’s up to Rebecca to not only mind the tempers and the desires, but to get to the bottom of one teenage girl’s secret life.

But everything is forgotten once Caitlyn takes center stage as the new Mrs. Iowa!

About Cynthia Dane

Cynthia Dane spends most of her time writing in the great Pacific Northwest. And when she's not writing, she's dreaming up her next big plot and meeting all sorts of new characters in her head.

She loves stories that are hot, fun, and cut right to the chase. You can always count on explosive romances when you read a Cynthia Dane story.

Falling in love. Making love. Love in all shades and shapes and sizes. Cynthia loves it all!

About Hildred Billings

Hildred Billings is a Japanese and Religious Studies graduate who has spent her entire life knowing she would write for a living someday. She has lived in Japan a total of four times in four different locations, from the heights of the Japanese alps to the hectic Tokyo suburbs, with a life in Shikoku somewhere in there too. When she’s not writing, however, she spends most of her time talking about Asian pop music, cats, and bad 80’s fantasy movies with anyone who will listen…or not.

Her writing centers around themes of redemption, sexuality, and death, sometimes all at once. Although she enjoys writing in the genre of fantasy the most, she strives to show as much reality as possible through her characters and situations, since she’s a furious realist herself.

Currently, Hildred lives in Oregon with her partner and two cats. The dream achieved.