**A forced betrothal, a missing chambermaid, and two unlikely allies whose lives merge in a forbidden entanglement of the heart.** Emmeline is to be married to a heartless brute of a man—sold off like a pig at auction, nothing more than a pawn to secure her father’s business dealings. When the handsome Elias Compton arrives at the hotel under the guise of seeking employment, she is instantly smitten. Elias has come to The Balfour Hotel undercover. His real mission is to search for a missing woman who was last seen working as a chambermaid at the hotel. Has she met with foul play? Does the fiancé of the beautiful Emmeline Balfour have anything to do with her disappearance? One thing is certain; there are some sinister goings on at the hotel. As Emmeline and Elias join forces to find the whereabouts of the missing chambermaid, they soon become entangled in affairs of the heart. **If you like engaging mysteries with a touch of romance, suspenseful twists and turns and heartwarming endings, you will love *The Balfour Hotel* series.** ** *THE HEIRESS’S SECRET LOVE* ** is a 30,000 word historical regency romance with a touch of suspense and intrigue and an inspirational theme of sweet love. It is clean and wholesome with no cliff-hangers, no cheating, and a guaranteed happily ever after ending. Fans of Lisa Boero, Elizabeth Bailey, Leighann Dobbs, Harmony Williams may enjoy this historical mystery.

Enter into the worlds of fifteen young women who, despite their vastly different circumstances, seem to negotiate an eerily similar and unavoidably dangerous emotional terrain. With a visceral bite or a surreal edge, each electrically charged story in Circling the Drain presents women trying to understand the nature of loss--of leaving or being left--and discovering that in the throes of feverish conflict, things are rarely what they seem. By turns dark and lyrical, ferocious and playful, these stories are precise, startling, and undeniably original. Reading them is a cathartic, mesmerizing literary experience.