2008 Golden Heart® Winner WEDDING AT RED MOON RANCH
55,000 Word Contemporary Series Romance
The citizens of Fortune, WA are shocked when former town bad boy Jace Stone buys the small town. Everyone wonders how Jace can come back, especially after getting Fortune’s golden girl Glory Moon pregnant, then leaving her alone to raise their autistic son.
No one is more shocked than Jace when he discovers that Glory kept the baby she’d promised to give up for adoption ten years ago. Seriously in debt, Glory and her son are one step away from food stamps and welfare. When Jace suggests a business arrangement--marry him and he’ll pay off her debts, save her ranch, and get their son the finest medical care and private school money can buy, Glory has no choice but to accept his proposal.
But Jace’s proposal comes with a price, and love is never simple. Soon it becomes clear that Glory and Jace have a physical attraction that refuses to stay buried. Too bad old hurts die hard. Together, they must learn to trust each other and themselves if they want to be a family and find love at Red Moon Ranch.
"Joleen James brings you laughter and tears in a wonderfully heart-warming romance."
--Gerri Russell, author of Seducing the Knight
HOMETOWN STAR
*2010 Golden Heart Finalist*
60,000 Word Contemporary Series Romance
HGTV production manager Starlene White has spent her life trying to overcome what she calls her “white trash” childhood. Born to a mother that changed husbands like most people change their toothbrushes, and after having raised her three younger siblings, she’s made a vow to never marry, or have children. For Star, family is overrated—big time.
Cade O’Brien has always wanted a big family. A widower, struggling to raise his three kids while running a bed and breakfast/charter fishing business, he has his hands full. When he sends Star a letter, asking her to empty out her aunt’s trailer, he’s surprised when she shows up. And he’s even more surprised by the guilt and regret he feels at the way he treated her when they were kids. Cade sets out to make amends with Star.
But old hurts die hard, and Star is slow to warm to Cade, and even slower to warm to his kids. Yet, Cade refuses to give up, especially when he knows in his heart that this hometown girl is the girl of his dreams.
Together Cade and Star battle their way into love, only to discover that their vastly different views on having a family divide them. But once apart, Star’s forced to admit she’s not much of a Cosmo girl after all. Somewhere along the way, she’s fallen in love with a hometown guy and his kids. In the end, both Cade and Star will give and take to make this relationship work, because theirs is a love that can’t be denied, no matter what the cost.