My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas Helm
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What readers have said about Keeping Secrets!
**This was a page turner from page one. The heroine quickly gets into your head and into your heart! Thorughly loved it and was wanting more after the delicious ending!
** One of the best books I've read in awhile. Couldn't put it down once I picked it up. Great work.
It is my hope that as you read my novels you dread beginning the last chapter! ~ RitaDurrett
 ...KEEPING SECRETS
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In the coming-of-age novel, Keeping Secrets, three-year-old Caitlyn Grant’s mother passed away and left her living with the step-father. Now she is seventeen and pregnant. She fears being forced to get an abortion if her stepfather finds out. He doesn’t know yet, and if she can help it, he never will. Gathering courage from her mother’s childhood lessons of faith, Caitlyn goes to school as usual one morning and just disappears.
Facing the world as a runaway, she has the challenge of hiding from her step-father and keeping her past hidden from those in her new world. She is desperate to find a home, safety and security. What she does find is a formidable, rugged and handsome Forest Thompson. He wants to be a part of her life, but there are so many things she can't tell him. How many secrets can a young girl keep without being found out?
Keeping Secrets is a story of courage, determination and, most of all, it is a story of love.
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SMUGGLERS IN PARADISE |
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Megan West just wants a relaxing vacation but when she meets Travis Mankiller
all of that changes. Her luggage is stolen, death threats overheard, and hot passionate sex engaged in before she has even boarded the cruise ship. The dark headed, brown eyed stranger is rude, arrogant and probably dangerous but she can’t help but fall in love with him. Red, the curator seems so much safer and is very willing to take care of Megan. She just doesn’t want him. She wants Travis and he wants her, for whatever reason. So, she is his. But Megan doesn’t know if she can rely on Mankiller to protect her or if his kiss will be the kiss of death.
Travis has missing art and artifacts to find and some little minx keeps getting in his way. He’d love to get rid of her but she is the key to his suspect and to his heart.
Together they embark on an adventure of mystery and intrigue; but the overriding theme is of love, romance and passion as hot as the tropical background in which it is set.
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THE CALYPSO PRINCESS |
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Maria Fuentes, a beautiful med student from the economically depressed island of Cuba, is kidnapped and smuggled to Nassau aboard the Calypso Princess. Fearing for her life, and desperate to protect herself from being ravaged by her captors, Maria takes advantage of the protection offered by one of her guards. She has no way of knowing if the protection he offers is real or just a ploy to have her for himself. She decides to follow her heart.
Kyle Alexander is a teacher, a very good one. He has sought and been offered a summer job teaching English at a school for women in Nassau. When he accepts the job he is told his first assignment will be to board the Calypso Princess and help the crew go pick up cargo. He expects the cargo to be food, books or tools but their shipment turns out to be kidnapped women.
Kyle knows that he is in over his head. What he has done will get him thrown in prison or, at the very least, he will lose the teaching license and career he has worked so hard to achieve. His first inclination at returning to port is to hightail it back to the safety of his quiet Oklahoma life. The rub to that solution is that he has fallen in love with one of the captives. Now he can’t get her out of his mind and finds he is compelled to risk his life to save her.
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