When he wasn’t at the office running his multi-million dollar corporation, he’d physically exhaust himself by helping out at the Wild Creek Ranch, his family’s ranch. He didn’t have time for frolicking little girls right now.
Feeling claustrophobic, he strode to his massive mahogany desk and saved the lines of gaming codes he’d been working on when his supplier had called. With concentration completely shot, Cole switched gears. Time for open-spaces.
He packed up his laptop and left his office. The hum of his secretary’s computer tower was the only noise emanating from that floor. Since it was the weekend, only he and a few security guards graced the halls of McCall Enterprises. A routine he found both preferable and profitable.
When his father had retired three years ago, he’d handed Cole a very lucrative business. Since then, he’d added PC games to their list of marketable software. Between that addition and his almost constant work ethic, Cole took pride in the fact he’d increased the holdings and net worth of McCall Enterprises by almost a third.
He was young, successful...and miserable.
Cole stopped dead. Where the hell had that thought come from?
Shaking his head, he stepped into the elevator. Must be from lack of caffeine.
To clear the unwanted thoughts, he focused his attention on his Masters problem. By the time he reached the garage, he’d reasoned out a solution. Another smile cracked his lips. He’d promised his mother he’d be there when the girls arrived, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t work around the ranch.
Something always needed mending or a chore needed attention. Connor, his older brother by one year, ran the Wild Creek Ranch. The two thousand plus acres were not only home to the McCall’s, but housed over a thousand head of cattle, five prize winning bulls and twenty horses ranging from Quarter to Stallions. And even though his brother employed full-time ranch hands, Connor always welcomed the help.
Feeling slightly better, Cole left the underground parking garage and began his daily sixty-minute southern commute over familiar roads to the ranch. Slipping his sunglasses on, he made a mental list of the things he wanted to accomplish and, visitors or not, he would get them done. Then at least the day wouldn’t be a total waste. He’d make it to the ranch by noon and, with any luck, he’d be dirty and grimy by the time the girls arrived.
That should be enough to keep them out of my way.
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Harland County Series
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Book .05: Harland County Christmas-Novella
Book One: Her Fated Cowboy
Book Two: Her Unbridled Cowboy
Book Three: Her Uniform Cowboy
Book Four: Her Forever Cowboy
Coming soon:
Book Five: Her Healing Cowboy
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Harland County Series
**NOR Reviewer Top Pick – Night Owl Reviews**
Book One: Her Fated Cowboy
L.A. cop Jordan Masters Ryan has a problem. Her normal method of meeting a crisis head-on and taking it down won’t work. Not this time. Not when fate is her adversary. Having kept her from the man she thought she’d always marry, the same fickle fate took away the man she eventually did. Thrown back into the path of her first love, she finds hers is not the only heart fate has damaged.
Widower and software CEO, Cole McCall fills his days with computer codes and his free time working the family’s cattle ranch. Blaming himself for his wife’s death, he’s become hard and bitter. When his visiting former neighbor sets out to delete the firewall around his heart, he discovers there’s no protection against the Jordan virus. Though she understands his pain and reawakens his soul, will it be enough for Cole to overcome his past and embrace their fated hearts?
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Harland County Series
**NOR Reviewer Top Pick – Night Owl Reviews**
**Predator & Editor Top 20 Romance 2013**
Book Two: Her Unbridled Cowboy
Homeless and unemployed thanks to an earthquake, divorced California chef Kerri Masters agrees to head back to her hometown to help plan her sister’s Texas wedding. It must be her weakened state that has her eyeing the neighbor she used to follow around as a child. Her tastes tend towards gentlemen in suits, cultured, and neatly groomed— not a dimple-glaring, giant of a cowboy. He’s big and virile, and makes her want things the inadequacies brought out during her divorce keep her from carrying out.
Connor McCall’s brotherly feelings for the pesky former neighbor disappear when the grown up version steps on his ranch in her fancy clothes and shiny heels. Too bad she’s a city girl, because he has no use for them. Three times he tried to marry one, and three times the engagements failed. He’s not looking for number four no matter how much his body is all for jumping back in the saddle and showing the sexy chef just how it feels to be loved by a cowboy.
Turns out the earthquake was nothing compared to the passionate, force of nature of an unbridled cowboy, and Kerri learns far more about herself, and Connor, than she ever expected. But when events put his trust in her on the line, will he choose his heart or his pride?
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Harland County Series
Book Three: Her Uniform Cowboy
*BST Magazine Red Carpet Book Awards-Reader’s Choice Nominee*
*Crowned Heart of Excellence – InD’tale Magazine*
**BEST COWBOY in a Book/Readers’ Choice-LRC**
**NOR Reviewer Top Pick – Night Owl Reviews**
Desperate for change after a verbally abusive relationship, Brandi Wyne leaves a symphony career, her family, and the Poconos to fall back on a designing degree and a chance to renovate a restaurant/pub in Texas. Even though part of a National Guard family, she’d sworn off military men when the last one proved less than supportive of her thyroid condition and subsequent weight gain. Too bad her body seems to forget that fact whenever she’s near the very hot, very military local sheriff.
Texas Army National Guard First Sergeant Kade Dalton never planned on becoming Harland County Sheriff or the attraction to a curvy, military-hating designer from Pennsylvania. Heavy with guilt from the death of a soldier under his command during a recent deployment, and dealing with his co-owned horse ranch and a bungling young deputy, it's hard most days just to keep his sanity. But it’s the Yankee bombshell who threatens not only his sanity, but tempts his body...and his heart.
Does he really have the right to saddle Brandi with his stress issues? And if so, can he take a chance on the town’s newest resident not abandoning him like others in his past?
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Harland County Series
Book Four: Her Forever Cowboy
*BST Magazine Red Carpet Book Awards-Reader’s Choice Nominee*
*NOR Reviewer Top Pick – Night Owl Reviews*
**Voted July’s Read of the Month/Readers’ Choice-SSLY**
Shayla Ryan, longs to put down roots to create a stable environment for her baby girl and her younger sister, but the threat of her abusive, ex-con father finding them has made that almost impossible. Harland County, however, holds a lot of appeal, especially in the form of a Casanova cowboy with eye-catching good looks and easy charm. Those two qualities took her down the wrong road before, and though the sexy cowboy interferes with her pulse, she can’t let her heart get in the way of the safety of her family, or give it to someone who doesn’t believe in forever.
If there’s one thing software vice president, Kevin Dalton, loves more than puzzles, it’s women. Size, shape, race doesn’t matter as long as they don’t want a relationship—he’s not looking to repeat th
e past. Until two beautiful redheads drop him to his knees—one with her cutie-pie smile, the other with her elbow. Too bad the elbow-toting beauty is both hot and puzzling. A killer combination too strong to resist. And without realizing it, the redheads slowly rewrite the code around his heart.
But when the danger from Shayla’s past shows up, can Kevin rise to the challenge to keep them safe and really be what they need? A forever cowboy?
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Holly’s stay in Harland County, Texas is limited. She’s only there to help run her uncle’s ice cream business while he recuperates from an operation. Her home is in Colorado. Her life is in Denver. Her dream job is in Denver but won’t be if she doesn’t get back before her leave of absence runs out. Everybody knows this, but apparently her heart and body didn’t get the memo because they spark to life whenever her uncle’s smoking, hot doctor is around.
The cowboy isn’t looking for a relationship. She isn’t staying. Perfect set up for a fling. What harm could there be?
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Please visit the cowboys of Harland County
Her Healing Cowboy
Harland County Series: Book Five/Jace
Coming May 2015
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Citizen Soldier Novels
Harland County Spinoff Series
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Book 1: Wyne and Dine
Coming Feb 2015:
Book 2: Wyne and Chocolate
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Citizen Soldier Series
Book One: Wyne and Dine
*NOR Reviewer Top Pick – Night Owl Reviews*
Lea Gablonski has two dreams: To work at a museum in NYC, and to gain other-than-sisterly attention from her best friend’s brother. So far, she’s 0 for 0. Though her MA in History is just a wall decoration at her family’s diner where she’s working while her dad recovers from surgery, she enjoys her visual encounters with the sexiest man alive—even though he would sooner pat
her on the head than take her to bed.
Military born and bred, Battalion Supply Sergeant Benjamin Wyne thrives on order and control in his fulltime career in the PA National Guard, and in his personal life. But when he’s forced to ask his childhood sweetheart’s younger sister to pose as his girlfriend to thwart unwanted advances from his boss’ wife, his world turns chaotic. Lea is sweet and hot and tastes so damn good he’s addicted. When the attraction takes on a new level at his sister’s wedding, his carefully guarded heart begins to thaw.
But he’s seen many relationships go south. If he takes a chance and gives up control, will Lea be like her sister and leave him for a career in the big city? Yet, if he doesn’t, will the best damn thing to ever enter his life become history?
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Please look for the upcoming release of
Wyne and Chocolate
Citizen Soldier Series: Book Two/Mason
Take one kindhearted chocolate confectioner, add one sexy, brooding National Guardsman, and you have a recipe that equals missteps, hot embraces, and a match made in chocolate heaven.
Coming February 19th , 2015
NOW Available for Pre-Order
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Cowboy-Sexy
Honky Tonk Hearts Series with
The Wild Rose Press
by Donna Michaels
**4 Star RT Magazine Review*
**NOR Reviewer Top Pick**
**Going Global! Currently being translated into other languages through UMade, starting with Japanese**
Finn Brennan was used to his brother playing practical jokes, but this time he’d gone too far--sending him a woman as a ranch hand, and not just a woman, but a Marine.
When Lt. Camilla Walker's CO asks her to help out at his family's dude ranch until he returns from deployment, she never expected to be thrust into a mistaken engagement to his sexy, cowboy twin--a former Navy SEAL who hates the Corps.
The Corps took Finn’s father, his girlfriend and threatened his naval career. He’s worked hard for another shot at getting back to active duty and won’t let his brother’s prank interfere. The last thing he needs is the temptation of a headstrong, unyielding, hot Marine getting in the way.
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She Does Know Jack
A Romantic Comedy MysterySuspense
by Donna Michaels
**NOR Reviewer Top Pick**
Former Army Ranger Capt. Jack ‘Dodger’ Anderson would rather run naked through a minefield in the Afghan desert than participate in a reality television show, but when his brother Matthew begins to receive threats, Jack quickly becomes Matthew’s shadow. As if the investigation isn’t baffling enough, he has to contend with the addition of a beautiful and vaguely familiar new contestant.
Security specialist, Brielle Chapman reluctantly agrees to help her uncle by going undercover as a contestant on the Meet Your Mate reality show. Having nearly failed on a similar assignment, she wants to prove she still has a future in this business. But when the brother of the groom turns out to be Dodger, the only one-nighter she ever had—while in disguise from a prior undercover case—her job becomes harder. Does he recognize her? And how can she investigate with their sizzling attraction fogging her brain? Determined to finish the job, she brings the case to a surprising climax, uncovers the culprit and meets her own mate.
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Time-shift Heroes Series
Book One: Captive Hero
**2012 RONE Awards Nominee Best Time Travel**
**NOR Reviewer Top Pick**
**2013 Reader’s Crown Finalist**
When Marine Corps test pilot, Captain Samantha Sheppard accidentally flies back in time and inadvertently saves the life of a WWII VMF Black Sheep pilot, she changes history and makes a crack decision to abduct him back to the present. With the timeline in jeopardy, she hides the handsome pilot at her secluded cabin in the Colorado wilderness.
But convincing her sexy, stubborn captive that he is now in another century proves harder than she anticipated—and soon it becomes difficult to tell who is captor and who is captive when the more he learns about the future, the more Sam discovers about the past, and the soul-deep connection between them.
As their flames of desire burn into overdrive, her flying Ace makes a historical discovery that threatens her family’s very existence. Sam’s fears are taken to new heights when she realizes the only way to fix the time-line is to sacrifice her captive hero...or is it? Can love truly survive the test of time?
Time-shift Heroes Series
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Book One: Captive Hero
Book Two: Future Hero
Book Three: Unintended Hero
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