Alicia Rasley

The tragic mystery at the heart of their family has finally surfaced . . . When Presbyterian minister Ellen Wakefield O'Connor is confronted by a young man armed with a birth certificate that mistakenly names her as his mother, she quickly sorts out the truth: his birth mother listed Ellen on the certificate to cover up her own identity, but also because Ellen is, in a way, related to the child. The birth father is Ellen's troubled husband, Tom. The secrets of the past soon engulf Ellen, Tom, and everyone they love.

The Year She Fell

Make Your Story Come to Life

The Power Of Point Of View

Lynn Kerstan

The plain sister of society's most sought-after lord, Gwen is used to being ignored, until she is rescued by the dashing, enigmatic, and ghostly Valerian Caine, a Georgian rake killed in a duel who has been granted a second chance if he can right the sins of his past. Original.

Gwen's Christmas Ghost

Putting aside all thoughts of her impending marriage to the infamous Duke of Cumberland, Princess Tatiana journeys to England for a brief vacation and finds herself falling for Lord Devlyn, her handsome escort. Original.

A Royal Escapade

Jordan McCollum

IS YOUR CHARACTER WORTHY OF YOUR READER? CHARACTER SYMPATHY hooks your readers and gets them on your character's side from the very start. Often we think of sympathetic characters as those we love or envy or pity, but character sympathy runs deeper than simply liking or feeling sorry for a character. Sympathy in this sense is truly feeling what the character feels, worrying over the same things he worries about, and wanting him to succeed against all odds. If we can get our readers to fully sympathize and identify with our character, our readers will enjoy that journey with our character and then clamor for more. CHARACTER SYMPATHY will help you: - Learn what events, actions and characteristics create true sympathy for a character. - Engineer your character's motivations and goals to maximize her sympathy. - Avoid clichéd methods for creating reader identification. - Foster sympathy for heroes, antiheroes, villains and everyone in between. - Observe and analyze master storytellers' techniques to create character identification. Character sympathy isn't automatic or easy, but it's necessary for readable fiction. Applying these principles can strengthen any story and any character. Hook your readers with a character they can really root for!

Creating Characters Your Readers Have to Root For

Character Sympathy

Every Character Has a Voice Point of view isn't just an element of storytelling–when chosen carefully and employed consistently in a work of fiction, it is the foundation of a captivating story. It's the character voice you can hear as clearly as your own. It's the unique worldview that intrigues readers–persuading them to empathize with your characters and invest in their tale. It's the masterful concealing and revealing of detail that keeps pages turning and plots fresh. It's the hidden agenda that makes narrators complicated and compelling. It's also something most writers struggle to understand. In The Power of Point of View, RITA Award-winning author Alicia Rasley first teaches you the fundamentals of point of view (POV)–who is speaking, why, and what options work best within the conventions of your chosen genre. Then, she takes you deeper to explain how POV functions as a crucial piece of your story–something that ultimately shapes and drives character, plot, and every other component of your fiction. Through comprehensive instruction and engaging exercises, you'll learn how to: • choose a point of view that enhances your characters and plots and encourages reader involvement • navigate the levels of a character's point of view, from objective viewing to action to emotion • craft unusual perspectives, including children, animal narrators, and villains A story changes depending on who's telling it, and The Power of Point of View will help you determine which of your characters can make your story come to life.

Make Your Story Come To Life

Reluctant Lady

Dawn Aldridge Poore

Nina Porter

Cindy Holbrook

Emily Maxwell

A collection of Valentine's Day romance stories features the tale of a renewed marriage proposal, the arrival of several unsigned Valentine's cards, and a ghost writer of Valentine's verses who falls in love with a customer. Original.

A Valentine's Day Tangle

Their secret tryst at the Brighton Inn is interrupted by a man from the past.... and a murder unsolved. Can she rely on a man she has never trusted? It's a decade after Napoleon's defeat, but the war still haunts even the victors. Linked by family and by grief, divided by social class, Russian widow Natasha and navy doctor Matthew have lived for years in mutual distrust. But when she's suspected of killing a man from her past, she reaches out to Sir Matthew for help. It takes both his medical training and her intuition to solve the mystery of the murder at the Brighton Inn-- and the secret of her own troubled past. By Alicia Rasley, the award-winning author of The Year She Fell and Until Death.

A Regency Csi Mystery

Tryst at the Brighton Inn

Jennifer Sawyer

A collection of Yuletide romance stories features the tale of the woman who asks a male friend to pose as her husband in order to prove that she can provide a home for her orphaned nieces. Original.

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