Author: sandrasookoo
Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Career-minded Agent Daphne Taylor is in crisis mode. A pregnancy test comes back positive, but when she’s tapped as a competitor on a cooking reality show, her stress level spikes. Vowing to keep the baby news secret, especially since the father is her partner, Jason, she throws herself into the case to find a murderer. Geek and tech guru Agent Jason … murderer. Geek and tech guru Agent Jason Patterson has been assigned the lead on this new case. Daphne’s involvement in a cooking competition is all fun and teasing until a freak accident reveals a…
Special Agent Mitchell is feeling the pressure now that his best friend and fellow agent is engaged. He’s been dating Sam for almost a year but has yet to pop that all-important question and there’s disappointment in her eyes when he remains mum on the subject. Samantha Arnold is a woman on a mission. If her man won’t take that next step, then she’ll just ask him to marry her. Except, things … Except, things aren’t that simple. Somewhere between the euphoria from having a literary agent request her book and picking out a ring for Mitchell, Sam lands in the…
Engaging the heart instead of the fists can often make a more powerful statement.Miss Louisa Harcourt’s life isn’t exactly what she’d envisioned for herself. Widowed by the war, she returned home to protect her younger brother from domestic threats, but that put her into the soup as well. After constantly rebuffing unwanted attentions, she’s wearied of living in fear. Knowing something must be … must be done, she hires someone who can teach her the skills she needs to defend herself—a champion in fisticuffs—but her trust in men has been dented.Mr. Cecil Carrington, fourth son of a viscount, is a…
Sometimes, the romance of a lifetime starts with one perfect night.It’s the year 1885 and the world has just begun giving up its ancient secrets. Miss Charlotte Blakely is a librarian in Rome. She’s researching evidence of the fabled Veil of Veronica, but her time abroad is drawing to a close. Her viscount father is dying and has called his children home, yet a chance encounter with a stranger … with a stranger one balmy night might change her direction.Mr. Everett Desmond is the English ambassador to Rome. He’s dashing and would have been daring had he gone down a…
Agent Kevin Herriman wants praise from his boss, who’s also his best friend. He’s working his first case as lead, but things aren’t going well. Not only does he consider it far from exciting, it also comes with a strong-willed female civilian who might be mixed up in exotic animal smuggling.Carlie Noblett lives determined. Dealt a sight impairment at a young age, she’s fought for what she’s … what she’s wanted. Now a substitute teacher who works at a pet shop part time, what she wants is romance and a little adventure. Except a run-in with the swaggering agent isn’t…
A holiday to remember… if they can survive.Good things are happening in Samantha Arnold’s life. She’s moved into a house in the big city and her first romance novel is almost published. This holiday season she intends to celebrate, especially since it’s her first Christmas with her boyfriend.Special Agent Mitchell is ready to settle into his life at the Bureau after being sent on a globe-hopping … a globe-hopping working vacation, but at the airport, he’s met with news that chills his blood—one of the most dangerous criminals he ever put behind bars has been released due to a clerical…
Sometimes, the greatest truths of life come on a midnight clear. Major Cecil Stapleton is struggling with his new life as a civilian after nearly twenty years in the military. Wounds received in the Battle of Toulouse left him angry, disfigured, and sent him home to England. All he wants now is to retire to the country and be left alone, especially since it’s the Christmastide season. Finding his … Christmastide season. Finding his old lover in his cottage leaves him at sixes and sevens… and perhaps wanting more. Widow Sarah Presley has worked hard to conceal her existence in the Buckinghamshire…
Sometimes long-held secrets are the very things that will eventually lead to freedom.Lady Amelia Jane Coventry-Smythe wants nothing more than to shut herself away to mourn in private all the people she lost from her life over the years. Unfortunately, peace is not hers, for the one man she never hoped to see again has just landed in her parlor by mysterious circumstances, with an invitation to … invitation to her Christmastide house party in hand… and her addiction to him flares anew.Cornelius Matthew Edgerton, Marquess of Winchester, is perplexed thanks to the arrival of holiday invitation. He hasn’t heard…
Revenge is never as sweet as the ability to find peace. The Honorable Olivia Beaumont, eldest daughter of Viscount Hereford, wants revenge. Following an ill-advised game of faro with a powerful duke, her father lost everything and then suffered a fatal heart attack. Now she wants that man to pay and suffer as much as her father did. But the only way she can do so is to enlist the help of the most … help of the most shunned man in the ton—the disgraced Duke of Skeffington. It matters not that he’s sinfully handsome, for she has a job to…
Being embroiled in an FBI sting isn’t exactly conducive for book research or warm fuzzies—or is it?Samantha Arnold, prep cook and struggling romance novelist, believes adventure is right around the corner. Trouble is, nothing exciting happens in the small town of Newburg, Indiana. When a routine trip to pick up chicken results in meeting a guy too well-dressed to be a farmer, she can’t help but … farmer, she can’t help but hope things are about to turn.Special Agent Patton Mitchell isn’t exactly enjoying his stint in the farming community. The property he’s using as a home base adjoins that…