The Bride's Secret (35 page)
(Texas Heroines in Peril Series)
The child she gave up for adoption eight years ago is missing, and Ava Simpson is convinced his life is in danger. Only one person can help her find the boy: Blake Tranowski, the birth father of the child. If only she can forge the courage to tell him of the existence of their son. . .
The anger Blake felt toward Ava when she dumped him nine years ago can't touch the fury he experiences when she makes her shattering revelation. Even more shattering is Blake's discovery that the boy really has gone missing. Why hasn't the adoptive father contacted the police? How is the man involved with a Mexican drug cartel? Is their son even alive? As Blake and Ava race against the clock to find their son, others are intent on stopping them. Even if it means killing them.
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Capitol Offense
(Texas Heroines in Peril Series)
As speech writer to the Texas lieutenant governor, lovely Lacy Blair accidentally stumbles onto a high-level fraud involving state funds and masterminded by her boss. Since she can't risk snooping into the situation herself, she secretly consults with an FBI agent who agrees to help her investigate. Soon afterwards, she realizes she is being watched, and the FBI agent has been killed.
Terrified for her own safety and hungry for justice, she flees. But where can she turn? Who can she trust? Her former lover, Mike Talamino, is the only person she could ever count on. But will he agree to help her? Can she endanger him, too?
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Falling For Frederick
(Contemporary Romantic Suspense)
(Originally released as a Kindle Serial)
Her second day doing doctoral research in the basement archives of Siddley Hall, England's grandest Tudor home, American Antonia Townley finds the hall's curator with a knife plunged into his chest. Police suspect Antonia of being the killer because of two insignificant—to her—reasons, the first being the pesky matter of her fingerprints on the murder weapon. Then there is the unfortunate email she had sent to her sister saying she would kill for the curator's job.
Hunky bachelor Frederick Percy, Lord Rockford of Siddley Hall, learns that the curator was on the trail of the Percy family monstrance, the most valuable monstrance in England before Henry VIII's Dissolution. It had been believed the family melted the gold and redistributed the monstrance's jewels after the Dissolution. Frederick becomes convinced the curator's death is tied to the priceless artifact and finding it before the killer does can free Antonia from suspicion of murder—and just might save her life. For protecting the beautiful Antonia against the menacing forces working against her has become rather an obsession for Frederick.
As Frederick and Antonia crisscross England seeking information on the Percy Monstrance, someone is stalking her every move. She hopes to God Frederick's not behind these threats because she's pretty sure she's falling in love with him.
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A Summer to Remember
(3 American Historical Romances)
Award-winning, multi-published author Cheryl Bolen turns her attention away from the British Isles to craft three achingly romantic tales set in nineteenth-century America:
THE FOUR-LEAF CLOVER
A Novella (23,000 words) 101 Pages
Originally published in mass market paperback in 2004 (Fourth of July Picnic anthology)
Norman Sterling, the wealthy mayor of Peace, Missouri, shocks himself at his town's Fourth of July picnic by proposing to the beautiful Mildred Gresham, a beauty he's worshipped from afar for more than six years. Equally as shocking is Mildred's quick acceptance. If only he were possessed of a silver tongue, if only he could tell her how truly he loves her.
Millie comes alive in Norman's arms, but her reticent husband never tells her he loves her. As he grows more distant she is tormented that he loves another. Will she ever be able to secure her husband's love?
---"Cheryl Bolen's Four-Leaf Clover is too adorable for words." Mrs. Giggles
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MAN IN THE SURF
A Novella (21,000 words) 80 Pages
Originally contracted by Zebra Books for the By the Beautiful Sea anthology
Since seeing Jake Madison stride gloriously naked into the moonlit Galveston surf, Elyse Bonham, daughter of the island's wealthiest man, has lost her heart to the handsome island visitor. But how can she convince her overprotective father that Jake is worthy of her hand?
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THE PICTURE BRIDE
A Short Story (1,400 words)
He had selected her to be his bride based solely upon the picture of her in her kimono, the picture taken back in her village before the long, miserable ocean voyage which would bring her to the man who would be her husband. . .
The Picture Bride is a prequel to Cheryl Bolen's beloved historical novel IT HAD TO BE YOU.
It Had To Be You
(A World War II Romance)
The kind of book that you think about afterward. . .They [hero/heroine] grip your heart and make you weep. –
In Print
It is definitely one for the keeper shelf. – Margaret Lawrence
I highly recommend It Had to Be You for an all-consuming and powerful love story. –
Romance Communications Reviews*
Best Mainstream Novel – Golden Triangle*
Runner-up Best Mainstream Novel – Book of Your Heart*
Runner-up Best Historical – Now and Then*
Runner-up Best Historical – Show Me More*
*under various previous titles
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The time is 1937. Journalist Dianne Castle mixes with Hollywood's elite post-Prohibition hedonists at the popular Club Borneo, owned by handsome Japanese American, Johnny Honda. Amidst the threat of war and chants of Yellow Peril, Dianne and Johnny fall in love, but it's a love not to be.
How can Johnny let his beloved Dianne throw her life away on the likes of him?
Dianne stubbornly vows to follow him to the ends of the earth-even if it means entering an internment camp.
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