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Cover reveal for the next Gansett Island book!

Many of you saw this in the back of Celebration After Dark, but just in case you missed it, here is the cover of the next book, DESIRE AFTER DARK, featuring Slim and Erin! Here’s what you can expect: Tobias “Slim” Jackson has the perfect life as a pilot on Gansett Island in the …

Marie Inspires on HooplaHa.com

I’m giving away some secrets in this new video recorded by the folks at HooplaHa.com, a great site that shares inspirational stories, including mine. You may not know that I was a somewhat lackluster student and my early rejections as an author counted into the hundreds. Well, don’t let me tell you too much. See …

The Entrepreneurial Ortons Are Impressed With Marie’s Business and Story-Building

Cabot Orton was a bit apprehensive. Just how risqué, he wondered, would this book inspired by his family’s Vermont Country Store be? Fortunately for the family reputation, Marie’s Green Mountain Series of books turned out to be “charming and sweet-natured” while still packing her hallmark hot romance. “We thought it was really flattering, actually, that …

Advantage: Author

My 17-year-old son Jake and I had an interesting conversation recently about technology and how it has evolved in positive and negative ways. Depending on your point of view, technology has enabled us to do so many new things we never could’ve dreamed of even ten years ago, and it has changed the way we …

It’s Release Week for Big Mac and Linda in Celebration After Dark

Thank you all so much for giving CELEBRATION AFTER DARK such a fantastic release week! Readers are loving the look back at how Big Mac and Linda came to be, and are finding out where the McCarthy boys come by their formidable charm! They’re also enjoying catching up with each of Big Mac and Linda’s …

On this day four years ago...

On this day four years ago... I self-published for the first time.To mark this amazing anniversary, I thought I'd share the story behind how I came to try self-publishing for the first time... I wrote seven books before I sold one in 2007 and ended up doing three books with my first publisher, who wasn't interested in the other books I had written. They rejected most of my earlier books, including Treading Water, True North, Fatal Affair and Maid for Love. Fatal Affair later sold to Carina Pr...

New McCarthy Book Out Tomorrow!

Take the ferry back to Gansett Island for yet another installment in the popular McCarthys of Gansett Island Series! Kisses After Dark features Shane McCarthy and Katie Lawry. Shane and Katie first came together in Gansett After Dark, when Shane saved her from a rip current and nearly drowned in the process. The sparks between them were evident from the very beginning and carry through in Kisses After Dark! Here's what you can expect in the new book:

She's avoided men all her life...
Growing up...

Available Today! I Want to Hold Your Hand, Green Mountain Book 2

Happy Release Day, Hannah and Nolan!
I haven't been this excited, nervous or filled with anticipation about a book release in a LONG time. I poured my heart and soul into Hannah and Nolan's story, I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND, out NOW. My fingers and toes are crossed that you all love it as much as I do! Not sure I will sleep tonight waiting to hear what you all think of it!


Make sure you also check out the print version, in stores this week, with a special bonus story A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, feat...

FREE Beach Read Today!

Get MAID FOR LOVE FREE TODAY!
With 675 five-star reviews on Amazon Kindle, MAID FOR LOVE is a fan favorite, and the perfect antidote to endless winter! Ready to put some sand between your toes? Get MAID FOR LOVE and read about what happens when hometown hero Mac McCarthy returns to Gansett Island and accidentally knocks a down-on-her-luck single mom off her bike. If you love Mac and Maddie in book 1, follow their story throughout the entire McCarthys of Gansett Island Series, now at 10.5 books...

Who Has Ten Kids? Well… Let Me Tell You!

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