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If you love gay romance that contains both heated passion and steadfast love, Love's Magic is for you! Professor Nate Reese rushes to protect a female student and is severely injured at the hands of her assailant. Traumatized by the attack, Nate sets his feet on a no-holds-barred path of activism designed to force university officials into addressing the issue of on-campus assault. At the same time, terrified of losing his hard-won status at the university, his partner, David Gardener, a veteran of 12 years as a very popular Professor, is reluctant to support Nate's militant efforts. Seemingly abandoned by his partner, Nate sees David's aversion to his activism as indifference to the trauma he suffered. Day by day they watch as their relationship disintegrates, while still struggling to resolve the disruptive issues engulfing the school they love.

In the meantime, Irishman Colin Campbell, handsome and charismatic Sergeant for the campus police force, fights his own on-going war against campus assault. But behind his obsessive desire to gain justice for victims lies a devastating secret which could forever destroy his fiercely independent facade and expose his deepest fear. Ultimately, it is Colin’s powerful connection to a steady, dark-eyed Title IX consultant which threatens to tear down his defenses and shatter the barriers protecting his heart.

Cocky and irresistible, the dynamic police officer was everything Joshua Abrams had ever longed for in a man, but Colin simply didn’t ‘do’ relationships. Unless Joshua would settle for a one night stand, or a very short-term liaison, there was no room for him in Colin’s life. Yet even knowing this, he couldn’t keep himself from falling hopelessly in love with his ‘magic man’. Despite the passion between them, he knew his quiet, reclusive nature could never hope to entice the vibrant, freedom-loving Irishman, so eventually he begins to back slowly away.

Eventually, a disagreement over an oddly disturbing case causes Colin’s hot Irish temper to erupt and their relationship is irrevocably shattered. Heartbroken, and convinced that Colin is gone forever, Joshua flees Charlottesville without a word, leaving Colin adrift and inconsolable.

But Joshua Abrams hadn’t merely stepped over the indelible line Colin had drawn between his heart and the dangers of real love, he had burned through it like hot lava. Finally forced to acknowledge his love for Joshua and his desperate need to have the quiet, Jewish man by his side, Colin must now face the dark and long-suppressed memories which are irrevocably linked to his love for the handsome consultant. Without even a forwarding address to guide him, he vows to find Joshua and bring him home. Colin’s struggle to conquer his pride and fear in order to find the love of his life and achieve their happily ever after will touch your heart.

Four lives in turmoil fighting for the relationships they cherish, and at the heart of the struggle, a great university struggles to survive its most harrowing challenge.

Please Note: This book contains adult language & steamy adult activities, it is intended for 18+ Adults Only.

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I am very excited to announce that Love's Magic is now available on Amazon.

I have to admit that I fell completely in love with the characters who inhabit Love's Magic. Meet Colin Campbell, my handsome, dynamic, over-the-top sexy Irish police officer. Colin is a man who refused to ever allow love and intimacy to touch his heart. As a result, no one was more surprised than he when his normal 'love-um-and-leave-um' attitude hit a brick wall named Joshua Abrams.

Unlike Colin, Joshua is , steady, introverted, and longing for commitment. Although head over heels in love with Colin almost from the moment they met, he firmly believes this love can only lead to heartbreak. At yet, Joshua proves to be the one man who can break down Colin's emotional barriers and open his heart to the kind of magic that love can offer.

The freedom-loving Colin never expected to fall in love and certainly had no clue how to handle it. Consequently, when his hot Irish temper created a horribly destructive explosion between them and Joshua flees to his home in Illinois without a word or a forwarding address, Colin found himself lost and adrift.

His struggle to overcome his pride and Irish ego and seek out the love of his life touched even MY heart!I hope you'll check out Love's Magic and meet Colin and Joshua for yourself. These two charismatic men personify the idea of 'opposites attract', but their love story will touch your heart. 

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What can I say about Colin? He flew out of my imagination full grown and as cocky as they come. Irish to the core of his soul, he's been a Police Officer with the University of Virginia Campus Police force for ten years. He is the Sergeant in charge of the 'Special Assault Unit' and as the head of this unique department he deals with some of the most harrowing cases in Charlottesville.

On campus he's a legend, known as much for his tender compassion toward victims for his iron-cold loathing of their attackers. He roars into campus trouble areas on his motorcycle, putting every student within earshot on notice. They'd be wise to cooperate and foolish to resist.

His professional life revolved around helping these victims, supporting them through their pain and despair, seeking justice for the crimes committed against them. His personal life consisted of one-night-stands and short term liaisons which allow no closeness what-so-ever. He's handsome, arrogant, brilliant, and sings like an angel fallen straight from heaven. Fiercely protective of his independence and totally un-interested in romance, he is a poster boy for the hardcore bachelor existence.

The last thing he wanted, expected, or needed was a brown-eyed, studious, slow talking, Title IX consultant named Joshua Abrams who walked into his office and his life, turning everything he'd ever believed about love inside out.

I love Colin. I felt his confusion as he began to realize that Joshua had become more than just another casual sex partner. I felt his pain when the terrible memories which had created his emotional barriers began to awaken within him. And I felt his fears both of losing his freedom and of losing Joshua crushing him until his bright Irish spirit was nearly extinguished beneath the weight of the complex emotions warring within him.

He's a complicated, intensely charismatic, deeply confused soul who both desperately needs Joshua's love and desperately fears his surrender to it.

Watching him during his journey was both troubling and exhilarating. I so much wanted him to have his happy ending, but even I, the author, was unsure at times if he'd permit it to happen. I had to let him guide me, and there were moments when his fear nearly won out over his need for Joshua's love.

I hope you'll read 'Love's Magic' and come to know Colin the way I do. I think if you do, you'll love him too. He truly is unforgettable.


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Meet the heroes of 'Love's Magic'! Introducing Joshua Abrams!


Joshua Abrams's early years were something out of a nightmare. His alcoholic father treated him with both physical and emotional abuse until, when he was eight years old, his mother put out a warrant for the man's arrest and he subsequently fled to Canada.

This heartbreaking beginning created a man who was frightened of love, reticent in relationships - even with his family -, and inclined to retreat from intimacy. His fear of abandonment and poor self-esteem was a stain on his heart that made trust nearly impossible and love difficult to accept.

Hoping to understand himself as well as help others, he pursued his career as a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) with single minded determination, cutting himself off from family, friends, and his Jewish heritage. Quiet, scholarly, and painfully shy in social situations, he found comfort in books and retreated to them whenever life became to real… too threatening.

His meeting with Colin Campbell, was a bolt of lightning to his heart. The dynamic Irish police officer was everything Joshua was not. Cocky and charismatic, he dragged Joshua out of his shell and into a relationship which Joshua knew didn't have a prayer. No one could tame the wild and independent Irishman. He'd made it perfectly clear that he didn't 'do relationships'.  But knowing that didn't keep Joshua from falling hopelessly in love.

My heart ached for Joshua as he struggled to navigate the roiling waters of his relationship with Colin. He knew from the very beginning that 'commitment' was not a word that would ever be found in Colin's vocabulary yet, in spite of this, his own heart was already given over to the handsome Irishman. This, for Joshua, was a journey without any destination other than heartbreak and I constantly tried to put myself in his shoes as he struggled to step away from his feelings for Colin.

Retreat was often Joshua's default tactic when the fear of abandonment and betrayal loomed over relationships, and though it broke his heart to do it he began to back away, refusing Colin's invitations, distancing himself from any contact other than necessary work-related meetings. And yet, even as he went through the motions of physically distancing himself from the charismatic Irishman, he knew that escaping from his feelings an entirely different matter.

Joshua is a man who is very internally directed. He views everything through the lens of his own self-doubt. He looked at Colin through eyes which were wide-open and filled with a combination of awestruck adoration and utter terror. He knew this man was his weakness. He knew this was exactly the kind of man who most appealed to his reticent heart. And he knew that this was the kind of man who would never - could never - give him the kind of commitment he yearned for.

And yet he couldn't help but take the first tentative steps which swept Colin to the center of his life. Even the inevitable heartbreak couldn't deter him. His overwhelming need to be close to Colin, even if the affair was short-lived, drove every other consideration from his mind.

And yet, his experience with Colin only served to reinforce his inner doubts and lack of faith in himself. Convinced by his childhood that he was unworthy of love, it took the greatest heartbreak of his life to prove just how wrong he had been all along.  Colin was his 'Magic Man', but the true magic only became apparent when their relationship lay irreversibly shattered at Joshua's feet, leaving him with nothing but memories of the love which neither time nor distance could destroy.


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David Gardener, Professor of Revolutionary War History at the University of Virginia for over twelve years is beloved by students, admired by faculty, and sought out by university administrators. He has moved past the pain of a cold and critical father and his own fears about his sexual identity to become one of the most popular figures on campus.

Before meeting Nate, David avoided romance, building his life has around his two daughters and his successful career. A quiet and unassuming man who loved his garden and kept to himself, David had learned to live with loneliness.

But the beautiful and talented Nate Reese awakened the long-buried spark of attraction with frightening force. David’s yearning to form a relationship with the young associate producer was matched only by his fear what this new attraction might do to his now-settled life.

But Nate possessed the kind of open and loving heart that David instinctively knew could lead him to healing and peace. Struggling to find a way to safely connect to Nate, David is repeatedly torn between the safety of solitude and the frightening thought of embracing his needs in spite of the potentially threatening consequences. Eventually though, he begs Nate to take a position at the University of Virginia and Nate happily agrees.

Their differences resolved and more in love than ever, they embark on their life together only to have their new-found happiness threatened by forces almost beyond their control. Nate’s traumatic encounter with a knife blade during an on-campus assault moves him to a position of leadership in an activist movement called ‘End Assault’.

David is devastated by Nate’s attack, but can only see disaster for his career if he pursues this militant course. Frightened of the potential consequences he is reluctant to support Nate's efforts while Nate, feeling abandoned by his partner, sees David's aversion to his involvement as indifference to the trauma he suffered.

Both men have valid points of view, but peace between them will require one of them to care more about being happy than he does about being right. Will the love they share be enough to see them through the complex and divisive issues which threaten not only their relationship, but the university they both love? Read Love’s Magic and find out!!


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I was asked by someone who read Love's Magic why I tackled the subject of campus assault in my manuscript. They commented that the subject matter seemed tricky and further added that writing a book which featured TWO unique gay couples seemed like dangerous territory for a first-time novelist. In fact that one aspect of Love's Magic has drawn more attention than almost any other from readers and reviewers alike, which rather surprised me.

I can only say this. As someone who has been an assault victim I felt the subject needed discussion. And since I was attempting to offer as many viewpoints as possible on how victims and the persons close to them experience and deal with such a dreadful ordeal, I needed the perspective of both my couples in order to best explore the full range of possibilities.

But Love's Magic is also a love story. These four men have each found someone who has become… or is becoming… the most important person in their lives. For David and Nate, it's an already established relationship that gets rocked to its core when Nate is attacked. For Colin and Joshua, it's working their way past some incredibly high, deep emotional barricades, particularly in Colin's case, which make finding and keeping that relationship damn near impossible. And all of these issues revolve around the personal experience each of them has had with some form of abuse.

The four main characters in Love's magic had to deal with assault and abuse, each in their own unique way, and no one of them handles it quite the way the others do. Each of these four men are stumbling toward their own healing and eventually share the best of what they've learned along the way with the other three. I needed every single one of these men in order to tell the story that needed to be told. Each of them saw the issue from a different perspective. But before they could find the healing they needed they each had to learn to see it through each other's eyes.

I wanted to talk a bit about each of the four main characters.

Colin is the cop. He deals with every kind of assault on a daily basis as the man charged with finding and arresting the perpetrators of these crimes. But it also is a deeply personal issue for him for reasons which he will discuss with no one. There is pain buried deep within Colin that no ones sees, feelings he has suppressed for most of his life. But when Joshua cracks open his heart everything comes pouring out, and not all of it is good.



Joshua was abused as a child. He was physically assaulted by a drunken father who broke Joshua's arm when he was eight. He knows what it's like to be locked in a dark closet and left alone for hours with no food, no light, no help. He became a Doctor of Psychology in order to help others who had suffered as he had, but also to find his own healing. He could see more easily into Colin's heart than he could into his own. And in helping the man he loved find healing, he also found healing within himself.



David was never physically abused. But he was assaulted emotionally and verbally by a cold and critical parent and grew up completely unable to believe in his own worth. These issues haunted him for most of his life and were the primary reason why his marriage failed. His father's voice was still in his ears, directing his life through constant criticism of everything David did and became. The psychological damage David suffered kept him closeted for many, many years. His relationship with Nate led him to the therapy he needed and at least a partial healing.



Nate was never abused in any way. He had an almost ideal childhood. But he fell in love with a man whose self esteem had been badly damaged by a father's coldness and constant criticism and had to learn how to cope with David's resulting insecurities as their relationship grew. When Nate went to the rescue of a student who was under attack on the Tog, a park on the university campus, he was badly, though not critically, injured. The trauma he suffered then was the catalyst which eventually drew all four men together.



No two people experience life in the same way. It's a unique journey for all of us. And when it comes to dealing with abuse in any form, and there are many, it often takes more than one perspective to lead us to the healing we need. Love's Magic explores many of those pathways through the lives of four exceptional and dynamic men. I hope you'll get to know them all. I think their stories will touch your heart.