The Konigsburg Books
Konigsburg is a typical (although mythical) Texas Hill Country town. Tourists are its principal industry, meaning it specializes in wonderful food, quaint bed and breakfasts, and a couple of local wineries.
This particular Hill Country town also specializes in tall, broad, good-looking guys--the Toleffson boys. Transplants from Iowa, the four brothers--Cal, Pete, Lars, and Erik--are all looking for the good life, Texas style. And naturally that involves finding Ms. Right.
The Books
Long Time Gone, Erik's story, is about redemption. Can a former bully and petty criminal find a new life on the right side of the law, along with acceptance from the people who matter most--his family? Long Time Gone is available from Samhain Publishing.
Be My Baby, Lars's story, shows that anybody can be a hero, even an accountant, if he's got the right inspiration--a beautiful widow and her baby son who need protection from some very nasty kidnappers. Be My Baby is available now from Samhain Publishing.
Wedding Bell Blues, Pete's story, shows you that you can still find the love of your life, even if you're involved in the Wedding From Hell. Available now from Samhain Publishing
Venus in Blue Jeans, Cal's story, is the tale of a girl, a guy, a Chihuahua and a whole lot of Texas Hill Country craziness! Available from Samhain Publishing in ebook and in print.
Long Time Gone
A future with the woman of his dreams is within his grasp...if the past will stay that way.
Erik Toleffson wasn’t looking to become Chief of Police. He’s got enough trouble trying to rebuild his relationship with his three brothers who, until just recently, ran the other way when he approached. He’s not the bully they grew up with, but bad memories are tough to overcome.
Morgan Barrett is as worn out as a vat full of crushed grape skins. She never planned to run Cedar Creek Winery, but there’s no one else to shoulder the load as her father recovers from an injury. All she needs is a little sleep. Just a five-minute nap in the booth at the Dew Drop Inn...if that guy across the bar would stop staring at her as if putting her head down on the table is a crime.
After Morgan yawns in Erik’s face, there’s nowhere to go but up. With time, though, their relationship warms like a perfectly blended Bordeaux. Until the shady mayor digs into Erik’s past and dredges up information that could drive a permanent wedge between him and his brothers—and sour any chance of a future with Morgan.
Read an excerpt from Chapter 1.
Be My Baby
Available Now! There’s no room in her life for love. Love has other ideas…
If Jessamyn Carroll had only herself to consider, staying in Pennsylvania after her husband’s death would have been a no-brainer. Her vindictive in-laws’ efforts to get their hooks into her infant son, however, force her to flee to a new home. Konigsburg, Texas.
Peace…at least for now. She’s even found a way to make some extra money, looking after sexy accountant Lars Toleffson’s precocious two-year-old daughter. She finds it easy—too easy—to let his protective presence lull her into thinking she and her son are safe at last.
Lars, still wounded from enduring a nasty divorce from his cheating ex-wife, tries to fight his attraction to the mysterious, beautiful widow. But when an intruder breaks into her place, and Jess comes clean about her past, all bets are off. Someone wants her baby—and wants Jess out of the picture. Permanently.
Now Jess has a live-in bodyguard, whether she wants him or not. Except she does want him—and he wants her. Yet negotiating a future together will have to overcome a lot of roadblocks: babies, puppies, the entire, meddling Toleffson family—and a kidnapper.
Read Chapter One.
Excerpt 2 - Jess and Lars get together.
Wedding Bell Blues
Janie Dupree will do anything to make sure her best friend has the wedding of her dreams, even if it means relinquishing what every bridesmaid covets and never gets—the perfect maid-of-honor dress. Problem is, family drama as tangled as a clump of Texas prickly pear cactus threatens to send the skittish bride hopping aboard the elopement express.
Janie could use a hand, but the best man’s “help” is only making things worse.
Pete Toleffson just wants to get through his brother’s wedding and get back to his county attorney job in Des Moines. He never expected to be the engineer on a wedding train that’s derailing straight toward hell. Janie’s the kind of girl he’d like to get close to—but her self-induced role as “Miss Fix-It” is as infuriating as it is adorable.
If they can just fend off meddling parents, vindictive in-laws, spiteful ex-boyfriends, and a greyhound named Olive long enough to achieve matrimonial lift-off, maybe they can admit they’re head-over-heels in love.
Read an excerpt from Chapter 1 at Samhain.
Read about Pete and Janie's first kiss.
Venus in Blue Jeans
Coming off a broken engagement to a lying charmer, all bookstore-owner Docia Kent wants is a fling, not a long-term romance. And for her fabulously wealthy and fabulously nosy parents to butt out of her life for a while. The Texas Hill Country town of Konigsburg looks like the perfect place to get both. Especially when she gets a look at long, tall country-vet Cal Toleffson.
Cal has other plans for Docia. One glance at the six-foot version of Botticelli’s Venus, and he knows he’s looking at the woman of his dreams. Now if he can just fend off the "eccentric" characters of Konigsburg long enough to convince her romance isn’t such a bad idea.
One night of mind-blowing sex isn’t the only thing that leaves them both stunned. Someone’s up to no good, and Docia is caught in cross-hairs. Once again she finds her trust tested—leaving her wondering if she was ever meant to have a happily ever, after all.
Read Chapter One!