Carmen DeSousa

Excerpt: “Are you still at the movies? You can finish and meet me at Starbucks when it’s over.” Jaynee spoke the words nonchalantly as if she couldn’t fathom the notion he had been waiting all evening to see her. “Are you kidding?” he burst out. “I hardly even know what I was watching. I’ll meet you at the restaurant. You haven’t left yet, right?” “No, I have about fifteen minutes. I have a couple—” “Good.” He cut off her words. “I’ll come and get you.” He hung up the phone before she could argue. He didn’t like the idea of her walking out to her car alone. She was strong-willed and probably never asked for an escort. How many calls had he received where a waitress was attacked leaving work? Real-life predators knew tipped employees walked out with cash money. With Jaynee it was doubly tempting, as she looked appealing too. Download  She Belongs to Me  in Print or eBook Formats: Amazon Amazon UK Barnes and Noble I love talking abou...

When what seems like a normal pit stop turns to more than just gas and food, a lost couple finds themselves searching for the truth of a twenty-year-old mystery that may cost them their life. Enjoy this brief prologue and then follow the links for your free copy. Prologue     The ancient train-car looked innocent enough, but the lack of surrounding cars gave Gino Canale pause as he opened the door of his silver rental. The GPS Sheila and he had been using had directed them off the highway in search of gas. But there were no gas stations around, just this one structure in the outskirts of this Northern California town. Sheila opened her door, but he waved her off. “Stay in the car. Let me check this place out.” As usual, she did what she wanted and jumped out anyway. “I have to go. I’ve had to go since that last exit you ignored.” “Fine,” Gino replied, walking toward the entrance, Sheila on his heels.  He listened for sounds, but heard noth...

First Kiss By Bernadette Marie Promises made as children have a funny way of working themselves into reality when fate is orchestrated for them as adults. Olivia Baker wants the best life for her young son, and that meant raising him in the small town she grew up in, but where her past still haunts her and rumors drip from the tongues of the local gossips. Cade Carter moved away from Aspen Creek the moment they handed him his high school diploma. Now a washed up ex-professional football player he’s headed back after his father’s death to settle the estate of the man he’d left and forgotten about. The friendship Cade and Olivia shared so many years ago is just now a haunting memory. People changed and moved on. Secrets were kept and loved ones around them buried with them. But when they are thrown back together to face the reasons their friendship faltered, and forces greater than them are in charge, anything can happen with the person whom they shared their F...

Book Description: Ebony is a smart, sexy, career-oriented black woman who wants nothing more than a summer fling with a man who challenges her mind and body. What she doesn’t expect is a blond haired, blue-eyed bass player—who won’t take “no” for an answer—to accept the challenge. When Ebony’s attempt at a brief fling turns into more, despite negative reactions from friends and family, she finds juggling love, family, and career are nothing compared to the ultimate betrayal she endures. Now her dreams spiral into lies and secrets that threaten her future and her best friend’s trust. My Review for A Heart Not Easily Broken . As always, I just tell you why I like. No spoilers—ever! Love is Colorblind Besides the romance, the tragedy, and the triumph, I think one of the things I love most about M.J. Kane’s story is that the non-acceptance doesn’t come from where you think it will. What we see in A Heart Not Easily Broken  are two people with a mutual...

Jordan has just met Jaynee and he knows she's had a horrible past, but he wants to assure her that he's the one person who'll never hurt her. But how can he convince her that in such a short time? Excerpt: Jordan set his dessert down, sighed, and then gently cupped Jaynee’s face with both hands. She sucked in a mouthful of air as if preparing for impact. What did she think he was going to do? Someone had hurt her badly. He planned to find out, but first he needed to assure her he wasn’t some schmuck who only wanted to take advantage of her. “Jaynee, I don’t know how to say this without scaring the heck out of you, or myself for that matter. But I am not pretending anything. And I am definitely not interested in a one-night stand. I don’t know how this is going to work, but I…all I know is I want—” He pulled her face to his, kissing her softly once, twice, a third. As she parted her lips inviting him in, he kissed her deeper, passionately. They fit toge...

I love reading. I’ve been reading as long as I could hold a book and writing as long as I could hold a pen . And I read almost everything, as long as it is not too graphic in any  manner .  When I started reading novels in the early eighties, I found a means of escape and loved it. I would literally devour a book in one to two days. In the nineties , I got a little busy with babies and work, but I still read. Then as the kids grew up, I started reading again with a passion. Only problem ... something had changed. It seemed that someone told the authors that I’d loved that if they didn’t throw in an erotic scene or violently  murder someone , I wouldn’t be interested. Maybe it was just me, but publishers that easily turned books into PG13 movies so the general-public could watch didn’t think that readers wanted the same thing. Two examples: Kiss the Girls and The Time Traveler’s Wife . I liked both of these books, but … I would have loved th...

Book Description: Gabriel Maguire thought he'd buried his past until the night he met Holly, only to lose the woman he cared about, again. Holly Jacobs has always put the cart before the horse. A prodigy who shot to stardom in textile design, she never knew a normal life—and there's nothing she longs for more than to be normal. Sometimes the only way to get where you need to be is to put the cart before the horse. My review for Cart Before the Horse .  As always, I just stick to why I liked. No spoilers—ever! I love when I feel a character's passion--and pain. Though it seems the title gives away the plot of the story, it really doesn’t. Bernadette still managed to reveal surprises throughout the entire novel. The characters were likeable, even when I felt like yelling at them, as I usually do when I want them to get their act together. Always a good sign when an author has me fussing at her protagonists. There were several powerful and emotional ...