Artists & Billionaires
Contemporary Romance
What happens on dateless Friday nights when Candice and all her roommates are artists? They paint the walls, cabinets, stairs… The man who dares to enter the Art House may just fall head in love with more than the quirky house. Follow Candace and her roommates on their adventures.
Mending Fences With the Billionaire
The fence that brought them together now keeps them apart.
All Mandy wanted was a couple of photos. Instead, she has a broken foot, a bodyguard, and a crush on one of the most eligible businessmen in the country. Memories of a summer long past complicate her resolve to forget about her handsome childhood friend Danny.
Daniel Crawford isn’t sure what to do with his grandfather’s Indiana estate and is tired of high-pressure tactics from potential buyers. When he discovers a woman scaling the fence camera in hand, he determines to keep her off his land. He is surprised to discover his trespasser is the little girl who climbed the fence two decades ago to become his friend.
Struggling to find common ground, neither one can deny growing attraction. But with the paparazzi following every move and bloggers anxiously spreading rumors, can Daniel and Mandy mend the fences that have come between them?
Mending Fences won 2018 Recommend Read/Bronze Quill Award in the League of Utah Writers writing contest in the Adult Fiction category.
Mending Christmas With the Billionaire
One shattered window. Two bruised hearts. And twelve days until Christmas.
Stained-glass artist Tessa Doyle has sworn off men until the new year—and after the way her last long-distance romance ended, maybe longer. So when her ex tosses her a referral, she takes the job and nothing more: a 120-year-old Nativity window in tiny Blue Pines, New York, smashed by a runaway drone. It’s the last project she needs for her MFA, and it has to be finished by Christmas. Too bad no one told the church that “Doyle” is a woman—or that she’d be working for free.
Organ repairman Sean Cavanagh stopped believing in miracles the day his firefighter father ran into the South Tower, and he vowed never to risk his heart the way his mother did. All he wants this Christmas is to surprise Granda, the town’s beloved old reverend, by bringing back the Christmas Eve Messiah. But the money for the organ’s trumpet pipes just went to the window. And now the pipes have vanished.
Then a film crew shooting a holiday movie on the town square needs two extras, the director spots mistletoe, and one “stage kiss” turns into something neither of them planned. With a blizzard bearing down, Granda’s health failing, and Tessa’s car already pointed toward Connecticut, they have twelve days to learn what Granda has always known: some broken things can be mended—if you believe.
A clean, heartwarming small-town Christmas romance of mistletoe, miracles, and hearts made whole.
Mending Walls With the Billionaire
A struggling artist. A billionaire who values time more than money. A week in Haiti changes them both.
Months from graduation, Araceli Williams is sure she chose a useless major. Then a slideshow of Haitian orphans, and one fourteen-year-old girl’s guarded eyes, show her where art might matter. She scrubs campus bathrooms before dawn to pay her way onto the Evans Foundation’s spring-break service trip, armed with a plan to turn the orphanage’s bare cement walls into a gallery for the children’s own artwork. Then the foundation’s director is injured in a car accident, and her son takes over the trip: the boy who gave ten-year-old Araceli a nickname she’s spent years trying to forget.
Kyle Evans is being groomed to run the charitable arm of his grandfather’s Texas oil fortune, but his heart belongs to 120 Haitian orphans who care more about his curveball than his bank account. The women he dates can’t see past his money, and the two he brought to Haiti couldn’t get home fast enough. He’s resolved to find a woman who loves Haiti more than his fortune. He never expected her to be the girl who once dumped a bowl of lime Jell-O on his head.
When a run for paint supplies traps Araceli at an angry roadblock, her quick-thinking driver claims her as his American fiancée and seals the lie with a kiss. Now his jealous girlfriend wants Araceli gone, and Kyle’s solution is simple: for the rest of the week, Araceli will pretend to be his girlfriend. Pretending to like Kyle should be hard. Not falling for him is turning out to be harder.
A clean, heartwarming billionaire romance of childhood rivals, a pretend relationship, and the walls that fall when hearts are mended through service.
Mending Images with the Billionaire
Posing as the billionaire’s fiancée can’t be more dangerous than her bodyguard day job.
Abbie Hastings has taken down men twice her size and guarded America’s most famous. Taking a job to guard a billionaire’s fiancée is nothing new until the prospective groom gets jilted, again.
#Prestoned is trending as the newest term for being dumped and Preston Harmon is not amused. After losing several girlfriends to a stalker, he is desperate to salvage his reputation and life. Seeing how well Abbie works undercover gives him a plan to end the misery.
Masquerading as Preston’s fiancée is all part of catching the stalker. Abbie can guard the man, but can she guard her heart?
Mending Words with the Billionaire
Every one of her roommates has married a billionaire. Zoe Wilson has no intention of being next
Indiana farm girl Zoe Wilson has landed the graphic-design internship most students only dream about: four months at one of New York’s top agencies. She’s in the city to build a career, not a love life. Two years ago, the people she trusted most didn’t believe her, and she’s kept men at arm’s length ever since—especially rich, charming ones like the groomsman her friends keep pushing her toward.
Nick Gooding has office towers, a penthouse at the Plaza, and a family name that opens every door in Manhattan. What he doesn’t have is a woman who wants him and not his money. Zoe doesn’t want his money. She doesn’t even want his help. So Nick settles for friendship, and for rescuing her from a leaking gas stove, a missed subway transfer, and a city that has no idea what to make of a farm girl who smiles at strangers.
Puns, ice cream, and an upstate apple festival slowly lower Zoe’s guard. Then a man at work proves exactly why she raised it, and the past she buried comes roaring back. Nick has billions, but the words Zoe needs most cost nothing: I believe you. Then a national news blunder splashes Nick’s name across a false assault headline—and names Zoe as his accuser. Zoe knows how to fight off an attacker. She has no idea how to fight a story. Can she stop running long enough to let love mend what careless words have broken?
A clean, heartwarming billionaire romance of a country mouse in the big city, a hero who believes her, and the courage to be believed.
Mending Hearts with the Billionaire
Candace’s ten-year plan has two flaws: year eleven and Colin.
At sixteen, Candace Wilson overheard a doctor give her ten years to live. So she made a ten-year plan and a bucket list and checked off every line, celebrating each cancer-free year with a bright new wig. Now she’s twenty-seven, healthy, and completely lost. Her roommates have all married and moved on, her commissions have dried up, and she has no idea how to live a life she never expected to have.
Billionaire programmer Colin Ogilvie can debug any line of code, but he has never kissed a woman. He has, however, counted every one of the 512 days he’s spent in Candace’s friend zone. When online research and a marathon of romantic movies fail him, Colin and his friend Nick hatch a plan: hire Candace to restore a rare two-story antique carousel in Chicago, close enough that Colin might finally work up the courage to ask her on a real date.
As Candace coaxes the old merry-go-round back to life, she discovers love notes hidden inside its carved swan and begins to wonder if her own story might not be over after all. But falling for Colin means trusting him with the scars no wig can hide. Is she brave enough to plan for a future she never thought she’d have?
A clean, heartwarming billionaire romance of friends to lovers, a hero who counts everything, and a heroine learning that some plans are worth rewriting.
