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Welcome to Lake Howling!

If you enjoy your small town romance sizzling with a side of crazy, then Lake Howling is for you.
Meet the real authority in town - the local book club - and Jake’s interfering hot friends.
Swim (or skinny dip!) in the ice cold lake, then warm up with coffee and a mystery muffin at The Hoot Café.
​Plenty of feels and LOLS, all wrapped up in a town that will have you packing your bags to head there, from the very first page.



Reclusive. Grumpy. Irresistible.

Dr Jake McBride loves two things in life. His people, and chicken cheesy-crust pies. Returning from Iraq, he’s done with medicine and strangers… in fact life. He knows all about trauma, and plans on dealing with his, his own way.

​His needs are simple, solitude and working on his new career as the town recluse. The only problem with that… well two actually, are the interfering towns folk of Lake Howling, and Branna O’Donnell. He’s damn sure that her return means nothing to him… until it does!

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Hot. Rich. Annoying.

Helicopter pilot Ethan Gelderman V is a man who understands woman, both in and out of the bedroom. Annabelle ‘killer’ Smith seems to be the only lady who looks at him like he’s something she got stuck on her stiletto.

​Sexy, beautiful and colder than a glacier, she lives in the small town of Lake Howling alongside his best friend, and she has a lifetime supply of Texan repellent. But Ethan has one thing in his favor – persistence - and when he gets the chance to infiltrate her defenses he takes it, and to hell with the bite marks!
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Enemies to lovers. And dangerously hot buns.

Buster Griffin has zero tolerance for idiots. Annoy him and you’re cut from his life. Unless you’re a friend, then you get two strikes.

When Willow Harper from New York turns up in his home town of Lake Howling determined to meddle, he’s ready to move her on. The problems starts when her business woman persona sheds and he discovers the sweet, hot mess beneath. Before he knows it, he’s making plans to keep her.

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Latest Release! An exciting addition to the Langley Sisters series!


The Lady's Forbidden Love
(Book 7, Langley Sisters Series)

A lady in disguise

Betrayal is the one sin businessman Daniel Dillinger will not tolerate, so when sweet governess Abigail Wright reveals herself to be Lady Abigail Deville, sister of an earl, he vows to never cross her path again. However, he soon learns what led to Abby’s deception, and when he saves her from a knife-wielding villain, Daniel realizes he can no longer deny what is in his heart. Can he keep her safe? Losing her is not something he can contemplate.

One night of forbidden temptation

Living with four protective brothers and society’s restrictions forced Abby to sneak out of the house one night. Just one night of freedom would be enough, she’d believed, and that night had given her Daniel. When her lie is revealed, as eventually they always are, he keeps her secret, but she sees the anger smoldering in his eyes. When he is forced to protect her, Abby vows to make him look at her like he did that night once more, but to do that she must live long enough to ensnare his heart.




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The latest addition to the Sinclair & Raven Series
​is getting rave reviews! 


Destiny brings them together… but will love cause his downfall?
With his demons well and truly leashed, reformed gambler, Lord Nicholas Braithwaite is tasked with finding a missing baby. Needing help, it comes in the form of the woman from his visions. 

His preternatural gift has caused nothing but pain until now, so it’s a shock when his night-time angel is living and breathing. 

As determined and opinionated as she is beautiful, Alice Sinclair soon demands something from him he never thought he was capable of giving.

The passionate innocent soon masters his heart and Nicholas must face the biggest gamble of his life: risking love or losing her forever.

Alice is aware of her family’s legend but never believed it was her destiny to marry a dashing Raven. Until the day she rescues one.

Vastly different in experience and beliefs - where she is innocent, Nicholas is jaded - their growing attraction is irresistible. 

Priding herself on practicality, nothing has prepared Alice for Nicholas’ searing sensuality.

Before she realizes the depth of her feelings, she forces him back into the hell of his past. Now she’s convinced he’ll never forgive her because she can’t forgive herself. 

Will their dangerous temptation lead to heartbreak or forever?

The latest addition to the Sinclair & Raven series is out now!

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The Haddon Brothers: an exciting new Regency series

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The Earl's Encounter

Danger has stalked Milly for four years. A threat to the man she loved had her breaking her betrothal and fleeing London. Now fate has thrown her in his path once more, awakening feelings she had forced deep down inside. How can she protect him while trying to hide her love? Especially as he has no idea who she really is?

Joseph, Earl of Ellsworth, is furious. How could Milly believe that padding in her cheeks and a pair of glasses would stop him from seeing her as Lady Millicent Lawrence? The love he’d once felt for her was now replaced with searing resentment at her deceit. When the truth surfaces, along with the man whose threats orchestrated her flight, will they both have time to forgive the past and fight for a future together?

New Release in the Ryker Falls Series!

An innocent hiding in the shadows

Living on the sidelines has always suited Mandy Robbins but all that changes when Ted Hosking challenges her to step into the light.

For some reason the dangerously sexy Falls Lodge owner has decided to personally play a part in her metamorphosis.

She is determined not to fall for the taciturn man who has “commitment phobic” written on his forehead, but Ted is the only man who has ever seen the real her beneath the quietness.

​As her past comes calling, she realizes that with Ted it’s not just her heart that’s at risk … it’s her life.

Her big, bad protector

Ted Hosking has no problem with hard work or living in the spotlight; it’s what he knows and how he’s built his business. He’s a take-charge kind of guy, so how is it possible he has no clue how to handle Mandy Robbins?

She scares him. There’s no getting around that. Gentle, sweet, and shy, she’s Ted’s opposite in every way. There shouldn’t be any surprises in life, not for a man as jaded as he.

But when he leaves her bed after their first night together, everything changes. What he feels for her has the power to change the very foundation he’s built his life on, and that shocks him to the core.

​When danger looms and threatens Mandy, he knows that staying away for her protection is no longer an option. Their love has only just begun and he’ll fight with everything he has for her, no matter the cost.

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Read the entire Ryker Falls series

"Wendy Vella creates another town that I wish was real so I could go live there! I loved her Lake Howling series (which, by the way, I hope is not finished yet) and created the Ryker Falls series and book one was everything I hoped it would be. Bailey and Joe have that soul mate kind of love. They met when they were preteens and were separated for fifteen years! But that kind of connection doesn't disappear over time. " ~ Sabrina, Goodreads Reviewer

He was the bad boy no one trusted.

Bailey’s burned out, and unsure why she’s landed back in Ryker Falls, but has a feeling it’s got something to do with closure. Bad boy Joe Trainer was once her soulmate, but she wasn’t sure she had a soul anymore. Finding he’d made something of his life is a shock, as he’d been on a one-way trip to hell when she left. This new Joe is sexy and enticing, but she knows all too well there’s a devil underneath the urbane exterior.

She was the good girl who never broke the rules.

When Joe finds his childhood sweetheart, Bailey Jones, has returned to Ryker Falls, his life suddenly shifts from settled to off-center. Once they’d been closer than anyone ever guessed; now, they’re chilly strangers. But Joe’s not letting his stubborn, sexy-as-hell ex-bestfriend stay closed off. He lost her once through his own stupidity this time she's not getting away. Joe knows he doesn’t deserve a second chance, but he’s never played by the rules before so he’s not starting now. Game on.


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To keep himself safe, he trusted no one.

Sixteen years after leaving, FBI Profiler Dylan Howard is returning to Ryker Falls to see his
sick father. He doesn’t do emotion or friendship, this is about duty and nothing more. He
didn’t need to connect with the two sisters who were strangers to him, or catch up with his
old school buddy. The only problem with that is one sexy brunette called Piper Trainer. From
the start she’s determined to make him feel, determined to make him see how empty his life
is. He can feel himself changing, but then someone from his past surfaces and suddenly those
he cares for are in danger. He must keep them safe, but to do that he needs to push them
away and Dylan fears he’s not strong enough to do that for a second time.
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Trust was the only thing that kept her safe.

Piper didn’t need or want a hot, sexy man in her life, especially not when her best friend died
and she takes custody of her one-year-old daughter Grace. But Dylan Howard is like a burr
under her saddle and everywhere she turns there he is. She watches him try and remain
emotionless when faced with his family and friends but the cracks are starting to appear, and
the good guy surfaces. Just when she thinks that maybe there could be a chance for them, he
pushes her away. Piper takes refuge in her family, but too late, she realizes that she’s given
Dylan her heart. Now she must fight for her happiness with the only weapon she has: love.

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Facing the demons from her past is hard ...

Leaving her beloved hometown Ryker Falls was the second hardest thing Rory Haldane had ever done. Forgetting the cloud of shame her family left under, was the first.
When circumstances bring Rory back, wounded but not broken, some townsfolk don't appreciate her arrival. As threats against her begin to escalate, she finds support from an unlikely ally. Jack Trainer may epitomize the dark handsome bad-boy, but surprisingly he takes her side, and she finds herself falling for a man who has no intention of losing his heart to anyone. This is one battle Rory refuses to fight, so for her own protection, she'll once again say goodbye to Ryker Falls.

...but resisting Jack Trainer is impossible.

Jack Trainer likes women, he just never had any intention of loving one. Life taught him to guard his heart, and when Rory Haldane walks back into town he’s ready to ignore her. The problem with that is, he also hates injustice, and the way some of the people in his town are treating her has his hackles rising. He's not exactly the stuff heroes are made of, but Rory has his protective instincts on high alert. And his libido. He wants more, way more, from her than a passionate fling, but will Rory drop her guard enough to trust him?

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A Promise Of Home
is out now on audio!

"I  think I am ready to move to Lake Howling. I fell in love with the town and it's inhabitants. Jake and Branna's story is one of overcoming a past of emotional scars. Jake returned from Iraq with PTSD and gave up practicing medicine. After losing her mother and becoming estranged from her father, Branna has distanced herself from most people. Together they are able to heal and become the people that they were meant to be. I love this author's writing style. All of her characters are well developed and easy to relate to..." ~ Amazon Review

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Regency With A Paranormal Twist!

"The Sinclair & Raven series is a unique spin on sexy Regency characters with paranormal senses.  What a breath of fresh air for readers. Not too much woo-woo stuff - just a hint to keep it interesting! Move this to the top of your TBR pile! ..."

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