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His Mortal Enemy Second Chance Bachelorette

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Looking forward to the holidays already?

Do you find yourself humming Christmas songs?

Are you ready for a season of Hallmark-Style Romances?

If so, I have something for you!

The first of three Holiday Romances (released under my pen name Karly Stratford) is out today!

They are all small town, second chance romances set during the holidays.

This is the story of Flint and Brenna. Mortal enemies since their first spell-off in kindergarten and bitter rivals to this day…but now something has changed.

Can their life-long rivalry lead to love?

Or will it end in a holiday disaster of epic proportions?

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Professional running back, Flint Decker, is all set to break the season touchdown record. The only thing standing in his way is his mother’s determination to fatten him up over Thanksgiving. When he rescues his life-long rival—how come he’d never noticed how beautiful she was before?—from falling down the stairs he decides it might be time to put their dueling aside.

Brenna Simmons, just arrived from New York for the holiday, doesn’t remember Flint being quite so buff, and they’ve never had a pleasant conversation. Until now. When he invites her to help with the yearly community Feast she ignores him, determined to not rise to his silly challenge. Until Flint unleashes his charm.

Angry glares slowly turn to smiles, and quips to flirting. But when a clash of will threatens to rip their truce apart, they must decide if they are willing to sacrifice their pride in order to open their hearts, or will they fall into their old ways and lose this chance at love?

This is the first book in the Decker Family Romance Series.

 

 


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The Geeky Billionaire

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Anyone missing those Hallmark Christmas Movies?

I can help.

My new release (Under my Karly Stratford pen name) is out today!

I know none of you are shocked that I chose to write about a geeky guy.  I actually looked up billionaires (wanting to be somewhat authentic on how someone could make that much money) and found a couple of men who had built their fortunes on video game empires. With that in mind, Jimmy’s character was born.

He’s a geek with a heart of gold.
She’s a beautiful woman with a chip on her shoulder.

Can they look past their own prejudices and see one another for who they really are?

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Billionaire video game developer, Jimmy Martin, has a single goal for his week at the Coconut Island Resort; get everyone at the conference to play as much of his new game, H2O, as possible. Oh — and change the world by developing water systems through his game—just a tiny secret. What he doesn’t expect is the beautiful, frank, Caroline to be sitting at the back of the opening social, reading a Jane Austen retelling and eyeing the gamers with suspicion.

Caroline Price only goes to the social because her brother guilts her into it, but the caveat is when the third nerd hits on her she’s out. The first is handsome enough, has read all of the Jane Austen books, and can almost carry on a normal conversation, but when he suggests that there was more to her last breakup than her ex playing video games all the time, she writes him off. Until he asks her to come to the team building activity the next morning.

After a dare that turns into a date, a race for crème Brulee and a romantic stroll along the beach, Jimmy is hoping Caroline is different from all the other girls he’s dated, and Caroline is wondering how many layers Jimmy has.

When tragedy strikes Caroline’s brother, and she believes Jimmy’s games might be the cause, they will both have to decide if they can look past the surface of the other to see what’s underneath.

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This is book three of four in this series. If you’re a clean romance fan, check out the rest of the stories!

The Second Chance Billionaire

He tried to stop her wedding 6 years ago! She tried to forget their past! Will they get their second chance?

Ex-Navy SEAL and billionaire, Nash Kingston, has his laser focus on getting Coconut Island back on its feet after the devastating hurricane last year. When he arrives at the island for a fundraising business conference, the last person he expected to run into was the woman who broke his heart six years ago.

Needing space from her ex and time with her young son, Violet Moon has the perfect summer plans—a three-month position on the beautiful tropical Coconut Island. Plan A is ruined when she runs into the man who tried to stop her wedding six years before—the man she’s tried unsuccessfully to forget. Her new Plan B is to avoid him, which she thinks she can pull of because he’s only on the island for a week. Too bad he blackmails her into a date!

After a moonlit swim, a day sailing with Violet and her son, and the infamous date, Nash finds himself falling for the woman he was convinced he could never have.

Can they let go of the pain of the past and believe in second chances? Or will she slip away from him again?

 

The Guy Next Door Billionaire

A man who no longer trusts love!

A woman who has always loved him!

The larger than life movie star and billionaire, Noah Sullivan, only wants to kick some butt in the movie star training conference he’s in charge of on Coconut Island. Oh—that and take some time to enjoy his dog. After a drawn-out two-year divorce, women are just not in the cards for him … until he sees the only girl who ever put fire ants on him ten years ago—his best friend’s little sister and nemesis, Emma Archer.

The beautiful and talented, Emma Archer, doesn’t want to go to some island and take pictures for her brother’s business, it’s been a long couple of months trying to heal from the harsh words of her ex. Too bad her brother’s flattering words about being talented and all of that actually work. When her feisty Chihuahua almost gets eaten by a huge boxer dog—she’s hardly surprised when the owner turns out to be the boy who kept her out of the clubhouse ten years ago. Did he have to be so charming and … hot?

After accidental midnight rendezvous in the hot tub, running a Zombie 5K, and a kiss that’s supposed to be for show–Noah’s re-thinking his policy on NOT dating his best friend’s little sister.
When past demons surface, they have to make a choice: trust in true love … or walk away and lose the only real thing they’ve ever had.

 


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The About Face Groom

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I have a new release today!

My second book of the Last Play Christmas Romances is out here.

Today I thought I would tell you the story behind my pen name. I decided to use a pen name, because while my Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy books are pretty clean, they are not squeaky clean—like Hallmark clean.

I don’t know about you guys, but when I find a writer I like, I often read all of their books. An easy way to pick up negative reviews is by giving your readers certain expectations and then not fulfilling them.

For instance, Karly Stratford fans are now expecting sweet, clean romance books. That means no swearing, no sex (or even a mention of it really), and keeping innuendos and talk of beer and stuff like that to a minimum. The fans know what they want, and when they don’t get it, they get angry.

So, I didn’t want a new fan of Karly’s to jump into my Jagged Scars Series which has some mild swearing and a lot of fighting / violence. The books are not for the same readers.

That’s why I took a pen name for my sweet romance books. Next year I plan to put a book out for Karly every quarter. Certainly not as fast as most romance writers, but since it’s a secondary genre, I’m okay with it.

Some authors have a hard time coming up with a pen name, but this one came pretty easily to me. You see, my mom’s maiden name is Karlene Stratford. I thought Karlene was a bit old-fashioned, so I changed it to Karly.

Now my poor mom has had dementia for years, and while she still remembers most people, we can have the same conversation four times in ten minutes. So she doesn’t know I’ve borrowed her name, but I think if she knew, she’d be okay with it.

 

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How much would you bet on true love this Christmas Season?

Leon Reyes, tight end for the Denver Storm, plans to spend the Christmas break training and playing video games with his childhood buddies. His plans don’t change when quarterback Will Kent bets him to contact his first love and try to rekindle the flame, because his first love is happily married with two kids. What Leon didn’t count on was rescuing his back-door neighbor and junior-high crush, Sadie Jones from a dog attack. His friends then double-dog-dare Leon to bring Sadie to the block party, and Leon never backs down from a dare. The dare leads to a kiss, and Leon is swept away by things he’d forgotten about Sadie. Things he didn’t realized he wanted.

All Sadie Jones wants is a quiet Christmas to finish her business proposal and forget her jerk of an ex, Brian. When she hears Leon and his buddies in their back yard she goes over to tell them to shut up so she can work, but ends up getting attacked by a dog, and saved by Leon. When he asks her to the block party she accepts. When he kisses her she slaps him. When he decides to make it his personal mission to help her rekindle her inspiration for writing she begins to remember why she had a crush on him all growing up, and why she keeps saying yes when he asks her out.

When Sadie’s ex tries to take her proposal, and Leon sends his massive Twitter following after the guy, everything falls apart. Can they put their own issues aside and salvage their budding relationship, or will the Grinch get his way?

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