Lucy Red Riding Hood and Wolf
A forbidding man in black opens Grandma Hoods door when Lucy and her daughter arrive. Wolfgang Bergermyster isn’t pleased to have his plans thwarted by a sunshine haired woman wearing a flashy red cape. Despite his reasons for being there (replacing her aunt’s old house with a condo complex) Lucy vows to find a more likeable side to the man with the long, slim nose and glistening white fangs, er teeth, that draw her daughter’s attention to his bushy eyebrows and prickly-looking moustache. She seeks to discover why the man and daughter are hurting behind snarly manners. Though Lucy suffered at the hand of a cheating, abusive husband, her personality remains bright and cheery and Wolf is desperate to experience her enchantment. Can they put aside their first impressions in this fairy tale re-enactment that might turn into a romance?
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Cynthia Gold and the Three Baers
While walking in a forest with their mother, Cynthia Gold’s children invade a home they declare is the house of the three bears, just like in the fairy tale. Sam Baer’s heart goes into overdrive when he discovers an enticing woman, with red-gold hair, asleep on his bed. Sam’s father dubs her Goldilocks and insists she’s the key to solving the family’s dilemma but Cynthia doesn’t like the marriage of convenience proposal he comes up with. When Sam balks, too, it appears they both have secrets concerning their previous marriages. But can they find love and happiness under family pressures and a fairy tale they seem to be re-enacting in an impossible romance genre?
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A Lil’ Bit o’ Train Romance
Imagine finding love at the end of a train journey. It happened back when steam trains belted across the newly opened Canadian wilderness. It still happens today. These are modern love stories of people who meet on the train, at a destination, or even on the train station platform.
In A Lil’ Bit o’ Train Romance, train robbers steal more than money, and a station mistress finds herself taking an unplanned ride, while a model train man finds an admirer. Santa Claus becomes the Christmas miracle, the gunslinger isn’t who he makes out to be, and a runaway finds a friend who becomes much more. A couple bond over popcorn for a second chance at love, and children appear in several of the short stories.
The Alberta Prairie Railway abounds with history that lends itself to the telling of these fictional stories by an author who still favors a ride on the vintage trains.
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Falling Through Time for Love
Nathan was an English butler—until he tumbled headlong through a black hole—and became a man nanny, fifty years into the future. He never wanted to be a butler, but teaching seven young boys to be gentlemen hadn’t been in his thoughts either, though learning to be a cowboy in 1928 appeals to him. So does the widow.
Snowy has reason to believe Nathan’s story. Her ranch hands soon respect him, her boys accept and adore him, and she finds herself falling for him, especially when he gifts his lucky stone to her. But in the face of interference and turmoil injected by her in-laws, might he prefer to return to his familiar life back in 1878 England?
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Love in time for Christmas
Ready to move into their newly purchased home, Jamison Baker and his two young girls discover the previous owner and her female boarders haven’t vacated. Until new accommodations can be found for the women their only option is to share the renamed house, Baker’s Harem…er, Haven. Jamison can’t imagine how he’ll live with thirteen females, especially the fiesty Kat Madison.
When the hot-headed new owner of a repossessed house turns up with two young children ready to move in, the previous owner realizes she’s at fault for the dilemma of eviction facing her boarders and herself. Katrine Madison bravely suggests they all share the house until accommodations can be found.
Construction company owner Jamison Baker, is not so sure he can survive in a house filled with young Christian women who are of an ilk he’s had little to do with. He wonders if he can come out unscathed and keep his past from coming to light.
Katrine presumes that the Lord expects her to show the devastatingly handsome man the way to Him but it soon becomes evident that Jamison has designs on her. With her secrets, she’s vowed never to let herself trust again and certainly won’t let herself love, either.
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Katrine and Jamison’s story is a sweet family oriented read which I thoroughly recommend —Victoria Chatham, author of historical and contemporary romances
Legend of the Djinni-of-the-Lake
In this supernatural fantasy, discover how three genies got themselves banished to a cold and forbidding lake, creating a series of mysterious events that become legendary to the mortals living there. The Legend of the Djinni-of-the-Lake is the prequel to the Mystery Lake Novel series of Djinni romances and tells each genie’s story and the influence they had on the love stories as the legend grows.
One of them tore open a volcanic vent in the lake and let a Fire Goddess in. She’s bent on ‘proving herself’ by destroying the lake and its surroundings, using wind, rain, and tsunami-like waves. The first and the second genies share a common physical trait that allows the fire goddess to thwart their efforts at expelling her, a deed they were ordered to accomplish in order to return home.
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Princess Shirra and The Banished Prince (A Mystery Lake Novel Book 4)
Arranged marriage? No way! One man holds Shirra’s heart already and he’s been banished despite a vision-inducing kiss that showed them to be soulmates. Her father, the Djinni King, warns the prince of far worse consequences than banishment for loving his daughter if Sully pursues their love.
Shirra is determined to discover the place of enforced solitude. Unintentionally, the King set Prince Sully up with a domain that includes Djinn, mortals and mixed- bloods, all needing his protection from a fractious Fire Goddess. He’s locked into a duty he won’t abandon.
If they can’t stand up to her father to unite in a rare love match in Mystery Lake, a land of freedoms, Shirra will be doomed to life in the harem of an aging, weak subordinate prince who uses potions and magic to control his wives. No matter the consequences to himself, Sully will fight for their future together. But who would have thought that it would be a jealous Fire Goddess that proves the most daunting foe.
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I love everything Raine Hughes writes. Though I’m not a fan of fantasy, the promise of a sweet romance got me started on reading the genie romance series. They’re funny and warm, just my kind of read. With this final of the Mystery Lake romance novel series, I think Hughes has wrapped things up nicely. Can’t wait to see what she comes up with next though she’s hinted – but I’m not allowed to tell yet! – Nandi Pearce-Wright, Educator and Fan
I’ve enjoyed the entire Djinni series, so far. Moments of fun and laughter, to the serious side of life, made the story a true page turner. Raine Hughes is adept in
weaving past story figures into the book for added tie in for readers. Definitely a magical read. — S.L. Dickson, author of – Kirk’s Promise
The Fire Man and a Fiery Lady (A Mystery Lake Novel Book 3)
Margiana Lovelock, called Firefly by some, is suspected of being an arsonist because she can anticipate fires. Despite being the progeny of two half-Djinni parents, she inherited no supernatural powers that would account for her ability. Could a redheaded newcomer with an obvious secret of his own—and an attraction to her he seems to be fighting—be the one to discover her secrets?
Divorced firefighter, Jack (Red) Carpenter, is an undercover fire investigator posing as a carpenter. He has a newfound fear, the result of a firefighting injury. He’s desperate to keep his phobia hidden, along with his Djinn ancestry. But his children adore the vivacious woman who rescues them from a fiery house explosion, then invites the family to share her home. So, what will happen if Jack falls in love with his prime suspect?
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I’ve enjoyed the entire Djinni series, so far. Moments of fun and laughter, to the serious side of life, made the story
a true page turner. Raine Hughes is adept in weaving past story figures into the book for added tie-in for readers.
Definitely a magical read. —S.L. Dickson, author of – Kirk’s Promise
The Fortune Cookie Prince (A Mystery Lake Novel Book 2)
Prince Omar, a proclaimed bachelor tricked into serving a mortal widow with a child, finds himself falling in love with his mistress, a woman who lives by the ‘fortunes’ found inside the twisted Chinese cookies she craves. His initial haughtiness at finding himself laboring for a mistress rather than a master, evaporates when she insists he be her business partner instead of a slave. He’s dismayed to find himself falling in love.
After the disaster of a marriage of convenience for mutual gain, Alfie is reluctant to allow any man to interfere with her new-found freedom. Plus, she has a secret she’s been led to believe will put any man off. Once they acknowledge their mutual love, she refuses to let the prince give up his royal title to remain with her. But, the prince is convinced that three special wishes will allow them to be together without jeopardizing his standing with the Djinn.
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I loved the way Raine Feldberg introduces her chapters in The Fortune Cookie Prince with proverbs from Chinese fortune cookies. Combined with her excellent visuals, the book presents a fun read. –Suzanne Stengl, author of A Wedding and a White Christmas
The Candle Princess (A Mystery Lake Novel Book 1)
Djinni Princess Jasmine’s supernatural powers seem to be flawed except for her ability with candles. She’s in danger of losing her royal title unless she can successfully serve a mortal. According to her father, it’s her mixed Djinni/mortal blood that is to blame and hopefully she’ll find a master willing to put up with her bungles. Being curious and impatient, Jasmine releases herself before a mortal can discover her urn and release her. She immediately meets with disaster.
Noah D’Ark investigates a rooftop snow slide and discovers a frozen body under the snow. He’s successful in reviving her, only to have the strangely dressed woman declare that she is his Djinni. The idea of enslaving anyone repulses him, he’s decidedly uneasy with magic and auras, and the attraction he feels towards the beautiful supernatural being is positively terrifying. But, she’s a Djinni without a home so he offers his until they can find her missing urn. Their time together is fraught with haphazard magic and undeniable attraction. She could lose her royal title in giving her heart to him, unless he can succeed in a bizarre wish-reversal challenge to win her right to stay.
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Raine Hughes spins a unique tale on the Djinni romance theme with her highly entertaining Candle Princess.
— Kimberley Cale, Author of the Sea Temptress Series.