Hellfire, Texas Books

Becket Grayson, rancher and volunteer firefighter assists a damsel in distress when her car catches fire on a dry country road near Hellfire, Texas. When he discovers she was his little brother’s classmate and is running away from an abusive ex-boyfriend, he offers to help. Kinsey Phillips is desperate to get away from her ex-boyfriend who is a mean drunk with a habit of beating her whenever he feels like it. When she heads back to the only home she’s ever known, her old high school crush comes to her rescue. With the help of Becket and the entire Grayson family, they struggle to keep Kinsey safe when her ex-boyfriend comes to reclaim her. Warning: Things are heating up in Hellfire, Texas.

Her groom was a no-show at her wedding. Dallas debutante Phoebe Sinclair isn’t going to face her family and the hundreds of guests with the news. Taking nothing but her wedding dress, her grandmother’s locket and her fiancé’s rented convertible, she leaves the church, determined to get away and start a new life free of her society status. Foiled by a flat tire near Hellfire, Texas, she opens the trunk for the jack, only to discover a deadly secret, just as a sheriff’s deputy pulls up behind her. When sheriff’s deputy Nash Grayson, lends a helping hand to a runaway bride, he doesn’t know half of what he’s getting himself into. Not only is she sassy and independent, she’s beautiful, sexy and wriggles her way past the protective wall he’s built around himself since he returned from the war. When she’s targeted by a shooter, he’s assigned protective duty until the culprit can be caught. Close quarters and hot Texas nights bring the unlikely pair closer to the truth about her ex-fiancé and their own burgeoning desires. Warning: All hell's breaking loose in Hellfire, Texas

Divorcee Rider Grayson left his high-powered job at a multi-million-dollar firm in Dallas, retreating to his hometown of Hellfire, Texas to start over. A mechanic in his own auto repair business and a volunteer firefighter, he just wants to be left alone to do what he does best, fixing things. Selena Sanchez has daydreamed about Rider Grayson since she was a little girl growing up on the Grayson Ranch as the foreman’s daughter. She accepts she’ll never have him as they come from completely different backgrounds and cultures. They are worlds apart even though they work practically across the street from each other. When a turf war flares around the convenience store, Rider steps in to protect Selena and discovers the little girl who dogged his teenaged footsteps is all grown up and one hot little spitfire. Together they feed the flames of their passion while fighting the factions who would tear them apart in Hellfire, Texas. Warning: Flames are spreading in Hellfire, Texas.

PREQUEL to Playing With Fire In an attempt to seduce a younger firefighter, a sexy widow gets a lesson in burning desires by the firefighter’s badass partner Widow Lola Engel owns the only fancy shoe store in Hellfire, Texas, but selling shoes to housewives can be a tad boring. To add a little spice to her life, she sets her sights on the young Chance Grayson, a firefighter she’d like to light up her sheets. Only when she sets the stage for a sexy rescue, Grayson’s partner takes the call. Daniel Flannigan doesn’t have the patience to play games. He’s a serious firefighter and he has a problem with trumped up calls that take time and effort away from real emergencies. When a particularly sexy widow cries wolf once too often, he takes the call with the intention of teaching the woman a valuable lesson. In the end, they might both be schooled when the heat rises, igniting a flame neither expected to burn. Note: This is a Short Story, not a novel.

What started as a way to teach a young firefighter a lesson on what an older woman has to offer, Widow and designer shoe store owner Lola Engel’s hot little class on love has taken a turn for the worse. Her best and only student, Daniel Flannigan, drops out of school and avoids her altogether. Not that she intended on making her teaching career a fulltime job. But at least she’d hoped for a few weeks of distraction before classes ended. Unfortunately, her smokin’ hot firefighter has lost interest, now Lola is determined to turn that trend around, whatever it takes. When his past catches up to him, Daniel knows he must cut all emotional ties to anyone who means anything to him, or risk that person becoming a target of a stalker with a vendetta against him. If that means pushing the woman who lit a fire deep inside him to the back burner, so be it. Lola has never been relegated to back-burner status and has no intention of remaining on the sidelines. When she wants something, or someone, she goes all out, wearing her best designer shoes. Where Daniel is concerned, Lola knows she’s playing with fire and leaving her heart exposed to an inferno that could consume her.

Former Army Ranger Chance Grayson takes chances like his name. He’s the wild child of the Grayson brothers. After his 4th tour to Afghanistan and Iraq, he left the military and returned home to Hellfire, TX. An adrenaline junky he’s afraid to slow down, afraid the memories of war will catch up. He rides a motorcycle and lives at the ranch when not at the fire station. Army dog handler, Kate Bradley, left the military and adopted her military war dog. She hired onto the sheriff's department on the condition the dog came with her. New in town, she moves into a garage apartment and goes to work retraining her bomb-sniffing dog to find drugs. Chance teams with Kate to find a local arsonist bent on blowing up Hellfire. They work close together to determine if their bogey is just burning buildings or creating a distraction in order to find something else. Meanwhile, the firefighter and the deputy spark a tinder of desire that threatens to go up in flames.

An elementary teacher during the school year, Lily Grayson hires out as an au pair during the summer order to travel expenses-paid to exotic locations with wealthy families with children. When one of her students suggests she apply for a summer job with his family going to Costa Rica, she jumps at the chance. Despite her immediate clash with his father, she agrees to accompany him and his two children to the central American country. Rich Texas rancher, originally from Costa Rica, Antonio “Tony” Delossantos, knows money can’t buy everything. He lost his wife to violence and he’s determined to save his children from a similar fate. He learns his son’s school teacher is skilled in Krav Maga military-style self-defense and available for the summer. Tony hires her to accompany the family to Costa Rica. When the drug lord Tony helped send to prison escapes, what started as a summer vacation in a tropical paradise soon becomes a race to survive in the jungles of Costa Rica.