Short Stories/Novellas

Ari Dillon is not your ordinary hero. He’s willing to lie, deceive, and hijack a private jet—all in the name of his cause. So if abducting billionaire Samantha Bessinger is the only way Ari can get her alone, he’ll do it. Real estate mogul Samantha has never met anyone like Ari. He’s charming, ruthless, and almost irresistible. Yet when he crash-lands her jet onto a deserted Caribbean island and reveals his shapeshifting secrets, she can’t deny he’s one of a kind. But just because he shows her things she never knew were possible, doesn’t prove they are soul mates as he claims. While Samantha didn’t become a success by being a pushover, is she enough of a match for the shifter in paradise?

Hounded by paparazzi eager for news of the disastrous surgery that paralyzed her vocal chords, megastar singer Merline Sullivan takes refuge in an antique shop, only to be catapulted hundreds of years into the future. Miraculously, healers fix her vocal cords, but without her loyal fan base, Merline is no longer a superstar, no longer protected, and not at all certain how she’ll navigate the future. Two men offer fascinating possibilities. One is the secretive and handsome off-worlder Tomm Jabal, who has been by her side since she appeared out of nowhere on the space station, a man with his own agenda to whisk her to the fringe of the galaxy. The other is the mysterious Dubane Fik, a wealthy entrepreneur who will give her a stage and a path to a singing career once more. Merline stands at a crossroads of love and stardom. Can she make the right choice between joining the sophisticated Dubane’s collection of extraordinary people or Tomm’s intriguing promise of an exotic and erotic planet? Featuring Angel from The Quest , a Rystani Warrior Novel Susan Kearney, a native of New Jersey, writes full time and has sold books to the industries' top publishing houses — Grand Central, Tor, Simon & Schuster, Harlequin, Bell Bridge Books, Berkley, Leisure, Red Sage, and Kensington. As an award winning author, Kearney earned a Business Degree from the University of Michigan. Kearney's knowledge and experience spans throughout the romance genre, and her fifty plus books include contemporary, romantic suspense, historical, futuristic, science fiction, and paranormal novels. She resides in a suburb of Tampa—with her husband, kids, and Boston terrier. Currently she's plotting her way through her 54th work of fiction

In 2405, Sara, a Martian archeologist, studies an old, glossy wooden box, inlaid with a woman’s image, and accidentally triggers a machine that brings sexy scientist and womanologist, Kendar, from the future. She learns that women no longer exist on planet Mars in the future. And it's her fault. Kendar’s life’s work has been the study of Sara Tolliver's doomed attempt to shut down the machine that ultimately obliterates the female population. In a race to interpret ancient Martian writings and find the truth about Sara's heirloom chest, together they have a second chance to save all females, including Sara. They work feverishly to learn the secret to going back in time, into a past that holds the key to the future, to love itself. Failure is not an option. Because failure means Kendar loses Sara to the same disaster that cost the world everything. Susan Kearney, a native of New Jersey, writes full time and has sold books to the industries' top publishing houses — Grand Central, Tor, Simon & Schuster, Harlequin, Bell Bridge Books, Berkley, Leisure, Red Sage, and Kensington. As an award winning author, Kearney earned a Business Degree from the University of Michigan. Kearney's knowledge and experience spans throughout the romance genre, and her fifty plus books include contemporary, romantic suspense, historical, futuristic, science fiction, and paranormal novels. She resides in a suburb of Tampa—with her husband, kids, and Boston terrier. Currently she's plotting her way through her 54th work of fiction.