Today our Brazen Book is Ana B. Ronning’s latest release,
“Forever for Christmas”!
Jonas Wolfe hasn’t forgotten the beauty he left behind when he left Texas two years ago. Bailey Malone has haunted his thoughts and dreams ever since he saw the twinkling promise of forever in her bright green eyes. After making financial preparations to pursue the very wealthy heiress, he returns to Grapevine, Texas in hopes to woo the much desired and coveted belle of the Malone Empire.
Bailey Malone was left confused and bewildered when Jonas Wolfe asked her out on a date two years ago, then disappeared back to Oklahoma without so much as a “sorry, but I have to cancel our date” or even a simple “goodbye”. The dark and handsome brother of Juliana Sharp had captured her heart with a single glance. The stars in his eyes told of beautiful things that he had to offer. But, as all the other guys, he didn’t seem to be interested in a forever kind of deal. At least, not with her anyway. Still, forgetting that glimmer in his eyes was nigh impossible. Dreaming of him was hindering her love life and she couldn’t seem to stop comparing all other men to Jonas Wolfe.
When Jonas returns to Texas, after a slightly heated confrontation, things quickly go from warm to scorching hot with Bailey. Unable to resist each other’s attraction for one another, their relationship elevates to heights well above the clouds. They fall so quickly for each other, they hardly have time to sort out what their relationship entails.
Assumptions are made and Jonas catches Bailey in a compromising position with another man, leaving him confused and angry.
Will Bailey be able to convince him that he is the one she loves? Will Jonas be able to ignore things he’s heard about Bailey, from her own brother, and the string of men she’s left in her wake?
Check out this Christmas tale of true love and how a promise of forever is the sweetest gift of all.
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January 2014
“True Love Waits”
Marti Willis left her hometown of Leesburg, Virginia eleven years ago to chase her life time dream of becoming an editor at one of the most prominent publishing companies in New York. After graduating from NYU, she landed her dream job and married a friend from college. After six years of a rocky marriage and learning she couldn’t have children, she divorced her husband and moved back home to take over her mother’s book store. Running into her old flame, Brad Mason, was foremost on her mind. They had been madly in love when she left for New York and Brad wanted to marry her. But his life was in Leesburg, so Marti made the tough decision to break ties with Brad and pursue her dream. The fact is, she’s never stopped thinking about Brad and how much she wished she’d stayed. But not being able to have kids was something she didn’t want for him. He had his heart set on having a family and she couldn’t take that away from him. He’d be much better off without her.
Brad Mason had never loved any other woman but Marti Willis. He kept up with her life through her mother. When he learned that Marti and her husband divorced, he knew deep down that she would come back to him and they would be together. He began making plans for their future before he’d even seen or heard from her. He’d always known they were meant to be together. It was just a matter of time, and now that she’s returning to Leesburg, the time has come to claim her as his own once again. His patience has paid off and now he can have the family he’s always wanted.
When Brad and Marti come face to face, the old flame ignites uncontrollably and Marti finds herself struggling to keep her distance from him. Brad is relentless in his pursuit of her and all he can think of is taking her home with him and never letting her go again.
Marti falls under Brads spell and into his bed only to break his heart once again with the revelation that she can’t have children. Brad is shocked and speechless, causing Marti to run away in despair and with yet another broken heart.
Will Brad be able to overlook having a family and love only Marti, or will his dream of having a family tear their love apart for good?
Spring 2014…
“7 Sons of Caldwell: Tanners African Queen”
The dust from her jeep speeding down the sandy road to Nairobi clouded his view of her impetuous escape. What a dismal end to the most stimulating assignment Tanner had ever had in his twelve years as a wild life photo journalist for the National Wild Life Magazine. She was the reason, Miss Shaina Kavanagh, the enchanting zoologist who’d guided him around to the most beautiful and secluded sights on the plains and plateaus of Kenya, in the mountains of Tanzania and along the crystal clear beaches of Zanzibar. He was assigned there to shoot the most dangerous close ups of the wildlife such as lions, elephants, wildebeests and rhinos.
He’d been sent there by his editor, Bryce Montgomery, under the impression he would only be there a couple of weeks. Bryce only wanted close ups of the animals, but when Tanner had arrived and was introduced to his incredibly beautiful American guide, who was to show him around and take him to the wildlife parks he was scheduled to visit, he found as many reasons as he could to prolong his assignment. One being that if he left Kenya as scheduled, he would miss the annual migration of a million and a half white bearded wildebeests and two hundred fifty thousand zebras.
Bryce was more than happy to oblige Tanner’s request. He’d been the magazine’s most valuable photo-journalist in the past eight years. Bryce hired him twelve years ago when Tanner finally convinced him that he was the man for the job by sneaking into a bear cave during hibernation and shooting the most amazing photos of the giant grizzlies in their long winter slumber.
He never needed proof from Tanner to trust him on any of his assignments from that moment on. Tanner’s instincts were always right on target and Bryce would fund any assignment he requested and for whatever length of time he needed.
Seeing Shaina the first time took him totally by surprise. He’d never been affected by the beauty of a woman the way he had been with her. There was just something about her that pulled him in like a magnet and all he wanted was to be close to her. Confusion swept over him like a thick fog.
He’d never been one to avoid one night stands or a short fling with some beauty on his assignments. He enjoyed women in every way known to man, then when the time came, he walked away with no regrets and most importantly, no strings attached.
But, with Shaina Kavanaugh, he somehow wanted…more. She was the breath of fresh air he never knew he was missing.
Shaina was kind and she loved the animals. She and two African guide brothers, Desta and Dakarai Koriche, who were mainly there for their protection, escorted him around parts of Kenya and Tanzania to study the natural wildlife and their surroundings. Shaina was there for her expertise in animal behavior and to further her studies of some of the wildlife.
The two of them became close rather quickly. They studied and tended to animals in the Nairobi and Tsavo National Wild life Parks side by side during the day, and by night, they studied and tended to each other.
Tanner Caldwell had travelled the world many times with his job and had his share of hot affairs along the way. Some were one night stands, others lasted days, weeks, even months. For him it was no strings attached or nothing at all. If a woman was getting too clingy, it was time to end their sexual relationship, which was really no relationship at all, and move on to the next one. Not that he was being cruel, he just didn’t have anything to give to one woman. He travelled non-stop with his job and he was never in one place at any given length of time. Hell, he never even saw his own family more than once or twice a year.
Each time he would begin an affair, he would make sure it was perfectly clear that he was nothing more than a man passing through and didn’t want a relationship with anyone. He only wanted to have some fun while he was there with no complications. Most of the women understood, some, not so much and Tanner would be forced to leave them before he would be leaving his assignment.
But he was always the one to leave without looking back and with no regrets. That was his motto in life…No regrets.
In the beginning with Shaina, he told her the same thing…that he only wanted to have some fun and have no strings attached. Shaina wanted the same thing. Nothing more than a fling to liven up their time working together. But after working with her, being near her each day for only a couple of weeks, Tanner’s chest had begun to ache at the sight of her angelic face when she would glance at him from afar while working with others and smile sheepishly at him, or when she laughed with the hyena cubs as they jumped about playfully with her…each time she would brush a stray lock of hair from her face as the wind blew…when he made passionate love to her each night. And each night his passion for her grew stronger, more powerful, pulling him into a bottomless pit of want and hunger that he couldn’t seem to satisfy.
He was alarmed by the feelings she was stirring deep within him and had planned to end things before they’d gone too far. When the time came to do what he does best, walk away, he couldn’t bring himself to do it. It was too late, he’d fallen in love with her.
Summer 2014…
“My Lord Bryntmore”
My name is Ana B. Ronning and I live in North Texas with my husband of twenty four years, Garrett, and our beautiful teenage daughter. I’m a stay at home mom at present, will be an empty nester in a couple of years and I plan to remain at home until retirement catches me.
I grew up in a small southern Texas town where people didn’t lock their doors at night in fear. My sister and I could be found either on our bikes, in a tree or just running barefoot through our huge back yard. We were rarely indoors and our mother would stand on the back porch and call to us when it was dinner time. We could hear her from blocks away when she’d call us, and come roaring into the yard on our bikes, usually racing to see who could get there first.
Most of my life, I really never liked to read. I was the athletic type and loved to play all kinds of sports. Reading was just plain boring to me most of my life. So, you can imagine my surprise when I found something that sparked a fire in me that I never knew existed.
I suppose I was stuck in a rut, not knowing what direction my life needed to go. I didn’t feel I was contributing enough. My daughter was growing up and didn’t need me anymore, for one. I wanted to feel that I was equally contributing to my family and to society. And, I most certainly wanted to make my amazing husband as proud of my accomplishments as I have been of his. Garrett has always been there for me, supported anything I wanted to do and he’s always had my back, no matter what.
I was searching for something to make me feel more adequate. I felt there was something missing…something important I was supposed to be doing.
As luck would have it, Garrett dragged me to a half price bookstore one day looking for something in particular for him. I was browsing through the Romance Novels as I waited for him, not intending on buying one. I noticed one that book that stood out among the others. It looked quite appealing, so I took it home and started reading it. By the end of the next day, I was finished with it. I loved it so much I asked Garrett to take me back to get the other two books I learned were in the series. They were read in three days.
This was sometime in autumn of 2011, when I found my love for Romance Novels. I read just about everything this particular author wrote then found other authors I really liked. Garrett encouraged me to write a book of my own, so I wrote my first 19th Century Romance Novel in January of 2012 and finished it in April of 2012. I had never enjoyed something so much in my life, well, almost nothing else. I found what I wanted to do, my passion, and it only took me forty-three years to find it.
I finished the novel and went on to read more Romance novels, but more modern than 19th century. I fell in love with modern romance even more and started working on the “Love Lights” series. This was my true passion for writing romance. I enjoyed writing these three books and I do hope that you enjoy reading them. I will eventually publish my first, 19th century novel, in addition to a sequel to it, in the future, but for now, I have more writings that I am currently working on.
I truly loved writing this series and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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Emma Rhodes is a college graduate on the road to finding her dream job as an Interior Designer for the perfect company, Malone Enterprises. She never expected not only to land the perfect job, but to find the perfect man who happens to be the CEO of the company and the most eligible bachelor in the state of Texas, Mason Malone. He’s everything she’s ever wanted in a man, but will he be interested in her when he learns that she’s a virgin and has always planned to stay that way until marriage? Once she sees the Love Lights in his eyes, she’s sure he’s the man God made for her. Her plans take a turn and she’s willing to give him everything, her heart, body and soul.
Mason Malone has never been serious about dating any woman exclusively. No woman has ever treated him as a normal person. All they see is a successful billionaire playboy that could be their meal ticket to fame and fortune. So, Mason simply doesn’t date much and throws himself into his work. He also never planned to marry and have a family, but when a young catcher, recruited to play on the Malone Mavericks softball team at the company picnic, catches his eye, his plans change almost instantly. Emma Rhodes is everything he’s ever wanted in a woman. She’s beautiful, charming and treats him as a normal human being. She also has a certain twinkle in her eyes that has him bewitched. She’s the woman he’s always dreamed of and he can’t believe she actually exists.
Things heat up for the couple the very day they meet, and Mason can’t wait to get her into his bed. But he learns something shocking about his perfect angel in the heat of the moment, just as he has her where he wants her. She’s a twenty four year old virgin. He wants nothing more than to get her into his bed, but to take her virtue? He was taught better than that. It’s time to be the gentleman he was raised to be.
Will Mason be able to resist the constant temptation of making love to his beautiful angel when he promised her, himself and God that he wouldn’t? Will Emma be able to convince him that she’s ready to take the plunge and become a woman in every sense of the word?
“Love Lights: First Sight” is an amazing story of abstinence and the struggles of maintaining it when in love, respect from a true gentleman and the sweetness of true love at first sight.
Juliana “Jules” Wolfe is a woman with deep emotional scars from being sexually abused for two years by her older brother, Jonathan’s friend, David, who turned out to be a psychopath and a Dominant monster who practiced hardcore Bondage and Discipline. After a good caning from David, Jonathan found the bruises across her back and became infuriated, stormed out in a rage and disappeared for days. With him gone, Jules didn’t know what to do and fled.
Escaping David’s clutches and tormented by her brother running out on her when she needed him most, Jules changed her last name and went into hiding, moving from place to place randomly, hoping David would never find her.
After four years of running, Jules decided she’s safe enough to settle down. She found a good job as an assistant for Emma Malone at Malone Enterprises and decided to stay and plant her roots in Texas.
Then she met him.
Clay Sharp, was larger than life, yet gentle as a kitten. Jules unwillingly falls for him despite her fear of falling into a dangerous relationship as she had before. She wants to trust him, but she can’t find the courage to tell him her deep dark secret.
Clayton Sharp had always been shy and had a terribly low self-esteem. His closest friend, Mason Malone, had helped him crawl from the shadows and work his way up to become the Head Construction Engineer at Malone Enterprises. He seemed to have everything going for him; wealth, success, good looks and good health. He’d even been seen with a model or two on his arm. Things were looking up for Clay and he felt he was on top of the world.
Then he met her.
Juliana Cross is everything he never even knew he wanted in a woman. When he tries to pursue her, she turns him down flat. His insecurity returns with a vengeance as she tries to push him away. She has a dark secret that keeps her at a distance and he wants to know why.
Will Jules be able to put her fears of being abused or even worse, being abandoned by someone she loves aside and trust Clay with her fragile heart and live a normal happy life with him? Will Clay be enough to make her stay?
Clay yearns to find out what happened to Jules in the past. He wants to know who or what he needs to protect her from, but she refuses to tell him. Will he be able to convince her that he loves her and that he will never hurt or leave her?
Will their love for each other be enough to keep her from running again? And keep her safe from the danger that has been following her and lurking in the shadows?
Katherine St. Claire has mourned the loss of her brother and fiancé on the anniversary of their deaths for the last four years. While drowning in her sorrows at a friend’s club, a very tall, dark and handsome stranger asks her to dance. Mistakenly thinking he is the guy her best friend has been trying relentlessly to set her up with for months, she tells him just what she thinks of him and his womanizing ways that he is notorious for. But, to her horror, she learns that he isn’t that man, and apologizes. One thing leads to another and she finds herself agreeing to a one night stand with this handsome stranger. After a night of the hottest sex she’s ever had, Katherine finds herself wishing she could have more of him. But, no strings attached was what he wanted. How can she get over the loss of the only other man she’s ever been with other than her fiancé? The way he made her feel was incredible and it was tormenting her and her heart was aching for one more night with him.
Jonathan Wolfe had been searching for his long lost sister, Juliana for the last four years. He and his brother Jonas had finally tracked her down in Texas. After a night of celebrating with her and her friends, Jonathan found himself in need of some release that he’d been denying himself of until they found Jules. He had his eye on a certain brunette at the bar who seemed to be alone. After being rudely rejected, he tried to find another woman that would suit his needs, but he desperately wanted her for some strange reason and no one else. After salvaging what was an obvious misunderstanding, Jonathan took her to his hotel for a night of reckless abandon. Surprisingly, it was more than that to him and he wanted more of this raving beauty in his arms. But, he lived far away and would be leaving soon. He found his heart breaking to let her walk out of his life. If only he had one more night with her.
Will fate step in and bring these two together once more, or will unsuspecting dangers that linger with Jonathan’s family keep them from coming together?
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