Bøger af Kelly Jameson

Scotland, 1455. As a child, Highlander Malcolm Maclean has visions he cannot explain. When he predicts a major victory in battle for King James the Second, he is summoned to Edinburgh castle to officially meet the king and predict his future. Much to his dismay, the king rewards him with Douglas lands and a future Douglas bride, a Lowlander! Scotland, 1468. Malcolm Maclean is now a man-a leader and a battle-seasoned warrior. He has put off taking a bride he doesn't want long enough. Not wishing to draw royal ire, he must honor a dead king's wishes and marry Sorcha Douglas, a woman he's never met. Because her father and older brothers were killed by the royal Scottish army at Arkinholm, Sorcha is not keen about being forced to marry by the king's royal order. She decides to play a dangerous game. She will switch places with her maid, who will impersonate her and, acting as Lady Douglas, exhibit the most atrocious and vulgar manners possible in an attempt to drive the Highlander away. Malcolm, immediately intrigued by the spirited, outspoken maid, is not pleased when he finds out Sorcha, and an entire clan, tried to deceive him. When her deception is discovered, Sorcha is forced to go through with the marriage. Having begun their relationship with lies, she must earn the warrior's trust as she finds herself developing powerful feelings for him. Their fantastic adventures beneath a dark highland sky and their struggles against common Scottish and English enemies will ultimately land them at the royal Edinburgh court, where this time, Malcolm's gift of Sight will put him in perilous danger. The Seer and the Seductress will need to believe in magic as they face their greatest challenge yet-a king bent on burning Malcolm at the stake for his misunderstood gift. Book 3 is the story of Malcolm Maclean, the son of Isobel and Leith Maclean from Book 2.

Twisted, film-optioned, multi-genre author Kelly Jameson brings you some of her darker side in I KISSED A ZOMBIE AND I LIKED IT. Offered up are three zombie shorts and one rude monkey. *Language, nudity, debauchery, self-deprecation, and decaying body parts.

THE FALCON'S PRIZE Texas Hill Country, 1869 Diego Chandler Armijo, a man they call The Falcon, isn't the law and he isn't an outlaw. He's somewhere in between. Possessing an instinct for self-preservation and a knack for administering justice, he rights wrongs when others have given up. He's been sidetracked by a bloody civil war and a woman who brutally betrayed him, but now he's finally closing in on his ultimate prey-his father-a vile man he's been trying to locate for years. The trail has led Chandler to the small town of Castell, nestled in Texas Hill Country, bordered by Comanche territory. Unfortunately, a promise he made to his best friend Bennet, blinded during the war, is going to slow him down. Chandler needs to escort Bennet's mail-order bride, Nell Bradford, through Comanche territory to Bennet's cattle ranch before he can resume his quest for revenge. Chandler plans to take care of the task of guiding the spoiled, wealthy, St. Louis socialite across the plains as fast as he can and be done with it. But he finds himself intrigued by the feisty, blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman with secrets, a woman who possesses a fighting spirit and thirst for adventure that nearly matches his own. He doesn't have time to fall in love with a woman who is off limits to him and he can't afford to with the life he's chosen to live. Protecting his broken heart and wounded soul will be one of the hardest tests he faces as he yearns to be with the woman promised to his closest friend. In the wild, untamed American West, Chandler's past and future collide. Which will he choose? A life and a love he never imagined? Or will he ride away from what he's come to love to fulfill a vow of revenge he made when he was just a boy?

A REVISED AND EXPANDED NEW EDITION OF A MODERN CLASSIC After Hurricane Katrina destroys her city, an unlikely heroine turns to art and revenge to survive. A failed hooker, magician's assistant, hotel maid and ice cream truck driver, Katrina Lalande comes barreling back in her old red Cadillac to haunt the abusive husband who thought he'd finished her off during the storm. Bent on revenge but determined to find hope in the wreckage, she remembers her past life as Vincent van Gogh as she paints murals on flood-damaged homes, trying to plug the leaks in her city and her heart.

Contemporary suspense from the best-selling author of the Scottish historical romances ACROSS A DARK HIGHLAND SHORE and SPELLBOUND. When Broadway star Alice Josephs thinks she sees her twin sister in the audience during one of her performances, she begins to question her sanity. Lessa disappeared twenty years ago in the woods near their Hudson River Valley home, and the crime was never solved. As handsome, Emmy Award-winning crime writer Nial Reynolds investigates the cold case, Alice becomes the target of a sadistic stalker obsessed with her beauty and fame. She begins to receive threatening letters, and odd items from her childhood resurface in her Tarrytown home. Her stalker seems to know things about her past that no one should know, including the fact that whenever young Alice spoke Lessa's name after the tragedy, her mother would scold, "Don't say her name, Alice." As Nial digs deeper into the Josephs' past, the spotlight makes her stalker bold. Could a dark family secret be tied to the present, and is Alice the next victim? Is her stalker waiting in the darkness, coiled and ready to strike?

1447. Winter has wrapped its icy fingers around the Highlands. The MacKinnon clan is in chaos. Weakened by battle losses, treachery, and a lack of leadership, a Hogmanay celebration turns ugly as clan members decide to burn a witch at the stake-one of their very own, Isobel MacKinnon, a castle servant with the Sight. As flame is about to be touched to the kindling at her feet, five warriors appear in the snowy night, rescuing Isobel from a fiery death. But the mysterious leader of the warriors, a fierce Highlander called The Black Wolf, has saved his enemy's life for selfish reasons. He needs a witch. Isobel has seen the brutal and haunted Highland warrior in her dreams and now he stands before her-taller and stronger and more terrifying than any man she's ever laid eyes on. Leith Maclean-enemy to the MacKinnon clan-is flesh and blood, a proud warrior whose ancestors battled Vikings. The amber-eyed warrior is determined that Isobel shall divine his future and use her gift of Sight to help him win the hand of the woman he loves, his future battles, and peace with the Campbell clan. But Leith Maclean is bewitched by the blonde beauty who emerges from peasant rags and surprised by the intense feelings she inspires in him. As Isobel attempts to aid an enemy clan, she cannot resist wanting to heal Leith's wounded heart too...and finds herself yielding to her handsome enemy's touch. Her sensual surrender awakens in Leith a love as mighty and relentless as his ambitions, and he will not claim true victory until he has won the affections of the proud little witch who now commands his heart.

In a post-truth era, how do YOU figure out what's real...and what is not? That's what Carl MacElroy, the janitor visited by Picasso's ghost as he polishes the floors of the Philadelphia Museum of Art after hours, is trying to do. From a girlfriend who won't tell him her name to being tasked with finding Picasso's lost tie by the artist's ghostly presence, Carl becomes obsessed with finding the truth. His mission leads him through unexpected bursts of his own artistic creativity as well as oddly-timed bursts of factoids about tortured artists while with his nameless girlfriend in flagrante. As Carl reconnects with his exceptional artistic ability backdropped by memories of his mother's attempted suicide, he finds himself on a labyrinthine path - one that could lead to a truth of friendship, forgiveness and love - or his ultimate spiral downward.

Louisiana, 1816. The dying wish of a cruel father tricks Nicholas Branton into marrying a woman he's never met to ensure his inheritance. But Nicholas vows that it will always be a marriage in name only. Camille Hardison dreams of escaping the life she's living as a lowly tavern maid in a gambling establishment in New Orleans but mostly she dreams of true love. When she's foisted off in marriage to a wealthy, arrogant, handsome rogue and womanizer to settle a mysterious gambling debt, she disguises herself as a street urchin' in the hopes that Nicholas will call off the betrothal. In fact, they are wed that very eve in a heartless, loveless ceremony. What they don't bet on is the raw, awakening passion they both feel for each other...or the sensual touches and aching love that will bind their hearts and souls forever in TO TAME A ROGUE.

"Brilliant. A chilling erotic suspense that will send shivers down your spine. A sensuous, gripping tale of murder through the ages." -Kat Martin, New York Times best-selling author with over 11 million books in print The past calls out to Ann Yang with a voice she cannot ignore. Is a killer chasing her through time? Yang, a bright, tough medical examiner, investigates a murder scene in a Philadelphia suburb that appears to be the work of a serial killer, whose calling card is American Civil War coat buttons placed beneath victims' tongues. While her Victorian home is being renovated, Yang finds an old diary that belonged to a former occupant that may be the key to a 100-year-old mystery. Gun shy of relationships, Yang begins to have feelings for Mark, the carpenter working on her home, but is hesitant to give in to them because of her recent bitter divorce and the daily trauma involved with being a medical examiner. Desperate to rub out the disturbing memory of a failed marriage and find her new place in life, she begins hypnosis and past-life regressions. Soon Yang is convinced that the killer, the diary, and her past are somehow connected...in ways she could never imagine...

"An unforgettable highland warrior seeking revenge, an innocent maiden brave enough to confront him. Spellbound is a terrific novel filled with passion, intrigue, vengeance, and all-consuming love. Readers will clamor for a sequel." --Kat Martin, New York Times best-selling author with over 11 million books in print Highland warrior Kade MacAlister has had to fight for everything. Respect. Approval. Love. To prove himself man and warrior and to win the hand of the woman he seeks to marry, he leaves Scotland to fight in Ireland. When he returns, he finds his clan has been attacked by the MacKinnons, with whom they've been at peace. His older brother and his betrothed are dead. Kade discovers the chieftain Brodie MacKinnon has a daughter with the Sight, Maighdlin, whom he hid away in a village years ago to protect. A bride was taken from him, so he'll take a new bride-his enemy's daughter-and make her pay for her father's sins. Kade finds Maighdlin and kidnaps her. But when their paths cross, sparks fly, and Kade is spellbound. Maighdlin has no idea how hot it's going get in her new husband's arms. To make things more complicated, Maighdlin can see Kade's brother's spirit, and Kade must learn of a terrible family secret before his brother Niall can find peace. Kade and his new bride will be consumed by his quest for revenge unless they can learn to forgive...surrendering to the sensual fires of their bodies and the love in their hearts.

From the author of DEAD ON, SHARDS OF SUMMER, WHAT REMAINED OF KATRINA, and TO TAME A ROGUE. DESPERATE, DISTURBED, DERANGED, & DOUBLE-LATTED lives up to its name. Jameson presents a collection of short stories united by themes of loneliness, dead-end jobs, desperation, unusual erotic encounters, and a need for real connection in a deranged world. You'll read about a bear that trains a man; a man who believes that whenever he leaves his apartment, his stuffed monkey runs around shouting obscenities about him and drinking all his beer; a failed Hollywood special effects makeup artist who makes a deal with zombies to off his nagging wife in exchange for keeping the zombies looking good as they decay; a cross-dressing trucker driver who hauls medical waste and makes odd sculptures from body parts; a man who quits his job at a Gummy Bear factory only to be bitten by a real bear at a highway rest stop; an unemployed man who gets sucked into a haunted painting in a bar to discover his past life as an American soldier in WWI. Lots of swearing, colorful and raw characters, unusual use of language, and nuggets of unexpected humanity. If you're feeling stuck, for whatever reason, read this collection. It's better than Ex-Lax. Kelly Jameson's short stories have been published in various places, including The Summerset Review, the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica (vol 8 and 9), Sex in the City Paris, The Tangled Bank: Love, Evolution and Wonder, Twisted Tongue, The American Drivel Review, Withersin Magazine, Ramble Underground, and Zouch.

Shards of Summer immerses the reader in the sultry feel of the Jersey shore. Alison Ginger Jones, now a respected pillar of her community, is accused of the murder of a decorated WWII soldier that occurred sixty years ago, when she was a young barroom dancer. Evoking the life of the beach resort in the 1940s and present day, Shards of Summer dances through the lives of its main characters, focusing on the intelligent but emotionally disturbed Alison. In the 1940s, Alison collects things-shells, sea glass, men-and gets entangled with a married homicide detective investigating a series of bizarre murders in the resort town. The unexpected final scenes of the story expose each broken shard of the characters' lives. Passion and dark obsessions mix in this satisfying, sexy read with as many brilliant colors as the sea glass Alison collects. K. Jameson explores relationships, female narcissism, and sexual obsession in a hot, twisted tale that raises more than the reader's pulse rate.