Marie is pleased to announce she is a regular contributor on Happily Ever After Thoughts (HappilyEverAfterThoughts). Come check out her thoughts on writing, reading and her love affair with books.

Touch the Flame is now available from Whiskey Creek Press (Whiskey Creek Press) and Amazon. 

Legend says that when the beautifully flawed diamond, the Flame of Aphrodite, is given and received with love, it will bless two souls with everlasting passion from this lifetime into the next. Legend also says the infamous diamond can bring misery, obsession and death when no love is involved in the giving or receiving.

REESA BEAUMONT knows first hand of the legend. When she witnesses the murder of her husband by a man obsessed with the Flame of Aphrodite, the crime is so brutal she runs away, unable to face the memory though visions of blood and a dead man haunt her.

SPENSER CHANNING knows nothing about diamonds but he does know when someone needs help. When he finds a woman on his ranch—battered, bruised and near death—with a fortune in diamonds in a pouch tied around her waist, a bracelet around her wrist bearing the name ‘REESA’, and no recollection of who she is, his natural instincts take over and he vows to protect her. As a former Texas Ranger, Spenser knows he should turn his mystery woman over to the authorities. He believes, given enough time and patience, Reesa’s memory will return and with it, an explanation of the diamonds he found in her possession. Until she does remember, the diamonds remain a secret, a burden on his heart he finds hard to keep yet harder to reveal. As Spenser falls in love with Reesa, he realizes something else, too – no matter what she’s done, he doesn’t want her memory to return, for if it does, she just might break his heart.

And don't forget Marie's other release, Angel in the Moonlight, still available from Whiskey Creek Press and Amazon.....

CALLIE MAXWELL grew up knowing she'd inherit Los Arcos Iris, the family ranch in Territorial Arizona, but she didn't expect it to be under such cruel circumstances - a brutal attack, which leaves her parents dead and her sister struggling for survival.  Nor does she expect to fall in love with AUSTIN KINCAID, the by-the-book U.S. Marshal sent to solve the murders.  When Austin orders her not to interfere with his investigation, Callie becomes more determined than ever to find the men responsible for the violence committed against her family.  As the Angel of Justice, her alter-ego, she rides in the moonlight, seeking retribution and daring the killers to try again even as she tries to keep her midnight rides a secret from Austin.

Haunted by the memory of a woman he lost not once but twice - first to the love of another man then to a tragic mistake which led to her death - Austin is a man shackled by the self-imposed rules he uses to protect his fragile heart.  Is Callie the woman with enough love in her heart to shatter his rules and let him love again?

Stayed tuned.  Marie will post additional information as soon as it becomes available.