Maddie James, Romance Author Web site

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Welcome to the world of romance author Maddie James

Hello! So glad you stopped by.

I'm Maddie, and I write romance. Over the years, I've written quite a bit of it, as you'll see if you poke around long enough on my Web site. Like romantic suspense? Got you covered. Time-travel? That, too. Contemporary? Oh, a bunch of those. What about a cowboy? Pirate? Businessman? Werewolf? Alpha hero? Yes, yes, yes. All there. Got 'em.

A Maddie James book can be of many different romance sub-genres but they all have one thing in common -- they are all romance with a capital HEA -- they all have a happily-ever-after ending. I hope you find one or two that suit your fancy.

Not interested in chasing the happily-ever-after? Well, don't go away, because I can point you in a couple of other directions. Like things a little hotter between the sheets? Check out my sexy little side-kick, Mia Jae. Looking for something a little more mainstream? Watch for a Madeleine James novel coming in 2013.

Whatever your pleasure, I hope you can find a satisfying read here.

All the best,
Maddie

p.s. If you are looking for Social Media info, my Twitter page, Facebook, and the like, click on the Blog/Social tab above and you'll find all of those kinds of things there. I hope to connect with you!

Now Available! Murder on the Mountain

2010-03-30T00:07:00.000-04:00

Murder on the Mountain

A Ladies of Legend Romantic Suspense Novel

I'm so pleased to be able to have Murder on the Mountain re-released in all digital formats and available at your favorite retailers!

You can now find this story at:

TMPress Bookstore . Amazon Kindle . Barnes and Noble Nook . Smashwords . All Romance Ebooks . Bookstrand

Only $1.99!

Kate Carpenter thinks her Tennessee State trooper husband is dead.

ATF Agent Michael Lehman knows he is not.

When Michael goes undercover into Kate's elementary classroom for a few weeks, posed as a school drug cop, his mission is to find out what Kate knows about her husband's supposed death, and to determine if she has any involvement in hiding away the AWOL trooper turned drug runner.His mission is to get answers. Get into her life. And not into her panties.But somehow things go haywire....

Also New! (and something different)

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Family Stories, Family Recipes is a cookbook that combines a love of food, stories, and family in one package. Throughout time, families have brought a rich culture of stories and favorite foods to the table. Part cookbook, part real-life family anecdotes, Family Stories, Family Recipes is a book to warm both your tummy and your heart.

Now available exclusively at Amazon -- Kindle Format $0.99

Now in Print!

Coming Next!

2010-02-16T00:18:00.000-05:00

Broken
Western Contemporary Romance Novel

Coming Spring, 2012

Rodeo took him from her once. Will it take him again?

It’s been a decade since Garth Nash left the Triple R ranch to become a bull riding rodeo star. Now he’s back home to pay his final respects to the man he’d loved like a father, and to console the pesky tomboy he'd loved like a little sister--and had left behind, heartbroken.

But there’s nothing pesky or boyish about Amarilla Ray now. She’s a gorgeous, gutsy barrel-racing cowgirl who knows exactly what she wants--to preserve the family ranch by winning big at the Cowgirl Classic. With Garth's help, she might be able to pull it off, but at what risk? She'd loved Garth like a big brother all those years ago but today, her feelings for him are taking turns in a whole new direction...

Rodeo took him from her once. She knows he's bound to leave again. And when that happens, will he once more leave her...broken?

Coming Next!

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Home to Wind Ridge
A Novel

Coming Spring, 2012

When Rebecca McCauley left her Kentucky home to pursue a degree in art, she never dreamed she'd return ten years later to raise her child in the same rural atmosphere. Living in New York with a man who controls every aspect of her being, she escapes him and her high-pressure magazine career to settle into a life of solitude in the country on the family farm--Wind Ridge--with little knowledge of sullen neighbor and fox hunter, Kaulin Kramer, who has settled into the horse farm on the other side of the stone fence.

As a child, Kaulin was passionate about animals, especially his horses and dogs, and dreamed of one day becoming a veterinarian. His father, a ruthless man with no time for children or family, lived and breathed Kramer Bloodstock, the family business. The summer before vet school, Kaulin’s father dies, changing the rules. Kaulin is expected to take over the agency, and support his mother and sisters in the Kentucky Bluegrass lifestyle to which they are accustomed. As much as he hates it, he does so, and over the years loses not only the dream, but himself, turning into a mirror image of the one man he didn’t want to be--his father.

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Crazy For You

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Crazy For You
Amazon Bestseller in Contemporary Romance

Price: $0.99
Length: Novel

Available from: Turquoise Morning Press Bookstore
Smashwords . Nook . Kindle . All Romance Ebooks . Bookstrand

Who knew getting naked could be so funny?
"...a wacky comedy with humorous scenes, good character development and snappy dialogue." --RT Book Reviews

She’s Tofu

A lovely nineties-style flower child, Tasha Smith enjoys her laid-back life at the shop where she sells organic fruits and vegetables, even though lately she’s been in a funk over a broken engagement. Determined to shake her blues, she heads down to a resort in sunny Jamaica, and along the way, hooks up with a most unlikely companion—a workaholic salesman who has no idea how sexy he looks in his Brooks Brothers suit!

He’s Beefsteak

Andrew Jacob Powel III reluctantly heads to Jamaica after winning the trip for high salesman of the month. He figures while there, he’ll handout business cards and make some new connections. But when he connects with Tasha, his professional poise begins a slow unraveling. She is at turns enchanting and exasperating—and adorably determined to tease him out of his conservative shell, not to mention that Brooks Brothers suit.

Even as a sultry passion takes them both by surprise, Andrew and Tasha know they’ll have to return to their very different lives—but their hearts keep telling them they belong together. And hearts never lie…

Falling for Grace

2009-12-01T17:22:00.002-05:00

Falling for Grace
A Contemporary Romantic Comedy Novel

Digital eBook - $2.99
Amazon Print - $10.99

B&N Nookbook . Kindle

...heartwarming and tender, this novel will brighten many dreary afternoons in small town America. James shows special talent for traditional romance. Expect more from this author. Affaire de Coeur, 4 stars

An All Romance eBook Best Seller!

Gracie Hart, the owner of a successful, sophisticated boutique called Romantically Yours, is known as the local Diva of Romance. Who could have guessed that having once loved and lost, she has no intention of ever falling in love again, no matter how loudly her biological clock keeps ticking? Until, that is, her new tenants, Carson Price and his six-year-old daughter Izzie, arrive on the scene and proceed to wreak havoc in her life—and her heart!

Excerpt:

This had all the makings of a very bad idea....

“Please let this work out,” she whispered and sent up a small prayer. “I need this to work out.”

Stopping briefly in front of the door, Gracie inhaled deep then exhaled long, twisted the dead-bolt, and opened the door fully. She extended her hand without even really looking. “Mr. Price, I assume?”
Then she did look. Up. And up some more. Her eyes met the most unbelievable sea-blue eyes she’d ever seen. Finally something touched her palm.

“Oh!” She dragged her gaze away from his and glanced downward to her hand, now in his. His hand was warm, his handshake firm.

“Grace Hart?”

“Oh, yes.” She looked back into his face. “Yes, I’m Grace Hart. Mr. Price?”

He nodded and she took in more of his features. Dark brown hair, chiseled, high cheekbones, and those eyes....

“Yes,” he answered. He stepped inside and she closed the door behind her, then felt it push open again against her rear.

“Forget something, Dad?”

Carson Price turned and so did Gracie. An imp of a child stood in the doorway, staring past her. The little girl’s head held a mass of light brown curls which, if left loose, would most likely tumble halfway down her back. Oh my, what she would have given, as a young girl, for curls like that. Oddly enough though, this child’s locks were caught up in a dusty, Louisville Cardinals baseball cap, which contrasted sharply with the Sunday-best frill she wore.

Gracie bent slightly to look the girl more closely in the face. “Well,” she finally said, pushing out her hand, “I’m Grace. What’s your name?”

“I’m Iz—”

Carson Price bolted forward. “Isabella,” he returned, grasping the child’s hand. “Ready?” He snatched the ball cap off his Isabella’s head. Gracie registered a sharp glance of annoyance from the child and the stern, warning stare back from the parent as he quickly stuffed the ball cap into the back pocket of his khaki pants. “We’ll take a look at the shop first, then the apartment,” she continued.

“That’s fine,” Carson Price replied.

“Unless, of course, you’d rather wait until your wife.”

He shook his head. “No wife, just us.”

Gracie nodded. “Oh. Well, right this way then.” She extended a hand toward the front door.

Carson Price led the way, daughter in tow, and Gracie found herself watching those nicely fitting khaki’s from the rear until he opened the door and held it for her to pass through.

No wife. This wasn’t a good sign.

No indeedy.

She decided right then and there, that renting to Carson Price was a bad idea.

A very bad idea.

Freshly Dead - the Dead Guys Still Want It series

2009-12-01T16:27:00.000-05:00

Freshly Dead
Book One, the Dead Guys Still Want It series

Amazon Top 100 Bestseller in Ghosts!

Now Available at Amazon Kindle Bookstore - $0.99!

Three sisters, Southern-fried born and bred, and the ~~men~~ ghosts who love them.

All Mitzi Winston wants is enough money to pay this month’s mortgage payment. That’s the only reason she even considers the phone sex job. Ever since her husband’s disappearance, she’s held things together quite nicely—until recently. And now, well, she just needs the money.

So, she bites the bullet and goes for the interview, only to find that the phone sex job isn’t real and she’s too late—not for the interview, but to save her husband. For there he is, dead on the floor, a bullet to the back of the head. To make matters worse, his ghost is hovering around and chiding her for being late. Not to mention he’s horny as hell and trying to cop a feel.

Which only begs the question, “Do dead men still want it?”

Booksigning at The Country Heart

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Book Signing Poster 2 (1)

Coming Soon

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Coming in 2012

Coming in 2013

Amazon

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Smashwords

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Turquoise Morning Press Books

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My $0.99 Books!

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Got a dollar? Get a book!

Here is a list of my ebooks priced at $0.99.

Books are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, All Romance Ebooks, Bookstrand, and other online retailers

(clicking the cover will take you to book description at Amazon)

Romancing the Scone, Chapter 1

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Romancing the Scone, Chapter 1

Want to read the rest? Romancing the Scone is now available for purchase at Resplendence Publishing and for your Amazon Kindle.

Falling for Grace

2009-04-12T14:55:00.004-04:00

Falling for Grace
by Maddie James
(this title was previously published in 2000 by Kensington Books, now available for Kindle)

Blurb:

She wasn't looking for love...

The owner of a successful, sophisticated boutique called Romantically Yours, Gracie Hart's nickname is the Diva of Romance. Who could have guessed that having once loved and lost, she has no intention of ever falling in love again, no matter how loudly her biological clock keeps ticking? Until, that is, her new tenants, Carson Price and his six-year-old daughter Izzie, arrive on the scene and proceed to wreak havoc in her life--and her heart!

...but it found her anyway!

Excerpt:

“Please let this work out,” she whispered and sent up a small prayer. “I need this to work out.”

Stopping briefly in front of the door, Gracie inhaled deep then exhaled long, twisted the dead-bolt, and opened the door fully.

She extended her hand without even really looking. “Mr. Price, I assume?”

Then she did look. Up. And up some more. My, he was a tall man. She gulped. He had to be tall for her to look up to him. She was nearly five foot ten, herself. Her mouth and lips went incredibly dry.

Her eyes met the most unbelievable sea-blue eyes she’d ever seen. Finally she felt something touch her palm.

“Oh!” She dragged her gaze away from his and glanced downward to her hand, now in his. His hand was warm, his handshake firm.

“Grace Hart?”

“Oh, yes.” She looked back into his face. “Yes, I’m Grace Hart. Mr. Price?”

He nodded and she took in more of his features. Dark brown hair, chiseled, high cheekbones, and those eyes...

“Yes,” he answered.

“Please come in,” she returned politely.

He stepped inside and she closed the door behind her, then felt it push open again against her rear.

“Forget something, Dad?”

Carson Price turned and so did Gracie. An imp of a child stood in the doorway, staring past her. Gracie guessed her to be about six or seven years of age. There was a frown on her face as she eyed her father, the doorway still framing her. Slowly, she crossed her arms over her chest and tilted her chin to look at Carson, a small look of defiance on her face. Her right foot repeatedly tapped the floor.

Gracie was not quite sure what to make of the child. She glanced quickly to Carson, who returned a hesitant smile, then to the child.

The little girl’s head held a mass of light brown curls which, if left loose, would most likely tumble halfway down her back, Gracie thought. Oh my, what she would have given, as a young girl, for curls like that. Oddly enough though, this child’s locks were caught up in a dusty, Louisville Cardinals baseball cap, which contrasted sharply with the Sunday-best frill she wore.

Gracie bent slightly to look the girl more closely in the face. “Well,” she finally said, pushing out her hand, “I’m Grace. What’s your name?”

“I’m Iz—”

Carson Price bolted forward. “Isabella,” he returned, grasping the child’s hand.

Gracie stood tall again and looked Carson in the eyes. It was nice looking directly into a man’s eyes and not looking down at him for once. “What a beautiful name.”

“Thank you. Isabella is my daughter. There was no school today. I hope you don’t mind. My babysitter is out of town.”

Gracie shook her head. “Oh, my no. It’s not a problem.”

She dismissed the issue of the child for a moment, then headed for the cash register. “Just give me a second to grab the keys and I’ll take you next door.”

An awkward silence filled the shop as Grace fumbled with the cash register drawer, her thoughts nowhere near where they should be.

Carson Price was not the kind of man she expected. No indeedy. He was much too—

No, she refused to think about it. After all, the man had a child. Most likely there was a wife in the picture somewhere.

Gracie sighed deeply.

With that thought, she retrieved the key from the secret drawer inside the old cash register. Gracie glanced up to see Carson crouched down on eye-level with the child, faint mutterings of conversation going on between father and daughter.

“Ready?” She stepped up behind them and Carson rose quickly to his feet, snatching the ball cap off his Isabella’s head on his ascent. Gracie registered a sharp glance of annoyance from the child and the stern, warning stare back from the parent as he quickly stuffed the ball cap into the back pocket of his khaki pants. “We’ll take a look at the shop first, then the apartment,” she continued.

“That’s fine,” Carson Price replied.

“Unless, of course, you’d rather wait until your wife could come to look at the apartment.”

He shook his head. “No wife, just us.”

Gracie nodded. “Oh. Well, right this way then.” She extended a hand toward the front door.

Carson Price led the way, daughter in tow, and Gracie found herself watching those nicely fitting khaki’s from the rear until he opened the door and held it for her to pass through.

No wife. This wasn’t a good sign.

No indeedy.

There was a brief tingle as she brushed passed him and Gracie wondered from just where that tingle sprang. She’d not felt anything like that in—oh, in quite some time. Years, if she cared to admit it.

And she didn’t want to admit it.

She decided right then and there, that renting to Carson Price was probably a bad idea. A very bad idea.

He was much too handsome and much too charismatic for her own good. He had an adorable little child. And no wife.

Two strikes against Mr. Carson Price.

No. Strikes two, three, and four.

Falling for Grace is now available for Kindle! Coming soon in print.

Red: A Seduction Tale

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Red: A Seduction Tale

The Blurb:

Garnet Boudreaux is going home. Not back to her nice little apartment in New York City, but to her childhood home in the bayou. She doesn’t want to go, and isn’t certain what will be waiting for her when she arrives. But standing there in the voodoo shop on Bourbon Street, in the middle of one helluva party, she’s told by Madame Madeleine Dupuis that she has no choice. She presses two pouches into Garnet’s hands, wraps a red cape around her, and tells her she must go—and go now—to see to her grandmother.

Max LeBlanc spies the lovely red-head across the street and knows in a heartbeat she is the one. A rougarou always knows when he’s met his mate. Some may call him a lycanthrope, a werewolf if you will, but in Cajun bayou lands he’s known simply as The Rougarou. He’d waited several hundred years for this moment, and for her. There is nothing left for him to do, but mark her and claim her as his mate. Soon.

Excerpt:

The French Quarter, New Orleans, 10:39 p.m.

“Come closer, Red,” he rasped. “I want that burning-hot body next to mine.” The wiry stranger threaded his hot fingers through her hair at the nape, and his steamy breath snaked around her neck.

A carnival spun in Garnet Boudreaux’s head, and for once, she did not want to get off the ride. Was she drunk? Yes, somewhat. But it was okay, she was with her girlfriends, and they watched out for each other.

Were they watching his hands glide over her ass, too?

Hell, did she care?

Eyes the color of dark honey with flecks of gold pierced hers and held as he pressed closer. His lips scraped over her cheek, sending a shudder of want from the curls on her auburn head straight down to her scarlet toenails. Neon swirled as he led her out the door of the Cat’s Meow, spilling into Bourbon Street’s static currents, taking the lead as they dirty-danced their way into the crowd.

“My friends…” she breathed, wincing as he nipped her neck, his teeth clipping at the tender skin beneath her ear lobe.

“Back in the bar,” he growled.

Oh Damn. She shouldn’t leave Tiana and Kathleen behind. They needed her. Didn’t they?

Or did she need them?

Like a cat lapping at milk, his tongue laved her neck to cheek. “Give me your tongue,” he commanded. His hands rested under her armpits, cradling the sides of her breasts, thumbing her nipples through the red satin dressed she’d borrowed for this decadent Mardi Gras-type party on Bourbon her company insisted they attend.

Her mask. Had she lost it?

She glanced behind her. He caught her chin between his fingers and forcefully turned her face back toward his.

“Me. I’m the one you are with. Forget the others.”

Her brain said no. The tingles racing up her spine and the heat gathering in her panties cried yes.

Yes.

His hips gyrated against hers and his dance swept her into a spiral of lights and hands and lips and skin on skin. He dipped his tongue deep into her cleavage and she resisted the urge to clasp his head against her chest and keep him there. He was hard against her abdomen.

Ready.

Waiting.

Primal.

Had he growled?

***

CATEGORY: Contemporary, Paranormal, Erotic
HEAT LEVEL: Garnet
Length: Short Story
FORMAT: E-BOOK

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Maddie sometimes masquerades as other characters. Who knew?

Erotica Author, Mia Jae

Non-fiction Author, Kim Jacobs

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Bio

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Romance novelist Maddie James bounces between contemporary, historical, and paranormal worlds, as she pens stories within, and frequently crossing, a variety of romantic genres. She's landed on a few bestseller lists and gathered an award or two throughout her career.

With 30+ titles in print, under three pen names, she feels fortunate to spend her days working with some of the quirkiest characters around—those in her head, and in her life. She lives quietly with her muses, Calliope and Clio, who most days masquerade as four-legged furry creatures. She often laments that her cats have become her children, and she has become her mother. (Which as it turns out, is a wonderful thing! )

Such is life. And life, such fodder for books. Que sera, sera.

Among her work, she pens the popular Matchmaking Chef series and is a co-author for Ladies of Legend books.To learn more about The Matchmaking Chef series, visit www.suziecooks.com, or the Ladies of Legend books, visit www.legendtennessee.com.

She also owns a little publishing house called Turquoise Morning Press. Come by and visit, won't you?