FICTION · ROMANCE
Elaine Overton
Most acclaimed
Déjà Vu
Set in contemporary New Orleans, brimming with the city's sultry heat and shifting currents of old magic and new love, the novel takes us into the heart of an exotic world. As ageless as the tides, beautiful antiques dealer Ariane Bragonier is a woman with a secret. She lives for two things: love...and revenge. Dr. Cole Herlihy is a man with a dream. But only something truly groundbreaking can save his life's work on the study of aging--such as the reason Ariane Bragonier looks exactly like a socialite who disappeared back in 1926. Caught between two worlds, Cole and Ariane seek the answer to an ancient riddle on the beautiful, dangerous streets of modern-day New Orleans. As they are pursued by a deadly stranger, they must lay Ariane's past to rest and find a future of freedom, justice, and love.
His holiday bride
Trouble was her middle name...Of the four Lockharts, Amber was the wild child, a part-time student and full-time groupie who gave her older sisters sleepless nights. But even Amber was surprised when her pre-Christmas getaway turned nasty, causing her to flee from danger--right into the six-pack abs of Paul Gutierrez. His was danger... Going home was not an option when Amber became the target of a man desperate to keep a secret. So Paul's L.A. home became her safe house, his strong arms her armor. After long nights with her macho protector, Amber was in danger all right--from a hot, sexy Latin lover!
Fever
Orphaned and penniless, Juliette Broussard is overjoyed when her godfather, Max Hollinsworth, plucks her from an isolated French convent. Then she discovers his plan for her to marry his shiftless son Tylor so that he can acquire her family's dilapidated sugar cane plantation, Belle Jarod. Juliette's dreams are of rebuilding her once-glorious home and she wants nothing to do with marriage -- until she comes face-to-face with a blue-eyed temptation who unleashes the same passions that drove her mother, Louisiana's most beautiful and notorious prostitute, to destroy every man who loved her. Chantz Boudreaux, Max's bastard first-born, has one desire: for his father to acknowledge him. But the moment he drags Juliette's naked body from the flood-driven Mississippi, he is swept into a liaison that unsettles his priorities and threatens his life. Soon their forbidden passion burns like a fever. As they struggle to revive Belle Jarod, betrayal and a deadly plague threaten everything they hold dear. NOTE: Top rated Goodreads reviews are generally scathing of racist stereotypes and morality of the villainous Max, as well as implausible, convoluted plotting - but admiring of the Juliette/Chantz dynamic.