The Proposal (36 page)

Coming Soon from Katie Ashley

Music of the Heart

For Abby Renard, the plan was supposed to be
simple—join her brothers’ band on the last leg of their summer tour and decide
if she’s finally ready for the limelight by becoming its fourth member. Of course,
she never imagined stumbling onto the wrong tour bus at Rock Nation would
accidentally land her in the bed of Jake Slater, the notorious womanizing lead
singer of Runaway Train. When he mistakes her for one of his groupie’s, Abby
quickly lets him know she sure as hell isn't in his bed on purpose.

Jake Slater never imagined the angel who fell into
his bed would resist his charms by promptly kneeing him in the balls. Of
course, the fact she seems like a prissy choir girl makes her anything but his
type. So he is more than surprised when after betting Abby she wouldn’t last a
week on their tour bus, she is more than willing to prove him wrong. But as
Jake’s personal life begins to implode around him, he finds an unlikely ally in
Abby. He’s never met a woman he can talk to, joke with, or most importantly
make music with.

As the week starts comes to a close, neither Abby
nor Jake is ready to let go. Can a sweetheart Country songstress and a bad boy
of Rock N Roll actually have a future together?

Drop Dead Sexy
Summer 2013

For Olivia Sullivan, love is more a four letter
curse word than a sentiment. Growing up as the daughter of a small town
mortician, guys didn’t warm to the fact there were dead people in her house. At
thirty, taking over the family business and becoming the town Coroner helped to
cement undateable status. Of course her past sex history didn’t help matters
either.

Attempt number one with her first love ended before
it got started with a horrific latex allergy hospitalization. Attempt number
two had him coming and then going with an undiagnosed heart condition. For the
past three years, Olivia has closed up shop for fear of what might happen next
in the bedroom.

After being forced to go single to her mother’s
lingerie shower, Olivia stumbles into an out of town bar with one intention:
find an able bodied stud to go home with to end her losing sex streak. Enter
Holden Caulfield Mains aka Catcher, who earned his nickname not just from the
book he was named for, but for the fact he was sure to catch the attention any
woman who came with a five mile radius. Waking up after a night of the most
mind blowing sex she could have ever imagined, a horrified Olivia runs away
thinking she’s Catcher behind.

When Olivia’s small town is wracked by its first
murder, she never could have imagined her one night stand would reappear in the
form of the GBI’s lead investigator. To her mortification, Catcher isn’t ready
to let go of their sizzling chemistry, and he doesn’t understand the meaning of
no. As things start to heat up between them, the body count starts to rise, and
they’re led on a wild goose chase from back woods mountain Nudist Colonies to
altercations with the Dixie Mafia.

Do Not Go Gentle
: NEW ADULT
Summer 2013

Maddie and Allie had been best friends since
Pull-ups and Pre-K. Raised on the same rural road and with their parents close
friends, nothing had ever come between them. But the summer after graduation
changes everything. When Allie’s dad starts spinning out of control with his
PTSD, an altercation leaves her black and blue. Maddie never could have
imagined that acting on a whispered accusation would lead not only to a
friend’s broken trust, but to a fiery midnight blaze that took Allie and her
mother out of this world at her father’s hands. Maddie is left with a gaping
hole in her soul and the unimaginable guilt that she was somehow to blame.

Miles away at college, Will thought he could escape
the impending chaos at home. At twenty-one, he never could have imagined the
entire world he knew would go up in smoke, leaving him orphaned and without his
little sister and confidante, Allie. With the life he once had in ashes, Will
can’t see the way ahead, nor can he shake the crippling grief that threatens to
consume him. No one makes him feel alive again or want to embrace the uncertain
future except Maddie.

In Will, Maddie has someone to help her pick the
pieces of her shattered life without Allie. He’s the only one who understands
what she’s going through. Her old friends, her boyfriend of two years, none of
them seem to comprehend what her dark world is like. The more and more time
they spend together, the more they depend on each other. But everything they
have is threatened when the lines between friendship and lovers start to blur.

The Pairing
: A Companion
Novel to
The Proposition
and
The Proposal

Pesh’s love story with Megan—Aidan’s niece and baby
Mason’s mother.

Katie Ashley writing as Krista Ashe in
Young Adult

Jules the Bounty Hunter
—Currently
Available

High-speed car chases, hiding out in overgrown
bushes, nabbing the bad guy—all in a days work for Julianne aka Jules St.
James. Sure growing up with a bounty hunter for a father was a little
unorthodox, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. After all, how many sixteen-year-old
girls can take a man down with her bare hands, fire an assault rifle, or become
a chameleon by using fake identities to nab bail jumpers? On her father’s Texas
ranch, she’s just one of the guys with her older, twin brothers, Remington and
Colt.

So when Jules’s father insists she spend the summer
with her absentee mother—a former Savannah debutant and current member of high
society, she is more than a little pissed off. Jules has had little use for her
mother since she blew out of town six years ago to trade garden parties and
black tie affairs for being a bounty hunter’s wife. A summer in Savannah with
Mommie Dearest means having refinement and culture shoved down her throat while
styling the latest haute couture fashion.

But Jules’s father has another reason behind sending
her to Savannah. The society family of Emmett Marshall, a white-collar bail
jumper resides there. The mission is for Jules to get close to Marshall’s
teenage son, Jackson, thus trying to unravel any clues about his father’s whereabouts.
Locating Marshall could mean a hefty payoff —enough for Jules’s freshman year
of college.

Since she's better at taking down a guy than hooking
up with one, Jules feels like she's in over her head. Enter Wyatt Deluca.
Working for Jules’s bounty hunting cousin, Wyatt's suave services are enlisted
to help her reel Jackson in. The tattooed, motorcycle riding bad boy is a 180
from sweet, cultured Jackson, but the more that Jules hangs around with Wyatt,
the more confused she is about her true feelings and her ability to do her job.

The Guardians
: Currently
Available

Got Wings?

Elijah and Cassie aren’t your old-school angels
chilling in the heavens and strumming harps. They’re members of the Guardians,
an elite force of angels masquerading under the guise of high school teens.

Their newest mission is no walk in the clouds. In an
effort to seek out troubled teens, they, along with fellow angels, Rafe, Sophie
and Gabriel, will pose as a family of adopted brothers and sisters and enroll
in high school. Along with their gift of “emotional divination”, which is to
take on the pain of those who are suffering, they experience their own roller
coaster rides of teenage emotions.

Accustomed to working with children, shy Elijah is
overwhelmed when he is assigned to Abby, an honor roll cheerleader. When she
discovers she is pregnant and her boyfriend abandons her, Abby turns to Elijah
for support. As his feelings for Abby intensify, Elijah also struggles with the
desire to be a guardian to Abby’s unborn baby. However, as Elijah is trying to
do good, a dark force hovers over him in the form of Lucius—one of Satan’s
demons. Things escalate when Elijah threatens Lucius. It will come to a fight
to the finish with Elijah either being defeated or damning Lucius back to Hell.

Song bird Cassie sings her way into the lead of the
school musical and into the life of Zach, a guitar-strumming lost soul. After
constant beatings from his step-father drive Zach to a suicide attempt, Cassie
must teach him about hope and faith. However, a dark force in the area leads
Cassie to mistakenly interpret that Zach is her assignment. Instead she was
meant for Lauren, her musical rival and the girl who has an intense crush on
Zach. Cassie must somehow find a way to befriend Lauren, help her along and
continue to help Zach without destroying Lauren in the process.

To fail means death for their assignments, and to
fall in love ensures a fall from grace. No one ever said high school was easy

Nets and Lies:
Coming January
31
^st
, 2013

Always awkward in her 5’10 frame, Melanie Reeves
finds her saving grace through basketball. Not only is she the varsity team
captain, she’s the pride of Coach Thompson, who holds the keys to a college
scholarship. Melanie has also found 'courtly' love with Will, Coach T's
handsome, ball-playing son. When Melanie is on the court, everything is
perfect....until she is forced to face an opponent who doesn't play by the
rules.

Jordan Solano's power lies in her beauty and sex
appeal. Never afraid of breaking the rules, she engages in a scandalous
flirtation with the school's married basketball coach. But the flirtation
quickly turns into accusation, and Coach T's job and reputation are placed in
jeopardy after Jordan charges him with rape. Jordan's own reputation has the
school administration unwilling to believe her. That is, until she makes a
startling claim - she's not the only victim.

Suddenly, all eyes are on Melanie, and it isn't for
her amazing free-throws. A man's job, a girl's reputation, and her boyfriend's
entire world now rest in Melanie's hands. She has to decide: keep her secrets
and protect her future, or put an end to the lies...and lose everything

Don’t Hate the Player…Hate the Game
:
Coming
March 1, 2013

For Noah Fitzpatrick being the best friend to a
douchebag and player like Jake Slater has never been easy. It's been a rocky
road since kindergarten when Jake duct taped Noah to his chair before recess.
With just six weeks to high school graduation, Jake accidentally blows his
drunken ass up on his grandfather's tractor, and Noah finds himself immersed
not only in a whirlwind of grief, but on a quest to find a mystery girl from
Jake's past.

While cleaning out Jake's room, Noah and Jake's dad
make a startling discovery. Instead of the obligatory porn collection or pot
stash, they find a ring, but not just any ring. Its half a carat of commitment
in a platinum setting-proving even man whores have taste. After Jake's mom
pleads with Noah to find the girl who meant so much to Jake, Noah begins a
modern day Grail quest to track the girl down.

Since Jake was a notorious player with a legendary
collection of trophy panties, Noah finds himself in over his head. There are
the usual suspects like Avery, the Ice Princess Jake dated for appearances, or
Presley, the school mattress Jake dated for convenience. But the trail begins
to point to the most unlikely of suspects: Maddie, the Valedictorian and choir
girl who was trying to help the unmotivated jock graduate--the girl who also
has surprisingly caught Noah's eye and meddled with his heart.

Hanging out with Maddie shows Noah a different side
of Jake--one that was deeply human and surprisingly douche-free. And the more
he tries to solve the mystery of the ring and of Jake, the more Noah starts to
discover about himself and of love.

Sneak Peek of Kelli Maine’s Dolls and
Dom’s Novella