WIth a Twist: (The Club #9) (7 page)

M. Stratton is an International Amazon bestselling author in the romantic suspense and mystery suspense categories for her Storm Series and Bender. She lives with her husband and son in Arizona, which is a big difference from where she grew up north of Chicago Illinois. As an only child she learned to tell herself stories to make the long winters go by quicker while dreaming of summer vacations. Now as an adult she still makes up stories to pass the time, but now she writes them down to share with other people. Stratton is a self-proclaimed dork who loves to make people laugh. Her inner rock star is always on stage performing to a sold out crowd, but she quiet and shy on the outside. She spends her days plotting new ways to surprise her readers.

The Storm Series (Romantic Thrillers)

After the Storm –
Book One
:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G5WYCD8

Alexia “Lexi” Hanson moved across the country to rebuild her life after the attack which almost destroyed her. She enjoys the simple things in her beach cottage. Life is finally complete.

Noah Matthews is Rock & Roll’s hottest star and on top of the world. After years without a break, he finds the solitude he craves at his beach house. Enjoying his early morning coffee, Noah is surprised to see his neighbor sneak into his garden and crawl around.

They never saw that fateful morning coming. Someone was watching them. Someone who thought Lexi belonged to him and would stop at nothing to have her.

Lives are changed forever when they meet amongst the blooms in his garden. Even when things seem darkest, there is always light After the Storm.

Eye of the Storm –
Book Two
:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IJF4E2I

Evie Taylor loves her life in Boston, running her bookstore and café, but an accident has made it so she needs to return home to take care of her grandmother. With extra time on her hands, she decides to start looking for the monster which haunts her best friend’s nightmares, and a chain of events begins which no one could see coming.

When the last person she ever expected shows up and rings her grandmother’s doorbell, she finds herself in the middle of danger. Bound together in a common mission, they’ll search the world looking for answers. But can they find them in time, or will they end up paying the ultimate price?

As the storm rages around them, they find each other and the calm in the Eye of the Storm.

Caught in the Storm -
Book Three
:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KY4DH6G

What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted?

Kat Snyder has spent years chasing after the man who attacked her and left her for dead. It is her one obsession, and she won’t let anyone stand in her way. Now that they are getting closer to finding him, she begins to doubt herself and her need for revenge.

Jackson “Jack” Taylor lost the only woman he truly loved. Now that he’s found her again, he’s not letting go and will do everything in his power to make her see they can have a life together. Together they search for the monster who has hurt so many women.

The closer they get, the closer they become, until they are both Caught in the Storm.

The Storm Series Box Set
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZWA6RP0

Includes all three above books plus two short stories where you learn more about the darkness behind the books.

The Dana Marshall Files

Volume 1 (Two short stories)
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0113F0UQ4

Blown Away

While Dana Marshall didn't have a perfect life, she did have a mother who loved her, a mother who encouraged her to be whatever she wanted when she grew up. They both had dreams of all she could accomplish, what she could do when she left this small town.

Then her mother was killed and everything changed. What Dana Marshall wanted to do when she graduated was something completely different than what her and her mother imagined. Mama didn't have this in mind.

Her life was destroyed when a monster killed her mother. Without protection, she fell prey to her alcoholic father. Taking her time, Dana did her research, saved her pennies until finally the storm blew in and scattered her problems to the other side of the county.

The first kill is always the hardest.

Kiss of Death

After successfully killing two men and getting away with it, Dana Marshall had her next kill.

Adrian Silva started beating his wife, Maria, before the ink was dry on the marriage license. When his stepdaughter became a teenager, his eyes turned to her. After an unsuccessful rape attempt, Yara Rivera took matters into her own hands. She attempted to kill him by putting boric acid in his whisky. He drank it, but lived. Sent to juvenile hall, Yara is unable to protect her mother. She knew there was nothing she could do but get her mother to leave Adrian.

Successfully escaping from him, Yara protected her family with everything she had, leaving her listening for every bump in the night in their small apartment every night.

With her file complete, Dana travels to Upstate New York to give Adrian her own kiss of death.

Stand-Alone Novels – Romantic Thriller

Fade to Black:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MT3TK8E

Devlin Cross is one of Hollywood's biggest stars. He has his pick of the scripts and his pick of the women. While on a break from filming his current movie, he takes a drive through the countryside and stops at a local art gallery. There, the owner isn't star-struck by having him in her shop.

Lily Walker is a single mother who wants nothing to do with men. Her goal in life is to raise her son to the best of her ability and give him the stable home life she never had. With her failed marriage behind her, the last thing on her radar is a relationship, especially one with a famous movie star.

Not every breakup is mutual. Some ex-lovers never let go. Some will do whatever it takes to have that person back in their lives. Dead… or alive.

Bender:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S5NKZG8

Since high school, everyone thought Jake Bender would end up behind bars; after all, he comes from a long line of bad boys. He spent years away from the place he called home. When he finally comes back, everyone thinks he's just a punk kid all grown up who’s now running a dive bar called The Night Club. What they don't know is he heads a special task force which cleans up neighborhoods and makes them safe again.

Stormy Ryan has always felt more comfortable with her books than with people, and she loves to spend her days within the pages. When her second-hand bookstore is robbed for the third time in as many months, her employees quit leaving her to run the shop on her own. With the pressure of having to deal with her shop and people, not to mention the declining neighborhood, she is at the end of her rope.

When closing up her shop late one night, she is held up and the neighborhood bad boy saves her, putting both of them at the forefront of a psychotic’s obsession.

Being bad has never looked so good.

Contemporary Romance

120 days…
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012XDQ2RG

120 days... The average number of days someone stays at Last Resort.

17 weeks... Surrounded by love, laughter and support.

4 months... More time than they had before they walked through the door.

Real estate developer Ethan McGregor’s life was changed forever when his younger brother told him he was dying of cancer. Ethan was ready to do whatever it took to save Evan, but Evan had other plans.

Say goodbye…

Samantha Truman runs the privately-funded Last Resort. Watching her parent’s drive and determination to live longer than the doctors gave them was the inspiration for the resort. It is her heart and soul--she lives to make sure that each day is precious, and one more sunrise or sunset can make all the difference the guests at Last Resort need.

After finding his brother’s journal, and discovering more about Last Resort, Ethan is determined to find out if this place is one of those “too good to be true” places that turn out to be a scam. But he was not ready for Samantha Truman, he was not ready for everything to change, for his point of view in life to be so incredibly altered, for the world to turn its axis. There are, after all, some things Ethan can’t control, who to fall in love with is one of them.

How much can change in 120 days?

Contemporary Romance with a Side of Humor

When Dreams Come True -
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TWHB9QQ

(Book One of The Star Series)

What would you do if one day all of your dreams came true?

Melissa 'Lissa' Loring was a successful author. She was happy living in her home at the base of the mountains in Tucson with her assistant, Hannah Mills. First the phone call came; they wanted to make one of her books into a movie. Within six months, she was flying out to Los Angeles and talking with the studio about the final script and a list of actors to play the roles. Excited about her lunch meeting, she was shocked when her muse for one of the characters walked in and sat down at the table with her.

Will Martinsson was riding high on his fame and loving every minute of it. He traveled the world meeting his legions of fans and could pick which roles he wanted. When the script was presented to him, he read it and was intrigued. Then he found out that the author had modeled the character after him, so he searched out information on her and his interest was piqued. He told the studio he wanted in, but he also wanted to meet her before he would sign on the dotted line.

When two independent, successful people meet and have a strong connection, there is nothing they can do but see where the dream takes them.

Wishing On a Star
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UTSD12W

(Book Two of The Star Series)

At what point do you stop wishing on stars?

Hannah Mills was content in her life. She was the personal assistant to best-selling author, Melissa Loring. But now Melissa was engaged to the famous actor, Will Martinsson, and they were traveling around the world based on his filming and interview schedule. Hannah loved traveling with them, but she didn’t want to run into Royce Rivers, Will’s co-star and friend. The same man she called friend, until one night, things went too far. She tried as hard as she could to keep him out of her heart and body, but she knew if she saw him again, she’d lose the battle, and she couldn’t allow herself to fall for him.

Royce Rivers grew up in the spotlight, a second-generation actor. When he was younger, he did everything and anything to rebel, becoming a typical Hollywood statistic on bad behavior. It took many years, but he cleaned his act up and was at a point in his life when he could try and enjoy it. Then one Miss Hannah Mills walked into his life and nothing was the same. He knew she was keeping something from him. If there was one thing he was familiar with, it was demons, and she had hers. What started as fun and games with a new friend, soon changed to something more. Royce wanted nothing more than to slay the demons which kept her away from him so they could have their happily ever after.

When two people battling demons meet and can no longer deny their feelings, there is nothing they can do but see if their wish comes true.

Paranormal Novellas

Constant Echo:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O2C4PSA

Reagan Beckett left her hometown and finished her senior year while staying with her aunt. She built her life in a city far away from her memories, never having contact with anyone who knew her back then. No one would recognize her now. She transformed herself and tried to get as far away from the captain of the cheerleading squad as she could.

She was successful until the letter arrived and everything changed. Now ten years later, she’s on her way back to face her demons. The closer she gets, the more she feels herself slipping back to that scared young girl who fled in the early morning light, and she doesn’t like it. Her stomach clenches knowing what she was headed back into. Scared of having to go back to the house where her best friend was murdered in front of her.

Sometimes the past isn’t ready to let go.

The Moon Series (Stand-alone Paranormal Novellas)

Dreaming in Moonlight:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LM2HG8Y

This is a paranormal stand-alone novella in The Moon Series.

Ghosts are real. They are all around us. Most of the time, they are satisfied to watch us go by and not interact. When a couple was cursed to spend three hundred years in death searching for the one living couple who could release their bonds, they hunt for centuries to find a love which will make time stand still. If they fail, they will be sent to Hell to live out the rest of eternity.

Demons are real. They are all around us. Their one goal is to make our lives a living Hell. They will stop at nothing to destroy our minds and bodies. With the curse rapidly approaching its end, the deepest, darkest demon is summoned to make sure they don’t succeed.

Kate O’Malley fell in love with the old two-story farmhouse in Maine at first sight. She had to live there. Spending all of her savings, she was able to buy it and moved right in. The very first night, strange things happened, and her dreams weren’t her own. Looking for answers, she calls on a friend who puts her in contact with a ghost hunter, Sawyer Hamilton. Neither knows what is in their future. Neither knows if they are going to survive it.