Loretta Ellingsworth: 30 books

Juliette had one failing. Many people have one failing. They usually join a club that reminds them not to fail one day at a time. She was ready to start her own subdivision of that group. “Hi, my fatal failing is uniforms. I love to see a man in uniform. It’s bad out there. There’s more soldiers,...

Aubergine St. Valentine, the Queen of Romance, has a problem courtesy of Las Vegas, the Spirit of Elvis, a drive thru wedding chapel, and a momentary weakness of will. A husband. A these kind of dreams don't happen to me handsome enigmatic husband. Once a man acquires a wife, unlike the wife,...

Do you need help to sell your house fast? For full price?  For its highest value? Since the fifteenth century people have asked St. Jopseph for his help. And found their favorite home, found the buyer you wanted. This Sampler includes the first chapter of each of the first four books...

Aubergine St. Valentine, the Queen of Romance, although Queendom was not a divine birthright in her world and like Alice in Wonderland it took a lot of running to stay in place or get a little bit ahead, faced the same ticking biological clock her former agent faced. If she was the Queen, where were...

It is difficult to say no. No creates turmoil, confusion, and little cracks in the path from where you are to back to where you were. Little changes, tiny ripples, miniscule differeces pile up around the roots of no as it grows until the way back in barred and forward is uncertain. She said no. Then she said it again. And again. It wasn't a big choice, but it had big results.

Flavia loved her career. Even after a grueling international flight and jet lag that would knock out an elephant, she looked forward to the start of the writer's conference where she would represent the publisher as she gave several workshops and met with the writers—those she already worked with,...

Jane is the longest running Sales Person of the Month for her real estate agency, aided in part by the efforts of her administrative assistant and niece, Juliette, but life has become a little rote, and maybe has hit a plateau. Where do you go from top sales person of the month-maybe to top broker...

Get up and Gumption. Her grandmother had been right. Irene had that, not all of her relatives did. Get up and gumption brought her the beach house she enjoyed. It wasn't the best stretch of the beach, the sand angled down to the waters edge a bit too sharply, but owning a beach house didn't necessarily...

Betty grew up among the mountains. She was old enough to choose to go walk about through them if she wanted to which is what she tried to explain to the woman on horseback who refused to let her make her own way across to the game trails that would lead down the mountain. It wasn't the first setback...

Ivy looked forward to her sabbatical—a year without 9 to 5 stress and drama, without family responsibilities—time to decide if she was a painter who teaches or a teacher who paints, and most of all time to sit down, take a deep breath, and plan her wedding. Then her fiancé took her to afternoon...

Angel no longer fretted what might have been, just took the turnings and windings of life as they turned and wound around her. If she daydreamed it was about planting a new rose bush and whether it would fit best in her yard or in one of her landscape clients yards where she could tend it and enjoy...

Gray. Barbara's life was turning into the same pedestrian gray that she had shunned in her teens. She had slammed the door on a faded, limp, and laundered out life and held it shut until now when it squeaked ajar to suck at her again. Two good years was enough to invest in a project. Two good years,...

It was fatigue. Aubergine St. Valentine was fatigued she was not the victim of writer's block. Every mother with a new baby is fatigued. It took twice as long to get half as much done. Not another video! Well, yes. A mama and baby exercise video. Now it took four times as long to get an infinitesimal...

Jerri did not expect her father to be abandoned by his beautiful youthful wife–or for him to be snatched up by the hoochie slut–before she could go and rescue him. If he had only loved his little girls more, she would have been able to be there, especially since the prince in her life suddenly...