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Protective Instincts - Romantic suspense - 100,000 words - Complete

Someone wants widowed teacher Brit Roberts dead. She is finally getting back into life after her husband's death, when an attacker attempts twice to kill and rape her, taking away her newfound ability to control her life. Sam has premonitions of danger and now they are aiming at his teenaged son's school teacher. Douglas Drake killed the teacher's husband three years ago and now he has been hired to kill the teacher.

The Cost of Deception - Women's fiction/romance - 100,000 words - Complete

The Cost of Deception is about the two class nerds/loners who attend their twenty year high school reunion, a first for both. She is the widowed mother of teens and a teacher. He is an undercover cop. when they meet, she remembers she is a woman with a woman's needs and he wants to be close to her and her family but everything he tells her is a lie, except his name.

Haunting Refrain - Paranormal/Reincarnation with two ghost facilitators - 100, 000 words - Complete

Sarah had known William since birth and adored him as a best older friend. William thinks of Sarah as the sister he never had and her parents as the only people who care about him. Now he is a psychologist who doesn't believe in magic or fairy tales but Sarah says she has ghost in her attic and that she and William were married in a previous life.

Cheerleader Dad - Romantic comedy - 65,000 - 75,000 words - Complete, but could be expanded.

Cheerleader Dad is a parent trap movie with two eleven-year-old cheerleader wannabes who want their parents to get together. Lily, divorced, had raised her daughter to explore everything from dancing and local beauty pageants to sports but Jesse who tended to his daughter with no help from her mother raised the girl to be a tomboy, avoiding anything he feels would make her like her selfish mother, the beauty queen, model/actress wannabe who didn't even want to give birth. When he meets Lily her sees her as the perfect Mom.

Protecting Melissa - Romantic Suspense - 75,000 words - Complete

Melissa is taking control of her life since her philandering, crook of a husband was shot in the bed with the wife of a client he swindled. Gabe, a single parent, has known Melissa since her and her older brother hung out and little Melissa followed the boys around, now his son is in her class at school. Gabe was Melissa's first crush and now he insists on protecting her from the person who slashed her car tires, took personal photos of her home and in her shower and is threatening her. The principal, a desperate man needs for Melissa to find money her husband stole from him, leaving him with no wife, big debts, and no retirement. Gabe and Melissa work together to find the money her husband must have hidden and find the man threatening her.

Angel Women's Fiction - 80,000 words - Complete

Three children grew up on the wrong side of the tracks but each took a different path.

Patrice worked as a stripper to earn her degree in accounting and get a good job at a firm where she met a nice middle aged man who courted her and married her. She didn't believe in romantic love but would have been a loyal wife until she overheard her husband order a murder. As soon as she could she cleaned out his safe, copied his computer harddrive and left him to find a job as a stripper in the part of town where the criminal element would hang out. Her new name is Angel.

Hugh, her husband, lives two lives and is obsessed with the classy, pure, innocent woman he believes his wife to be. He needs Patrice to tie him to good in him.

Gil, a PI grew up with Patrice and wants to help Angel.

Angel puts herself in danger to get the information to put her husband away.

The Birthday Gifts - Complete

On Edna Mae's fortieth birthday she buried her father and lost her virginity in a one-night-stand with a stranger. From that night her life changed in more ways than she could imagine.

©2006 Mary Marvella Barfield