Risky Business

by Merline Lovelace

Published 1 January 2008

From career woman…to camp fire girl?

As regional chief of employment and training, Sue Ellen Carson gets to sit in a comfortable, air-conditioned office and make funding decisions–she just doesn't do fieldwork. But this time her boss insists that she evaluate a program firsthand–three weeks of survival training with at-risk teens in the Florida wilderness. Entering the rough-and-tumble world of camp founder USAF Chief Master Sergeant Joe Goodwin isn't her idea of fun–especially once she gets the hang of the rules:

1. Never wear perfume. Bugs–stinging, biting bugs–love designer fragrance.

2. Never pretend to be up on the latest street lingo. Acting too cool for school around troubled teens can have disastrous consequences.

3. Never, ever get too close to Sergeant Goodwin. Because resisting this man's animal magnetism is such risky business, even a seasoned exec like Sue Ellen can't pull it off….


Ex Marks the Spot

by Merline Lovelace

Published 1 April 2007

Forced to leave her beloved military life behind at the ripe old age of thirty-seven, USAF Colonel Andrea (Andi) Armstrong comes to the Florida panhandle for a fresh start. Little did she know–at least until that auspicious knock on her next-door neighbor's door–that there were some things about her old life she wasn't quite finished with yet.

And evidently, if the expression on his love-struck face was any indication, her ex-husband, Colonel Dave Armstrong–aka said next-door neighbor–wasn't quite finished with her yet either. Hmm. Who was it who said the best is yet to come? Maybe there was something to that after all….