Kristen James

"Can she love him again if she can't remember him? Molly Anderson returns "home" to a town she doesn't remember, hoping it will spark a memory. She runs into Trent Williams, a Ridge City police detective, and something else definitely sparks."---P. [4] of cover

More Than Memories

Stranger in my Bed, a new romantic suspense/ psychological thriller series, Book One: Waking Up I wake up and confused and lost… except for Ellison, the key to my past and current life. My memories are shattered images at best and make no sense, and what I’m learning about myself makes me question who I am. Clues add up to different answers. Everyone else is certain about me and what’s going on, leaving me questioning my sanity. Ellison is my lifeline. He’s also a stranger to me. Teaser: It’s too quiet. I still to listen, and then proceed silently around the corner… There’s a hallway. Another corner. Then another. I’ll never get out of here. My foot bumps something that wasn’t there before. I crouch next to something—no, someone. It’s too dark to see much but I make out a suit. Diagonal stripes on the tie. I rest a hand on his chest and it feels wet. I flip my hand over and see red. Bright red. Brighter than it should be in this black fog. I jerk awake with a gasp, then look at both of my palms in the semidarkness. I don’t see blood. I rub them together. They’re dry. Had I been holding a gun in the dream? The sensation is still there, so real that I stare at my empty hand to reassure myself. Why would I have a gun? I hear my ragged breathing and collect my thoughts enough to hold my breath and listen. At first I think I’m alone, but as my eyes adjust and see more details, I realize Ellison is still in the chair. Holding his breath too. There’s tiny points of soft light coming from plug-ins and the machines. It’s not nearly enough to see if his eyes are open. “Ellison?” No answer. “Ellison? Are you awake?” I panic, wondering what he’s thinking. What he’s doing. Updates at http://writerkristenjames.com/stranger-series/.

Waking Up

Stranger in my Bed

Second Gift Series, Book 1 Savanna Thompson knows what it’s like when you blink and your life shatters. She’s been hiding her divorce from her best friend Cassie, but she knows she can’t any longer. Cassie’s husband, a firefighter, just died. Savanna rushes home, along with her one-year-old daughter to help, and now she’s staying with Cassie in a nursery meant for a baby that won’t ever exist. She will fix their relationship, but it’s complicated with Jason around. He’s the firefighter who saved Savanna’s life two and a half years ago. He just lost his best friend, and like Cassie, he blames himself for Mike’s death. When he convinced Mike to remain with the department, how could he know Mike would die fighting a house fire? Though hurting herself, something deep inside her won’t let her walk away. Jason needs her but she’s off limits on so many levels. She’s falling for this sexy firefighter but he confuses her to no end. Being stuck in the middle is enough stress, plus her own problems are festering behind her helping smile. Can Savanna find the balance between loving Jason, helping Cassie, and taking care of herself and her daughter? Or is she going to lose this bet and her best friend? *** What are readers saying? "I was looking forward to a good story about friendship and love, and your story did not disappoint! I haven’t been in Savannah’s or Cassie’s situation personally, but I was able to feel all of the emotions they were going through as they dealt with the changes in their lives. I can’t imagine the overwhelming feeling of loss and hopelessness that Cassie was facing after her husband died. I think you did a great job of showing her in a bit of a free fall – distancing herself from friends and family, changing the outside of her life (taking down the pictures of her and Mike) but unable to change her inner feelings of anger and hurt, and acting out by doing things she might not ordinarily do. I really loved how both Savannah and Jason both were deeply affected by their “first” meeting. The way you described it from both perspectives was great and really helped the reader “see” what they were going through in those scary moments in the fire. It gave them some history without a history, if that makes any sense. It also added an additional layer to the complications in Savannah and Cassie’s friendship, as well. I really liked the way everything wrapped up – but I feel like Cassie may have more love in her still, so maybe she needs a follow-up romance of her own!" ~from an email from a reader.

Embers of Hope

Kristen Bailey

When her estranged brother passes, Missy is suddenly an unwanted co-owner to Ocean View Stables by Florence, Oregon. Missy wants to start over somewhere new after her old boss burned her. She's jobless and has a wrongly ruined reputation, so this works out perfectly . . . until she meets the cowboy running the place. Brent built his dream with determination and his two hands; he's responsible for everything that happens there. Secretly, he feels responsible that his former partner died. He also doesn't hide his belief that Missy won't stick around. Women tend to take off on him so why would she be any different? They both have a past that can ruin their future. Can he trust her to stay? Can she trust him with her heart?

A Cowboy for Christmas

From Bestselling Kindle Author Kristen JamesSeasoned covert operative Jeff Ivanov knows something is stirring in paradise. His never ending antics and perchance for romance got him a two year leave, aka paid vacation, to his childhood home of Kauai. The Garden Island, however, is a hotbed of nationalities with hidden national agendas. Even while enjoying the island Aloha life, he can't miss the gorgeous Russian ladies flirting with scientists and engineers from Kauai Missile Base. When his old team members start to show up, the party's on. Of course their mission isn't condoned or even recorded. The Na Pali Seven do not exist. As the son of a US Naval Captain and a Russian born professor, his role is to use his Russian connection to block the Russians from getting too close to the enamored scientists. The assignment gets real easy when Anya saunters into the bar and into his sights. They play the game together but emotions are dangerously real. The Na Pali Seven could be responsible for stopping the largest and most devastating attack on US soil and Ivanov might be falling for the enemy. *************Sneak Peaks:I hit the ground hard enough to knock the wind out of me, which hasn't happened in a good while. I freed my hands to fight her off, but she had a weapon ready.The knife hit my throat instantly. She'd maneuvered on top of me before I could react and had gotten the upper hand, completely surprising me. Everything stopped. Holding my hands out in surrender, I felt the blade on my throat and heard my own raspy breathing as I lay there completely helpless, trying to pull in a gulp of air. It might be my dying breath.She may have smiled right then. But she didn't kill me instantly, providing me with a tiny light of hope. I could possibly get my hands to the knife to fight her off before she cut deep enough to bleed me out. Then again, I might have a better chance of talking my way out.****************Now that I was walking away from the lights and activity by myself, the guards hurried to catch up to me, seeing their opportunity. Suddenly I wondered if Brinks really was a good shot. I listened to their footsteps following me and stopped, set my glass on the ledge, and turned just enough to flash the shaka at them. I barely heard the shots. Both men slumped to the floor. I hurried to them, grabbed an ear piece from one, and pushed both bodies overboard. I straightened, picked up my glass, and pretended to be looking out to sea in case anyone had a reason to walk my way. When I placed one of the guard's ear pieces in my free ear, I immediately heard a foreign language. Farsi. I didn't understand it, but maybe I'd be able to pick up on something if they switched to English or Russian.To Brinks, I said, "Excellent shot, Brinks, for an old Marine Corp sniper. Next time, a little closer to the temple . . . but then again that's good for a Marine. I'll have some of the Navy Seals teach you later." I smiled and held up my glass in a mock solute. The glass exploded.

Kauai Spy Games

I want answers. I’ll find a way to get them. Eli has an explanation for everything...until he doesn’t. I finally crack him and gain leverage, only to learn a new, more twisted story. How can I believe round two of his lies? Now I know for certain he’s not the only one in on this conspiracy, but I still don’t know why this is happening to me. Teaser: (Eli) Good god, when that woman gets an idea in her head, nothing short of Armageddon can stop her. You don’t trust me, Megan. You think I’m going to put a bullet in your head and chop you up with an ax like some deranged murderer. You think I’d do that to my wife, the love of my life, the woman who saved my life and soul. So what now? What do I do? She really didn’t know what she was asking me back then. That, or she thought more of me than I do. What if she does make a break for it out here? Her talents lie more in the interpersonal realm, not so much outdoor survival. She can navigate life with the rich and twisted, surrounded by power hungry tycoons and white collar killers, but I’m not sure she’d keep her head about her in a survival situation out here, especially in her confused mental state. Why did I leave her by herself? Did I really think it’d prove that I trust her? http://writerkristenjames.com/stranger-series/

Stranger in my Bed: Answers...or more lies?

Megan wakes from a coma to a life that doesn't feel right and a husband who acts like he loves her...but is he lying to her? Tricking her? What's really going on? All the evidence says they're happily and legally married, and yet her shattered memories say otherwise. Everyone she meets seems to be in on it, unless she's suffering from paranoia due to her brain injury. Ellison is the key to her past and future, even if she can't trust him. That doesn't stop her attraction to him. Megan plays a double agent, working with "Eli" to rebuild a life while trying to uncover the truth. Why would he do this? Does she know something she shouldn't? He has an explanation for everything until new answers lead to an even more twisted story. What will she have to do to uncover the truth and learn who she really is? Teaser: My hand in his, he leads me back to the bedroom. Alarms go off in my head-how did I miss it? He's trying to seduce me. "We can go pick out some furniture soon, if you like," Eli says as we sit down by the fireplace in the bedroom. He hands me my wine glass, which I didn't even see him carry back. "And we can get cable." "We could get internet." A pause. A look. "That too." He pulls a blanket over me and pauses. I think he wants to lay it over both of us but I'm still not comfortable being that close to him. So he sits on the other side, conceding. I could be wrong about all of my doubts. The fact hits me like a cup of cold water to the face. Here I am imagining him to be some kind of monster, but he hasn't hurt me. Why play house like this...? And which is scarier, if I'm right and this is all a lie, or I'm wrong and crazy? We watch the flames in silence for a few minutes as I sort through what I've learned here. I'll have to find a way to write it down, even if I have to hide it. "Megan?" I look his way, hoping all of my thoughts haven't been playing out on my face. "I found your wedding ring in the hospital bag. Someone must have brought..." He holds out the ring I had found in the hospital: the little diamonds in the braid of gold. It's breathtaking. I'm not sure what to do so I take it, turning it to watch the facets gleaming. I check his hand and see a silver band. While I'm thinking, he takes the ring and slides it onto my finger. "You've seemed uncertain about things... I thought it might help to have your ring on again." Again? I don't see how it'll help at all. But it's gorgeous. *** What are readers saying? "I want to root for Meg and Eli so bad! I feel my heart breaking each time he lies and each time she doubts him. A beautiful story of mistrust, love, and redemption." "The story itself was well written and even had an otherworldly feel to it because the author does a great job of making us feel like we are right in the moment with Megan as she is trying to recover her memory and her life." "Who is this woman? Is her name really Megan? Who is Ellison? Does he really have her best interest at heart? So many questions and so few answers. The suspense had me on the edge of my seat and I couldn't put the book down. Ms. James does it again. This is a great story where Ms. James took the time to build the characters and storyline."

Stranger in My Bed

Molly Anderson returns “home” to a town she doesn’t remember, hoping it will spark a memory. She meets Trent Williams, a Ridge City police detective, and something else definitely sparks. Not only does he know her, Trent takes on her case and promises to do everything he can to solve it. He wants to know why she left town, with her parents, but without a word to anyone. She doesn’t remember that life. She can only tell him she knew her parents briefly before they died . . . or were murdered, she’s not sure. She hopes regaining her memory will help answer that question. Trent has his own secrets, but they have a mystery to solve. As they work together, and Molly meets their old friends, she realizes her relationship with Trent went deeper than memories. In fact, she grew up in Ridge City, even though her parents had said they lived there just a few years. How could she have forgotten her lifelong friend and love? Has he really been looking for her—waiting for her—for the last four years? Can she love him again if she doesn’t remember him? There’s also the possibility that she did something awful –and maybe that’s why she’s afraid to remember her old life. Molly knows she wants Trent now, but the truth might destroy their love.

Second Gift Series, Book 2 Cassie escapes to Ocean View Stables on the Oregon Coast to cope with the three year anniversary of her husband’s death. She’s starting to dream about her future, being happy, and even romance again. A safe romance, that is, where people don’t die. She runs into Ethan Caldwell, the cute boy who teased her through grade school. He sure grew up – into a man who would catch anyone’s eyes. Now he’s a single dad to nine year old Isabel, who talks about her parents getting back together, as soon as her mom is out of rehab. “Isy” also talks about her dad’s work trips. Apparently Ethan has some kind of dangerous and secretive government job. Cassie wants to run but she loves spending time with both Ethan and Isy. This isn’t at all what Cassie is looking for! So why is she running full speed into another broken heart? Teaser: “Want to go swimming?” Ethan asked. She was busy thinking and thought she misunderstood him, but the expectant smile on his face told her otherwise. “Right now?” He got up and stuck out a hand. Before she could think the situation over, or create a good reason to say no, he had grabbed her hand and was pulling her toward the river, looking back once to grin mischievously. “We’re being sneaky!” “I’m not wearing…” a swimsuit. “Same old Ethan!” He’d always been a dare devil. He let go of her hand to pull off his shirt. The moonlight silhouetted his body as he walked closer to the water, his shorts dropping. Either he hadn’t been wearing underwear or he dropped them with his shorts. It was nothing but skin. She looked away, pretending she didn’t just see his naked body…his very toned, naked body. “I can show you the world…” he sang as he walked toward the water. “Take you wonder by wonder…” Was that from the movie Aladdin? She giggled. She couldn’t help it; she giggled like a little school girl. “Over, sideways and under…” Could he possibly be thinking the same things she was? This man was not like those other guys, the ones who wanted to sit in a restaurant and ask her about life plans. “I won’t look,” he said, wading in, with a hint of repressed laughter. From the author: I'm so excited about this story! Ethan might be my best hero yet. He's deeply committed to people he loves, like Trent is from More Than Memories, and he's wounded like Jason in Embers of Hope. He's also daring and super romantic. I'm dying to share this story with you! Also by Kristen James: Stranger in my Bed series (romantic thriller) It's All In My Head (new adult, sweet) More Than Memories A Cowboy for Christmas The Cowboy Kiss A Spy for Christmas A Special Ops Christmas

More Than a Promise

She's a cutting-edge travel blogger—he's a fishing guide with strong ties to their small hometown.She thought they were arch enemies—he always thought they'd end up together.Autumn grew up in her parents' fishing resort in backwoods Oregon, listening to wild travel stories from around the world. Now she's broken free and living her dream as a travel blogger, that is until her mom talks her into coming home and writing a blog about the Rugged Resort. Autumn's very surprised to find Cory still there. He was the thorn in her side growing up, and now he's buddy-buddy with her parents. She plans to write her blog and hit the road, but Cory has other ideas.40 page eShort. (Short story or novella) New Adult Romance featuring friends that become more than friends, family and vivid details of the rugged Oregon wilderness.

The Cowboy Kiss

Quando o irmão desconhecido de Missy morre, ela torna-se sócia do Ocean View Stables em Florence, Oregon. A Missy quer recomeçar de novo depois do antigo patrão lhe ter destruído a reputação. Desempregada e com reputação profissional e pessoal arruinada, esta sociedade não podia chegar em melhor altura... até ela conhecer o cowboy que gere os estábulos. Brent construiu o seu sonho com determinação e as duas mãos; ele é responsável por tudo que acontece ali. No íntimo sente-se responsável pela morte do sócio. E também não esconde o facto de acreditar que a Missy não vai conseguir ficar ali muito tempo. A experiência diz-lhe que as mulheres tendem abandona-lo e porque é que com esta ia ser diferente? O passado dos dois pode arruinar-lhes o futuro. Será que pode confiar que ela vai ficar? Pode ela confiar-lhe o seu coração?

Um Presente de Natal

Sie ist eine bekannte Reisebloggerin – er ist ein Führer für Angeltouren mit starken Bindungen an ihren gemeinsamen kleinen Heimatort. Sie dachte, sie wären Erzfeinde – er hat immer geglaubt, sie würden zusammenfinden. Autumn wuchs in dem Angelferienparadies ihrer Eltern im Hinterland Oregons auf. Dort hörte sie aufregenden Reisegeschichten aus aller Welt zu. Jetzt hat sie sich losgerissen und lebt ihren Traum als Reisebloggerin. Bis ihre Mutter sie überzeugt, nach Hause zu kommen und einen Blogartikel über das Rugged Resort ihrer Eltern zu schreiben. Autumn ist sehr überrascht, dass Cory noch immer dort lebt. In ihrer Jugend war er ihr ein Dorn im Auge und nun ist er dick mit ihren Eltern befreundet. Sie will einfach nur ihren Blogartikel schreiben und wieder verschwinden, aber Cory hat andere Pläne.

Der Kuss Eines Cowboys

Canção do Rio enfrenta levando seu povo como seu pai envelhece; seu melhor amigo tornou-se seu rival como eles competem para se casar com o filho do grande chefe. O pai de River-Song, chefe Senta-and-Pensa, está crescendo velho e doente, mas ele confia nela para liderar seu povo. Sua melhor amiga se tornou seu rival como eles competem para se casar com o filho do grande chefe. Mas, como Rio-Song comprova-se a ele, ela começa a ver que ele não é o homem que ela pensava. Em seguida, ela deve usar seu dom de palavras quando um bando errante de Braves procurar uma nova casa com eles. Eles falam a língua de sua mãe para que ela possa compreendê-los. River-Canção sente puxado para o seu líder, mas confuso sobre o seu lugar na tribo. Pode esta rapariga segurar sua tribo em conjunto como os novos bravos se juntar a eles, e novamente quando os guerreiros hostis atacar seu vale? Venha visitar o Rio Pessoas no noroeste do Pacífico antes de os comerciantes de peles ou missionários chegaram. River-Canção vive em um vale de sinuosos rios que lhes dão salmão e truta para comer. Carvalhos abundam no vale, e uma floresta de cedro e abeto cercá-los, fazendo um dossel e dando-lhes pranchas para suas casas longos, canoas e totens. Gênero: Ficção / histórico

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