2007 Emma Award – Favorite New Author
2006 Romance in Color Reviewers Choice Award – Favorite New Author

Hightower Honors 
Four brothers on a mission to protect, serve, and love....

Meet the Hightowers

Cops and firemen bring sirens to mind—red-hot-blazing sirens. And these men offer just that, loud, heart-pounding sirens of seduction. Hightower Honors is a four part series that chronicles the lives and loves of four very hot and sexy brothers from a strong upper-middle class Paterson, New Jersey family with a rich legacy of public service. Most of the Hightower men are either cops or firemen and have been in this line of work for several generations. These Hightower brothers add two cops and two firemen to the family lineage of service.

The Hightower men are all tall, dark, handsome and alpha. Their upbringing dictates that when push comes to shove, they should always do the right thing. The only catch is that sometimes the right thing in their minds has to be done the right way, their way. Raised by two loving parents, James and Celia Hightower, the brothers know what real love looks like and they want it for themselves. Eventually. On their own terms.

Their father James’s dedication to the city that raised him means that even though he became very successful with his security company, Hightower Security, he never moved his family away. The Hightowers are as close to royalty as a small urban city like Paterson, New Jersey gets. But they are also very down to earth and take their positions as leaders in the community very seriously. This is a family trait instilled in the Hightower brothers most heavily by their father’s older sister, Sophie Hightower. She has never married and has made it her business to make sure her “unworthy” sister-in-law, Celia, raises her nephews properly. After investing so much time in her nephews, she of course needs to make sure that they find mates worthy of them and the Hightower name.

Their mother, Celia Hightower, may not be of the same elite background, but she also has very specific ideas about the kinds of down-to-earth, sweet women she’d like to see her sons end up with. A small subplot of each book is the tug of war between these two sisters-in-law. The Hightower Honors series offers four books about love, family, and romance in sometimes gritty, urban settings that explode with passion and deep emotion. The two firemen stories are hot sexy, courtship tales about the thrill of the chase and the glory of surrender. The two cop stories are deeply emotional and passionate stories with a hint of intrigue.

Protect and Serve   Jason Hightower is a Cold-Case Detective in the Paterson police department. And he needs to conquer his past by finally confronting the first love he thinks betrayed him. He needs to do so before a threat from her past takes her away for good. Protect and Serve is an emotional, gritty and gripping story of rediscovered love and trust.

Make It Hot   Joel Hightower is a fireman injured on the job and forced to think about a career outside of his dream job. Too bad he can’t think around the spunky physical therapist helping him recover. Make it Hot is a steamy romance about trust and openness to change.

 

The Law of Desire Narcotics Detective Lawrence Hightower could very well be falling in love with a criminal. He needs to figure out who she really is before the criminals looking for her find her. The Law of Desire is a gritty, emotional, urban love story with passion, intrigue and suspense.

 

 

Sizzling Seduction

Fire Captain Patrick Hightower is used to putting out fires but a sweet and sexy kindergarten teacher breaks through his protective shield and gets him thinking it might be more fun starting one. Sizzling Seduction is a slow burning love story that steadily rises to an uncontrollable passionate heat. It is a story about trust and learning to love again.
 

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The Hip-Hop Debutantes Trilogy

Meet the Debs…

Each of the debutantes in the “Hip-Hop Debutantes” trilogy shake-up preconceived notions of proper debutante behavior and make their own rules. These aren’t your average debs. They are in a class all by themselves, and they take love on their own terms. This trilogy takes old romance plots and gives them a funky hip-hop remix.

I’m Gonna Make You Love Me   I’m Gonna Make You Love Me is the first book in the trilogy. It plays with the "arranged marriage" plot and the "rivals become lovers" plot and gives them a fresh spin.

Sweet Sensation Sweet Sensation is the second installment. This novel provides a hip-hop remix of the "secret child" plot and the "reunited lovers" plot. And of all my books it is probably the closest to my heart because it is the one book that pulls in the two popular mediums I love the most, hip-hop and romance.

The Love You Save will be the third and final installment. The verdict is still out, but this one will more than likely remix the “friends to lovers” plot and the “marriage of convenience” plot.