Crystal Kauffman is a native Californian who also writes romantic suspense. She is a Golden Heart award winner, an EPIC award nominee, and the recipient of a Top Pick review from Romantic Times. She loves all types of genre fiction, but believes every story is better if there’s a guy who gets a girl in the end. To her, a story without a Happily Ever After is like a house without a roof.
All books in this series are loosely connected stand-alones. Each book is a full-length novel with a conclusion (no cliffhangers at the end). Due to adult language and sexual situations, the books in this series are recommended for readers ages 18 and up.
Heiress Madeline Randall Forsythe is on the run for her very life, hiding in a small Washington town as "Randie." Fleeing a deadly family secret, she plans to move on every couple of months to stay alive.
Penny Thompson would rather work her family's cattle ranch from the back of a horse than bake and sew. Promised to a prissy easterner she's never even met, she dreads a wedding night with a stranger she doesn't love. But when she meets John Black Feather, a half-breed Indian who ignites desire in her heart, every forbidden kiss causes a storm of passion Penny fears she cannot live without.
After Marianne is caught in a compromising position with another woman, her husband, the beastly Viscount Cobham, is enraged. He remands Marianne to the care of her wicked grandfather with orders that she take a lover—a male lover. She is to get herself with child by the time he returns from his travels in six months.
When Prince Raife crash lands on Ortheon, the pampered royal reminds Universal Guard Search and Rescue Lieutenant Cara Garrett too much of the people she’s in the outskirts of the galaxy to avoid. But when she’s accidentally dosed with an alien drug, Cara loses control of her inhibitions in a way that could get her laid for the first time in eons...or thrown in jail!
Captain Julianna Forbes needs an outlaw pilot to land her on lawless planet X19, but Reid Walker, the renegade she breaks out of a Mendarian prison freighter makes a bold demand: he wants Julianna, every which way he can have her, for the three day voyage there, or it's no deal.
Forbidden to marry or even dally while on duty, Jace doesn’t dream about things he can never have. But when he meets the courageous princess condemned to a loveless marriage who dreams of nothing but finding love, he learns some things are worth wishing for.
When handsome nobleman Bradford Stratton makes a scandalous proposition, destitute Ilsa Bergstrom accepts without hesitation. Lord Bradford's extravagant manor house is the most luxurious she's ever seen and he treats her like a princess, but Ilsa knows when something seems too good to be true, it usually is.