Standalones

Standalone Novels

Lisa has four standalone novels. All four books have romance at their heart.

Beauty: Captured and Framed is time travel ghost romance set in Port Townsend in an abandoned but haunted old opera house.
 
Isabel’s Tears  is a time-travel ghost romance mystery set in the Pacific Northwest at a 100-year-old abandoned—and haunted—inn.
 
Landfall is a natural disaster romance set in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina makes landfall.
 
Pacific Blue Tattoo is paranormal romantic suspense with SF and thriller elements set in downtown Seattle.
 
Rediscovery is a space opera, first contact SF novel—and a romance—set on an unexplored world at the rim of known space.

Beauty: Captured and Framed

Time-travel ghost romance

 

 

 

 

 

Obsessed with a Victorian opera star’s strange portrait, a ghost hunter travels back in time to save her.

A lonely ghost hunter, Jackson Mayfield is obsessed with the strange portrait of a beautiful Victorian opera star that leaped to her death in 1896. According to the local Port Townsend, Washington legend, a portal in the old, abandoned opera house opens for forty-eight hours on every leap year.

Jackson and his ghost hunting group  investigate the old opera house to test the legend. He steps back in time, never expecting to fall in love.

But the abandoned opera house holds secrets. And protects those willing to do anything to keep them. Until Jackson Mayfield challenges them all—to save the woman he loves.

Isabel’s Tears

 Time-travel ghost romance mystery

 

 

 

 

Magical sea glass
A century-old abandoned inn
Two drowned lovers.

Murdered, says the bride’s ghost.

A broken-hearted charter boat captain and a woman terrified of water become unwilling partners when they investigate an abandoned, hundred-year-old inn and discover two ghostly lovers—cursed and forever separated.

Together, they must break the curse before it unleashes retribution and a deadly storm throughout the Pacific Northwest archipelago. And they lose each other in the maelstrom.

Landfall

A Natural Disaster Romance

 

 

 

 

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana first responder, Kadence Harlowe puts her losses aside to rescue survivors and help New Orleans recover. When Kadence wins the services of hot, young East Coast finance professional, Nate Logan, in an online charity auction, she finds herself struggling between an old heartache and a new attraction.

When weary young financial executive, Nate Logan offered his services to a charity auction, he never dreamed he’d land in New Orleans cleaning up Hurricane Katrina. Or fall for the beautiful and fearless Professor Kadence Harlowe. As Nate risks his life alongside her in flood-ravaged Louisiana, he begins to question his old life and its forced priorities.

Kadence and Nate’s new relationship is soon tested by secrets and the unthinkable: another deadly hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast. And they are right in the path of a 20-foot storm surge.

 

 

Pacific Blue Tattoo

A Paranormal Suspense

 

 

 

 

A felon with an artificial conscience,

An immortal tattoo artist,

And a rookie detective hunt a serial killer in…Pacific Blue Tattoo

Convicted felon Kip Thorpe had no conscience until the government gave her one. As a sociopath, she knew how to recognize others.

Like the one collecting and killing blond, tattooed women in downtown Seattle—including Kip’s missing sister.

Rookie Seattle detective Tristan Bowker is the last person Kip wants in her life. But he’s the last cop listening. And the last complication she needs.

Shadowed by Bowker and Persephone, her mysterious tattoo artist coworker claiming to be queen of the underworld, Kip fights a one-woman war against this deadly street predator. Before her sister runs out of time.

Rediscovery

Science Fiction

 

 

 

 

He was her last hope at a deep space career. She was his last hope.

 

A First Contact Mission from Hell…

“Of all the fueling stations in all the solar systems, she had to be on FS-314.”

Captain Quinn Sayre must sign a third medtech aboard ship or abort his grim recovery mission to the Rim. The only one available in the whole damned quadrant is space shy ex-girlfriend, Tarateal Roberts—who hates him more than deep space travel.

“Right now, she’d settle for canceling Sayre out of her life.” 

Class One Medtech Tarateal Roberts would rather shove Sayre out an airlock than sign aboard his ship, but this mission is her last chance to save her failing career. And get home to Earth, away from Sayre, the Rim, and a murder investigation.

“All Gage’s hatred could be tied up into a neat little bow around Sayre’s neck.”

Agent Kenrick Gage, Sayre’s former military commander, shows up to usurp command of the mission contract and prove that Sayre killed his son and destroyed his ship.

A standalone First Contact Science Fiction Romantic Space Adventure. While investigating a murder, Sayre and Roberts rediscover an alien world—and each other—as they fight to stay alive in…Rediscovery.

 

The Magic of Ordinary Things

Short Story Collection

 

 

 

 

12 Tales of Wonder, Magic, & The Human Experience in Ordinary and Extraordinary Worlds