WAYWARD SUN, a historical western romance (www.whiskeycreekpress.com)
A sense of honor, no matter how tattered, can be an inconvenient nemesis ...
Notorious and exiled, Ross Braden needs to keep a low profile. The last thing he wants when he leaves the stodgy halls of Boston for the wilds of Colorado is to drag along a spoiled aristocratic lady.
A strange country with no friends or fortune ...
Lady Arianne Brooke is desperate to escape the past and terrified of the future. Forced to hinge her life on an enigmatic and handsome stranger, she trades her soul for the chance to escape a danger that haunts her every waking moment.
A spirited English runaway and a wild outcast battle not only themselves, but the perils of a dangerous journey across a vast country poised on the verge of war.
WAYWARD SUN is an extremely well written novel by the very talented
Katherine Smith. I found this novel to be fast-paced and very exciting
from start to finish. Once I started, I literally didn't want to stop
until it was done. I love how she combined English society with the
lawless west. This was honestly, the best ebook that I have read to date
and I strongly urge everyone who loves a dynamic historical, to purchase
WAYWARD SUN. Romance Junkies reviewer, Nadine St. Denis 11-28-04.
Coming from Tigress Press, LLC in 2005, Available in trade paperback and e-book
DEPARTED ACTS, a romantic suspense
A wounded woman with a glamorous past …
After a near fatal encounter that ends her career, actress and model Caroline Williams wants nothing more than to return to the safety of small Illinois home town. Her physical scars barely healed, she finds her quest for peace and solitude immediately thwarted by the opening of an old wound. Four years before her heart had been shattered, sending her running to California. Now she must face the ghost of that lost love face to face, as well as deal with her new demons.
The practical physician with no time for imagined danger …
Dr. David Thompson has finally settled into his busy life and the last thing he needs is the girl he once wanted to marry to come back to haunt his every thought. Seeing Caroline back in town is bad enough, but realizing that she has delusions of being stalked by a deranged killer is enough to give him the unwilling compulsion to meddle in her life again.
Fighting the past and uncertain of the future, both David and Caroline struggle with their tumultuous emotions as well as a vengeful killer with a deadly secret.
November Publisher's Pick at Whiskey Creek Press
THE SUMMER BONES, the first in the Danny Haase mystery series,
A terrible secret and family conflicts explode into a labyrinth of misunderstandings and violence …When her volatile sister disappears, Victoria Paulsen isn’t sure if she should be alarmed or just exasperated.
Returning to the family farm in Indiana, Victoria finds herself neck deep in acrimony, ugly doubt, and unpleasant family revelations. Always an emotional creature, Emily might well be gone of her own accord, but when the police find the skeletal remains of another missing girl, the shimmering heat of deep Indiana summer becomes the setting for fear and suspicion.Damon Paulsen isn’t sure what is worse, being the chief suspect in a murder case or being in love with a woman he knows he can never possess. Questioned by the police and accused by his own family of the ultimate betrayal, he is bound by his own sense of honor to a terrible lie that he prays won’t destroy his life. Small town police officer Danny Haase’s personal life crumbles around him as he searches for the answers to a baffling set of murders in the farming community where he grew up.
Katherine Smith
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The beautiful woods of northern Michigan become the setting for violence and vicious ambition ...
When her husband, a U.S. senator is killed, Cassandra Beaumont wants to just quietly retire from the public eye and get on with her life. However, caught in a web of scandalous secrets, treacherous family members, and a not quite forgotten passion, she finds instead a strangling cycles of lies and calculated blackmail.
Michael Beaumont can't decide if it is hate or something altogether different he feels for his lovely sister-in-law. Forced to come face to face with the woman whose betrayal has haunted him for the past five years, he finds himself unwillingly drawn to her once again. When a woman is brutally killed and Cassandra becomes the leading suspect, he fears that an explosion of suddenly shattered illusions will destroy his entire family ...
Police Officer Danny Haase's fishing vacation turns into a nightmare of murder and complicated politics as he helps the local police discreetly track down a cold-blooded killer with very high connections ...
Blood is Quicker than Water, A Danny Haase Mystery coming from Whiskey Creek Press in 2005:
Brittony Ashland is reckless, stubborn, achingly beautiful, ... and sure to get shot as an English spy. Jonathan Wakefield cannot ever remember being so exasperated, or so enchanted. Rescuing her from certain disaster, he is forced to abandon his own mission for the crown and finds himself fleeing across war-torn France, his frustrating and lovely charge in tow.
Being carted like a block of wood through enemy lines might not be as bad as having to endure the arrogant company of the tall, dark stranger who has taken her welfare into his hands despite her protests. A dangerous journey and even more tempestuous arrival in London do nothing to better the situation, and she tells herself that when Jonathan Wakefield, Lord Strathaven, storms out of her life, she is glad to be free.
Or is she ...
An English beauty and a Scottish lord take their story from France to London to Cornwall, fighting convention, a deadly enemy bent on bitter revenge ... and an undeniable passion.
Wounded and war-weary from fighting with Wellington in Spain, Alexander Ramsey wants nothing more than to settle down to a tame life in his native England. Purchasing a decrepit country estate, he finds that instead of the ordered existence he expected, he is instead embroiled in a series of brutal murders and personal scandal.
Jessica Roweland has been betrayed by all the men in her life, especially the handsome and notorious Colonel Alex Ramsey. The last thing she would ever want is to be forced to marry someone she detests with every fiber of her being, yet when circumstances dictate her future, she finds that there is a thin line between love and hate. Not wanting to admit that the man she has despised for years might just be the key to her happiness, she battles not only a calculating killer bent on using her for revenge, but also the notion that Alex might just be her shining hero after all….
Seek Roses in December coming from LionHearted Publishing in 2005:
After a near fatal encounter that ends her career, actress and model Caroline Williams wants nothing more than to return to the safety of small Illinois home town. Her physical scars barely healed, she finds her quest for peace and solitude immediately thwarted by the opening of an old wound. Four years before her heart had been shattered, sending her running to California. Now she must face the ghost of that lost love face to face, as well as deal with her new demons.
The practical physician with no time for imagined danger …
Dr. David Thompson has finally settled into his busy life and the last thing he needs is the girl he once wanted to marry to come back to haunt his every thought. Seeing Caroline back in town is bad enough, but realizing that she has delusions of being stalked by a deranged killer is enough to give him the unwilling compulsion to meddle in her life again.
Fighting the past and uncertain of the future, both David and Caroline struggle with their tumultuous emotions as well as a vengeful killer with a deadly secret.
A terrible secret and family conflicts explode into a labyrinth of misunderstandings 
