Sand Dune Books is the publishing imprint for romance author Maddie James (small town romance, cowboys, and women's fiction), and pen names, M.L. Jameson (romantic suspense/thrillers), and M. J. Ames (erotic short stories).
Where to find Sand Dune Books, Jacobs Ink, LLC online
As local celebrity chef Suzie Hart starts to step out of her regional fame and into the bigger world, she launches her debut cooking show with some local flavor—a blind date matchmaking sketch with a friend that goes south quicker than geese in winter…
She rescued a cat and gave the feline a furever home. Did she find her forever man in the process? The peaceful town of Brownsfield, Texas, is the perfect place to start a new veterinary practice—newcomer Dr. Caleb Wyatt decides—until the morning he opens the doors of his animal clinic. He needs to hire part-time help but the animals of Brownsfield are not cooperating.
When puppy nanny, Lyssa Larkin, tells her friends she has given up on dating and is devoting her life to dogs, Suzie Hart realizes it’s time to take matters in her own hands. She sets up a series of speed dating lunches for Lyssa at Sweet Hart Inn, designed to help the former Harbor Falls High Homecoming Queen meet as many men as possible in a short period of time.
Tasha Smith enjoys her laid-back life selling organic fruits and vegetables—even though lately she’s been in a funk over a broken engagement, or rather, leaving her fiancé standing at the altar. It was the right thing to do but she’d handled it badly. Determined to shake her blues, she heads to sunny Jamaica, and along the way, hooks up with a stuffed shirt salesman....
What’s a small town cop to do when the love of his life runs away when he pops the question? Katie Long is not about to be saddled with commitment. She has dreams, plans, and she’s working hard to fulfill them. Her relationship with local Harbor Falls police officer Chris Marks is fine just the way it is. Why does he think they need to change it up?
Suzie Hart Matthews is hard at work on her new cookbook, Perfectly Matched, when she asks the local wallflower, Mary Lou Picketts, to help her with a project.
All Wynter Holly wants for Christmas is to be cast in a significant role in the upcoming Harbor Falls Actor’s Playhouse production. What she gets is a gig playing nanny to four children who happen to be attached to the casting director of the play.
When Shelley Hart ran off and married her sister’s fiancé, the whole town of Harbor Falls was in a twitter. A few years later, with her husband deceased and two little girls to take care of, Shelley realizes her only recourse is to go home for the holidays.
Gracie Hart lives a quiet life in Harbor Falls, North Carolina, where she is healing from the tragedy that robbed her of the two things she loved the most and will never get back—her fiancé and ballet. The former ballerina now spends her time running a successful boutique gift shop called Romantically Yours, located in the heart of downtown Harbor Falls.
When Suzie Hart inherited the lakeside Victorian cottage that would soon become Sweet Hart Inn, she imagined her life all planned out ahead of her. She would run the inn, write her recipes, and pick up an occasional catering job with her cousin Sydney. What she didn't plan on was Brad Matthews.
Bree Noël Conner doesn’t do relationships well. Like most men she knows, she has a straying eye that often gets her into trouble. She loves pretty men and frequently wants to sample them. That fact has gotten her into more trouble, and out of more relationships, than she’d care to admit.
The year is 2095. The Americas Revolution has ended. And Cyan Sebastian—the last blue-eyed, Caucasian woman known to exist in the Western hemisphere—is on the run. Her safe and sequestered life ripped apart, she is running with a man who has sworn to protect her. A man who once hunted her for the bounty she would fetch. The man whom days before, killed her father.
Rebekah McCauley is back home after ten long years of living and working in New York City. She left the Big Apple under circumstances she’d rather not share with her family—not yet, anyway—and wants is time to heal and recover from the mess she’d made of her life.
Collin Kramer, the foxhunter next door, seems determined to infiltrate her peace and invade
The Chief Financial Officer of the non-profit Cerise Thacker runs has been cooking her books. The DA fears the CFO's deep family roots will come after her, particularly after the CFO states he will "'effing see to her death." So she's whisked away in a Yellow Cab into a short term police protection program to keep her safe. The cabbie? Isaac Walker, undercover cop.
Are they fighting for their lives? Or their love?
Detective Jordan Cross has one thing on her mind—get the bastard killing kids in her small southern city, the person she thinks is also responsible for her niece’s disappearance. Journalist Tate Walker has a similar goal—keep the people of his city informed about the serial killer and write a Pulitzer-worthy story.
The last thing Parker Rankin expects the day of his father's funeral is for life to throw him another curveball--especially a red-headed, no-nonsense, curveball like Reba Morris.
When Emma Lavender is called to corporate headquarters at the end of her first week of employment at WestInn Hotels, she is shocked at the proposition offered by the company CEO. So shocked, in fact, she takes him up on his offer.
The Forever Trilogy, Book 3
Jackson Porter seeks to fulfill his mother's request and find answers about the imaginary lover who haunts his nights. His future is miles and centuries away from his barrier island home in 1745. The land, his dying mother tells him, is his legacy. She urges him to claim it. In the year 2038, Kari Upton upcoming marriage is one of convenience.
Leaving her job behind and heading home to Montana for a family emergency is worrisome enough, but when Callie McKenna’s New York future collides head-on with her Montana past, she is faced with making a life-altering decision.
Ever wonder what happened when Little Red Riding Hood grew up? In the bayou? With a grandmother who used potions and magic? And a wolf who...? Garnet Boudreaux is going home. Not to her apartment in New York City but to her childhood home in the bayou. She doesn’t want to go, and isn’t certain what will be waiting for her when she arrives.
The Forever Trilogy, Book One
Can souls touch through time and hold on when all odds are against them?
Claire Winslow vacations on an East Coast barrier island, content with her life and her potential future—until the illusion of a man walking the misty shore haunts her. Then one kiss—a beautiful, soulful, stolen kiss in the night—and her life changes forever.
Megan Thomas wants to get lost—preferably in someone else’s life. But can she really escape the terror of her past, to grab onto some hope of a future?
Leaving Chicago and her mob-connected husband behind, she assumes a new identity. She planned her escape to the last detail—but she didn’t plan on Smyth Parker.
Do dead guys still want it? Find out the answer in this southern-fried comedy with a smattering of romance, a side of mystery, and three crazy sisters....
It’s been a decade since Garth Nash left the Triple R Ranch to become a bull riding star. Now he’s back home to pay his final respects to the man he’d loved like a father, and to console the pesky tomboy he’d loved like a little sister.
But there’s nothing pesky or boyish about Amarilla Ray now. She’s a gorgeous, barrel-racing cowgirl who knows exactly what she wants....
She's all roses...he's rough-and-ready rawhide.
Sophisticated Kim Martin is hardly equipped for a Colorado camping trip, especially when her mountain guide is a rough-edged cowboy, untamed as the wilderness. His outdoors style might jump-start some women but a strictly indoors woman like Kim finds him - almost resistible....