Minerva Hana knows what it feels like to watch one dream fall apart. She refuses to let it happen twice.Four years after her professional ballet career came to an unexpected end, Min has graduated from the London School of Fashion and set her sights on a new future: becoming a designer at one of London’s most sought-after fashion houses.She has a plan. Romance isn't part of it.Then a misplaced spur at Horse Guards Parade brings her face-to-face with Sam Baker, a handsome Household Cavalry soldier who definitely wasn't in her carefully drawn-out future.Sam is disciplined, thoughtful, and devoted to a military career that leaves little room for anything unexpected. Min is equally determined to prove herself in the competitive fashion world. Neither has much time to spare, but one date quickly leads to another—and staying focused on their separate plans becomes harder than either expected.Then Min is offered the opportunity of a lifetime: designing a high-profile wedding gown for the very fashion designer she has idolized for years.As her career begins moving faster than she ever imagined, Sam becomes the steady presence she didn't know she needed. And the more they support each other's dreams, the harder it becomes to imagine chasing them apart.Min has already learned that life rarely follows the original sketch.Maybe love was always meant to be part of the design.Designs on Love is a sweet, closed-door contemporary romantic comedy featuring a fashion designer heroine, a stoic soldier with a soft side, opposites attract, found family, and a swoony London romance. It is Book 1 in the Friends of the Unexpected Royals series and can be read as a standalone.

A sparkling romantic comedy starring a bestselling author who goes to Paris to overcome writer's block and rediscovers family, independence, and love along the way. All Maggie Bliss needs to do is write. Forty-eight years old and newly single (again!), she ventures to Paris in a last-ditch effort to finish her manuscript. With a marvelous apartment at her fingertips and an elegant housekeeper to meet her every need, a finished book—and her dream of finally taking her career over the top—is surely within her grasp. After all, how could she find anything except inspiration in Paris, with its sophistication, food, and romance in the air?But the clock is running out, and between her charming ex-husband arriving in France for vacation and a handsome Frenchman appearing one morning in her bathtub, Maggie's previously undisturbed peace goes by the wayside. Charming and heartfelt, Dee Ernst's Maggie Finds Her Muse is a delightful and feel-good novel about finding love, confidence, and inspiration in all the best places.

Meet Matthew Madigan, 53-year-old, six foot tall, tattooed ex-rockstar, recovering addict, sober living home owner, and your new book boyfriend.Ashley Cooke will do just about anything to save her struggling ski hill. When she hires the men from a local sober living home for the season to cut costs, even she thinks she’s gone too far. With her credit cards maxed, her cheating ex-husband intent on buying the mountain out from under her, and record-breaking snow in the forecast, she can’t afford to be distracted by the six-foot-tall bearded and tattooed sober living home owner moving onto her mountain.Recovering addict and ex-grunge rocker Matthew Madigan has devoted every minute of the last decade to the men residing at his sober living home. When he meets tightly wound and adorably flustered Ashley, desires he’s put on the back burner for years start to simmer. Immune to his infamous, albeit rusty charm, Ashley presents a challenge he can’t resist. When she offers to give him skiing lessons in exchange for his help training her St. Bernard rescue dog, he jumps at the chance to ride next to her on the chairlift despite his debilitating fear of heights.During bunny hill shenanigans, chairlift confessions, and steamy cabin serenades, Madigan teaches Ashley that a person’s past doesn’t define them, and Ashley shows Madigan that the men he helps aren’t the only people who deserve a second chance. When sabotage threatens both the men and the mountain, Ashley and Madigan will have to decide if they’re only having a winter fling, or if the mountain isn’t the only thing worth fighting for.Perfect for fans of L.B. Dunbar and Kate Canterbary, Come As You Are is a later in life, small town, rockstar romance with lots of heat and even more heart! Content notes: Addiction, divorce, mourning the loss of a parent