Home   Books   About   Links  Guestbook  Contact Me   Newsletter


                                      
                                         She Couldn't Resist
          A frontier mining town seems like an ideal place for Emma       
         Douglas to make a fresh start as a school marm.  
But  even a haven like Prospect has its distraction --
in the form of dashing Grey North. When Grey insists
onaccompanying her on a visit to San Francisco,
mutual attraction flares into a night of unforgettable passion

He Wouldn't Give In
           Grey harbours his own secrets -- yet he's not about to
         <>shirk his duty when it comes to restoring Emma's  reputation
         He just hadn't counted on this stubborn,  spirited
         utterly beguiling woman refusing to marry him.
         But Grey isn't the kind to back down from a challenge,
         and sweet Emma's love is a prize well worth claiming .
                                 read an excerpt;
Valdal’s lively historical romance is set in a Canadian frontier mining town near Vancouver, and offers an intriguing glimpse at a bustling frontier culture as technology––railroads, steamboat, and cable cars––compete with horse and buggy. —Lynne Welch


       
Her Wanderer

                With its bountiful orchards and green pastures,       
                Lottie Graham's farm looks like heaven on earth to
                Sean O'Connor.  Penniless and weary after the long
                journey from his native Ireland, he'll be on his way to
                the gold fields come spring -- yet he must repay
                Lottie's kindness to him somehow.  But all he has  to
                offer the proud beauty are his strength and boundless
                determination.  His heart is under lock and key . .

His Woman

               Lottie has learned the hard way to hide her deepest
               emotions -- and no man will ever mean more to her
               than the young son she has raised alone.  The brawny
               Irishman is a temptation she must resist at all costs. 
               But the aftermath of a deadly fire will bring them
               closer than she ever dreamed ... to find a love more
               precious than gold.
               read an excerpt

                                                          
Tender and loving, with an inspiring message about courage, Valdal's tale is a sweet testimony to strong women and the men who love them.                     Romantic Times

A wonderful story of courage, dreams and everlasting love.  A book to savor.  Jo Beverley


 
loveandlilacs          No matter what Nick Cooper does to stop her, Maggie
          will make a successful bed and breakfast out of The
         Lilacs, the country home she has inherited from a beloved
         great aunt.  He can send all the threatening letters he
         wants.  He can destroy her kitchen with a bulldozer. 
         He can even try drowning her.  It will not matter. 
         Maggie Ann Keaton is staying in Hiram's Landing!
         Of course, Nick Cooper continuously proclaims his
         innocence.  But Maggie is reluctant to trust the
         handsome charmer.  For if Nick isn't trying to harm her,
        then who is?
read an excerpt


 
        My first book, Love & Lilacs,  written as Mary Alice Valdal
     is still available from amazon and abebooks.

 Love & Lilacs is a charming story of  small-town life, an old mystery, and love overcoming doubt. A heroine to warm your heart." - reader review


 An exerpt from Her One and Only
"Mr. North, I did not ask you to come here. I did not ask you to perform my work. I did not ask your opinion of my character or my background. You are rude, insulting, insinuating and impertinent. I have endeavoured to be polite but you are apparently too thick-headed to recognize when a lady wishes to avoid your attentions so I will tell you outright. I don't like you, Mr. North. I want you to leave me alone."
There was a moment of stunned silence while Emma congratulated herself on having put him in his place. Oddly, she was no longer blushing, although such an unladylike outburst should have left her covered with embarrassment. Instead she felt wondrously free and powerful. Using plain words instead of honeyed hints was delightfully refreshing. Then he threw back his head and laughed, his amusement issuing from his throat in rich, genuine mirth. Her self-satisfaction wilted like an alpine flower before the frost but her anger flared as brightly as the fire that filled the stove. She picked up a small stick of wood from the woodbox and hurled it across the room at her tormentor, catching him smartly on the shin.


An Excerpt from The Man for Her
Lottie Graham approached the entrance to Barclay’s Mercantile and two women gossiping in its shadow flattened themselves against the weathered board and batten, whisking their skirts tightly against their legs as though fearful of contamination from the slightest contact with Crazy Lottie.
Turning a hard stare upon them she charged, unseeing, through the open door of the Mercantile and jostled hard against someone entering from the other side.
"I beg your ..." She looked up, the apology dying on her lips, as she gazed into eyes as blue as the Irish sea. Eyes that could fill with passion and darken to the deepest hue of midnight. Eyes she had dreamed of for ten long years. The room began to whirl about her, the floor tilting up at a bizarre angle, the shelves seeming to buckle and heave before her eyes.
"Ma’am?" The Irish lilt was right but the voice was too deep.
She stared at the stranger. He was the right height, about six feet, but he had broader shoulders than the man she remembered. The blue eyes looked out from a more rugged face and there was no smile to curve the wide mouth. She had been mistaken. The room took on its proper form and her heart died within her .... again.




An Excerpt from Love & Lilacs
"No need to get on your high horse," he teased her.  "I'll admit I was at fault for startling you."  He held out his hand.  "Nick Cooper, at your service."
  
Maggie froze.  This was Nick Cooper.  This strong, self-assured male radiating energy and power was Nick Cooper.  This was the man who threatened to take The Lilacs away from her.  This was Nick Cooper, whom she loathed without ever having met.  This was the man who had wormed his way into Great-aunt Margaret's life and tricked her into signing an agreement of sale.  She'd been prepared to deal with a small-town shyster who preyed on old ladies but would turn tail and run when confronted with a fighter.  She had imagined him as small and oily and shifty-eyed -- no real menace at all.  She had never imagined this vital, open, smiling man.  This Nick Cooper scared her very much.