An author with Georgia on her mind …
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I write historical and contemporary romance and romantic suspense mostly set in my home state of Georgia. I've authored around twenty traditionally published novels and a number of novellas. A freelance fiction editor, editor for Wild Heart Books, vintage dancer, and a mother of two wonderful young adult daughters, I always pause for coffee, chocolate, and old houses. ~Denise
New releases for 2025 and 2026:
The Curator’s Secret - indie-published contemporary romantic suspense set on Jekyll Island - March 2025
I’ve just signed a contract with Wild Heart Books for my new Twenty-Niners of the Georgia Gold Rush trilogy!
The Songbird and the Surveyor, Auraria, 1833 - November 3, 2025
The Maiden and the Mountie, Canton, 1837 - February 17, 2026
The Schoolmarm and the Miner, Dahlonega, 1839 - May 5, 20265
The Curator’s Secret
It’s taken six years for Lacey Colbert to escape the heartbreak that caused her to disappear from Golden Isles Christian Camp and the life of her summer sweetheart, Trent Stevenson. Then a museum curator job at a Gilded Age resort lures her back to Georgia’s Jekyll Island. Lacey finds Trent no longer an employee in his dad’s lawn care business, but director of landscaping right in her historic district.
Winter Haven cottage’s century-old mystery of a vanished fiancé compels Lacey to settle her own past with Trent. Just one thing stands in the way … the fact that someone else likes uncovering secrets, too—Lacey’s. And her unknown foe won’t hesitate to use them against her.
The Songbird and the Surveyor
A marriage of protection. A past full of pain. In Georgia's wild gold country, love might strike when it's least expected.
Genevieve Gillbard knows she's no longer safe in the rough-and-tumble gold rush town when she overhears her controlling guardian's plot to steal gold from a local mine owner. It takes every ounce of her courage to escape, and now she'll do anything to keep herself safe, even accept a temporary marriage of convenience from a man who clearly wants nothing more than his independence.
After losing his first wife, surveyor Jesse Holden swore never to let anyone close enough to need him again. But when he discovers the woman he knows as the Songbird of Auraria injured and unconscious in the woods, he can't abandon her, not with the memory of his failure to protect his wife hanging over him. He'll keep this woman safe until she's out of harm's way, even if it means doing the one thing he swore he'd never do again.
As Genny recovers under Jesse's care, she discovers he's nothing like the manipulative men of her past. But can she trust him with her heart—knowing he plans to leave as soon as her guardian is brought to justice? And even then, she fears the sham marriage might not be enough to keep her safe from her guardian's long reach.
From the Revolutionary War through the present day, from the mountains to the coast, your Georgia adventure awaits.
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Contact Denise
For book business. With an option to make books available, I speak to clubs in North Georgia and Western North Carolina on the writing and publishing process, turning historical research into fiction, and topics for emerging authors.
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