Month: August 2026

Spotlight on debut Wild Rose Press author Marle Berry

 Should enemies ever fall in love? Can they?

Please welcome debut novelist Marle Berry! JUSTICE DENIED coming August 31, 2026!

    Defense attorney, Eve Brady, taken hostage by her drug dealing client, escapes into deep winter woods. She thinks her nightmare is over until she calls police for help and finds herself branded a fugitive. She runs, vowing to stay free to prove her innocence.

   But who will fight for her? The only investigator she trusts to push hard to get the truth is the last man she wants to call, her nemesis, Detective Bob Milano. Their past is a mess of mistrust, arguments, and an undercurrent of attraction, suppressed, and never explored. Would he even speak to her after their last combative encounter? Or would he just slap a pair of cuffs on her?

   With dragnet searches tightening, Eve gambles: find Milano and convince him to help her before time runs out.  

EXCERPTS:

Before she reached the defense table, a barrage of gunfire shattered the calm, cozy atmosphere. She dove into the well area that separated the lawyers from the judge’s bench to hide under the overhang. Sarah already filled the space. Her machines lay on the floor beside her.

Eve changed direction toward the witness stand and squeezed behind it into a narrow space. She hugged the floor.

Bullets sprayed the room, ripping into walls, tearing into furniture, anything in the way. Screams froze in her throat. They were all sitting ducks in such a small room.

Loud grunts and groaning nearby filtered through to her fear-crazed brain as she cowered. Sounds of a scuffle and heavy breathing continued until a gunshot exploded nearby. She heard a thud like a heavy sack hitting the floor. Silence followed. She prayed.

Meeder’s voice broke the quiet. “Get out here, lawyer lady. I don’t have time to waste.”

****

They clomped along the bottom of a hill. As she trudged in snow up to her knees, her strength faded. How could she fight him now? Weakness inched through her limbs like the sluggish flow of thick syrup. She slumped to the ground near a rotting log. Her feet and toes were numb. Breathing felt like inhaling glass.

“Get up.”

She opened her eyes.

“You didn’t do your damn job. We’re late.” His voice sounded hollow, like he stood far away.

She squinted at his cadaverous face.

They would both be frozen dead soon, she mused, almost without concern. “There’s a road at the top of the hill. I don’t know how far from the lot we’ll come out.”

She caught her thoughts drifting into capitulation. A voice in her ear startled her to attention. “You’ve never been a quitter.” She latched on to it. Damn right. I’m not a quitter. With thoughts reset, she strained to listen for more. It was her husband, Eddie. “Kill him. You can do it. He’s weak. Be ready.”

Meeder grabbed a branch and pulled himself upright from squatting in the snow.

Revulsion filled her heart as she purged from her mind every consideration for him as a human. Pure evil stared back at her every time she dared look at him.

Author Bio

  Marle Berry writes to entertain herself and others. Justice Denied is her first novel, but she started writing short stories as a teen. She put away her tales for college and law school.

After decades as a practicing lawyer and writing technical briefs her original love of writing fiction lured her to a writers’ group. Sharing the creative process took her back to crafting adventures to tickle the brain and lift the soul.

Only her Aussie Terrier and Poodle who love giving orders can bark her away from writing romantic suspense, her favorite genre.

BUY LINKS:

Amazon:  Justice Denied: Berry, Marle: 9781509266203: Amazon.com: Books 


Walmart:  https://www.walmart.com/search?q=marle+berry+book+Justice+Denied  

BooksaMillion:   Justice Denied by Marle Berry  

Barnes and Noble:  Justice Denied | Barnes & Noble® 


Apple:  https://books.apple.com/us/book/id978-1-5092-6621 

Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254140125-justice-denied?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=kqfMFvLVJA&rank=1  

Author Links

Website            http://www.romanticsuspense.net

Bookbub:https://www.bookbub.com/authors/marle-berry

Theme(s): Romance, Action-Adventure, Thriller
Sub Genre(s): Suspense,
Page Count: 416
Word Count: 99,938

Please leave a comment below to wish her well!

This woman smells like lavender and gun oil

PLEASE WELCOME BEST-SELLING AUTHOR SUSAN GABLE!!

Rafael Silva built an empire on control. Billion-dollar acquisitions. Boardrooms that bow. A glass penthouse high above Denver where his seven-year-old daughter, Ellie, should have been untouchable.

Then someone photographed Ellie’s empty classroom chair. And every wall he’d built meant nothing.

Raya Baptiste doesn’t do walls. A graduate of the Norford Academy and an elite protection specialist, she has guarded heads of state, stopped assassination attempts, and learned to move through wealthy homes like a ghost. She really is the nanny — she’s just also the most dangerous person in the building. Her mission is simple: keep one little girl alive.

The complication is her employer.

Rafe doesn’t trust easily. Raya doesn’t stay. Ellie doesn’t count on anyone, because the nannies always leave.

But when the threat escalates from surveillance to siege, the woman hired to protect his daughter becomes the one person Rafe can’t protect himself from — the one who sees through every wall he’s ever built.

In a world of bulletproof glass and billion-dollar fortresses, the most dangerous thing in the room is the truth: that the invisible woman might be the only one worth being seen by.

EXCERPT:

Three weeks in. Rafe’s daughter has just been driven away to safety, and he is alone in an elevator with the woman he hired to protect her.

The elevator doors closed and Rafe made his mistake. He turned to look at her.

She stood closer than he’d registered. The elevator was smaller than it seemed from outside, and with his body angled toward her the distance was less than two feet, and she faced the doors but knew he’d turned, he could tell by the quality of her stillness, the slight realignment of awareness she couldn’t hide from someone who’d spent three weeks learning to read her.

His daughter was in a car driving away from him. His chest paralyzed from a seven-year-old’s parenting advice. And Raya Baptiste stood twenty inches away with her hands at her sides and her posture rigid and the faintest trace of strawberry shampoo from her shoulder where Ellie had held on this morning.

He took one step. Not closing the distance so much as making it honest.

She turned her head.

Their eyes met. For the length of one held breath, neither of them moved. Then his gaze dropped — just for a moment, just long enough — to her mouth. He looked back up.

She’d seen it. Of course she’d seen it. This was Raya Baptiste, who missed nothing. She looked at him with an expression he hadn’t seen before. Not the professional stillness, not the tactical read. Something more careful than either of those. Something that took its time.

The moment stretched.

Then she shook her head. Small. Almost nothing. The same measured gentleness she used when she needed Ellie to understand something without feeling bad about not knowing it yet.

Not this. Not now.

The gentleness hit worse than a harder refusal would have. A hard no he could’ve pushed against. This was her being kind about a door she was closing. That kindness landed like a blade.

He turned back to the doors. Kept his hands where they were.

The elevator climbed.

Susan Gable was practically born with a book in her hand and hasn’t put it down since. As a kid she devoured her Weekly Reader Book Club deliveries — bonus points if they came with records.

After ten years of wrangling elementary students, and one unforgettable year of homeschooling her own son, Susan decided writing fiction was cheaper than therapy. She spent a decade writing for Harlequin before reclaiming her rights and going independent, which means she’s navigated both sides of publishing and has opinions about each.

Thousands of pages later, she’s a USA Today bestselling author whose books have been RITA® and Golden Heart® finalists, Romantic Times Best Superromance of the Year nominees, and National Readers’ Choice Award winners. She’s sold nearly a million copies worldwide.

Susan writes hard, real-life subjects — grief, adoption, the families we build when the ones we’re given don’t hold — with warmth, wit, and an ending that sends you off feeling good. Her readers describe her books as the ones that make them laugh, cry, and occasionally snort out loud.
She’s currently writing the Broke to Billionaires series: four self-made men, the women who turn their worlds upside down, and the trouble that has a way of finding the very wealthy.

She lives in Erie, Pennsylvania, with her husband, her dog, her cat, and a book collection that has outgrown the house. A Pennwriters member since 2000, she teaches craft and marketing workshops for writers.

TITLE The Billionaire’s Ninja Nanny
SERIES Broke to Billionaires, Book 1
AUTHOR Susan Gable
GENRE Contemporary romantic suspense
HEAT LEVEL Warmer than sweet, love-story-first. Open-door but mild — two short scenes,
both easily skipped.
LENGTH Approximately 110,000 words
FORMATS Ebook and paperback
EBOOK PRICE $4.99
BUY LINK books2read.com/GableNinjaNanny
FREE SAMPLE Read Chapter One at SusanGable.com
AUTHOR SITE SusanGable.com
CONTACT Susan@SusanGable.com