Anna Jeffrey
Anna Jeffrey is an award-winning author of mainstream romance novels as well as romantic comedy/mystery. She has written seven romance novels under the pseudonym of Anna Jeffrey and two as Sadie Callahan. She and her sister have co-written seven comedy/mystery novels as USA Today Bestselling Author, Dixie Cash. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and several of its chapters. She enjoys many hobbies, i.e., reading, painting and drawing, crafting, needlework and beading among others. She and her husband live outside a small town in North Central Texas.
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The Tycoon (Sons of Texas, Book #1)Contemporary Romance
When Drake Lockhart, wealthy ranching scion and Texas tycoon, meets a stunning redhead at a fancy ball, the last thing he expects is a tryst he can’t forget, followed by her disappearing in the middle of the night. Every minute spent with the vulnerable beauty has left him hungering for more. Shannon Piper was out of place at the charity ball. And an intimate encounter with a man so far removed from her social hemisphere wasn’t on her agenda. He has a reputation for ruthlessness and is one of Texas Monthly’s most eligible bachelors, known for his history with women. Is a relationship based on just sex the way to protect her heart? Or is it the beginning of the most enduring love a girl with a sketchy past could ever know? |
Sweet Return (The West Texas Books)
Contemporary Romance
When renowned war correspondent and photojournalist Dalton Parker is dragged back to his hometown to face his past and handle a family crisis, the last thing he expects is to see a prime pasture of his family’s Lazy P ranch taken over by hundreds of stinking chickens. There’s an explanation for this and its name is Joanna Walsh, his mother’s best friend. While Joanna is a good-looking woman who’s no dummy, she’s the most uncompromising and infuriating female Dalton has ever met. Still, he can’t keep from admiring her caring nature and common sense, not to mention her great body. The dumbest thing he could do is try to lure her into his bed, but he’s never been smart when it comes to women. Joanna Walsh is known for trying to fix other people’s problems. Believing the oldest Parker son could and should help his mother, Joanna is the one who called him to come back to town. And that turned out to be the biggest mistake she’s ever made. Once the rugged, self-assured Dalton sees her hens and her free-range egg operation, he’s determined they have to go. Yet, through their daily conflicts, Joanna starts to see that while he’s seen and photographed the worst of humanity and grown a hard shell, deep down he’s a softie hiding a damaged heart. At the same time she dreads his abrasiveness, she can’t keep from being drawn to him in a way she’s never been before. Can she fix him, too? |
Salvation, Texas
Contemporary Romance/Mystery
Years ago, because Rusty Joplin was in love with Elena Ryder, he was forced by her powerful father to leave Salvation, Texas. He’s back. And now he’s the sheriff. When Elena’s sister is found dead in her arena, it appears she has been dragged by her horse, but Rusty smells murder. His investigation takes him back to association with Elena and her father. But Randall Ryder still resents Rusty’s very existence. Elena Ryder has been a good daughter—educated herself at the college of her father’s choice, lives in his home and works at the Salvation hospital as an RN. But she has refused to marry any of the men he has chosen for her husband. Her sister’s tragedy takes her into contact with Rusty again, the man she has never stopped loving. |
Sweet Water
Contemporary Romance
Terry Ledger, wealthy developer of upscale sub-divisions and builder of high-end homes, has an ultimate goal of constructing a sprawling development for senior citizens exclusively. He has searched for years for the right location, but never expected to find it on an eBay auction. He paid a million dollars to win the tiny town of Agua Dulce. He’s used to his activities changing other peoples’ lives, but little did he know that his association with Agua Dulce and its people would be a life-changing event for himself. Nor does Marisa Rutherford, the ostensible town mayor, manager of the only cafe, flea market and tourist trap and caretaker of her dying mother, expect to have to protect the town’s odd population, as well as her heart and soul, from an outsider like Terry and his plans. SWEET WATER is a poignant story of how Terry and Marisa gradually fall in love and Terry grows to share Marisa’s need to take care of her mother and protect the town’s citizens. |
The Love of a Lawman
Contemporary Romance
As a teenager, Isabelle Rondeau ran away from her hometown of Callister, Idaho, with the town bad boy. Now, years later, he’s left her for another woman and she’s returned to Callister to rebuild her own life and connect with family for the sake of her ten-year-old daughter. In her travels away from Callister, she has become a cutting horse trainer of some renown. As the owner of two prize-winning mares and a highbred stallion, she intends to make a living in Callister breeding and training cutting horses. She’s through with men. That is, until she runs into the local sheriff, a man she knew in high school and hasn’t seen in eighteen years. Divorced and broke, John Thomas Bradshaw, Jr., ex-ProRodeo star, has come back to Callister to lick his wounds and contemplate his future. Somehow, he’s let himself be persuaded to act as the temporary sheriff of Callister County until an election can be held. The last person he expects to run into is his old high school crush. She still has that unruly fiery hair and those mysterious brown eyes that mesmerized him as a teenager. All of the old desires return. He doesn’t want to love again, but can he keep from it when he and “Frizzy Izzy” was his first love and they have so much in common? When a local is murdered on his watch and Izzy has a connection, he’s forced to call on all of his courage and honor. |
The Love of a Stranger
Contemporary Romance
Doug Hawkins, disgraced and jobless LAPD homicide detective, moves to Callister, Idaho, to find a peaceful existence and renew acquaintance with a best friend from childhood, Ted Benson. Almost immediately, he finds himself involved in a rendezvous at a remote mountain cabin with the barmaid from one of the town's two taverns. The last thing he expects is to be confronted by a good-looking blonde who attacks his truck with a tire iron and threatens him with arrest for trespassing. His relationship with the hot-blooded Alex McGregor goes downhill from there. The wealthy and reclusive Alex lives with her two cats in a hundred-year-old mansion on the side of Wolf Mountain. She’s busy traveling between Callister and L.A., where she owns and maintains two businesses. She doesn’t want a man interfering with her life. A midnight fire burns a mountain cabin located on Alex's land to the ground, killing her alcoholic ex-husband. Doug’s honed instincts lead him to suspect the worst. The crisis escalates when a partying friend of Alex’s ex-husband decides to log trees from land she and her ex sold to him years back. To prevent pollution of a much-loved pond and stream on her property, the strong-willed Alex is determined to stop him. Bitterness and threats ensue. Alex appears to be a magnet for trouble, yet Doug is drawn to her. He can’t get along with her, but he can’t leave her alone. Meanwhile, Alex’s lawyer, with whom Doug is acquainted, is worried about her safety. He hires Doug to investigate the cabin fire and the suspicious death of her ex-husband. Doug reluctantly agrees and uncovers even more havoc than he first suspected. Saving her pond and stream and winning her affection forever becomes a tall order. |
The Love of a Cowboy
Contemporary Romance
When Dahlia Montgomery allows her best friend to drag her off to the Idaho wilderness to work on a surveying crew for the summer, the friend’s idea is for a different environment to elevate Dahlia’s mood and give her a different perspective on life. And it does. Just when she thought she would never meet another man she could or would trust, she runs into, literally, wealthy cattle rancher, Luke McRae. Luke is the manager of a huge, family-owned, ranch, which includes thousands of acres of grassland and timber. Having found love in the wrong place as a randy nineteen-year-old, he’s now saddled with more than taking care of the ranch. He has an alcoholic ex-wife, with whom he has an ongoing feud over custody of their two teenage daughters, a mentally and physically challenged son who suffers from FAS and a mother who has no intention of letting him forget where his woes came from. When he meets Dahlia, the half-Filipino beauty from Texas, he’s in no mood for love. Sex is all he’s after. He usually satisfies his needs out of town, but the mix of beauty and brains he finds in Dahlia is hard to resist. When thoughts of her start to fill all of his waking and sleeping moments, he begins to worry over what he’s going to do about her. His solution is to cut and run. He doesn’t know that when she leaves Idaho and returns to Texas, she carries his child. Months later, in a letter from her best friend, he learns she has given birth to a perfect son, a potential heir to the McRae dynasty. He’s driven to travel to Texas to try to recapture what he and Dahlia had through that lusty Idaho summer and claim his son. That is, if she doesn’t send him packing all the way back to Idaho. |
Lone Star Woman
Contemporary Romance
Jude Strayhorn, the only child of the vast Circle C Ranch’s CEO, is in constant conflict with her father and grandfather. Her greatest desire is to exert her education and influence on the ranch’s operation, but the two men thwart her at every turn. Giving up, she goes outside the Circle C intending to use her trust fund to buy a small spread from a deceased widow’s estate where she can put her ideas into practice. That is, until she runs headlong into the widow’s heir, Brady Fallon, who has his own plans for the 6-0 Ranch. Brady Fallon is no stranger to Willard County, though he hasn’t been around since childhood. His inheritance needs a lot of work and he needs money to put it back into shape and revive it as a cattle operation. He hires on as a hand at the Circle C Ranch, a move that leads to unexpected benefits for his future as well as unwanted conflict with his boss’s daughter. Can he set his attraction to her aside for his own good? |