Kathryn Shay: What's New

NEW! From the Backlist:

America's Bravest
Original Author Publication
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On a daily basis, America’s Bravest run into burning buildings, rappel off bridges and treat physical trauma. They work hard and love passionately. Take a look at six new stories of your favorite heroes and the men and women who love them. Kathryn Shay spent years working with firefighters for her books and it shows. “Kathryn Shay pays homage to rescue workers with this exhilarating tale.”

America's Bravest: In Too Deep
Story 1 of America's Bravest, Free Teaser Story
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IN TOO DEEP is the first novella in Shay’s powerful, new anthology, AMERICA’S BRAVEST. (All six novellas are available in a boxed set.) For months, Captain Gabe Malvaso and Firefighter Rachel Wellington have kept their knife-sharp attraction to themselves and out of their firehouse. But when a building explodes around them and they’re trapped in the basement, will they still avoid temptation?

Promises to Keep
A Price Worth Paying
Original Author Publication

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A PRICE WORTH PAYING is Kathryn Shay’s sizzling summer read that includes passion, romance, a sexual predator, infidelity and the enduring love of two characters whose marriage withstands the unthinkable. This is a major original novel by the author who reviewers say has “earned a well deserved place among the top romance authors.”

The Betrayal
Original Author Publication
April 2011
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With THE BETRAYAL, Kathryn Shay adds a brand new full-length novel of romantic suspense to her impressive list of forty books, with five million copies in print. Follow this tale of twists and turns as two people find their lives totally entangled, no matter how hard they struggle against their connection.

Darcy Weston flees to her grandparents’ abandoned farm after her stepfather rapes her. There, she meets Jordan Mackenzie, a local boy, and the friendship of a lifetime begins. Jordan helps sustain Darcy with food and water, and his company, for months, but eventually her whereabouts are discovered. In subsequent years, the two young people try to stay in touch from their disparate worlds, but eventually they drift apart.

Flash forward twelve years. Jordan is an accomplished teacher and Darcy, an internationally famous, reclusive artist. They meet again when Jordan publishes a book that reveals secrets about Darcy's past. But they find themselves thrown together first over the scandal his book creates, then over a murder. Once again, they turn to each other for help and comfort as they deal with police investigations, a variety of suspects from each other's worlds, and a passion between them which won't be denied.

The Perfect Family
Bold Strokes Books
September 2010
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What happens to the "perfect family" when the future suddenly changes in the most unexpected way?

Seventeen-year old Jamie Davidson doesn't think being gay should be such a big deal...until he comes out to his parents and friends. Even as Jamie celebrates no longer needing to hide his true self and looks forward to the excitement of openly dating another boy, the entire Davidson family is thrown into turmoil. Jamie's father Mike can't reconcile his religious beliefs with his son's sexuality. His brother Brian is harassed by his jock buddies and angry at Jamie for complicating all their lives. Maggie, his mother, fears being able to protect her son while struggling to save her crumbling marriage. And Jamie feels guilty for the unhappiness his disclosure has caused. Every member of their “perfect family” must search their hearts and souls to reconnect with each other in this honest, heartwarming, and hopeful look at the redemptive power of love and family.

Maybe this Time
Original, Author-Published
March 2011
Smashwords (DRM-free, multiple formats)
Kindle
Nook

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MAYBE THIS TIME features Delaney Dawson, a good teacher who has just been transferred to the high school. Her lessons are innovative, she participates in school activities and her students love her. But when she hooks up with the Gage Grayson, the father of a girl she has in class, a myriad of problems occur. First, the two adults didn’t know of their connection through Stephanie. And Stephanie hates her father, which jeopardizes the troubled teen’s burgeoning relationship with her teacher. But when they learn that Steph is being lured in by a bad crowd with a proclivity towards school violence, all three must work together to prevent deadly consequences.

Someone Like You
Original, Author-Published
January 2011
Smashwords (DRM-free, multiple formats)
Kindle
Nook

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Welcome to The Educators, Kathryn Shay's bold new series of never before published novellas. Veteran teacher Shay returns to one of her favorite settings and vividly portrays the teachers, administrators and students of Crystal Corners High School. As is her trademark, sizzling romances are back-dropped by controversial, complicated and sometimes dangerous situations.

In the second installment of The Educators series, Someone Like You, teacher Brie Gorman and Coach Nick Corelli have been at odds for years. She never liked the sexy jock himself, and hates how the school tends to coddle athletes. But when one of Brie’s students, the star quarterback of the football team, goes into a downward spiral, she and Nick must work together to help him. Unexpectedly, a fiery passion they can’t ignore erupts between them, even when they clash over the best way to save the boy’s life.

Look for the third novella in the series, Maybe This Time, coming soon! Still the One is also still available.

Still the One
Original, Author-Published
December 2010
Smashwords (DRM-free, multiple formats)
Kindle
Nook

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Welcome to The Educators, Kathryn Shay's bold new series of never before published novellas. Veteran teacher Shay returns to one of her favorite settings and vividly portrays the teachers, administrators and students of Crystal Corners High School. As is her trademark, sizzling romances are back-dropped by controversial, complicated and sometimes dangerous situations.

In Still the One, Annie Jacobs has made something of herself after a rough adolescence. She's the mother of twin boys, a respected and well-liked English teacher and has good friends. But when her former high school teacher, Dylan Kane, comes back to town, Annie's carefully created world starts to crumble. She and Dylan have a past, one which almost destroyed her. Now, he wants to be the next principal of her school. Annie's afraid their previous relationship will endanger the job she loves. She's even more fearful that her feelings for Dylan will rekindle, or worse, never died.

Look for the next novella in the series, Someone Like You, coming soon!

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