The Wild Rose Press

  I'm writing today to thank my fellow roses and intend to make this a regular feature. Roses refer to all authors who write for the traditional publisher, The Wild Rose Press. I asked them to tell me about their book and offer a short description. What you'll check out is wonderful samples of the quality of The Wild Rose Press authors.

Some Other Way, Margot Johnson

Jayne Jones’s life is full as surrogate aunt to her birth daughter, given up in open adoption five years ago, and as leader of the Adopt-a-Dog service. She yearns to expand the overcrowded dog shelter on a coveted piece of adjacent land. When Dr. Evan Scott, her high school crush, returns, he complicates everything by becoming her formidable opponent.
Back in his hometown to join a medical clinic that wants to expand onto the same property, Evan is ready to forget past hurts and embrace a fresh start with the cute girl—now attractive woman—he remembers. But should Jayne bare her heart to the good-looking newcomer? And will her secret change his mind?

Link to Some Other Way

 Child of Mine, Jana Richards

Lauren didn't intend to sleep with her brother-in-law Cole on the day of her husband's funeral. But now that she is pregnant, she's not sorry. Cole's given her a baby, a long-wished-for miracle. He's been her friend forever, though she never told him or anyone else how unhappy her marriage to his cheating brother was. And she's afraid to tell the small town that considered her husband a hero that the baby isn't his.

Cole's been in love with Lauren since he was sixteen. It kills him that everyone believes the baby is his dead brother's. All he wants is to claim the baby, and Lauren, as his own. Though she marries him, will Lauren's heart ever be his?

Lauren must tell the truth or risk losing Cole. Is her newly-discovered love for him greater than her fear of scandal in her hometown?

https://books2read.com/Child-of-Mine

Autumn's Summer, Felicity Talisman

What if you were given up for adoption NOT because your mother didn't want you, but because she was trying to protect you from a curse?

A mysterious package is delivered by Richard’s solicitors one year after his wife Autumn’s death. What he expected to find, he didn’t know, but he would never have guessed in a million years what was about to unfold.
A beautiful leather-bound diary written in his wife’s hand contains many secrets; that his lonely empty-nester wife’s life changed profoundly after a purely-by-chance meeting in, of all places, a normal, mundane, corner grocery store. She embarks on a voyage of discovery with the spiritualist, Summer, to find new meaning to her life, that, once commenced, transports her to realms and dimensions she never knew existed.
He also learns of a heart-breaking secret and love affair she kept from him until after her death.
Idyllic. That was Richard’s understanding of his marriage. Although often away from their home on Sammamish Lake, he thought that his wife, Autumn, felt the same. But suddenly she develops a cancer as if from nowhere and very soon he is alone.
After a year and a day grieving for his beloved wife, Richard receives a package from their lawyers; her diary. He is to discover many secrets from it, but the first is that Autumn had been conducting an affair only not with a male. With a woman. Her best friend Summer. Richard knew that the friendship, although new, was deep and meaningful, but she was a spiritualist. He thought “deep and meaningful” went with the territory, especially as she was supposed to just be helping Autumn find herself, find a passion for her, now that their two children had flown the nest.
It was just a chance meeting at the grocery store that had led her to Summer, and now he learns that the attraction between them was instant. Apart from the spiritualism, she also claimed to be a psychic, which she proved in part by telling her that she is adopted, which Autumn already knew but had not divulged. She also tells her that she knows Autumn and her husband visit his mother’s grave every Mother’s Day, and that she is drawn to the grave of an unknown woman that she visits whilst Richard sits with his mom.
Autumn’s spiritual journey continues as she discovers that just like her and her new-found siblings, Summer also has a Celtic background.
It is revealed to Autumn that, like Summer, she has a Wolf Spirit, her protector animal spirit.
Summer takes her to a sacred meadow of criss-crossing ley lines to open up her soul.
With Autumn’s spirituality now in full flow, she begins to dream. She finds a stone wall with a locked wooden door, a barrier to her continuing on her journey to find herself. Summer helps her through it and, once through the door, the curse begins that her mother tried to protect her from.

Link to Autumn's Summer

Framed for Murder, Marla White

After a life-changing injury, Mel O’Rourke trades in her badge for bed sheets, running a B & B in the quirky mountain town of Pine Cove. Her peaceful life is interrupted when an old frenemy, the notorious and charismatic cat burglar, Poppy Phillips, shows up on her doorstep, claiming she’s been framed for murder. While she’s broken plenty of laws, Mel knows she’d never kill anyone. Good thing she’s a better detective than she is a cook as she sets out to prove Poppy's innocence.

The situation gets complicated, however, when the ruggedly handsome Deputy Sheriff Gregg Marks flirts with Mel, bringing him dangerously close to the criminal she’s hiding. And just when her friendship with café owner Jackson Thibodeaux blossoms into something more, he’s offered the opportunity of a lifetime in New Orleans. Should she encourage him to go, or ask him to stay? Who knew romance could be just as hard to solve as murder?

The Wishing Tree: Love, Lies and Spies on Chincoteague Island, M.S. Spencer

Will the wind whip her token from the Wishing Tree and make her wish come true? Addison Steele dreams of the day her husband-lost at sea-returns to her. Instead, she meets Nick Savage, whose every word may be a lie. She is soon embroiled in mystery, all related to the top-secret science station at Wallops Island, Virginia. After a Belarusian scientist at Wallops is murdered, the questions multiply. Was it because he caught the person stealing classified documents or because he wanted to defect? Is Nick the spy-or is it his brother? How can she trust the man who is slowly claiming her heart when his story keeps shifting?

Link to The Wishing Tree