Baltimore beat cop Mandy Delinski isn’t expecting any miracles this Christmas. She’s thirty, a little too round, still single and living with her parents in the ethnic enclave of Highlandtown in Baltimore City. Who could have guessed that her whole life would change before New Year’s Eve? That a simple job policing a Christmas party would find her in the arms of sexy-as-sin bartender, Josh Thornton? That they would be on the brink of making love before the night ended?

That Mandy would find her perfect man in the morgue the next day?

Or that she’d be given a magical chance to go back a week, save Josh…and have the best holiday sex of her life. Does Christmas get any better than this?

Becky’s New Year’s Resolutions:

1) Hit the NYT bestseller list with latest novel

2) Find a great guy and start living a perfect life

3) Try to stay in her own bed!

When author Becky Stone’s horoscope predicted that the New Year would bring her great things, she never expected the first thing she’d experience would be great sex! But after the crushing news that the only way to save her career is to coauthor a book with chauvinistic Adam Maxwell, Becky needs something to go right. And what could be more right than spending an incredible New Year’s Eve in the arms of a seriously sexy stranger?

Only, the man in her bed isn’t going to be a stranger much longer….

Magazine editor Macie Graham is out for revenge—to get the dirt on squeaky clean conservative media pundit, Ross Mannon. When Ross puts out the call for a housekeeper to help with his rebellious teenage daughter, Macie seizes the opportunity and launches Operation Cinderella.

In need of a major life “makeover,” fashionista Francesca St. James signs on to be a “fairy godmother” coach on the hot new reality TV show, Project Cinderella. When an old rival challenges her with the impossible: transform Silicon Valley CEO, Greg from geek to chic, in just eight weeks, she soon learns that a lot more than clothes make the man.    

Plus-size personal chef, Stephanie Stefanopoulos isn’t an ugly duckling, but she’s a far cry from her sample size-wearing stepsisters. But when Greek tycoon, Nikolaos Costas shows up on her doorstep demanding repayment from her family’s real estate development firm, Stefanie sets out to cook, charm—and seduce—her way to Nick’s jaded heart.

Magazine managing editor and unapologetic Scrooge, Starr Starling is just as happy to sleep through the holiday. On Christmas Eve Starr is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future—all in the form of Matt Landry, the hot new art director she’s secretly crushing on.

Buy all three full-length novels: Operation Cinderella, The Cinderella Makeover and A Cinderella Seduction.

Biotech hotshot Alexandra Kendall is in way over her head. It’s bad enough that a business trip to Belize has put her in danger. But now she finds out that the man hired to protect her is none other than former FBI special agent Cole Whittaker—the same man who’d loved her (oh God, how he’d loved her…) and then left her five years ago.

Reappearing in Alex’s life is one of the biggest risks Cole has ever taken. Once his undercover job forced him to abandon her. Now he has the chance to redeem himself—one scorching kiss at a time.

But first he must convince Alex that the safest place for her is in his bed….

“Stunning…impossible to put down.” – May McGoldrick, USA Today Bestselling Author

“A book to feast upon.” – Patricia Potter, USA Today Bestselling Author

Former courtesan Claudia Valemont can’t believe her life has come to this: standing in front of a Scottish judge, sentenced to death for stealing a horse. She fled France to escape the guillotine and seek refuge with her laird father. Instead she stands to face a similar fate, alone, desperate and penniless.

“Hold! I will speak for her.”

Burly Scottish hangman Jack Campbell takes pride in his work: serving justice and giving the condemned a swift, merciful end to their sorry lives. Why he spoke up for that pale, hollow-eyed Frenchwoman he’ll never know, but now he’s leg-shackled to her as her keeper for six months’ indenture.

Bound together by the rules of her sentence, Jack and Claudia learn to appreciate their differences. But as their wary affection turns to tender desire, secrets from the past appear and threaten to destroy any hope of a future together.

Lady Beatrice–Bea–Lindsey is very much a modern woman—modern for the 1890’s. After a disastrous dry run of the wedding night with her milk toast fiance, she’s convinced it’s up to her to take the lead in her marriage bed. But first she needs to be taught. And who better to take on the role of tutor than oh-so-sexy Ralph Sylvester, a former East London street rogue and her brother-in-law’s private secretary?

Never did Ralph imagine that the woman of his dreams would proposition him and on the very night her engagement to another gentleman is announced! But when Bea shows up at Ralph’s bedchamber door wearing a red velvet cape and nothing beneath, he knows she means business. Armed with a contraband copy of The Kama Sutra and nine months’ of shored up lust, he sets about tutoring her in the loving arts. It’s every man’s fantasy…

Until the pupil surpasses the teacher.

Miss Chelsea Bellamy is desperate. Her beloved brother is being held for ransom. Impoverished after the deaths of her parents, Chelsea doesn’t have five shillings, never mind the 500 pounds the kidnappers are demanding.

Lord Anthony Grenville, Viscount Montrose is bored. Anthony is en route to London when his coach is overtaken by a highwayman – who turns out to be no man at all! Anthony hasn’t been this intrigued by anything, or anyone, since his return from the Peninsula War. And when he catches the flame-haired thief breaking into his London house, he comes up with a plan to rescue her brother – and lure her to his bed.

After six years at sea, East India Company captain, Robert Bellamy, returns to England to claim his bride. Only Robert was presumed drowned and now the winsome Lady Phoebe is betrothed to another…

“Sexy and smart, intriguing and compelling, Hope Tarr’s books always keep me up late turning the pages!”
– Bestselling author, Anna Campbell

Bad boy Callum Fraser is head over heels for the first time in his life. Only his beloved, the Lady Alys, is keeping him out of her bed until their wedding Christmas morning. It’s enough to drive a man crazy!

Still, he intends to make up for his restraint. There are many ways to seduce, and Callum’s a master at all of them. His goal? To leave Alys shivering in desire, anticipating the many delicious ways he’ll bring her pleasure on their wedding night and throughout the twelve days of Christmas.

At least that’s the plan…until Alys’s dead first husband shows up, very much alive!

Fifteenth-century Scotland is a tough place to be a woman in charge. Brianna MacLeod, new laird of her clan, needs a child to establish her position. And the best way to do that is to demand the sexual services of her sworn—and very sexy—enemy!

Ewan Fraser never foresaw being kidnapped, tied up and expected to perform stud service. Yet being bound for the delicious Brianna’s pleasure isn’t all bad. In fact, the more time he spends in her bed, the more he’s determined she’ll be the one who ends up enslaved….

Hired to ruin the reputation of suffragist leader Caledonia—Callie—Rivers by making a scandalous photograph, photographer Hadrian St. Claire soon discovers he is the one in danger of being vanquished.

Orphans Daisy Lake and Gavin Carmichael made a childhood pact to stay together only to be parted by Fate and families. A decade later, Gavin walks into an East End music hall where the toplining act is the infamous Nightingale of Montmartre—Daisy.

When sharp-tongued Lady Katherine Lindsey is blackmailed into wedding rough-and-tumble Scottish railroad magnate, Patrick O’Rourke, their marriage of convenience becomes a battle of wills a la Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew.”

Aspiring Member of Parliament, Simon Belleville, is no stranger to squalor. When in heading Her Majesty’s Morality and Vice Commission he comes upon the lovely Christine Tremayne locked away in a brothel, instead of remanding her to Newgate Gaol, he gives in to temptation and brings her home with him…

Baltimore beat cop Mandy Delinski isn’t expecting any miracles this Christmas. She’s thirty, a little too round, still single and living with her parents in the ethnic enclave of Highlandtown in Baltimore City. Who could have guessed that her whole life would change before New Year’s Eve? That a simple job policing a Christmas party would find her in the arms of sexy-as-sin bartender, Josh Thornton? That they would be on the brink of making love before the night ended?

That Mandy would find her perfect man in the morgue the next day?

Or that she’d be given a magical chance to go back a week, save Josh…and have the best holiday sex of her life. Does Christmas get any better than this?

Investigating a noise in the attic of her historic home, Dr. Maggie Holliday encounters a handsome man in a Civil War uniform. He calls her “Isabel,” seduces her in ways the shy academic had never dreamed of, then literally vanishes.

Ethan insists Maggie’s the reincarnation of his long-lost love. And after a few incredible nights in his arms, Maggie is inclined to believe him. But does she dare surrender to a passion that transcends time, tragedy, and even death?

Approaching her thirtieth birthday on Christmas Day, 1890, bookshop proprietress Fiona MacPherson is in danger of becoming a Scrooge on par with Mr. Dickens’ curmudgeon. With her beloved Da dead, she’s set to lose her beloved bookshop to a mysterious antiquities collector. Fortunately for Fiona, her guardian angel-in-training, Fern, is determined to set her stubborn charge’s life, and future, back on track. Masquerading as the Angel of Christmas Future, Fern has until the final stroke of midnight on Christmas to persuade Fiona to embrace her destiny, and her one true love.

Antiquarian Tobias Templeton has been cursed from birth with an unknown form of albinism, a condition that renders him unable to endure sunlight and overly sensitive to touch. For five years he’s been obsessed with an ancient Aristotelian text on alchemy; Tobias is convinced the book holds the key to his cure. Unfortunately, it was snatched away at auction by MacPherson, a Scottish bookseller and rival collector. Five years later, success is in sight! Tobias has the deed to MacPherson & Daughter Booksellers in his pocket.

When Tobias shows up on Fiona’s doorstep on Christmas Eve to claim his property, will her scheme to save her shop, and his certainty that his condition makes him unlovable, keep them apart? Or will they embrace the magic of the holiday season and accept the destiny that eluded them five years ago?

Claimed By the Rogue translated to Spanish.

Read L’Honneur d’un voyou, the French translation of Hope’s ROGUE’S HONOUR for .89 Euros (99 cents). Or read for free on Kindle Unlimited.

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Washington Place in Lower Manhattan, killing 146 workers, most immigrant women and girls, and sparking a nationwide fight for safer workplaces. Read for free here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/a-sidewalk-strewn-with-corpses-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-of-1911-1.4513048

On March 17, 1899, St. Patrick’s Day, a fire broke out in the posh Windsor Hotel in midtown Manhattan as the city’s St. Patrick’s Day procession was marching by on Fifth Avenue. The tragic deaths and daring rescues that day inspired my novel-in-progress, Irish Eyes. Read for free on Medium.

Three-part podcast series on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, New York State’s deadliest industrial disaster until 9/11, as seen through the eyes of two immigrant factory workers who lived it: Annie Doherty from Co. Donegal, Ireland and Celia Walker from Premsy, Poland. A collaboration with Fin Dwyer’s Irish History Podcast.

28 bestselling romance and women’s fiction authors, including Hope, share their real-life love stories in this wholesome, heart-warming anthology. Net sales benefit Women in Need.

Baltimore beat cop Mandy Delinski isn’t expecting any miracles this Christmas. She’s thirty, a little too round, still single and living with her parents in the ethnic enclave of Highlandtown in Baltimore City. Who could have guessed that her whole life would change before New Year’s Eve? That a simple job policing a Christmas party would find her in the arms of sexy-as-sin bartender, Josh Thornton? That they would be on the brink of making love before the night ended?

That Mandy would find her perfect man in the morgue the next day?

Or that she’d be given a magical chance to go back a week, save Josh…and have the best holiday sex of her life. Does Christmas get any better than this?

Bad boy Callum Fraser is head over heels for the first time in his life. Only his beloved, the Lady Alys, is keeping him out of her bed until their wedding Christmas morning. It’s enough to drive a man crazy!

Still, he intends to make up for his restraint. There are many ways to seduce, and Callum’s a master at all of them. His goal? To leave Alys shivering in desire, anticipating the many delicious ways he’ll bring her pleasure on their wedding night and throughout the twelve days of Christmas.

At least that’s the plan…until Alys’s dead first husband shows up, very much alive!

Approaching her thirtieth birthday on Christmas Day, 1890, bookshop proprietress Fiona MacPherson is in danger of becoming a Scrooge on par with Mr. Dickens’ curmudgeon. With her beloved Da dead, she’s set to lose her beloved bookshop to a mysterious antiquities collector. Fortunately for Fiona, her guardian angel-in-training, Fern, is determined to set her stubborn charge’s life, and future, back on track. Masquerading as the Angel of Christmas Future, Fern has until the final stroke of midnight on Christmas to persuade Fiona to embrace her destiny, and her one true love.

Antiquarian Tobias Templeton has been cursed from birth with an unknown form of albinism, a condition that renders him unable to endure sunlight and overly sensitive to touch. For five years he’s been obsessed with an ancient Aristotelian text on alchemy; Tobias is convinced the book holds the key to his cure. Unfortunately, it was snatched away at auction by MacPherson, a Scottish bookseller and rival collector. Five years later, success is in sight! Tobias has the deed to MacPherson & Daughter Booksellers in his pocket.

When Tobias shows up on Fiona’s doorstep on Christmas Eve to claim his property, will her scheme to save her shop, and his certainty that his condition makes him unlovable, keep them apart? Or will they embrace the magic of the holiday season and accept the destiny that eluded them five years ago?

Magazine managing editor and unapologetic Scrooge, Starr Starling is just as happy to sleep through the holiday. On Christmas Eve Starr is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future—all in the form of Matt Landry, the hot new art director she’s secretly crushing on.

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Washington Place in Lower Manhattan, killing 146 workers, most immigrant women and girls, and sparking a nationwide fight for safer workplaces. Read for free here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/a-sidewalk-strewn-with-corpses-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-of-1911-1.4513048

On March 17, 1899, St. Patrick’s Day, a fire broke out in the posh Windsor Hotel in midtown Manhattan as the city’s St. Patrick’s Day procession was marching by on Fifth Avenue. The tragic deaths and daring rescues that day inspired my novel-in-progress, Irish Eyes. Read for free on Medium.

Article chronicles the little known “Boston marriage” of suffrage leaders, Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Garrett Hay over 30 years, showing how their passionate private and public partnership propelled ratification of the 19th Amendment granting the vote to U.S. women.

Three-part podcast series on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, New York State’s deadliest industrial disaster until 9/11, as seen through the eyes of two immigrant factory workers who lived it: Annie Doherty from Co. Donegal, Ireland and Celia Walker from Premsy, Poland. A collaboration with Fin Dwyer’s Irish History Podcast.

OPERATION CINDERELLA (Suddenly Cinderella Book 1) in Italian.

CLAIMED BY THE ROGUE translated to Italian.

Read Vanquished (Men of Roxbury House Book #1) in Italian.

ROGUE’S HONOUR translated to Italian.

CLAIMED BY THE ROGUE translated to German.

Read VANQUISHED (Men of Roxbury House Book #1) in German.