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Books By Indie Author Maggie Gates

Books By Indie Author Maggie Gates

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The Stars Above Us

You can do this. You’re not some kind of damsel in distress.”

"Then what am I?”

How did she not see it? She didn’t walk through fire; she was fire. I cracked a smile, “You’re the dragon.”

What happened to Troy Davis?

That's what Becks is determined to figure out. When life takes an unexpected turn and plops her in the middle of the Afghan desert, the hotshot journalist finds herself surrounded by bullets, grenades, and a grumpy Army captain with a chip the size of Texas on his very broad shoulders. The captain is determined to get under her skin just as much as she gets under his.

All Captain Nathan Griffith wanted was to shake off the hell he’d faced over the last few years during a quiet deployment in the middle of nowhere. Lucky for him and the rest of the boys of Company B, Forward Operating Base Blessing fit the bill. When word comes down that a war correspondent is going to be embedded with them during their deployment, SHE is the last person he thought would ever show up.

After the unthinkable happens, Becks and Griff are torn between duty and desire. He never expected to find his fresh start in the middle of hell, but what will happen when Becks finally gets the answers she’s been looking for?

"The Stars Above Us" includes a sassy redhead, a grumpy Army captain, pranks, shenanigans, and a guaranteed happily ever after

 

Dust Storm 

—Christian—

Rule Number 1: You ride in my truck; you let me open the door.

Another problem was the last thing I needed. Unfortunately, Cassandra Parker was mine.

But the biggest problem of all?

It wasn’t the beautiful stranger sticking her nose in my operations.

It wasn’t the bulldozer she was driving over my way of life.

And it definitely wasn’t the fact that she was living in my house.

My biggest problem? The engagement ring on her finger.

—Cassandra—

Rule Number 1: If you’re going to kill someone, make it look like an accident, cry at the funeral, admit to nothing, and deny everything.

To be clear, I didn’t want to be Christian Griffith’s problem. But there I was: exiled from New York, stranded on a cattle ranch, and desperate to salvage what was left of my career.

Living with a single dad and his children was a downgrade from my high-rise office and city comforts, but I agreed to it for one simple reason: to save my job.

A hot cowboy wasn’t going to lasso me into staying a second longer than necessary.

Downpour

Ray:

  • Rule #1 of almost dying: Make sure someone knows your passwords. It’s hard to cancel your phone plan if you’re dead.
  • Rule #2 of almost dying: Make sure your house is clean before you walk up the steps to the pearly gates. It makes selling off your life easier.

Back-up plans are for people who plan on losing.

All it took was eight seconds for me to win the biggest competition of my life, and one second to lose everything except that championship buckle.

I had left my family’s cattle ranch at eighteen with no intention of ever coming back for good.

Now I was back, stuck in a wheelchair with a beautiful disaster attempting to burn my house down.

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Brooke:

  • Rule #1 of trying to not get fired: Don’t piss off the grumpy bull rider.
  • Rule #2 of trying to not get fired: When you do get fired, keep your chin up. The grumpy bull rider was hot.

It was just a little fire. Tiny, even. But that didn’t change the fact that Ray Griffith didn’t want me anywhere near him.

But we came to an agreement: I ignore him, and he doesn’t fire me.

Easy, right? Not so much when we can’t keep our hands off each other.
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Downpour is book two in the Griffith Brothers series. This series can be read as interconnected standalones. Get ready for a sizzling summer romance full of accidental livestock house pets, a walking disaster of a heroine, and the grumpiest hero EVER!

Fire Line:

LENNON:

Rule number one: Committing crimes is not a group project.

Rule number two: Don’t start fights. Finish them.

Rule number three: Don’t try to hustle a hustler.

 

I should have walked away. I should have ignored that sweet-talking cowboy.

Good things don’t happen to people like me. Good people stay away from people like me.

But that cowboy wouldn’t leave me alone.

He should have known better. After all, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

 

 

Carson James:

Rule number one: When you’re holding a grudge, don’t think about how attractive the object of your hatred is.

Rule number two: When you do think about how attractive she is, ignore it. It’ll go away. Probably.

Rule number three: When you’re stealing a car, it helps to have the keys.

 

That girl was trouble. I knew it from the moment I laid eyes on her bruised knuckles in the bar.

The last thing I expected was for her to show up on the ranch and bring that trouble to my front door.

I always liked playing with fire, but apparently, so did she. Only time will tell which one of us is going to get burned. 

Fire Line is the final book in the Griffith Brothers series. Get ready for a romance jam-packed with lust, heat, and danger

What Hurts Us (Falls Creek Book 1)

Asking Layla Mousavi to be my fake fiancé wasn’t the weirdest thing I had done this week. It didn’t even crack the top ten. Not when my days were filled with escaped pigs, radioactive casseroles, and cow-induced car crashes.

The population of Falls Creek, North Carolina, is a collective menace to society. Layla thought the first line of her orientation packet was a joke, but she soon realized it was all facts. After only a few hours on the job, the whip-smart flight nurse found herself flying headfirst into small-town drama.

Police Officer Callum Fletcher needs a fiancé, and he needs one fast.

His best option? The alluring nurse who had put him back together after one of his worst days on the force. She was the new girl in town and needed a place to stay.

The elusive bachelor could handle a temporary roommate if she could handle a town full of gossiping busybodies, his meddling grandma, and a former date who still had her sights set on being the future Mrs. Fletcher.

The only problem?

Layla Mousavi doesn’t date cops anymore. Especially ones with commitment issues the size of a Ferris wheel.

What Heals Us (Falls Creek Book 2)

Surely losing your virginity to a firefighter in a cabin getaway that was won at a fundraiser was against some fine-print bylaw in the town charter."
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It all started with a list.

Ten resolutions for a new year, new me.

Or at least the me I thought I should be.

It was going all fine and dandy until I got snowed in with my friend’s brother.

Her much older brother. What happens in the cabin, stays in the cabin. Right?

Wrong.

When Austin Hale shows up on my doorstep, offering to help me with my list, I decide that I’d be crazy to say no. He’s new in town, and I’d rather not go on my journey of self-discovery alone.

We can do this as friends. Besides, he’s too old for me, and the two of us have enough baggage to fill an airplane.

Ten resolutions, and then we move on.

In my mind, the rules are clear. But my heart has plans of its own.

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Welcome back to Falls Creek, North Carolina, where gossip is a way of life and meddling is a show of affection. What Heals Us is a small-town romance packed with heat and heart. Get ready to melt over hunky firefighter Austin Hale, and sweet kindergarten teacher, Caroline Tyree. This is book two in the Falls Creek series, but can be read as a standalone.

What Saves Us (Falls Creek Book 3)

People you shouldn’t fall in love with:

  • Your best friend’s sister.
  • Your best friend’s pregnant sister.
  • Your best friend’s sister after you deliver her baby.
  • Your best friend’s sister when she’s an exhausted, overwhelmed new mother who has to deal with her crazy baby daddy and meddling townspeople

But rules were meant to be broken.

Full moons and fate have a way of pushing people together when they least expect it.

When Beth Hale called 911 when she was in labor, the last person she thought would show up was her brother’s best friend.

Now, he’s the only person she trusts.

Former Navy SEAL Shane Hutchins has demons of his own. Reinventing himself as a small town paramedic was supposed to be his atonement for the things he had done. Falling in love with a single mom wasn’t in his plan, but now he’d do anything for her and the baby girl he calls “his.”

Even if it means putting his life on the line.

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Get ready for a heart-pounding, feels-packed love story with a fairy tale happily ever after, and some moments that are so hot they’ll melt your Kindle!

Please refer to the note regarding sensitive content and topics in What Saves Us in the preface of the book or the author’s website before reading.

What Saves Us is the final book in the Falls Creek Series. This book can be read as a standalone, but it is recommended to read the series in order

Seven Of Hearts

All I ever wanted was to be perfect. That wasn’t too much to ask, right? It was the only way to change how people saw me and my past.

I, Logan Solomon, could not screw up.

Going home to Beaufort, North Carolina, for my sister’s wedding was a painful reminder of everything I had tried to leave behind.

One perfect drink with her maid of honor turned into five.

And those perfect drinks turned into one night that would change everything.

My sister’s best friend had always been on the other side of a line I wasn’t supposed to cross.

Now, there are two more lines.
And they're pink.

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Seven of Hearts is a steamy standalone, accidental pregnancy romance between a hero with deep wounds, and the leading lady who has always wanted him.

700 Senses Of Summer

Aurora Whitlock hit rock bottom.

Broke, single, and mourning her career going up in smoke, she decides to kick-start her new life by renovating the bones of an old beach house hidden along the Carolina coast.

What a cliché—inheriting a fixer-upper from a deceased relative. That kind of thing only happens in books.

But beggars can’t be choosers. The Old Whitlock Place, and all its secrets, is home sweet home for the summer.

Jack Wharton didn’t expect to find a summertimer squatting in the dilapidated mansion next door.

As a career firefighter tasked with protecting Cedar Island, North Carolina, he’s seen a thing or two. But he’s never seen anything quite like her.

Painting walls and fixing floors in the middle of summer shouldn’t be that hard to handle. But the temperature isn’t the only thing that’s hot. Can Jack and Aurora’s sizzling romance stand the heat? Or will the secrets they uncover consume them?


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700 Senses of Summer is a fun summer read full of witty banter, the best girl gang you’ll ever meet, mystery, and a scorching romance with a swoony happily ever after! It is book two in the Romantics series but can be read as a standalone.

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