Contemporary Romance Her mother lived a lie. Now with her very public mother dead, Kit has to deal with her younger half-brothers who believe she's their aunt, with her mother's self-righteous family who are trying to blackmail her, and with her own ex-husband whom she still loves but knows she cannot trust.

Liar’s Chance Twenty years ago, if anyone had told Karen Woods that she'd be making her living as a fiction writer, she would have said they had the wrong woman. Now she considers it fun to make a living at what she'd do for amusement anyway. Karen writes romantic intrigue, historical romance, futuristic romance, and gothics. Karen was presented with the 2007 Patricia Lucas White Service Award given to honor her exemplary service to EPIC. Karen's thrillers MAGGIE'S HUNT and STALKING THE PHOENIX are available from The Fiction Works. Look for her new action/adventure/romantic suspense Subrosa Series, including NO DEFENSE, Book 1 (available now); HIDING IN THE SPOTLIGHT, Book 2 (available now); and MEXICAN STANDOFF, Book 3. Karen's regency romances RELUCTANT COUNTESS and SUITORS AND SCOUNDRELS are available from Awe-Struck eBooks. Her newest releases are: LIAR’S CHANCE; A MOTHER’S EYES (historical inspirational fiction), a 2012 EPIC Award winner (Spiritual/Metaphysical category); THE BISHOP'S DAUGHTER (inspirational Regency romance); and GET GERI (inspirational romantic suspense), available from Sleeping Beagle Books. Her futuristic romance, THE ONLY ONE, will be revised and reissued as LARA’S LEGACY in the summer of 2011 by Sleeping Beagle Books. Karen's Jewels of the Quill contributions include: a paranormal suspense titled Heart of Stone in TREASURES OF THE HEART; a paranormal romance called Ghost of a Chance in SHADOWS IN THE HEART; an inspirational romance novella named Christmas Faith in CHRISTMAS WISHES, Jewels of the Quill's second Christmas anthology; and Atop A Wedding Cake, a contemporary romance novella, in MAGICAL KISSES, the second Jewels of the Quill Valentine's Day anthology, which was a 2010 EPIC Award winner. Karen's nonfiction includes IT'S TAXING: 2008 INCOME TAXES FOR U.S. AUTHORS and BECOMING HOLY (WITHOUT BEING HOLIER-THAN-THOU): A BRIEF EXPLORATION OF FRANCISCAN SPIRITUALITY THROUGH EXAMINING THE ADMONITIONS OF ST. FRANCIS. Join Karen at her blog: Click on the Books & Awards button below to purchase any of Karen's books.