Valerie Renee
The Ruby
Daughters are a rarity in the Nicholas family, born only once or twice a century. When a daughter is born, her life is tied to an ancestral ruby necklace, bequeathed to the young woman on her twenty-first birthday. The necklace is remarkable, a twenty-carat tear-shaped ruby offset by smaller rubies and diamonds. Its wealth is beyond value, but tradition claims the necklace offers much more. She who wears the ruby, family legend tells, will have a prosperous and happy life.
Then twin girls are born into the Nicholas family, and tradition crumbles. By right, Izabella, as the eldest, should wear the ruby, but what of her sister Adella? To ignore the birth of a daughter goes against centuries of family history.
As the girls grow, Izabella becomes proud and haughty, confident in her inheritance and stunning good looks. Adella is quieter, more loving, and plainer than her sister. She’s quite willing to live without the pomp and circumstance the ruby necklace brings, an attitude Izabella cannot grasp and finds deeply suspicious.
Two sisters, one unbreakable family tradition—what follows will change the Nicholas family forever, for good or ill.
Long Lasting Love
Are they merely meaningless dreams—or are the visions in the night the sole clue to an unsolved murder? As a child, Alyssa Goldwyn witnessed the savage murder of her parents, and suppressed the face of the person responsible for the awful deed. Now an adult, she is seized by vivid dreams that finally seem to be leading her to the killer. Will she recognize the face of the murderer—or will she, too, be silenced before she does?
Long Lasting Love is the enthralling romantic suspense novel with a killer on the loose, and only one woman with the power to find the killer. As a young child, the ever-inquisitive Alyssa stows away in her parents’ car on their date night. When they wind up dead, only Alyssa witnesses the murder. Now, even though she’s an adult, her dreams haunt her with the tragedy.
What’s more, she finds herself conflicted with feelings for two love interests. Christopher and Cain are connected to each other and to the past in ways she has yet to fathom. With blood-pumping drama and romance, Long Lasting Love is a riveting, red-blooded read that is easy to devour and impossible to put down.
