BOOKS BY MEL
ROMANCE BOOKS
Summer Sounds
WHEN THE MUSIC HITS, ALL YOU CAN DO IS FALL.
Hailey
Stop the world I want to get off. I gave up my career to race home and save my family, only to be overwhelmed. We are behind on the mortgage; our family band is struggling, and my two younger brother’s constant bickering has escalated to Def Con three. The Seaside Music Festival is our last best shot – if we don’t land a music deal, everything will be lost. So why exactly am I kissing a stranger under the boardwalk?
Marshall
I’m a music producer that lives in the land of tweaking mainstream music consumed by the masses. My reputation is taking a beating, and I’m losing clients. I’m at the end of my rope, failure is knocking at the door holding a stack of applications to mind-numbing desk jobs. Kill me now. It’s time to take a risk - all I need is one special artist. So why am I kissing a stranger at the Music festival?
Two souls in search of redemption discover the sweetest sound is the beat of their own hearts.
Love Doesn’t Come with an Expiration Date
Kennedy Myers was the queen of Spring Hills High School: beauty pageant champ, head cheerleader, and the most popular girl in school. She only made one mistake—she said yes to the wrong boy.
Elijah Stevenson was the resident nerd at Spring Hills High. Convention said he should have never been friends with someone like Kennedy Myers. He hid in the shadows and avoided the spotlight, which was where she thrived. Not wanting to risk their friendship, Elijah watched as she ran off with the boy he knew wouldn't love her the way he did.
Ten Years later, a transformed Elijah returns for the Spring Hills High School reunion with two things he never possessed before - confidence and hope. However, Kennedy returns to her hometown with a massive secret that jeopardizes his plans. Will the reunion prove to be another missed connection or a second chance at redemption?
Readers who enjoy swoony reads will love Kiss You Back by Mel Walker, a second chance, opposites attract, small town romance.
Love Doesn’t Come with an Expiration Date
Kennedy Myers was the queen of Spring Hills High School: beauty pageant champ, head cheerleader, and the most popular girl in school. She only made one mistake—she said yes to the wrong boy.
Elijah Stevenson was the resident nerd at Spring Hills High. Convention said he should have never been friends with someone like Kennedy Myers. He hid in the shadows and avoided the spotlight, which was where she thrived. Not wanting to risk their friendship, Elijah watched as she ran off with the boy he knew wouldn't love her the way he did.
Ten Years later, a transformed Elijah returns for the Spring Hills High School reunion with two things he never possessed before - confidence and hope. However, Kennedy returns to her hometown with a massive secret that jeopardizes his plans. Will the reunion prove to be another missed connection or a second chance at redemption?
Readers who enjoy swoony reads will love Kiss You Back by Mel Walker, a second chance, opposites attract, small town romance.
The Amazing Date
When my eyes first set on Rylee, I knew she had the ability to either steal my heart or break it.
I never expected her to do both.
Four years later, I thought she was my past, but once again I am wrong.
Fate has decided to play a game with my heart. Rylee and I are entered in the same competition. A team competition that has us racing around the country. And, you guessed it, she’s my partner.
Can I survive being attached at the hip to the one woman who has my blood boiling and my heart racing at the same time? Time to find out.
Ready…Set ….Go.
Let the games begin.
The Right Guy
My ex is bringing my replacement to our friend’s wedding, what do I do?
Option A: Leave the state
Option B: Find a fake boyfriend for the week
Catherine March is what many would call an unparalleled success. With many friends from coast to coast and outstanding success as the manager of a premier event space in the state, she has overachieved in every aspect of her life except finding a partner. Finding the right partner.
Returning to her hometown for a friend’s wedding, she is confronted by her ex, the man who predicted she’ll always be alone. And to make matters worse, he's trotting her replacement all around town.
Faced with a tough choice, Catherine decides the solution to her problem is to find the perfect fake boyfriend for the week.
But being an overachiever has its own set of challenges; even her fake relationship appears real to everyone, including herself.
New city, new job, new challenges.
Hunter Farro is far from home and looking to stand on his own without the assistance of his powerful family.
It sounded simple enough. That is until a stranger kisses him and ropes him into being her pretend boyfriend for her friend's wedding
She is a beautiful distraction, and he has reasons for agreeing, but as the charade grows, he realizes the danger. The fake relationship isn’t the only secret he hides behind, if the truth comes out, everything he’s worked for may disappear.
His kiss was supposed to be the start of our forever. Instead, it marked the beginning of our end. That damn kiss. one kiss that not only destroyed our future but ended my ability to believe, to trust, to love.
He was my best friend. We should have known better.
Three years kept us apart, yet an invisible rope continues to tug at us. He’s finally returning home and I know it’ll only be a matter of time before we must face each other again. I’m older, stronger, wiser and no longer the starry-eyed girl who followed his every command.
He almost destroyed me last time, I won't give him a second chance. I can't.
Doctor Fix-It
Rules exist to keep us from following the impulses of our heart.
Angie has learned the hard way that breaking rules come at a cost. This is why she has maintains a strict line separating her personal life from her professional one. A line she’s had no issues maintaining until she crosses paths with him. He’s the mysterious stranger with the bedroom eyes and the ability to have her consider things she thought were unattainable. A fun filled evening opens up a world of possibilities until he unexpectedly appears at her hospital.
When her personal life collides with her professional one, Angie is placed at a crossroad. Will she risk everything she’s worked hard to achieve professionally for a chance at love? Will she break not only her rule but the number one rule for a doctor – Never date a patient.
Doctor Fix-it is a standalone Medical Romance that is part of the interconnected Doctors of Eastport General Hospital Series. Each novel may be read as standalone.
If you like your romances with strong independent heroines and sweet heroes download Doctor Fix-it.
Rules of the heart are made to be broken.
Hungering for a life of adventure, when Aaron Parker fled his sleepy hometown of Destiny Falls, he vowed to never look back. In his decade spent on the road, he hasn’t regretted that decision once. He has found joy in every aspect of his life... except love.
If her past has taught Mia Marshall anything, it’s that long-distance relationships never work. After having her heartbroken time and again, she made one simple rule to prevent herself from falling in that same trap again. No long-distance relationships. If she’s meant to find love, it will be in her hometown of Destiny Falls... or not at all.
When Aaron makes a trip home for his Dad's retirement party, he finds himself drawn to Mia at first glance. But what chance does a man devoted to the road have with a headstrong woman whose been burned by her past? Which will break first, her rule or his heart?
Trace's Forever
Lake Hope Book Five
Trace Edwards
They call me the billion-dollar box office kid but everyone should know better. That carefully curated persona is a Hollywood fabrication.
The paparazzi is working overtime speculating that my on-screen romance with my co-star Kimberly Conrad is evolving off-screen.
On-screen I’ll continue to play the romantic lead but off-screen I’m a different person with a secret - I don’t relationships.
Jill Hanover
I wrote the words that convinced America that Trace and Kimberly are the perfect couple. Of course, the emotions of the movie felt real to so many because they are – they’re mine. I carry a stupid crush for the most unattainable man in Hollywood. I’m invisible to him and I’ve fed all my words of love to Kimberly, the one woman who actually has the ability to steal his heart.
I can’t let this happen. It’s time to go off-script.
You can’t make this stuff up. But I can.
Watch me.
It’s not where you’re from - it’s where your heart leads you.
Everyone has a past. Dana tried to outrun hers by moving to beautiful Lake Hope in search of a fresh start. With her life at a crossroads, she must choose between a life-alternating professional opportunity or address the undeniable distraction she has to Jackson, a man with inked up muscles and smoldering intensity. Dana has played this game before and felt its burn. To protect her heart, she knows she should avoid temptation... even if he’s a painfully attractive one.
Jackson doesn’t talk about what drew him to Destiny Falls. These days, he’s perfectly content living the quiet life as a coffee shop manager. But one look at Dana, and he’s willing to jeopardize his scars from the past being revealed to pursue the longings of his heart. For her, he will face his demons head-on.
Will both their pasts blind them to a future together? Or will the magnetic possibility of a future together have them risk it all once again?
Blake Carson runs off to the small-town Northeast Kingdom to escape a painful breakup. Looking to clear his head and reboot, the last thing he needed was to meet her.
Alexis, a local mysterious woman, crosses paths with Blake and makes him an offer too good to be true – twenty-four hours with her to make him forget all of his troubles, forever.
The offer, however, comes with one stipulation. On this day he must not fall in love. Will Blake be able to finally purge his painful history, or will this night lead to further heartbreak?
They say Patience is a virtue, for me it not only happens to be my name but also my curse.
A year ago, I crossed paths with my best friend’s brother, the delicious man known as Gavin Rose. My curse stopped me from enjoying the fruits of this sweet man who has taken hold of my dreams ever since.
Now, fate has delivered me a second chance. My best friend is getting married and Gavin is the best man. This is my opportunity – the time for patience is over.
My wait is about to end.
Poppy:
The stage is no place for romance.
Hell, it’s the last place I should be. I’ve always been happy living my life as if no one is watching because frankly, they aren’t. Then my personal world is upset forcing me out of my comfort zone. In the blink of an eye, my entire world is overturned. I’m about to fight my biggest fear and it’s going to play out in front of the entire world. Why would I do this? Because of him.
Ali:
Music is my life, but the mask I wear to protect my carefully crafted persona also restricts me from evolving. A tragic event and a chance meeting have me willing to risk it all. But before I can, those that protect me insist on one thing: a hidden pea. It’s risky, ingenious, and cruel, but it will work. Only a true princess of music will be able to feel it in her bones. It’s a challenge we’re up for even if we are forced to fight for what we seek.
I’m about to give them something only she can feel. Queue the music.