Books of Lainey Bancroft

Novels

Jackpot

The odds of developing the committed relationship she longs for with Las Vegas playboy, Lucas Smyth, are a long shot Casino Niagara security supervisor, Cassidy Malone, wouldn't take even if she were a betting girl. But life has dealt her enough bad hands lately. She feels entitled to indulge in the lavish attention Lucas offers.

While Cassidy investigates the unfamiliar pleasures of no-strings sex, Lucas investigates her! When her heart starts straying with her hormones, will she be able to forgive him for discovering facts that cause her to lose her job? Falling in love is the most high-stakes game she's ever played, but if she risks it all, could she hit the jackpot? 

Cozumel Karma

The only nod Maggie O’Shea gives to Karma is the belief that no good deed goes unpunished. She’s certainly done enough good turns for her family. Fortune isn’t smiling on her, particularly in the romance department.

The lone significant relationship she’s had is with her lesbian friend, Pat. Men have pitched her so many strikes, she’s considering batting for Pat’s team. Pat insists a singles cruise will be the perfect spot for Maggie to get it on, without having to get along with a man.

Maggie feels ill about sailing on “The Good Ship Syphilis” but when a blond Adonis collides with her rental car in Cozumel and he’ll do anything to make it up to her, things take a turn for the better.

With her caustic wit and language as salty as the sea-kissed patio of his beach house, Maggie isn’t the sort Cole would normally look twice at. But the red-haired hot head proves to be even hotter in bed. While he works to convince her the incredible week they spend together is more than a mere magical moment, Maggie discovers Cole could be destined to be a part of her future—whether she wants it or not.

 

 Worth Every Risk

This is a Sterling Silver Romantic Suspense Anthology from Liquid Silver Books
A Dangerous Exchange – By Jennifer McKenzie
Burn Out – Dawn Montgomery
The Artistry of Auras – Lainey Bancroft

New detective Petra Canon is humiliated when her superiors coerce her to cooperate with The Psychic Task Force. Her father has thirty years of convictions based on good old fashioned police work and she knows she’ll never prove to him she can be a professional—even without a penis—if she can’t do the same. Besides, Task Force leader, Mike Angelo, an advanced aura reader, is arrogant, intense and unnerves her in more ways than one.

Most unnerving of all is that within hours of being briefed on the four missing women—who Angelo points out all bear a striking resemblance to Petra—he suspects a motive far darker than the horrendous kidnapping and rape plot she thought she was trying to solve. He has recognized the suspect as another aura reader and believes that mild-mannered bar owner, Earl Abbott, is actually kidnapping women with the proper auric pairings so he can breed a generation of super kids whose advanced psychic awareness will have frightening impact on the world.

As they race together into danger, Petra learns to get over the stigma of being a female in a still male dominated world and Mike learns sometimes being dominated is as much fun as dominating.

 Settling Back

Angelina Jordan has lived up to her late mother's wish that she never settle for an ordinary life and it's left her feeling-unsettled. When the grandmother who raised her breaks a hip, she returns to the tiny northern Ontario town she couldn't wait to escape and is surprised to discover it feels like home for the first time in years. She is also amazed to discover she still shares an incredible connection with Billy, her high school sweetheart. It's just too bad he's the same carefree and utterly lacking in ambition man she left behind. How can she be so attracted to who he is, when she finds what he is distasteful?

Novellas

Action and Satisfaction

When the name of the game is hot action for pure satisfaction, what happens when one of the players changes how they define satisfaction? 

As a much in demand architect, Seth Edwards has been blessed with the funds and freedom to do what he wants, and what he wants to do is indulge in as many sexy interludes as possible with Eva Delucca.

A lifetime of watching her mother cycle through men like underwear convinced Eva being spoiled with frequent glamorous trysts by Eveready Edwards is the ultimate in satisfaction, until a bet forces her to re-evaluate her future. Except beyond his future projects—which frequently take him all over the country—the word future has never been part of Seth's vocabulary.

Can more action than he can handle convince her ramblin' man they might achieve a deeper satisfaction if they look beyond the action?

Mixed Blessings

Daniela Blessing’s ability to see crimes through the eyes of victims is a mixed blessing. She thinks she’s a handmaiden of Fate, but when Vincent Gabriele accosts her one sunny morning he calls it eye for an eye justice. He’s willing to keep her secrets—if she helps him. Despite his blackmail tactics, Danni would help, except her psychic abilities evaporate whenever Vincent is around. As truths emerge unlocking Vincent’s past, some of Danni’s history is also revealed. They’ve been intrinsically tied in the past, and their future is about to become a Destiny neither of them expected.

Short Stories

The Music of Marcus

When Carrie Arnold’s only son, Jonathan, received a diagnosis her husband wasn’t equipped to handle and he left her, she thought the melody of her life had been rendered permanently discordant. For twelve years she’s single-handedly kept a stable environment for her son. At forty-four, she’s resigned herself to being single. She’s proud of the strength and independence she gained through her struggles, but when a hit and run accident sends Jonathan into a coma, she discovers her strength may not be enough...

Dare To Dance

The 3-D Club-deceived, discarded and divorced-coerce Alex into performing at a gentleman's club in an effort to help her shake her inhibitions, and the damage her ex-husband inflicted on her during their half-dead marriage. How could Alex know a few bumps and grinds will land her in the arms of her first love?

Ready to Reel

When Suzette Michaud reels into the arms of a man she wouldn't ordinarily look twice at, she re-examines her priorities. Fed up with the social limitations her parents, and her French boarding school background impressed upon her, Suzette decides it's time to take a walk on the wild side. Handlebar Hank and his Honky Tonk feel like just the distraction she needs.

She doesn't count on falling in love with the rough around the edges man, especially when he insists on treating her-a forty-six year old divorcee-like some blushing virgin. And she certainly doesn't suspect that his big body, heart and sense of humour hide a bigger hurt than she ever could have imagined.
Can a wounded bar owner and a bitter French debutante/divorcee make each other feel whole again, or are they just reeling into more heartbreak?

Waiting to Waltz

A man who lives to cook and a woman who loves to eat should be a magical match. Except Riana Walker's French is even worse than Jacques Chevalier's English. Besides, with a husband who left her because he claimed her thighs were doughy enough to sustain a Wonder bread factory, she's sworn off rich food. Can the enthusiastic French chef woo the diet-addicted divorcee into dancing to a different drummer, or when summer ends will Jacques return to France and leave Riana waiting to waltz?