Titles by
Cissy Hassell




   

Multi-award winning author, Cissy
Hassell, lives in North Central Florida
with her husband and pets. Writing to
keep herself sane while raising five children, she is currently working on
her next novel. Her greatest passion is writing, with riding her Harley through
the back roads of the country a close second and reading not far behind.

Web Site: www.cissyhassell.com

BOOK AWARDS

NOWHERE
- 2007 Honorable Mention
  Hollywood Book Festival
- 2005 POW Award Best Romance
- 2005 Finalist Independent Publisher
  Best Romance
- 2005 Finalist Foreword Magazine
  Best Romance
- 2005 Honorable Mention Writer's Digest   Best Romance

DECEIT TIMES TWO
- 2006 Honorable Mention
  Independent Publisher Best Romance

COMING HOME
- 2007 Florida Publisher's President's
  Best Book Award
- 2007 Foreword Magazine
  Gold Medallion Award
- 2007 Finalist USA BookNews
  National Best Book Award
- 2007 Honorable Mention
  Independent Publisher Best Romance
- 2006 POW Award Best Women's Fiction

MAYSE'S COWBOY
- 2006 POW Award Best Romance

BY THE DARK OF THE MOON
- 2008 POW Award Best Romance

co-Founder, Florida Voices Book Fair



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           Thorns


 
   ISBN: 978-0-9841870-1-4
   5x8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: September 2009
   Pages: 248
   Price: $13.95
   

She was trying to do the right thing. And, he stands in the way. Toe-to-toe in a contest of wills, it’s a battle of the strongest but somewhere along the line, her heart takes a u-turn into a sea of desire and a hint of a promise of love. She must stand strong like an oak against him as he climbs the wall around her heart or fall into that sea of desire and taste the promise it holds. Take a journey with Melissa Graham through the progression of events she undertakes to make amends with her estranged father. From a chaotic arrival at his ranch where her stepmother is in labor to a new beginning overshadowed by the birth of a new brother. As the relationship between Melissa, her father and stepmother become solid, the next thing Melissa tackles is a newfound stepbrother with an attitude. He claims she's a cold-hearted witch come to stir up trouble, she claims she’s there to make amends. Events heat up as passion explodes. Now she must find the strength to stand against him. A near impossible task. He already has her heart.

     
     



           The Same Love Twice


 
   ISBN: 978-0-9841870-1-3
   5x8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: August 2009
   Pages: 288
   Price: $13.95
   

Seven years she’d been gone. And, here was the same love walking back into her heart again. As the flames of a love past burn brighter and hotter, the thing to do is walk away before her heart succumbs to the love of the man she left behind. What waits for Carrie Winslow when she returns home after a seven year absence is just a little more than she expects, a face to face with the man she left behind, her ex-husband, Nathan Singletary . . . and all the pain, misery and memories close on his heels. The attraction is strong … but there is that one little obstacle in the way . . . a wife. Carrie sets out to find what type of woman has replaced her in his heart, secretly searching for this woman but to no avail, Nate's wife is as elusive as the butterfly. At every turn, she runs into a brick wall, while the flames of a love past continue to burn. Will Carrie do what is morally right and walk away or will she succumb to what her heart most desires?

     
     



           A Knight This Way Cometh


 
   ISBN: 978-0-9822337-3-3
   8.5 x 8.5 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: April 2009
   Pages: 276
   Price: $13.95
   

When Diana Grey goes looking for adventure around the next bend, she is hurled into a medieval world of knights, white chargers, and castles, waking up with her very own knight in shining armor in tow, hundreds of years in the past. Or, is she? To what measures will a man go to win her heart? Diana learns she was not hurled through a portal in time after all but held captive in a modern day medieval castle. She decides to retaliate by any means necessary. Can she carry through with her plan of revenge or will she throw caution to the wind and surrender her heart to a twenty-first century knight in shining armor?

     
     

            The Misadventures of Rascal,
      the Masked Bandit

   ISBN: 978-0-9822337-1-9
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: December 2008
   Pages: 24
   Price: $10.95
   

Rascal, the lovable raccoon gets in trouble with a Mama Gator when he tries to steal her eggs.

     
     

             To This Day

   ISBN: 978-0-9801504-1-4
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: February 2008
   Pages: 312
   Price: $15.95
   

Lainie Hatcher only wants to raise her son and leave the past in the past. Then without warning the past suddenly becomes the present when Jake Newberry returns to his hometown to try to find the pieces of what he left behind. He’d betrayed Lainie and needed her forgiveness. A sentiment that Lainie couldn’t give and keep her secret. A secret that could bind them together or rip them apart. She’d loved him forever, even to this day, but can she take the risk of shattering their hearts with the secret she’d kept all these years?

     
     

         The Favor

   ISBN: 978-0-9793231-9-5
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: November 2007
   Pages: 312
   Price: $13.95

Trading places had been a game they played when they were children. Now Leslie Hopewell is in over her head when she agrees to play the game one more time when her cousin begs her for help. Her mark is a blind man.

     
     

         Desperate Hope

   ISBN: 978-0-9793231-8-8
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: September 2007
   Pages: 316
   Price: $13.95

Allison Lange learns she has thirty days to vacate the premises of her business and appeals to the new owner for an extension to find other accommodations armed only with desperate hope. She finds the ruthless tycoon that has acquired the land where Shady Lane Riding Academy is more interested in what she can do for him.

     
     
         In The Dark Of Night

   ISBN: 978-0-9793231-6-4
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: July 2007
   Pages: 316
   Price: $13.95
   

Primed to fulfill her destiny at very early age, Rhiannon Cambridge finds the event foretold is looming on the horizon, bringing with it a raging battle far greater than one ever imagined. With all the powers bestowed upon her, with all the witches and wizards at her back, can she lead them into a battle, driving back the faction sworn to destroy their very souls to bring down a power-hungry witch that wants to rule them all? Declan Fontaine, the son of a powerful wizard, knows his destiny—to fight by Rhiannon's side in a raging battle for Supremacy of the underworld. With the pride and powers of warriors of old, Rhiannon and Declan combine their powers to battle the horde called the Order that wants total domination of the underworld. Will they destroy or be destroyed?

     
     
         Paradise Blue
   ISBN: 978-0-9793231-3-3
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: May 2007
   Pages: 312
   Price: $13.95
   

Stranded on an uncharted island in the South Seas with the greatest temptation she’s ever known, Lindsay Blaine discovers the love she’s always wanted and a passion that plunges her into a world filled with sensation. But being stranded brings a new danger when they discover a stash of weapons hidden in a cave. Amid rescue, the danger is forgotten a gun lord demands the return of his cache and snatches Lindsay away until his possessions are returned. As time runs out, Hunter scrambles to find her. The question weighing on his mind, is can he save Lindsay the second time around?

     
         By The Dark Of The Moon


   ISBN: 978-0-9793231-2-6
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: April 2007
   Pages: 316
   Price: $13.95
   

Vadra Duquesne is thrust into a world of passion where desire rules her body and love rules her heart. Now, as the night stakes its claim, she becomes its next victim, kidnapped from her home into the black, backwater swamp and thrust into a dark and dangerous world of gun-running and conspiracy from which there is no escape. An ultimatum is issued with Vadra as the pawn—an exchange. Vadra for her brother, a cop whose interference has cost the gun-runner millions of dollars in profits. When Navarre Beauvrie finds the woman he loves is held at the mercy of a man called Fast Eddie, he launches a rescue to find her. Will he be able to save the woman he loves as the deadline approaches or will the swamp claim her for its own?

     
     
         Miracle Downs
   ISBN: 978-0-9793231-1-9
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: March 2007
   Pages: 332
   Price: $13.95
   

One man’s deathbed wish…
A young woman with no place to go…
A man who’s waited a lifetime for the woman he loves.
As Annie and Lucas struggle to find balance, they find their own survival is at stake. A menace descends on the serenity of Miracle Downs, threatening to destroy everything that belongs to Lucas Montgomery to bring him to his knees. Now he must make the most difficult decision of his life. Who will he save? Annie, the woman he’s waited a lifetime for? Or Miracle Downs?

     
     
         Undercover of Darkness
   ISBN: 0-9767634-9-4
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: February 2007
   Pages: 324
   Price: $13.95
   

A year after tragically losing her husband, a young woman tries to rebuild her life. Upon her arrival at Ravenwood, the farm left to her by her grandparents near the Suwannee River, she finds her sanctuary is rife with secrets and danger and a few people want her gone. What waits for her in the darkness makes her wish she was. Then she meets a man who stirs her senses and lays claim to her heart. Now she’s wondering which is worse. What lurks undercover of darkness or the man who demands her soul.

     
     
         He And She
   ISBN: 0-9767634-8-6
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: January 2007
   Pages: 324
   Price: $13.95
   

Since she first tripped over that wedge of stone sticking out of the hard-packed earth, Jaedyn Bleu felt destined to uncover the secret myths of the ages. Now a man she can only see at the very edge of twilight and dawn haunt her memory. Now she understands that she is part of a Mayan legend as old as time. Love waits while they search. He of the night shadows. She of the dancing light of day.

     
         The Proposition


   ISBN: 0-9767634-7-8
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: October 2006
   Pages: 424
   Price: $13.95
   

Inside her memories lay a shadowy secret—one night of indiscretion that haunts her at every turn. Now that secret has a face and Cassandra Dixon is sure it’s the devil in disguise who will do anything to bind her to him for life. Runyan Bannister lays a proposition on the negotiating table that she has no choice but to accept. His punishment for her sister's crime against him? Marry him or he will prosecute for misappropriation of funds. Once the I do’s are said, there’s no turning back. And now, she’s bound to the man from that one night of stolen bliss. The question now is will the punishment fit the crime, destroying two lives in the process? Or, will love be strong enough to free them from bonds tied with deceit and lies?

         Coming Home


   ISBN: 0-9767634-6-X
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: July 2006
   Pages: 432
   Price: $13.95
   

Twelve years after leaving Archville, West Virginia and never looking back, Delphia is pulled into that small town life she’s tried so hard to bury six feet under by circumstances that demand her attention. Unbeknownst to Delphia, her childhood friend, Boone Wilder, has returned to settle an old score with a town father who caused the death of his mother, buying up her childhood home. Past and present collide as events spiral out of control while destiny plays her final hand. Delphia struggles against the hills that want to claim her, the battle to keep her heart of stone intact and the fight against a love that refuses to be denied. Hard lessons are learned when she realizes things are not always what they seem. Sometimes, coming home is the best medicine for the soul.

     
         Mayse's Cowboy
   ISBN: 0-9767634-5-1
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: May 2006
   Pages: 436
   Price: $13.95
   

In order for Mayse Farrell to claim her inheritance, she must follow the dictates of her father’s will and meet the time line he set forth ... marrying within twelve weeks of the reading and producing a male child within eighteen months thereafter. If she doesn’t, not only will she lose her share of fifty million dollars but her twin sister will as well. It was bad enough that her father was trying to run her life from the grave, but the man she she hires to carry out the stipulations of her father’s will says yes to her proposal then breaks all the rules.

     
         Mistaken Identity

   ISBN: 0-9767634-4-3
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: March 2006
   Pages: 448
   Price: $13.95
   

Love gets in the way of duty when danger comes calling as Cyann Davies becomes the target of a knife-wielding, cold-blooded killer. The only problem is she’s the wrong woman, a case of mistaken identity. Recovering from a gunshot wound, Tucker is given the cushy job of an easy stakeout. Full of resentment that he has to babysit some babe, he’s still a cop with a job to do whether he wants to or not. Tucker Morgan proves to be just as dangerous to Cyann as the killer who’s after her. Not only does she stand the chance of losing her life, but also her heart. The question she’s asking herself now is, if Tucker’s protecting her from a killer, who’s protecting her from Tucker?

     
     
         The Mystic Night Wind
   ISBN: 0-9767634-3-5
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: December 2005
   Pages: 444
   Price: $13.95
   

Something evil blows in the wind... On a trail that has long been cold, Caileigh Bleu hasn’t given up hope of finding her kidnapped sisters, especially her twin but now her intuitive powers are telling her that time is running out. Evil waits on the sidelines while she frantically seeks answers to their disappearance. Faced with the possibility that she may never see her twin alive again, she prays for a solution. Then the answer to her prayers literally falls into her arms ... a time traveler on a mission of his own. Too late, she remembers that old adage. Be careful what you wish for, you may not like what you get.

     
     
         Deceit Times Two
   ISBN: 0-9767634-2-7
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: August 2005
   Pages: 440
   Price: $13.95
   

A heart betrayed never forgets. And, someone must pay. Guthrie Cavanaugh has proof the child Marissa Harrington adopted eight years ago is his, one he never knew existed, given away at birth by his ex-wife for spite. And now, he wants her back by any means necessary. He’s trying to take her daughter away, threatening to bring Marissa down to accomplish his goal, to destroy her very existence. She fights back, waging war against him, even knowing in the end, she will lose. He presents her with a compromise. Marry him, be a mother to both his children, or lose everything she holds dear.

     
     
          The Bringer of Rapture
   ISBN: 0-9767634-1-9
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: June 2005
   Pages: 440
   Price: $13.95
   

Desires of the heart get in the way of family honor on the road paved with sweet revenge when Sara’s father is brutally murdered and she finds herself obligated to the man she holds responsible. Obligated she may be but that does not deter her from doling out her own form of punishment for crimes against her family. Sara is patient and bides her time to do what must be done in the name of honor, battling inner demons bent on changing her mind. She is determined to follow through with her plan to bring him down … for if she falters, her heart will be his next victim.

         Nowhere






   ISBN: 0-09767634-0-0
   5 x 8 Quality Trade Paperback
   Release date: April 2005
   Pages: 444
   Price: $13.95
   
She didn’t want anyone’s help, she just wanted to fade into obscurity and survive… Harleigh Bleu has experienced horrific anguish at the hands of an ex-husband. When she finally takes her life in her own hands and disappears, she vows never to put herself in that position again. Until she meets the residents of a little town called Nowhere who take her under their wing, give her sanctuary and protect her as one of their own. This includes, Caleb, the local doctor, intent on knowing all the intimate details of her life. Now she faces the dilemma of exposing a past she wants to leave behind. He won’t let her walk this path alone… As a doctor, Caleb Forrester has one goal in life: give help and protection to those who need him. The last thing he expects is to fall in love with a woman who doesn’t want either. Soon he has questions that demand an answer – but the answers he seeks are shocking. Once told, he wishes he’d never asked. The question now is whether Caleb’s love will be enough to protect Harleigh from a menace so horrific it chills the blood. Or, will she run to protect the man she loves and the residents of Nowhere from the evil she thought she left behind?