I’m up to my eyeballs in galleys for A Name Unknown right now, so I can’t spend much time on the ol’ blog this week. But I did want to check in real quick. So I thought I’d do a quick share of the covers I created last week.

WhiteFire just acquired some of Melody Carlson’s backlist contemporary titles–all previously published, but we’re giving them a fresh new look. I’ve had fun repackaging these MC classics, and since the first batch of them are processing and will be available today/tomorrow (I’ll update with links later), I figured it would be cool to share!

I tackled them in an, ahem, amazingly brilliant order. Alphabetical. 😉 So here they are in that same order.

First up is actually the most recent of the books, Armando’s Treasure

Dora Chase is an eighty-year-old widow whose
family finds her frustratingly independent. Her son no longer trusts her
judgment and constantly pressures her to sell her rural home and rundown farm
to a huge computer firm.

When a young stranger shows up, Dora is
suspicious, but before long Armando Garcia wins her trust. And Armando supports
Dora’s independence, causing the conflict within her bickering family to
escalate. Dora’s son abhors Armando’s interference and is determined to send
him away. He suspects the charming young man is running from something or
someone. And he’s not far from wrong.

The unlikely friendship that grows between the
elderly widow and the young man with a past leads them both on a journey toward
hope, healing and forgiveness.

For a young widow, the stone mansion she once
dreamed of owning, offers the promise of a new beginning.

After the death of her husband, Kestra returns
to her hometown of Port Star. With the purchase of her childhood dream house—a
stone mansion along the rocky Oregon coast—it appears she has found a way to
rebuild her life.

Kestra begins to transform the old house into an
elegant, yet charming restaurant. But as the renovations begin, a mysterious stranger
moves into her caretaker’s cottage—and eventually into her heart.

Suddenly life is full of promise and new opportunities,
until a contractor’s jealousy threatens Kestra’s new romance.

Jayne
Morgan has a lot to learn about love. Harris McAllister has a lot to learn
about tolerance. When they meet they have lots to teach each other.

Jayne
feels betrayed when her fiancé suddenly
dumps her for his high school sweetheart just weeks before the wedding. She’d
love to leave Paradise, Oregon, but she’s signed a teaching contract and the
kids in her classroom need her.

Cassanda Maxwell has had a life filled with
pain. Her mother died too young, her father is an abusive alcoholic, and she’s
a misfit everywhere she goes.

After being shuttled between various foster
homes, Cass struggles to find her identity and finds herself caught up with
Scott Jones (aka “Sky”) and his group of friends who start a Jesus commune in
California. But before long, the group is more interested in pot and sex than
they are spiritual growth.

Once again, Cass finds herself trapped in
unhappiness—and she longs for escape.

Will Cass find the life and love she craves on a
California commune—with the charismatic Sky and his followers? Or
can she fulfill her dreams—and find her real future—with her childhood
friend Joey?

First there are shades of sorrow, then shades of
hope. Will Gwen find shades of light?

When her only child leaves home for college,
widowed Gwen Sullivan discovers just how lonely an “empty nest” can be. How
will she adjust and fill her empty days? 

At the urging of friends, Gwen takes a job with
an interior designer—whom she soon discovers to be domineering and jealous of
Gwen’s creativity. Suddenly she’s stuck doing menial tasks. When a sleazy client
starts to harass her, Gwen begins to wonder if she’s cut out for the working
world. 

She eventually meets Oliver Black, who gives her
an opportunity to use her decorating skills, and suddenly Gwen sees herself in
a more confident light. But Oliver is a man of many secrets, and Gwen wonders
if she can trust her heart to him.

Emma has always been “the practical one” in the
family. But that is about to change as she embarks on the adventure of her
life.

Emma Davis wants a new life now that she no
longer needs to care for her grandmother. A spur-of-the-moment visit to a
travel agency sets her on a journey far from her Iowa home.

Emma takes a cruise to the far islands of the
Pacific, but it isn’t until she arrives in Papua, New Guinea, that she begins
to realize her true calling. Emma regains her sense of purpose by caring for
three motherless children and befriending their father, Josh Daniels.

Josh’s troubled pass and
the loss of his wife have left him vulnerable, but can the love Emma has
discovered in her own heart, awaken his heart to all Emma has to offer?

 So there we have it! I still have four more covers to design for a series from Melody that we’ll be re-releasing, but that will have to wait until after galleys. Speaking of which . . . BYE!