Romances for the mature reader, who wants more of an emotional experience than the harlequins and the bodice ripper writers deliver. (Sex isn't everything, now, is it?) My protagonists are generally "off the beaten track" as regards their occupations and their life histories. They don't consciously or determinedly go "looking for love." Yet they find it, in some fairly odd places and with some fairly unusual partners. However, none of them are cowboys, bikers, SEALS, Scottish lairds, or owners of crenelated monuments to extreme self-importance. Mostly they're like you and me...mostly!
Onteora County Romances
Love In The Time Of Cinema
by Francis W. Porretto
Series: Onteora County Romances.
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 46,580.
Language:
English.
Published: June 25, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
At 28 Jana Tyrell is already the foremost actress in the world. But she wants the love of a good man, and they’re not so common in Hollywood. She finds it in a most unexpected place: Onteora County, NY, a land that produces geniuses and heroes as if they’d been sown there by God. Her target, engineer and Web writer Tim Beaufort, will be rocked by the changes Jana brings to his life.
Antiquities
by Francis W. Porretto
Series: Onteora County Romances.
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 45,530.
Language:
English.
Published: April 8, 2022
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
(5.00 from 1 review)
Gail was a singer from a forgotten band who survived by performing in coffee houses and bars, near to giving up on everything. Evan was a venture capitalist who’d lost his wife to cancer and his son to a car crash, who kept going on momentum alone. They were barely clinging to life, until a faint and a rescue in a central New York bar brought them together. Then the music really started.
The Discovery Phase
by Francis W. Porretto
Series: Onteora County Romances.
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 63,820.
Language:
English.
Published: April 8, 2022
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Though competent in the sciences, Loren did janitorial work at a state college. After sixteen years as an associate, beautiful Sylvie learned that her law firm’s senior partners hoped to use her as a party favor for their wealthiest clients. They had both been celibate for many years. Despite their differences they seemed perfect for one another, but unforeseeable events would have their say.