“If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.”- Beverly Cleary
I love this quote so much I had it tattooed on my spine. Maybe one day I’ll post a picture of it. Until then you’ll have to make do with a good story.
A little about the author Jasper Trey:
I'm a part-time Math teacher and yoga instructor, but a full time mother and wife.
I love being outside and helping my husband with the farm.
Small-Town Romance from Jasper Trey
Jasper Trey writes small-town romance filled with family, second chances, secrets, and the kind of communities where everyone knows everyone else's business. Visit Prairie Grove in Broken Secrets and Broken Prose, where falling in love is rarely as simple as anyone planned.
Broken Secrets
He inherited $50 million, a ranch he never wanted, and a house that’s keeping secrets. Falling for her wasn’t part of the deal.
Noah only plans to stay long enough to satisfy the terms of his inheritance. But Prairie Grove has other ideas—and so does the woman making it harder to remember why he ever planned to leave.
Single Dad • Small-Town Romance • Forced Proximity • Family Secrets • Slow Burn
Broken Bytes
An unexpected child. A guarded lawyer. And a love that complicates everything when family is on the line.
Johnny Green’s steady life is turned upside down when custody papers arrive for a daughter he never knew existed. Danielle Grievance is the lawyer determined to help him fight for his future—without risking the carefully guarded heart she’s kept under control.
In Prairie Grove, where everyone knows your business, they’ll have to decide how much they’re willing to risk for truth, family, and a love neither saw coming.
Small-Town Romance • Unexpected Fatherhood • Lawyer Romance • Family Stakes • Found Family
Broken Myths
She believes some stories—and some ancestors—should be left undisturbed. He’s the archaeologist determined to uncover the truth buried beneath Prairie Grove.
Enola Wells wants roots, belonging, and eventually a family of her own. Joshua RomanNose came to Prairie Grove to investigate an ancient burial site, not fall for the woman who questions whether he should be digging there at all. But attraction has terrible timing—and when controversy around the site turns into threats and violence, they’ll have to decide which beliefs are worth holding onto and which myths are meant to be broken.
Small-Town Romance • Opposing Viewpoints • Instant Attraction • Archaeologist Hero • Native American Leads • Found Family
Broken Prose
She found the book that was never supposed to surface. He’s the reporter who’s been beside her long enough to know she’ll never leave a mystery alone.
Librarian Zee Nightingale discovers a donated book hiding a story Prairie Grove has spent generations trying to erase. Her best friend, reporter Jasper Hayes, joins her search for the truth—but the deeper they dig into missing records, founding families, and a secret that still has power, the harder it becomes to ignore what’s been growing between them too.
When pressure turns into intimidation and the library itself is targeted, Zee and Jasper have to decide how much truth is worth risking—and whether being “just friends” has finally become its own kind of lie.
Small-Town Romance • Best Friends to Lovers • Librarian Heroine • Reporter Hero • Hidden History • Light Mystery
Olivia
Beautiful and brilliant businesswoman Oliva had been widowed a year earlier - and ever since, she’s thrown herself into mending everybody’s broken heart except her own.
However, on a lonely, sun-drenched vacation to Tahiti, that changes. After delivering a cold beer to a handsome stranger, Olivia finds herself confronted not just by feelings she’d thought had died along with her husband; but also the overwhelming temptation to act on them.
For wealthy, aristocratic Dante, love had similarly been the last thing he’d been looking for at this remote resort - at least until the tanned beauty in the red bikini had showed up to offer him a beer. Olivia is bold, blatant, and a world away from the fawning women he’d grown so tired of as a prince of Madiera. The chemistry between them is undeniable.
But Olivia and Dante come from two very different worlds - her from small-town Oklahoma, and Dante from a glittering European kingdom. They’ll have just a week together before duty and destiny separate them once again. Having gone through so much already, are either willing to gamble on something that might never be?
Then again - can either of them walk away from what might be their only chance of happiness?
Olivia: A Summer of Second Chances is the first installment of the Harris Legacy series - richly emotional, beautifully written, and true-to-life tales of love triumphant despite overwhelming odds.
Maeve
“My love for you is like π, irrational and never ending.”
When do feelings turn from a crush to love? Do you know it is happening, or is it a gradual slide that you don’t notice? It’s a question Maeve would like to answer.
Sometimes love hits you at the worst and most inappropriate times. It is irrational but never ending. In those times you have to have the patience to see things through. And faith, Philip thought, that the love he kept to himself would be returned in time.
Mikale
Mikale loves his brother and with that love comes obligations. Flying halfway around the world for one wedding and a short week later, he’s going through the fanfare all over again in their home country. A chance meeting at the first will guide his life for the next ten years.
Catherine was determined to meet Mikale, the groom’s brother, at her former teacher’s wedding. What was supposed to be a distraction at a wedding turns into a decades-long correspondence that has her falling head over heels for the prince of her pen pal dreams.
Sparks fly when the two are finally able to see each other again. When Catherine gets caught up in a terrorist bombing in the main market, Mikale must try to find her. To do so, he’s got to control his fear—had he fallen for her just in time to lose her?
Quinn
It’s impossible, said her pride. It’s risky, said her experience. It’s pointless, said her reason.
Give it a try, whispered her heart.
There were few things Quinn didn’t know, and nothing she couldn’t find out. She knew with absolute certainty she didn't want to be anything more than a step-cousin to Marco, the heir to the Maderian throne. If only her head could win the war against the combined forces of her heart and body.
She was smart, beautiful, and funny. Somewhere in all the years Marco had known Quinn, his heart had fallen at her feet. He had tried to ignore it, forget it, drown it in beautiful women, and yet his love for her was there at every turn. He refused to let it sit alone any longer.
Quinn has trained hard to learn how to protect herself and her family. But is she ready to learn how to be protected? Is Marco ready to deal with the fallout of bringing peace to his country? Will he be able to save Quinn from herself?
Jake
For the first time in a century, blood soaks the cobblestones of Madeira. The ruler of the glittering European kingdom has been brutally assassinated, and many believe the new king's sister, Princess Annabelle, will be next in the crosshairs.
Nobody worries more for Annabelle’s safety than Marquise Genova, the princess’s beautiful, aristocratic cousin. Genova won’t let her cousin out of her sight no matter what - even if that means enduring forced proximity with the princess’s curmudgeonly new American bodyguard, Jake.
A war-weary veteran with a shadowy past, Jake is unlike any of the poised, polished men that Genova is used to being surrounded by - yet as she gets to know her cousin’s new protector better, he begins to awaken feelings inside her that Genova has never experienced before.
But when there’s yet another assassination attempt, Genova realizes that there’s more at stake than just her growing feelings for Jake. To protect Princess Annabelle and ensure the survival of the Kingdom of Madeira, the two of them will have to risk everything - including both their lives and any hope of a future together.
Marquis in the Making by Jasper Trey is the fifth installment of the Harris Legacy series - beautifully written romance adventures in which love always triumphs despite overwhelming odds.
Annabella
The once glittering Kingdom of Madeira is in crisis. The Queen lies dead and her eldest son is fresh upon the throne. For Princess Annabelle, sister to the new king, duty now requires her to take on more responsibility within the troubled kingdom.
However, Belle has a scandalous secret she’s desperate to keep under wraps. She’s pregnant.
After surviving an attack that nearly took her life, Belle found solace in the arms of a sexy stranger. Now, she’s carrying his child. That secret alone could be enough to topple the kingdom - but things become even more complicated when Belle’s one night stand turns up unexpectedly in Madeira itself, sporting a new name and an unfamiliar accent.
Undercover operative Elijah is in Madeira to put an end to the terrorists’ campaign of terror. He has no idea that he’s the father of Belle’s unborn baby - just as she had no idea that he’d been using an uncover alias the night they’d spent together.
Initially distrustful, the spark between them soon rekindles - as does the seed of an idea. How better to protect the reputation of the royal family than a marriage-of-convenience between these two lost souls?
But a fake marriage can’t erase real feelings - especially when the fate of Belle and Elijah’s relationship might also determine the future of the kingdom itself.
Annabelle: Waiting in Secret by Jasper Trey is the sixth installment of the Harris Legacy series - deeply immersive, beautifully written, and heart-wrenchingly emotional tales of love triumphant despite overwhelming odds.